Slides With Friends turns a meeting deck into something people join in with: icebreakers, word clouds, photo slides and a short quiz. Quizado is aimed at the other kind of evening, where teams take a table, a host works a microphone and the leaderboard is on the wall.
Slides With Friends is a deck that a group joins in with; Quizado is a game show that a room competes in, so once your trivia grows past a short template with individual answers, they are no longer the same job.
Their free plan is listed at 10 players (slideswith.com/pricing, checked August 2026). A department social passes 10 before the drinks arrive.
The Quizado free plan runs sixteen players, and every paid plan lifts the cap entirely. Nothing about the game changes as the room grows, only the number of names on the board.
Their monthly option is sold as a 30-day period and costs more per month than the same tier billed yearly. Check their site for current pricing.
If your trivia night is a trial rather than a commitment, that gap matters. Quizado has a free plan for the trial and monthly plans that do not punish you for staying flexible.
Their templates are timed for the job they do, which is a slot inside a meeting. Good for a Friday call. Short for a Thursday in a bar.
A Quizado night is assembled from rounds and runs as long as you want it to. Four rounds and a wager finish is a comfortable two hours without anyone building a deck.
Icebreakers, photo slides and sound reactions are designed to make a group comfortable. A trivia crowd wants the opposite: stakes, a countdown and somebody losing narrowly.
Knockout rounds eliminate wrong answers, Wager rounds let a team stake points before the question appears, and in a Buzzer Race the host console locks the first buzz it receives. The night is a contest, not a warm-up.
A slide can hold a question and collect an answer. It cannot know that this round is Everyone Scores, or that the wager was doubled, or that this team is already out.
In Quizado those rules are the round type. You choose Everyone Scores or Knockout, and the scoring, the elimination and the display all follow without any manual bookkeeping.
Meeting tools do not think about a second site, a house question library or the same twelve teams turning up every week under the same names.
Quizado carries venues, teams and a shared question library, with leagues and seasons from Trivia Pro. The Hospitality Group plan covers up to three venues from a single account.
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Two host-run game shows on the Hospitality Group plan. The host reads the prompt, teams answer out loud, and points are awarded from the console. This is the format people film and put online.
Buzzer Race, Everyone Answers, Everyone Scores, Knockout and Wager, with Music Bingo as a sixth on Hospitality Group. The scoring rule is part of the round, so one set of questions can feel completely different depending on how you run it.
In a Buzzer Race round the host console locks the first buzz it receives and puts that team on the display, so everyone in the room sees the same result.
The external display window carries the question, the timer and the standings to a TV or projector, while the host keeps the answer key on their own screen.
Scores belong to teams, and from Trivia Pro teams can be tracked across a season. That is what converts a good one-off into a fixture people plan their week around.
Question packs come with the plan, and from Trivia Pro AI generation turns a topic into a bar trivia round. Nobody has to lay out a deck before a Thursday night.
Slides With Friends is an interactive presentation platform for meetings, training, events and team building. It offers live audience polling, live word clouds, photo sharing, live quizzing, icebreaker activities, multiple choice and text answers and live sound reactions. Participants join by scanning a QR code shown in the deck, and the template library is sized and timed for a meeting slot.
Their plans run Free, Starter, Pro and a custom Enterprise tier, billed yearly or as a 30-day monthly period. The free plan hosts up to 10 players (slideswith.com/pricing, checked August 2026), and each paid tier raises that. Check their site for current pricing before you commit to a tier.
None of that is criticism. For a distributed team that wants a shared thirty minutes on a Friday, a template you can run straight out of the box is exactly right, and the icebreaker library removes the hardest part, which is deciding what to do. The question is only whether that shape stretches to the night you are actually planning.
An icebreaker exists to lower the temperature. Nobody should feel bad, nobody should be eliminated, and the whole thing should be over before anyone gets restless. Photo slides and sound reactions are perfect tools for that.
A trivia night raises the temperature on purpose. Teams take a name and defend it. Somebody stakes twelve points on a question they half know. A knockout round leaves four tables standing and the rest heckling. The leaderboard between rounds is the reason people order another drink instead of going home at nine.
Software that is built for the first case does the second case politely rather than well. That is why Quizado leads with round types, buzzers, team scores and a display window: those are the parts that only matter once the game is the event rather than the warm-up to one.
The first requirement is two screens with different content. The host must see the answer, the timer and every team score. The room must see the question and nothing else. A single shared deck cannot do that, which is why hosts running quizzes from slides end up with a printed answer key next to the laptop.
The second is scoring that lives in the software. Everyone Scores puts every table on the board. Knockout removes teams that get it wrong. Wager takes a stake before the question appears. In Buzzer Race the host console locks the first buzz it receives. Each of those changes what a correct answer is worth, and none of them can be represented by a slide.
The third is continuity. Teams, seasons, a venue question library and a running table are what turn one good night into a booking every week. The venues that stay are almost always the ones running a season rather than a series of unrelated evenings.
It is a well-made product and there are plenty of rooms where it is the better pick.
These four are the usual reasons somebody outgrows a deck.
Open a free Quizado account and run a single Buzzer Race round with whoever is nearby. It takes about ten minutes and it shows you the difference between a deck and a game faster than any description.
On Trivia Pro, take the questions from the template that always lands and paste them into a round, then choose a round type that suits them. The same content plays harder once a wager is attached.
Put the QR code on the tables, let people form teams, and on Trivia Pro start a league so the standings carry to the next one. That is the change that makes people come back.
Their template library is the strongest part of the product and we have nothing like it for meetings. Photo sharing, word clouds, sound reactions and icebreaker flows are all outside what Quizado does, and their higher tiers reach a larger audience than we would recommend putting through a trivia night. If your job is running good meetings for a distributed team, they are the better tool and we would not argue otherwise.
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.
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