# Pear Deck review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Interactive classroom presentations with live student responses Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Pear Deck adds interactive questions, polls and drawing responses to classroom slide decks, with teacher-paced and student-paced modes. It is part of Pear Deck Learning, whose other products are Pear Start for AI lesson creation, Pear Practice and Pear Assessment. Teachers can use a free plan or pay for Premium, and schools and districts are quoted a price. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Pear Deck Learning - **Website:** https://www.peardeck.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want the Teacher Dashboard, draggable responses or teacher feedback, all on Premium at $149 a year. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Pear Deck has a free plan, and paid plans start at $149 per year, with educator discount (Teacher Premium). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Teacher Free: unlimited presentations, interactive questions, sessions and participants, plus student-paced mode and ready-made lessons. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Teacher Free | $0 | Interactive questions, polls and quizzes, student-paced mode, anonymous joining, locks and timers, and the Content Orchard of templates and lessons. | | Teacher Premium | $149 per year, with educator discount | Adds the Teacher Dashboard, draggable and drawing responses, Reflect & Review, Quick Prompts, teacher feedback and a shared dashboard. | | Schools & Districts | Custom | Premium for every teacher, a district library, certified math and ELA lessons for grades 3-12, efficacy reports and onboarding support. Request a quote. | Read from https://www.peardeck.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pear Deck before buying. ## Key features - **Interactive slides:** Teachers add questions, polls and quizzes to a presentation and see student responses as the lesson runs. - **Student-paced mode:** Students move through a lesson at their own speed, while teachers control pacing, locks and timers in live mode. - **Teacher Dashboard:** On Premium, teachers review and highlight responses by name, give feedback and share session controls. - **Reflect & Review:** On Premium, slides, individual responses and teacher feedback can be shared with students after a session. - **Content Orchard:** A collection of templates, activities and ready-to-teach lessons made by educators. - **Pear Start:** A separate free AI tool with 40+ functions that generates lesson plans, interactive presentations and practice sets. ## Good for - Teachers who want student responses inside a presentation - Classrooms that want anonymous student responses - Districts wanting LMS integration with Canvas and Schoology ## Worth knowing - Teacher Premium is listed at $149 a year with an educator discount, and the page does not show a price without it. - Flashcard Factory and Add Audio to Slides are available only on Google Apps for Education. - The pricing page says LMS integrations with Canvas and Schoology are included with district subscriptions and carry a fee on school subscriptions. - Pear Practice and Pear Assessment are separate products with their own plans. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Pear Deck adds questions, polls and student-paced lessons to slides in Google or Microsoft. Teacher Free has no cap on presentations or participants. The Teacher Dashboard and several response types need Premium at $149 a year with an educator discount. - **Value for money: C.** Teacher Premium is $149 a year with an educator discount, about $12 a month, and the page shows no price without it. Schools get a quote. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Teacher Free has unlimited presentations, sessions and participants, with questions, polls and student-paced mode. The limits are on features, not on how much you use it. - **Features: C.** Interactive slides, student-paced mode, a dashboard and a template library. Flashcard Factory and audio are Google-only, and the dashboard is Premium. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It sits on top of Google Slides or PowerPoint, so teachers still build the lesson. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with Google, Microsoft, Canvas and Schoology connections. No app or desktop version is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pear Deck's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Pear Deck's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 37 of the 51 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 44 of 51) and worst on ease of use (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $12.42 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 24 of the 37 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/presentations ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Pear Deck you could make: templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 37 of the 51 other presentation tools we grade. It costs $149 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google, Microsoft, Canvas, Schoology **Tags:** Presentations, Real-time collaboration, Templates ## Alternatives - [Nearpod](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nearpod): Interactive K-12 lessons with built-in questions and activities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nearpod-vs-pear-deck) - [Mentimeter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mentimeter): Interactive presentations with live polls, quizzes and Q&A. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentimeter-vs-pear-deck) - [Poll Everywhere](https://toolgpa.com/tools/poll-everywhere): Live audience polling that works inside slide decks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pear-deck-vs-poll-everywhere) - [Slido](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slido): Live polls, Q&A and quizzes for meetings and events. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pear-deck-vs-slido) - [AhaSlides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahaslides): Interactive presentations with live quizzes, polls and word clouds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahaslides-vs-pear-deck) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.peardeck.com/pricing - https://www.peardeck.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pear-deck Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).