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Tchaku vs Slido — which fits your room?
Slido (part of Cisco) is interaction as an add-on: polls and Q&A layered onto slides you make somewhere else. Tchaku collapses that stack — the editor, the animation, and the audience widgets are one tool, so a poll is a slide element you design, not an overlay you switch to.
| Slido | Tchaku | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Q&A and polling layer for PowerPoint, Google Slides, Teams & Webex | The deck editor itself, with live audience widgets as slide elements |
| Workflow | Build slides in one tool, run interaction in another | One file, one Present button — content and interaction in the same deck |
| Audience Q&A | Excellent, its core strength — moderation, upvotes | Moderated open-response wall; upvote-style likes on responses |
| Quiz & leaderboard | Timed quizzes with an automatic top-5 leaderboard | Timed scoring, animated rank changes, and a podium styled to your deck |
| Free tier | Small number of polls per event and a participant cap | All widget types free, uncapped questions per deck |
| Design & animation | None — inherits whatever your slide tool does | Motion timeline, build order, 40+ chart types, brand theming |
| Pricing | Subscriptions plus per-event licenses | Free with 30 AI credits/mo; Pro $12/mo billed yearly; Studio $29/mo billed yearly; $25 one-time Event Pass (7 days of Studio) |
Comparison reflects public information as of August 2026 — check Slido's site for their current plans.
Choose Slido if…
- Your whole company lives in Webex/Teams and wants interaction inside those meetings
- You mainly need moderated Q&A at scale on top of existing decks
Choose Tchaku if…
- You'd rather one tool made the slides and ran the room
- The visual quality of the deck matters — Slido inherits your slide tool's limits
- You want quizzes that feel like a game, with results saved per player
Questions
- Does Tchaku integrate with PowerPoint like Slido does?
- Tchaku replaces the deck tool rather than plugging into it — but it imports .pptx so existing decks come across, and exports back to PowerPoint when someone asks for the file.
- Can Tchaku handle audience Q&A?
- Yes — the open-response widget is a moderated wall of audience answers with likes; you can pin, feature, and filter what's on screen.
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