The SpeedQuizzing alternative with more than one kind of night

SpeedQuizzing does not sell a subscription. Checked in August 2026, their pricing page explains a credit system: one SpeedQuizzing Pro activation costs three credits, credits are bought up front, price breaks apply when you buy more, and the credits do not expire. Each activation comes with a Quizpack of trivia questions, and Quizpacks are published in UK, US and Universal editions. There is a demo mode limited to four player devices. They do not show a currency figure on that page, so check their site for current pricing.

That model is genuinely good for an occasional host. If you run a charity quiz twice a year, paying per event and owning the credits forever beats a subscription every time. It gets less comfortable the busier you are: a host with four rooms on four nights is buying four activations a week and doing arithmetic before every booking.

Quizado charges for the host account, not the night. Start free with the built-in packs, phone buzzers, the big-screen display and up to sixteen players at one venue, with no card. Neighborhood Pub opens the premium question library and lifts the player cap. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, which also adds media rounds, monthly AI credits, leagues and a custom logo. Hospitality Group adds Family Feud, Jeopardy, Music Bingo, custom fonts and colours, bulk import and up to three venues. Run as many nights as you like on any of them. Current figures are on the pricing page.

SpeedQuizzing is a British company, and a lot of its work is UK pubs, so it is worth being specific about how a Quizado night maps onto a normal British quiz.

Teams work the way you already run them. A table picks a name, one phone joins for the table, and the answers come in from that phone, so a group of six does not need six devices out on the tablecloth. Buzzer Race covers the fastest-finger round. Everyone Answers is the standard written round without the paper. Everyone Scores is there when you want every table on the board. Knockout runs a last-team-standing round when you want the bar watching a single pair of tables. Wager lets teams stake points on the final question, which is the jackpot moment most quizzes end on.

Two practical points. Quizado has no offline mode, so a cellar bar with no signal needs the host device on the most reliable connection in the building before you advertise the night. And the app plays music rounds but does not come with a music licence, which in the UK you sort out with the usual licensing bodies exactly as you do for the jukebox.

If you host for a living, the sums are different from a landlord running one night. Your cost per event is the thing you protect, because the fee per room is fixed and every activation comes out of it.

One Quizado account covers every room you host in, so the fifth night in a week costs the same as the first. Hospitality Group covers up to three venues, so each pub keeps its own teams and its own season table rather than sharing one long list. Trivia Pro puts your own logo on the display, which matters when you are the brand the pubs are booking, not the software. Custom fonts and colours are Hospitality Group.

The other lever is content. From Trivia Pro, generating a bar trivia round from a topic means you can sell a themed night to a venue on Monday and deliver it on Wednesday, instead of telling them to wait for the next pack.