Kahoot is built for a classroom. Quizado is built for a bar
Kahoot is excellent at what it was designed for: a teacher, a projector and thirty individual learners. A pub night is a different room, with teams at tables, a host on a microphone and noise. That is the room Quizado was written for.
Kahoot is the better tool for a lesson or a training session, and Quizado is the better tool for a bar, because it scores teams instead of individuals, runs pub-style rounds and game-show formats, and gives the host a console separate from what the room sees on the TV.
Quizado vs. Kahoot
Warum von Kahoot wechseln?
Pub teams do not have one phone each
A classroom quiz assumes one learner, one device, one score. Table five is four friends sharing two pints and one phone with 8% battery.
Quizado is built around teams. A table joins once, picks a name, and the leaderboard shows tables against tables the way a pub quiz has always worked.
Everything is on the screen everyone can see
A presenting tool shows one screen and projects it. In a bar, the host needs the answer, the timer control and the next round in hand while the room only sees the question.
Quizado splits the two. The host console stays on the host device, and a separate display window goes to the TV with the question, the countdown and the standings.
A host with nothing to do
Self-running quizzes are efficient. They are also quiet. A trivia night sells drinks because somebody is on the microphone winding up the room between rounds.
Family Feud and Jeopardy are host-run in Quizado: you read the question, the room answers out loud, you award the points. That is a night out rather than a form to fill in.
The same shape of question every week
Multiple choice with a countdown works brilliantly in a lesson. Fifty of them in a row on a Tuesday and the regulars start looking at their phones for other reasons.
Five round types change the pace: Buzzer Race, Everyone Answers, Everyone Scores, Knockout and Wager, with Music Bingo making a sixth on Hospitality Group. The room never quite knows what the next round asks of them.
Paying by how big the room got
Kahoot plans set a participant limit per session, so a good night can push you up a tier. Check their site for current pricing.
Quizado lifts the player cap on every paid plan, and tables share phones anyway, so a busy night costs the same as a slow one.
It looks like school
The look is famous, and that is the problem in a taproom. Guests know it from work training days and from school, which is not the feeling a Friday night is going for.
Quizado ships big-screen themes on every plan, and from Trivia Pro up the display carries your venue logo instead of ours. Fonts, colours and white-label are on Hospitality Group.
Was Quizado besonders macht
Von Grund auf für modernes Bar-Trivia und Live-Events entwickelt.
Teams at tables
Teams sign up with a name, keep it across the night and across the season, and one phone per table is enough. The scoreboard reads like a pub scoreboard, not a class register.
A proper host console
You see the answers, the running order and the controls. The room sees the question, the timer and the leaderboard on the TV. Nobody reads the answer over your shoulder.
QR code on the beer mat
Guests scan and play in the phone browser. No PIN to read out over a busy bar, no app to install, and latecomers can join a round that has already started.
Buzzers that survive a loud room
The host console locks the first buzz it receives and shows the queue in order, so there is one ruling and it is on your device, not on a handset.
Game shows, not just quizzes
Family Feud and Jeopardy are in the same app on the Hospitality Group plan, along with music bingo and Name That Tune rounds for the weeks when the quiz needs a change.
Local questions in minutes
AI generation writes a bar trivia round from a topic, so a question set about your own town, your own taps or last night football is a two-minute job before service. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro.
Why the classroom design shows up in a bar
Kahoot describes itself for schools, work and home: lessons and assessment for teachers, presentations, meetings and training at work, and games with family at home (kahoot.com, checked August 2026). Every one of those rooms has the same shape. One presenter, one shared screen, individual people answering on their own devices, and quiet enough that everyone can hear. It is a very good design for that shape, which is why it is everywhere.
A bar breaks three of those assumptions at once. People sit in groups and want a group score. The host is a performer with a microphone, not a presenter reading slides. And the screen the crowd watches has to be different from the screen the host works on, because the host is holding the answers. Nothing about that is a flaw in Kahoot. It is simply a different job.
Quizado starts from the bar. Teams are the scoring unit. The host console is private and the display window goes on the TV. Rounds are shaped like pub rounds: a fastest-finger buzzer round, a written round, a round where everyone scores, a knockout, a wager on the last question. When a landlord says the quiz needs to feel like a night out, that is what they are describing.
What each one costs, honestly
Kahoot has a free tier and several paid ladders, one for consumers and one for business, and each plan sets a participant limit per session. Those pages change often, so check their site for current pricing rather than working from a number quoted anywhere else.
The number that matters to a venue is not the headline price, it is which tier your busiest night lands in. A tier limit sounds generous until a bank holiday quiz fills the room and everybody wants their own device. Quizado handles that differently: paid plans lift the player cap, and because tables usually share one phone, a forty-person room is often twelve or fifteen connections.
On the Quizado side the free plan is a real night, not a demo: bar trivia with the built-in starter packs, live phone buzzers, big-screen themes, one venue and up to sixteen players, with no card. Neighborhood Pub opens the premium question library and lifts the cap. Trivia Pro is where writing your own question sets starts, and it adds media rounds with image, audio and video, monthly AI credits, leagues and a custom logo. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group, along with bulk import, custom fonts and colours and up to three venues. Current figures are on the pricing page.
Running the first night in the venue
Practically, the setup is the same equipment you would use for a Kahoot night. One device to host from, a TV or projector on the second output, and the phones already in the room. Quizado runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, on iPhone, iPad and Android, and in a browser tab, so the host device is whatever is free that evening.
The difference is in the twenty minutes before the first question. You add teams as they walk in rather than waiting for individuals to type a nickname. You open the display window on the TV so it shows the QR code while people order. Then you run rounds in whatever order suits the room, holding the answers on your own screen. The console is the part hosts talk about.
Who should stay, who should switch
Stay with Kahoot if...
It is a strong product and there are plenty of jobs where it is the right choice.
- +You are teaching, training or briefing rather than hosting
- +You want polls, brainstorms and slides in the same deck as the questions
- +Individual scores and individual reporting are the point of the session
- +Your audience already knows the format and expects it
Switch to Quizado if...
Venues that move over usually name one of these.
- +You score teams at tables, not individuals in seats
- +You need a private host console and a separate big screen
- +You want Family Feud, Jeopardy or music bingo on the slow weeks
- +You want the screen to carry your venue name instead of a software brand
How to switch in 3 steps
Copy one quiz across
Take a set of questions you already run and rebuild them in Quizado. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, and splitting them across two round types is how you feel the difference in pace.
Switch the room to teams
Ask tables for a team name at the door instead of asking everyone for a nickname. One phone per table joins by QR code, and the leaderboard finally matches the seating plan.
Give the night a season
Start a league on Trivia Pro so scores carry across weeks, then add a Family Feud or Music Bingo week on Hospitality Group once the format is bedded in. That is the point where regulars start booking tables.
What Kahoot does that we do not
Kahoot is a genuinely excellent product and it is better than us at its own job. It covers lessons, assessment, study, workplace training and internal presentations, with polls, rating scales, brainstorms and slides in the same tool, and an enormous library other people have already built. If you need a room of individuals learning something and a record of how each of them did, use Kahoot. Quizado does none of that. We only run game nights.
Read this next
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.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Run your first night this week
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.
Other comparisons
Shopping around? Here is how Quizado lines up against the rest of the market.
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