Audience questions, polls and reactions shown beside your slides, with a QR code people scan to join from their phones
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Self-hosted alternatives to Pigeonhole Live
Pigeonhole Live is a hosted audience engagement platform for presentations and conferences, with moderated Q&A, polls, quizzes and chat. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Pigeonhole Live describes on its own site.
Pigeonhole Live features, app by app
| Feature | Call-in |
|---|---|
| Moderated audience Q&A with voting | Yes |
| Live polls: multiple choice, rating and ranking | Partly |
| Word clouds | No |
| Quizzes | No |
| Reactions on the big screen | Yes |
| Moderated chat | No |
| Multi-session agendas for conferences | No |
| Slide import and integrations | Partly |
Audience questions, polls and reactions shown beside your slides, with a QR code people scan to join from their phones
- What a Pigeonhole Live user would miss
- It has no rating or ranking polls, word clouds, quizzes or chat, and one event is one session with no conference agenda.
- What it adds
- Apache-2.0 and runs in your own Cloudflare account; it works beside any PDF, Google Slides or Canva deck without an add-in, and people join without an app or account.
- Yes Moderated audience Q&A with voting. Questions with support from other participants, a moderation link, audience reports, slow mode and a delay before questions reach the screen.
- Partly Live polls: multiple choice, rating and ranking. Up to eight polls per event, each multiple choice with two to six options.
- No Word clouds. Not available.
- No Quizzes. Not available.
- Yes Reactions on the big screen. Four audience reactions with renameable emoji and labels, counted on the presenter dashboard.
- No Moderated chat. Not available.
- No Multi-session agendas for conferences. Each event is a single session.
- Partly Slide import and integrations. Imports a PDF of up to 20 MB or shows a Google Slides, Canva or web-deck link; no other integrations.
Sources:github.com/mashbean/call-in#readmegithub.com/mashbean/call-in/blob/main/skills/call-in/references/configuration.mdcall-in.mashbean.net/en/pigeonholelive.com/