PubTrivia as an AhaSlides alternative

AhaSlides is a presentation tool with quiz slides in it. That difference decides almost everything about which one suits a weekly quiz night in a pub.

It is a presentation tool with quiz slides in it

That is not a criticism, it is the category. AhaSlides is built for live audience engagement inside a presentation: polls, word clouds, Q&A, and quiz slides among them. It is good at that, and if what you are doing is a talk with some interaction in it, it is a sensible choice.

A pub quiz is not a presentation with quiz slides in it. It is two hours of rounds, teams sharing scores, a break in the middle, standings that carry across the night and a leaderboard people argue about on the way out.

The free tier gives you 50 participants, with up to five quiz questions and three poll questions in a single presentation. For a workshop that is generous; for a pub quiz of sixty questions it is not the right shape.

What actually breaks in a pub

Teams. A pub quiz scores by table and a presentation tool scores by participant, so a table of four is four separate entries competing with each other rather than one team playing together.

Structure. Rounds with a break between them, standings that carry across the whole night, and a host who holds the next question while the bar clears are all things a quiz night needs and a slide deck does not have a concept of.

And the join flow. A code typed into a website works, but a permanent printed code on each table, the same one next week and next year, is a different thing, and it is the thing that makes a weekly quiz take thirty seconds to start rather than five minutes.

	PubTrivia	AhaSlides
What it is built for	Pub and bar quiz nights.	Live audience engagement inside a presentation.
Teams sharing one score	Team mode ranks tables.	Ranks participants individually.
Rounds and a break	The session is the night; standings carry across it.	A presentation, rather than a structured multi-round evening.
Permanent table codes	Printed once and reused every week.	A join code per presentation.
Free tier	One free session, all five packs, up to ten tables.	50 participants; up to 5 quiz and 3 poll questions in one presentation.
Polls, word clouds, Q&A	Not what it does.	The core of the product, and genuinely good.
Ready-made quiz content	Five packs on every plan.	You bring your own content.
Saved history across nights	Every session kept with its leaderboard.	Results per presentation rather than a venue's run of quiz nights.

Use AhaSlides for what it is for

A conference session, a training day, a workshop, a class, an all-hands. Anywhere the quiz is a five-minute interlude inside something else, a presentation tool is exactly right and a quiz platform would be overkill.

Its free tier is genuinely useful at that scale, and if you are running a one-off with fifty people it may be all you need.

Use a quiz platform for a quiz night

The tell is whether it repeats. A one-off interactive quiz inside a presentation is a presentation problem; a thing that happens every Tuesday with the same teams is a quiz night, and the differences above start costing you weekly.

Teams, printed table codes, rounds with a break, and a history that accumulates are all cheap when the software has them and awkward when it does not.

If it happens every week

Team scoring, permanent table codes and five packs included. The first session is free and needs no card.

Start free, no card needed