AhaSlides vs Slido at a glance
AhaSlides and Slido both let an audience vote in polls, send questions and take quizzes from their phones; the differences are in activity types, quiz play, courses and games.What AhaSlides has that Slido doesn’t
AhaSlides has self-paced quizzes, team play, photo sharing and game slides that Slido’s help centre says it doesn’t offer, so these are the clearest differences.Activity types
AhaSlides offers more activity types than Slido, which covers multiple choice polls, word clouds, open text polls, ranking, rating, ideas, quizzes, surveys and Q&A. AhaSlides covers those too, and adds matching, sorting and typed-answer quizzes, drawing, image and game activities. 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
- Polls: multiple choice, word cloud, open text, ranking and rating
- Ideas poll, where participants react with emojis and AI groups similar ideas
- Quiz, with a timer on each question
- Survey, with certain plans
- Audience Q&A, with moderation on some plans (Slido Q&A moderation)
Quizzes, teams and game modes
Both tools run a scored quiz with a leaderboard, but a Slido quiz is multiple choice and live only.
When people need to answer in their own time, Slido suggests a survey shared by direct link instead, which has no leaderboard (Slido self-paced quiz answer).
Slido and AhaSlides in PowerPoint and Google Slides
Slido runs inside your own PowerPoint or Google Slides deck, while AhaSlides can also import a deck and keep it editable. Slido’s integrations add poll, quiz and Q&A slides to your deck, and they run as you present. Each interaction becomes a holding slide that Slido asks you not to edit (Slido for PowerPoint). Like the AhaSlides add-in, Slido’s PowerPoint integration needs the desktop app (Slido PowerPoint limitations). Both Slido integrations are available on every Slido plan (Slido for Google Slides).
See Importing a PowerPoint presentation or PDF file.
Surveys in AhaSlides and Slido
Both tools let you send a survey by link, but AhaSlides has a standalone survey tool. AhaSlides Surveys lets you create and share a 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. In Slido a survey groups several polls, you can mark questions as required, and you share it with a direct link (Slido survey guide). Surveys are available with certain plans (Slido poll types guide).Courses for self-paced learning
AhaSlides Courses are made of lessons, pages and blocks such as text, video and knowledge checks, shared with your learners by one link. Slido’s poll types and integration guides don’t include a course builder, and its quizzes can’t be taken in your own time.Reports after the session
Both tools show engagement for each session. Slido’s Analytics tab covers engaged participants, Q&A and poll engagement, popular Q&A topics and a breakdown of question sentiment, and you can share it as a link (Slido Analytics). Exporting results is available with certain plans (Slido export guide), and with certain plans Slido’s Organization Analytics summarise every session across an organisation (Slido Organization Analytics).
See Presentation and participant reports.
AI and integrations
Both platforms have AI that builds content from a prompt. Slido generates polls in Host mode from a prompt or an uploaded document, such as a PDF or PowerPoint file (Slido AI-generated polls), and its AI Quiz works only in its PowerPoint and Google Slides integrations (Slido AI Quiz). Slido’s AI also writes poll questions, groups ideas into themes and helps participants refine Q&A questions, on every Slido plan (Slido AI settings). On meeting tools the two are close, though Slido is also built into Webex as its polling and Q&A (Slido in Webex). The gap is learning management systems: Slido said in 2025 that it doesn’t integrate directly with Canvas (Slido LTI thread), and AhaSlides connects to Blackboard through LTI 1.3, which also works with other LTI 1.3 learning management systems and isn’t available on every plan.Which is better, AhaSlides or Slido?
Choose Slido if live polls and audience Q&A inside a meeting cover what you need, especially in Webex, where Slido is built in, or if you want Q&A topic and sentiment analytics. Choose AhaSlides if you also want self-paced or team quizzes, matching and sorting activities, drawing, photo sharing, games, editable PowerPoint imports or self-paced courses.- Classrooms: AhaSlides adds matching and sorting quizzes, team quizzes and self-paced quizzes; a Slido quiz is multiple choice and live only.
- Corporate training: AhaSlides Courses and participant reports follow learners over time; Slido’s help centre describes no course builder.
- Events: both have Q&A and word clouds; AhaSlides adds a Spinner Wheel, Photo Share and Draw Answer.