QuizWhizzer turns your questions into a board game. Right answers move students along the track, powerups shake up the order, and the whole class watches the map instead of a podium.
Every feature free for 14 days · no credit card · students join with a code, no accounts
sound familiar?
Most students have been answering questions on the same podium screen since elementary school. Kahoot has added new game modes, but they mostly sit on the Silver and Gold tiers, so the free classic game your students know by heart is the one that has stopped landing. When the tool stops feeling like a game, you lose the engagement that was the whole reason to use it.
On Kahoot’s school plans, type-answer, slider, brainstorm, and open-ended questions sit on the Gold tier, $12 a month billed annually. QuizWhizzer includes every question type on every plan. Short answer, numerical, ordering, drag-and-drop, audio, and open-ended are all free.
Bronze, Silver, Gold, and One each unlock a different mix of players, question types, and reports. QuizWhizzer has one paid plan: $39 a year, everything included, up to 100 players in a game.
You still write questions and students still join with a code from any browser. What changes is everything after you press start.
Your quiz plays out on a game board. A jungle trail, the solar system, a hand-drawn map of your school. Pick a ready-made board or upload any image and draw the path yourself.
Freeze, teleport, shield, swap. The student in tenth can still make a move on the leader, so nobody checks out halfway through. Turn them off if you want a pure sprint.
Everyone follows the same board on the projector, so a big lead or a last-place comeback lands with the entire room, not just the student it happened to.
The race is what gets students in. What keeps you using it is everything after. The same quiz becomes homework or self-paced practice, the AI builds it from a topic or a PDF in about a minute, and you get a full report on every student either way.
One quiz, three ways to run it
The whole class on the board together, powerups swinging the order right up to the finish.
Assign the same quiz with a deadline and let students play it in their own time.
Share it in practice mode for revision that students can repeat as many times as they like.
Full post-game reports on every student and every answer, whichever way you run it.
“After embedding QuizWhizzer games into most sessions through the years my A level results have continued to improve. The results of my Physics students have consistently ranked within the top 20% of the country via ALPS.”
checked July 2026
Comparison pages usually pretend the other tool has no free plan. Kahoot's is real, and for basic multiple choice with a big class it is genuinely fine. Here is where the two actually differ, with the rows Kahoot wins left in.
| QuizWhizzer | Kahoot | |
|---|---|---|
| The game | A race across a game board | Points and a podium leaderboard |
| Comeback mechanics | Powerups let last place challenge the leader | None, an early lead tends to run away |
| Paid pricing | $39/year, one plan with everything | $36 to $228/year across four tiers |
| Players for your money | 100 players for $39/year | 100 players needs Silver, $84/year |
| All question types | Every plan, including free | Gold and up, $144/year |
| Free plan: live players | 15 per game, 100 during the 14-day trial | 40 per game |
| Free plan: reports | Full post-game reports | Limited to 3 participants |
| Custom game boards | Upload any image, draw the path | Not offered |
| AI quiz generation | Included, from topics or full PDFs | From Bronze up, PDFs capped at 3 pages |
Kahoot details are from kahoot.com's school plans page in July 2026, USD prices billed annually. Their plans change fairly often, so check their site for current numbers before you decide.
A fair comparison cuts both ways. Kahoot's free plan takes 40 live players to our 15, its public library is enormous, and it has a whole self-study ecosystem of flashcards and practice apps that we do not try to match. If you present slides and quiz inside the same tool, Kahoot bundles that too.
So if your main use is whole-class multiple choice with a big group, on a free plan, Kahoot remains hard to beat. The reason teachers come to us is different: the game itself has gone stale, and a leaderboard refresh will not fix that. A race across a map their teacher drew might.
“Was excited to see my students race around the game board @QuizWhizzer as they reviewed Astronomy concepts! Great tool for PRACTICE and ENGAGEMENT. Nothing like a little friendly competition to start the day.”
“Using @QuizWhizzer to review before our post test today! This is a new to us tool and they’re loving it!”
before you switch
your questions, their race
Bring one quiz you already have. If your class does not ask to play again, go back to the podium.
Free for 14 days with every feature · no credit card
