Mentimeter alternative
Open-source Mentimeter alternative: free and self-hostable
For quiz competitions, Buzrr is a free, open-source Mentimeter alternative: a standalone live quiz game rather than quiz slides inside a presentation. You can use the hosted version or run it on your own server.
What is Buzrr?
Buzrr is an open-source quiz platform that runs in the browser. A host builds a multiple-choice quiz — by hand or with AI — and opens a live room; players join from their own phones or laptops with a 6-character code, a link or a QR code, without creating an account. Signed-in users can also play ranked 1v1 quiz battles. Buzrr is licensed under AGPL-3.0, so anyone can read the code or run their own instance.
Why look beyond Mentimeter for quizzes
You're not giving a presentation
Mentimeter's quiz lives inside a deck. If there are no content slides — just rounds of questions — a dedicated quiz tool keeps the setup simpler.
You want every player ranked
Mentimeter's leaderboard slide shows the top 10. Buzrr's leaderboard ranks every player, and the full final standings are saved to your history.
You want to self-host
Mentimeter is a cloud service. Buzrr is AGPL-3.0 open source.
Buzrr vs Mentimeter, feature by feature
Need the details before switching? The Buzrr vs Mentimeter feature and pricing comparison puts both tools side by side — pricing, free plan limits, self-hosting, offline / lan use, ai quiz generation, 1v1 duels / ranked play — with a source for every Mentimeter claim.
What you get by switching to Buzrr
A game, not a deck
Build a quiz, click Host, and players join with a code, link or QR. The host screen moves between questions, answer charts and the running leaderboard.
Wider speed scoring
Buzrr's scores run from 1,000 for an instant correct answer down to 100 at the time limit, so speed separates players more.
Life after the session
Signed-in players can play ranked 1v1 quiz battles against each other any time.
Buzrr features you'd use
Live hosted quiz rooms
The host runs the room from one screen and moves it along question by question. Players join with a 6-character room code, a join link or a QR code.
Answer charts and leaderboards
When a question closes, the host screen shows how the room answered alongside the running leaderboard. Final results — rank, score and correct answers per player — are saved to the host's history.
Speed-based scoring
A correct answer earns up to 1,000 points, sliding to 100 at the time limit; wrong answers score 0. Answer time is measured on the server, not on the player's device.
Quizzes from your documents
Upload PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown files to an AI Knowledge Space. Generated questions cite the passage they came from, and you export the ones you keep into a quiz.
AI quiz generation
Describe a topic and Buzrr drafts up to 15 multiple-choice questions with Google Gemini. Edit anything before you host.
Image questions
Attach an image to a question — a diagram, a map, a logo, a photo round.
Ranked 1v1 quiz battles
Seven questions against one opponent, matched by ELO rating. If nobody near your rating is queuing, you get a bot opponent instead of an empty wait.
Open source (AGPL-3.0)
The full source — web app, game server and AI service — is public on GitHub.
No accounts for players
Players pick a name and an avatar and they are in. Only the host signs in (with Google).
How Buzrr works
- 1
Build a quiz. Sign in, create a quiz and add multiple-choice questions with a time limit each — or generate a draft with AI and edit it.
- 2
Open a room. Hit Host. Buzrr creates a room with a 6-character code, a join link and a QR code for the big screen.
- 3
Players join. Players open the link or enter the code on their own device, pick a name and avatar, and appear in your lobby.
- 4
Play it live. Start the game. Each question runs on a server-side timer and closes early once everyone has answered. The host screen then shows the answer chart and running leaderboard, and you move on when the room is ready.
- 5
Keep the results. The final leaderboard is saved to your history with each player's rank, score and correct answers.
Who Buzrr suits — and who it doesn't
Buzrr is a good fit if…
- You run standalone quiz games rather than presentations.
- You want the full room ranked, not just a top 10.
- You want an open-source, self-hostable tool.
Stay with Mentimeter if…
- You want quiz questions woven into a presentation with content slides.
- You need type-your-answer questions — Buzrr is multiple choice only.
- You use other interactive slide types alongside quizzes.
What it looks like
Mentimeter alternative FAQ
- Is there an open-source alternative to Mentimeter?
- For quiz competitions, yes: Buzrr is AGPL-3.0 open source and self-hostable. It is not presentation software, so it doesn't replace Mentimeter's content slides or other interactive slide types.
- Does Buzrr show the whole leaderboard?
- Yes. Every player is ranked after each question and at the end, and the final standings are saved to the host's history.
- Can I use Buzrr inside my slides?
- No. Buzrr runs as its own host screen in the browser; there is no PowerPoint or Google Slides integration.
Mentimeter facts checked October 2026.
What people use Buzrr for
- Quiz your audience, liveClose a talk with a five-question quiz, run a trivia segment on a livestream, or warm up a meetup crowd. The audience joins from their phones; the leaderboard does the rest.
- Live quizzes for the classroomPut a code on the projector, students join from their phones or school laptops, and you run a quick review or a revision game in the time it takes to take attendance.
- Knowledge checks for training sessionsTurn a training document into a live quiz at the end of the session: generate questions from the material, check what landed, and keep the whole thing on your own servers if you need to.
Other alternatives and comparisons
- Slido alternativeFor Slido quiz, trivia and game sessions — not its Q&A or polls.
- Kahoot! alternativeLive rooms with a code, speed scoring and leaderboards — open source, self-hostable, plus ranked 1v1 battles.
- Quizizz (now Wayground) alternativeFor people who used Quizizz for its live quiz game, now that it has become Wayground.
- QuizUp alternativeRanked 1v1 battles of seven timed questions, in the browser — QuizUp shut down in 2021.
- Buzrr vs MentimeterPricing, free limits, joining, AI, self-hosting and offline use, with help-center sources.
Open source and self-hosting
Run your first Buzrr quiz
Sign in with Google, build or generate a quiz, and put the code on the screen. Players don't need an account.
Mentimeter is a trademark of its owner. Buzrr is not affiliated with Mentimeter. See also Buzrr pricing.