Mentimeter and Slido alternative
What if the poll was part of the presentation?
Mentimeter and Slido are good tools. You build the questions, then fit them around your slides. We build the whole presentation with the room designed in, so the audience has something to do on every beat that matters.
Side by side
A tool you run, or a presentation you own
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
A RUKUS presentation
Who builds it
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
You do. You make the questions, then place them in your slides.
A RUKUS presentation
We do, with you. The interactive beats get picked while the deck is being written.
Where the poll lives
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
On its own slide or in its own app, next to your presentation.
A RUKUS presentation
Inside the slide. The question, the art and the live bars are one thing.
How the room joins
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
A join site and a code, or a QR to it.
A RUKUS presentation
One QR. The room code rides inside the link, so scanning is the join.
What the room can do
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
Polls, word clouds, quizzes, Q&A, ratings. A strong, general set.
A RUKUS presentation
Anything a phone can do for your topic. Their own numbers in a calculator, buy or pass votes, guess then reveal.
If the wifi dies
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
The interactive slides need a connection.
A RUKUS presentation
Every interactive slide also works as a static slide. A poll becomes a show of hands.
How you pay
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
A subscription or an event plan.
A RUKUS presentation
One fixed price, in writing, from $130. Give it fifty more times and it costs nothing more.
What you keep
Mentimeter, Slido and similar
Your account, while you keep paying.
A RUKUS presentation
The deck file and the room. Yours outright.
Mentimeter and Slido are trademarks of their owners. Compared in general terms as of October 2026. Check their sites for current features and plans.
Save your money
When you should just use Mentimeter
- It's a weekly team meeting and the questions change every time.
- You need it tonight.
- You like building it yourself, and a word cloud is all the room needs.
A tool is the right call there. Paying a studio for that would be silly.
Worth building
When a built presentation pays for itself
- You give the same presentation over and over. A tour, a conference circuit, a workshop series.
- The room is the pitch, and you want the emails of the people in it.
- Your topic has math in it, and the room should run their own numbers.
- You present in hotel ballrooms, where the wifi is a rumor.
From real rooms
Half the room leaves their email
Across five live sessions, 134 people took part and 66 of them left an email address. That's 49%. Nobody was forced. They asked for a takeaway worth having, with a consent box they could honestly leave unticked.
People in the room
134
Left an email
66
Capture rate
49%
Common questions
- Is RUKUS a Mentimeter or Slido competitor?
- Not really. Those are tools you run yourself. RUKUS is a studio: we build one presentation with the audience participation designed into it, and hand it over. If you want a tool, use theirs. If you want the presentation built, that's us.
- Can you rebuild a presentation I already run with Mentimeter or Slido?
- Yes. Send the deck and the questions you ask today. We keep your content and your best questions, and design the room into the slides. A live room on a deck you already have starts at $130.
- Does my audience need to download anything?
- No. They scan one QR code with their phone camera and they are in. No app, no account, no code to type.
- Do I need a subscription after it is built?
- No. There is no subscription, no seat count and no per event fee. You own the deck and the room. Changes later are $50 an hour, and in a month you need nothing, you pay nothing.
A live room on a deck you have starts at $130. A deck we build with the room in it starts at $340. Every size and price ->