The best pub quiz apps for your TV in 2026, compared honestly

But they differ more than their homepages suggest. One expects you to write every question yourself, another stops at five participants for free, a third is really presentation software. We put the seven apps side by side that come up most when you ask for a pub quiz app, with what is free, what it costs and which night each one suits best. We make one of them ourselves, Kwishetwel, and we say honestly where another one is better.

The short answer

• Play tonight, with no preparation: Kwishetwel. Complete quizzes in Dutch and English, free with 25 phones.
• Build your own quiz or game show: The Party Quiz, free for up to 20 phones in 8 teams, with AI that writes questions for you.
• A large venue or a professional quizmaster: QuizWitz or ClassicQuiz, up to 2,000 and 500 players.
• Fast, familiar and a small group: Kahoot!, free for up to 10 players.
• A quiz inside a presentation at work: AhaSlides, with polls and Q&A between the same slides.
• English trivia for an event: Crowdpurr.

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What to look for

• Ready-made or write your own. This is the biggest difference. With most apps you start from an empty screen and write every question yourself, possibly with help from AI. Preparing a night then easily takes a few hours. Kwishetwel has complete quizzes you play straight away; QuizWitz sells them separately.
• How many players for free. From 2 on QuizWitz to 50 on AhaSlides. Mind the rest too: AhaSlides stops at 5 quiz questions per presentation for free, Crowdpurr at 15 questions and with ads.
• Language. The Party Quiz, QuizWitz, ClassicQuiz, Kahoot! and Kwishetwel all work in English and Dutch. Crowdpurr's host dashboard is English-only.
• Home or commercial. The free plans of The Party Quiz and Kahoot! are for non-commercial use only. For a team outing or a night with paid entry you need a different plan there.

Ready to play: Kwishetwel

Kwishetwel is made for the night when nobody feels like writing questions. You pick a ready-made quiz, put it on the TV, laptop or projector, and everyone scans a QR code and plays along on their own phone, with no app or account. There are complete quizzes in Dutch and English, and every Thursday at 18:00 (Amsterdam time) a new one is added. Nine round types keep it varied: from multiple choice and open questions to guessing a number, recognising music clips, pointing at a place on the map and filling in a top list, with a penalty wheel for whoever gets it wrong.

For free you play unlimited quiz nights with three round types and 25 phones; teams can share one phone. Basic (€3.99 a month), Plus (€6.99) and Ultimate (€11.99) add round types, and you can also take a single month that stops by itself. A new account plays 5 rounds with everything in Plus within 7 days, with no payment details. It is all on the pricing page.

Where we are not the best: making your own questions needs Ultimate, we have no AI that writes questions for you, and it stops at 25 phones (or 50 with Ultimate). For a venue with a hundred teams or a quiz in your own branding, read on.

Build your own: The Party Quiz and ClassicQuiz

The Party Quiz is from Rotterdam and the strongest pick if you want to build something yourself. You choose from three formats, which you can also combine in one quiz: a game show with a 5 by 5 board and phones as buzzers, a classic pub quiz with rounds, and a fast multiple-choice round. Players scan a QR code or type a five-character code, with no app or account. AI can write a whole quiz for you, in 93 languages; music and video go in as YouTube links. For the pub there is a mode with paper answer sheets. There are no ready-made quizzes: according to their own FAQ you write everything yourself or let the AI do it.

For free, 20 phones in 8 teams can join, for non-commercial use. Quizpresentator costs €2 a month (€19.20 a year) and goes up to 100 phones in 20 teams, or 24 solo players. For a team outing or a night with paid entry you take Quizmaster (€9 a month) or a single €9 event pass.

ClassicQuiz, from Vught in the Netherlands, works like PowerPoint for quizzes: you build slides with twelve kinds of questions, from multiple choice and estimates to a pin on the map, polls and a word cloud. Your own photos, video and music can go in, and you can import a PDF. Players join with a QR code or PIN, also hybrid from a video call. There are no complete quizzes, but there is a free Dutch question bank in 42 categories to pick single questions from.

The free plan is limited to 5 participants. You pay once, with no subscription and VAT included: Plus costs €39.99 for a month or €79.99 for a year, with 20 participants. Pro adds your own logo and runs from 50 participants (€59.99 for a month) to 500. Strong for work, training and large rooms; on the expensive side for one night at home with friends.

For quizmasters and large venues: QuizWitz and Crowdpurr

QuizWitz, by the Belgian company CatLab, is made for people who run quizzes as a job. There are lots of round formats (the manual lists 18), a quizmaster app with the script, a jury app for open answers, and hooks into stage lighting and OBS. Players go to quizwitz.tv and type a code. A shop sells ready-made PRO quizzes with a script for the host; the first one is free.

For free you play with 2 players. Premium costs €3 a month (€36 a year) for 100 players in a Party Game, which runs automatically: the host can only pause. Live play with a quizmaster needs PRO, from €30 a month billed yearly, or single seats per night (32 seats for €60.50, plus Premium). For a regular quiz night in a large venue this is the most complete package; for home it is too heavy.

Crowdpurr is from the United States and focuses on trivia at events, in venues and bars: automatic games without a quizmaster, a survivor mode, wagering on your own answer and sponsors on the screen. Over 2,500 English trivia games are ready to play, with new ones every week. For free, 20 participants join with 15 questions per game, with the Crowdpurr logo and ads. Paid plans start at $49.99 a month for 100 participants. If your group plays in English and you run events, it is a strong fit.

Fast and familiar: Kahoot!

Kahoot! from Norway is the one almost everyone knows from school: multiple-choice questions with a timer, points for speed and a podium at the end. Players go to kahoot.it or scan a QR code; the app is not needed. Thousands of kahoots are ready to play, mostly made by users, and with a paid plan AI makes a quiz from a topic or a PDF.

For free, 10 players join, with only quiz and true-or-false questions and for non-commercial use. Kahoot!+ Bronze costs €36 a year for 50 players and adds polls and puzzles, among other things; an open answer or a slider is in the more expensive plans. For an activity at work, Kahoot! points you to its Kahoot! 360 business plans. How it compares with us is covered in more detail in Kwishetwel as a Kahoot alternative.

For work: AhaSlides

AhaSlides is presentation software with a quiz built in. You put quiz questions, polls, a word cloud, Q&A and a spinner wheel between your slides, and it works with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom and Teams. Participants join through a QR code or a link, with no app or account. For free, 50 participants can join, but with at most 5 quiz questions per presentation and no teams. Essential lifts that limit for €15.95 a month, or €5.15 a month billed yearly; team play starts at Pro. Ideal when the quiz is one part of a team day or a training. As a whole quiz night it is a detour.

Side by side

Prices and limits as stated on each app's own site, checked on 27 October 2026. Prices change, and some apps charge in dollars or without VAT.

Which one for which night

• At home with friends or family, no preparation: Kwishetwel. Pick a quiz, put it on the TV and start. If you would rather build a buzzer game show yourself, The Party Quiz is free and fun.
• A regular quiz night at the pub: The Party Quiz if you write your own questions and want paper answer sheets, QuizWitz if you run it big and professionally. Kwishetwel if you want ready-made rounds every week, with your own rounds added through Ultimate (see the pub quiz page). If you charge entry, read each app's terms for commercial use.
• A team outing with 30 colleagues: Kwishetwel for ready-made rounds in teams, ClassicQuiz if you want your own questions about the company with your logo, AhaSlides if the quiz sits inside a presentation. More in the pub quiz for a team outing.
• Remote, over a video call: AhaSlides or Kahoot! with their apps for Zoom and Teams, or The Party Quiz, where the questions also show on the phones. With Kwishetwel you share the screen (see the online pub quiz).
• A room with hundreds of players: QuizWitz, ClassicQuiz, Kahoot! or Crowdpurr. We are too small for that.

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