AhaSlides vs Mentimeter at a glance
AhaSlides runs quizzes, polls, games and Surveys inside your presentation, and also gives you standalone Surveys; Mentimeter covers polls, word clouds, quizzes and Q&A, plus Menti Form surveys. Both run from your audience’s phones.What AhaSlides has that Mentimeter doesn’t
AhaSlides has drawing, idea board, matching, sorting and game slides that Mentimeter’s slide list doesn’t include, so these are the clearest differences.Activity types
AhaSlides offers more activity types than Mentimeter, which covers polls, word clouds, open-ended questions, scales, ranking, a quiz and Q&A. AhaSlides covers those too, and adds drawing, idea board, matching and sorting activities and game slides. The full AhaSlides list is below. AhaSlides- Quiz: Pick Answer, True or False, Short Answer, Fill in the Blanks, Correct Order, Match Pairs, Categorise
- Poll and feedback: Poll, Rating Scale, Ranking, Split the Points, Radar, 2×2 Matrix
- Word Cloud
- Open-ended and brainstorm: Open Ended, Brainstorm, Idea Board, Draw Answer
- Image activities: Pin on Image, Interactive Image, Photo Share
- Q&A; moderation isn’t available on every plan
- Surveys, live in a presentation or shared by link
- Games: Spinner Wheel, Duck Race
- Diagram for flowcharts, timelines and charts
- Question slides: Multiple Choice, Word Cloud, Open Ended, Scales, Ranking, 100 points, 2 by 2 Grid, Quick Form, Pin on Image
- Quiz Competition: Select Answer and Type Answer
- Q&A, which presenters can moderate
- Surveys in Menti Form, which people complete in their own time (Menti Form survey guide)
Importing PowerPoint and PDF files into AhaSlides and Mentimeter
AhaSlides and Mentimeter both let you bring in an existing deck, but AhaSlides can keep imported text and shapes editable while Mentimeter turns them into images. You can add interactive slides around it in either. In Mentimeter, imported slides become static images and can no longer be edited as text; importing needs a paid plan (Mentimeter presentation import guide).
See Importing a PowerPoint presentation or PDF file.
Surveys in AhaSlides and Mentimeter
Both AhaSlides and Mentimeter have a standalone survey tool alongside their presentations: AhaSlides Surveys and Mentimeter’s Menti Form. You can create and share an AhaSlides Survey for free, and drop the same Survey live into a presentation. A few extras, such as custom themes and exporting results, aren’t available on every plan.AhaSlides and Mentimeter reports after the session
AhaSlides and Mentimeter both keep results from earlier sessions, and Mentimeter also lets you compare sessions over time (Mentimeter sessions and trends). AhaSlides keeps a list of every participant across all your presentations, with each person’s sessions, responses and accuracy.
See Presentation and participant reports.
AI and integrations in AhaSlides and Mentimeter
AhaSlides and Mentimeter both have AI that builds presentations from a prompt, and both connect to AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude through MCP (Mentimeter MCP guide). AhaSlides also has AhaSlides GPT, a custom GPT in ChatGPT.
Mentimeter’s Google Slides, PowerPoint, Zoom and Teams entries come from its integrations and compatibility article.
Which is better, AhaSlides or Mentimeter?
Choose AhaSlides if you want drawing, matching and sorting activities, games, editable PowerPoint imports or reports that follow each participant across sessions. Choose Mentimeter if a quick poll, word cloud or quiz in a live session covers what you need.- Classrooms: AhaSlides adds matching and sorting quizzes and self-paced quizzes; Mentimeter’s quiz is for live sessions only.
- Corporate training: AhaSlides participant reports follow learners over time.
- Events: both have Q&A and word clouds; AhaSlides adds a Spinner Wheel and a Duck Race for picking winners.