# Pigeonhole Live review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Audience Q&A, polls and surveys for presentations and events Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Pigeonhole Live gives presenters and event organizers live Q&A, polls, word clouds, surveys and chat that attendees join on their own devices. It has add-ins for PowerPoint and Google Slides and connects to Zoom, Teams and Webex. Plans are priced by audience size and number of users. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Pigeonhole Live - **Website:** https://pigeonholelive.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if your audience is over 100 or you need more than 1 user on free. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Pigeonhole Live has a free plan, and paid plans start at $13 per month, billed yearly ($156). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter: 100 participants, 1 user, with unlimited Q&As, polls, chats and surveys. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $0 | 100 participants and 1 user, with access to all interactive features. | | Presenter | $13 per month for up to 250 participants and 1 user, billed yearly ($156) | Interactive presentations with up to 1,000 participants; 1,000 participants adds $17 a month. The page crosses out $816 for the year. | | Standard | $150 per month, up to 2,000 participants, 3 users, billed yearly | Billed yearly at $1,800. Large presentations and events up to 5,000 participants, with registration, multi-track agenda and sponsor branding. | | Enterprise | Custom | More than 5,000 participants and more than 25 users, with enterprise security. | Read from https://pigeonholelive.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Pigeonhole Live before buying. ## Key features - **Q&A and moderation:** Audience questions with moderation; the Presenter plan adds a single-Q&A presentation format. - **Polls, word clouds and surveys:** Live polls, word clouds and surveys run alongside Q&A. - **Slide add-ins:** Interactions can be added from Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. - **Event tools:** Standard adds registration, attendee access controls, an agenda and multi-track events. - **Insights export:** Attendee responses can be exported to PDF and Excel on paid plans. - **AI translation:** Listed as an add-on at $144 per user a year. ## Good for - Presenters running Q&A in classes or town halls - Event organizers who need registration and agenda alongside Q&A - Teams already working in PowerPoint, Zoom or Teams ## Worth knowing - The monthly-billed price was not shown as a figure; the page shows only yearly totals, with the pre-discount amounts crossed out. - The free Starter plan is capped at 100 participants and 1 user. - Presenter and Standard prices rise with extra participants and users in the page's selectors. - AI translation is a separate add-on, and Enterprise is sold through sales. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Pigeonhole Live gives presenters live Q&A, polls, word clouds and surveys that attendees join on their own devices, with add-ins for PowerPoint and Google Slides. The free plan stops at 100 participants and 1 user, and prices rise with the audience. - **Value for money: C.** Presenter is $13 a month billed yearly for 250 participants, inside the middle of the category, and Standard is $150 a month for 2,000. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Starter is free for good with 100 participants and 1 user and unlimited Q&As, polls, chats and surveys, which a small speaker can live on. - **Features: B.** Q&A with moderation, polls, word clouds, surveys, slide add-ins, event tools and exports. The listing shows no gap in the audience-interaction job, with AI translation sold as an add-on. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record, and you set up each event and its questions. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Teams, Webex and Kaltura listed. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Pigeonhole Live's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Pigeonhole Live's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 65 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on features (B, above 76 of 89) and worst on ease of use (C, above 6). - Its paid plans start at $13 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 41 of the 63 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 5 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.** To replace Pigeonhole Live you would be making live video to hundreds of people at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 65 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade. It costs $156 a year. - You could make: Surveys: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides and Zoom among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Brightcove, Swoogo, Kaltura **Tags:** Surveys, Real-time collaboration, AI features, Presentations, Webinars ## Alternatives - [Slido](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slido): Live polls, Q&A and quizzes for meetings and events. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pigeonhole-live-vs-slido) - [Mentimeter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mentimeter): Interactive presentations with live polls, quizzes and Q&A. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentimeter-vs-pigeonhole-live) - [Poll Everywhere](https://toolgpa.com/tools/poll-everywhere): Live audience polling that works inside slide decks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pigeonhole-live-vs-poll-everywhere) - [Vevox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vevox): Live polling, Q&A and quizzes for meetings, training and classes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pigeonhole-live-vs-vevox) - [AhaSlides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahaslides): Interactive presentations with live quizzes, polls and word clouds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahaslides-vs-pigeonhole-live) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://pigeonholelive.com/pricing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/pigeonhole-live Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).