This page is for the person who signs the invoice. Ten tools that a bar, taproom or restaurant can buy to run a weekly trivia night, with how each one charges, what hardware it wants and how your guests get into the game.
Quizado is the pick for a venue that wants to own its weekly night in-house: a free plan to start, no rented hardware, QR-code join on the phones guests already carry, and five game formats in one app; the rest of the market splits into rented-tablet networks, per-event event tools, classroom quiz apps and hosted companies who send a quizmaster.
Vendor pricing moves, so this table describes the shape of each price rather than a figure. Treat it as a shortlist, read the current numbers on each vendor site, and follow the links for the full comparison.
| Tool | Price model | Hardware | How players join | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quizado | Free plan, then flat monthly plans per host account. See the pricing page. | A laptop, tablet or phone to host from, plus the TV you already have | Scan a QR code in a phone browser, no app install | A venue that wants the weekly night to be its own |
| Buzztime | Three monthly venue plans with a six-month commitment; check their site for current pricing | Venue tablets bundled on the higher plans | Own phone or a venue tablet | Always-on entertainment with nobody on staff hosting |
| SpeedQuizzing | Credits bought in advance and spent on day activations; no unit price on the page, so check their site for current pricing | A Windows or Mac computer running SpeedQuizzing Pro | The free SpeedQuizzing app on iOS or Android | Touring quizmasters who want speed rounds |
| Crowdpurr | A free tier, then monthly tiers that step up with the crowd size. Check their site for the figures | Any laptop and a screen | A five-digit code or a join URL | One-off events with a large, unpredictable crowd |
| TriviaMaker | A free tier and two low-cost paid tiers; see their site for what each one costs today | Any laptop and a screen | Buzz mode on a phone, with the buzzer count set by their plan | Low-cost game-show boards for a small room |
| TriviaHub Live | No prices published on the site; check their site for current pricing | Depends on whether you buy the DIY software or a hosted event | Not stated on their site; ask them before you book | Companies booking a hosted virtual or in-person event |
| QuizXpress | Yearly licences that scale with the number of devices; check their site for current pricing | A Windows PC, plus optional physical buzzers and keypads | Hardware buzzers, keypads or their mobile app | Permanent installs and big produced game shows |
| Kahoot | Business plans priced by how many people can take part; look up the current tiers on their site | Any laptop and a screen | A game PIN typed into a browser or the Kahoot app | Classrooms, training days and short icebreakers |
| Sporcle Events | No published venue rate; check their site for current pricing and ask them for a quote | Their host brings the show; you supply the screens and the PA | Their digital answering system | A bar that wants the night run for it |
| Geeks Who Drink | No published venue rate; check their site for current pricing and ask for a quote | Their quizmaster brings the show to your room | Their digital answer system | A bar buying a known quiz brand and a booked host |
Event tools price by participants, so the tier steps up as the crowd grows. A good night pushes you into the next bracket, which is the opposite of what you want a busy Tuesday to do.
Quizado charges a flat monthly plan for the host account. Forty teams or four, the bill on the first of the month is the same.
Tablet-based systems put a drawer of devices behind the bar. Somebody charges them, counts them back in and replaces the ones that walk out the door.
Quizado uses the phone in every guest pocket. There is no venue hardware to buy, insure or hand out.
Any tool that needs an app store visit loses the table that arrived at 8:05 with one bar of signal and a round already on the table.
A QR code on the TV opens a web page. Guests are on the leaderboard before the drinks land.
Most trivia tools do one format. After a year of identical multiple-choice rounds the room thins out and the fix costs another subscription.
Five bar trivia round types and Name That Tune in the same app. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group.
Some venue products still ask for a minimum term of several months. That is a long time to learn that Tuesday is the wrong night for your room.
Start on the Quizado free plan with no card. Run four nights, look at the till, then decide.
Network and hosted products put their logo on your screens and their name on the flyer. The regulars end up loyal to the quiz brand, not to your bar.
Trivia Pro puts your own logo on the big screen and on the player screens. Custom fonts, colors and white-label are on Hospitality Group. The night is yours to name.
Von Grund auf für modernes Bar-Trivia und Live-Events entwickelt.
Guests point a camera at the code on the TV and they are in. No app store, no account and no tablet to sign out at the door.
In a Buzzer Race round the host console locks the first buzz it receives and shows that team on the display, so the screen answers the question instead of the room.
Type a topic and get a Bar Trivia round back. Useful for a brewery release, a local derby or the film everyone in town is talking about. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro.
Bar trivia, Family Feud, Jeopardy, Music Bingo and Name That Tune. A slow month gets fixed by changing the format, not the price of a pint. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group.
Run a season table across weeks so regulars come back to defend a position instead of dropping in when they remember. Leagues and seasons start on Trivia Pro.
Trivia Pro puts your own logo on the display window and the player screens, and adds media questions with image, audio and video. Custom fonts, colors and white-label are on Hospitality Group.
Start with the shape of the price, not the number. Software for venues comes in four shapes: a flat monthly plan, a per-participant tier, a per-event or per-day credit, and a network subscription that bundles hardware. A flat plan is the only one that stays still when the room fills up. A per-participant tier is fine for a conference and awkward for a bar, because the night you most want to celebrate is the night that moves you up a bracket.
Second, check the hardware. Ask what the venue has to own, charge and replace. Rented tablets are a real service, and they are also a job for somebody on your rota every week. A desktop suite that licenses by device count and drives physical buzzers or keypads suits a permanent install, and is heavy for a Tuesday night quiz.
Third, check how a guest joins. Watch a table of four try it. A QR code that opens a web page is one step. A PIN typed into an app store download is four steps and two of them fail on bad signal. Fourth, check the formats: a tool that only does multiple choice will bore your regulars by month six. Fifth, and least fun, check the term. Write down the notice period before you write down the price.
Software is the cheap part. The hardware networks sit at the top of the range and the self-run apps sit near the bottom, and several of them start free. Set against a single busy Tuesday, almost any of them pays for itself. The number that decides your budget is the one nobody puts on a pricing page: who stands up and holds the microphone.
If a bartender or your manager hosts, the software fee is the whole cost. If you pay somebody, add their fee for every week of the year, and ask two local hosts for a quote before you budget. That is the line item that dwarfs every subscription on this page, and it is the reason the software choice matters less than the staffing choice.
A venue that already has a confident bartender can run a full night on the Quizado free plan and pay nothing at all until the room outgrows sixteen players. A venue with nobody who wants the microphone should look hard at the hosted companies in the table instead, and read the trivia company versus software comparison before deciding.
A single site has a simple job: pick the tool with the lowest friction at the door and the widest set of formats, then keep the night in the diary long enough for it to build. Quizado is free to start on one venue, and the first paid step lifts the sixteen-player cap and opens the premium question library. Most bars move up when the fourth or fifth week fills the room.
A small group has a harder job, because a quiz that works in the city-centre bar can die in the suburban one. Hospitality Group covers up to three venues with their own teams and their own history, plus Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo for the sites where straight trivia is not enough. Leagues and seasons start on Trivia Pro and run across weeks, which is what turns a novelty into a booking a regular plans around.
Whatever you shortlist, run one real night on it before you commit to a term. No review or rating tells you as much as one Tuesday in your own room, with your own regulars and your own wifi.
Quizado is not the right purchase for every venue, and these are the honest exceptions.
Most venues that pick us do it for one of these four reasons.
Take the table above, pick two, and write out twelve months of fees including any host you would pay. Include the notice period next to each number.
Create a Quizado account, pick a free question pack, put the QR code on the TV and host a quiet night. You will learn more about your wifi and your staff in ninety minutes than in any demo.
Same night, same time, start a league table, and only then judge the numbers. A trivia night that moves around the calendar never gets the chance to build a crowd.
Buzztime runs unattended entertainment from open to close and we do not. Sporcle Live and Geeks Who Drink supply a trained quizmaster and we cannot send you a person. QuizXpress drives physical keypads and stage lighting for produced shows. Kahoot has a classroom library nothing else touches. Quizado needs internet at the host position and on player phones, and there is no offline mode. Pick the tool that matches the night you are actually able to staff.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
Shopping around? Here is how Quizado lines up against the rest of the market.
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