Live Polls
Ask a multiple-choice question and watch the bars climb in real time. Single or multi-select. Perfect for warming up a room or settling a debate.
Chime lets your audience answer from their phones — live polls, quizzes, open-ended questions, Q&A and surveys — with every result appearing on screen in real time. No app to install. Just a join code.
Mix and match interactive slides inside a single presentation. Your audience moves with you — one join code for the whole session.
Ask a multiple-choice question and watch the bars climb in real time. Single or multi-select. Perfect for warming up a room or settling a debate.
Countdown timer, speed-based scoring, correct-answer reveal and a cumulative leaderboard. Faster right answers earn more — competition that sticks.
Free-text responses stream onto the screen as live cards. Capture ideas, feedback and feelings in your audience's own words.
The audience asks and upvotes questions. Optional anonymity and host moderation keep it on track — the best questions rise to the top.
Share a link and let people answer on their own time — single choice, multi-select, text and 1–5 ratings. Open or close responses with one click.
Every live session and survey is saved with per-slide breakdowns and leaderboards — then exported to CSV for the analysis you already do.
From build to results in minutes — no installs, no logins for your audience.
Add poll, quiz, open-ended and Q&A slides in the builder. Reorder, set timers and points, mark correct answers.
Hit Present and a join code + QR appears. Your audience opens their phone, types the code, and they're in.
Results update on screen as people answer. End the session and your full analytics are saved and ready to export.
The big platforms gate live participants and exports behind steep plans. Chime keeps the whole toolkit together. Competitor details are indicative — confirm current plans on their sites.
| Capability | Chime | Mentimeter | Slido | AhaSlides | Poll Everywhere |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live polls | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quiz + leaderboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Limited |
| Open-ended live feed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Q&A with moderation | ✓ | Paid | ✓ | ✓ | Paid |
| Self-paced surveys | ✓ | Limited | — | Limited | ✓ |
| CSV export included | ✓ | Paid | Paid | Paid | Paid |
| No audience app install | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Chime is a lightweight LAMP + WebSocket stack — run it on your own hosting and own your data end to end.
Indicative tiers for launch — tell us your scale and we'll tailor it.
$0/forever
$12/month
Custom
Build a deck, share a code, hear from everyone in the room.
No credit card required.