Blooket Alternatives

Gimkit is the closest swap for Blooket, and the one that changes the least for the students. You build a kit of questions (or import one), students join with a code on their own device, and the game starts. The difference is in the loop: students earn in-game money for each correct answer, spend it on upgrades and power-ups, and keep cycling through the same pool of questions. Once a student has seen every question, they start to repeat, and Smart Repetition draws the ones that student missed more often, so a twenty-minute session drills the weak points instead of rewarding the fastest clicker. That is the main complaint teachers make about Blooket modes such as Gold Quest, where a student can steal another player's gold without knowing much.

The free plan is called Gimkit Basic. It lets you play featured modes with as many students as you want, set up classes and collect reports, with no time limit. The catch: Basic rotates its free modes, and there are generally three free game modes at any given time. The rest, called Pro Exclusives, need Gimkit Pro, and so do Assignments (kits sent as homework) and image or audio uploads in questions.

Pro costs $59.88 a year or $14.99 a month. Gimkit itself says the annual plan saves money as soon as you use it 4 months or more out of 12: four monthly payments come to $59.96. For a department, Gimkit Groups costs $650 a year for up to 20 teachers, or $1000 for a whole school, with no sales call.

Wayground is the new name of Quizizz, and it is the alternative that four of the guides we read put on their list. It is less of a game than Blooket and more of a teaching platform: assessments, presentations, interactive videos, flashcards and reading passages, delivered live or at the student's own pace. Points, streaks and leaderboards give it a game feel, but the reason teachers switch is what happens after the game. Live data shows what to reteach (standards-aligned reports and growth graphs come with the School and District plan), the AI can generate or adapt a quiz to another reading level, and 20+ accommodations such as Read Aloud are included.

The free plan, Basic, is free for every teacher forever, with no credit card. It allows up to 100 participants per session and live or student-paced delivery, which covers homework for a full class. The limit to watch is storage: Basic keeps at most 20 activities, while paid plans have unlimited storage. Some question types and part of the resource library are also reserved for paid plans.

Above Basic, the US plans page lists a School and District plan on quote, with LMS and rostering integrations (Canvas, Schoology, Clever, ClassLink), admin dashboards and AI grading with rubrics; if your school is still picking its LMS, see our ranking of the best LMS platforms. Its help center also describes an Individual (Super) plan with up to 1000 participants per session, whose availability and price depend on your region.

Baamboozle solves a problem Blooket does not: a class without one device per student. The whole game runs on the teacher's screen. You split the class into teams, a team picks a tile, the question appears on the board, and the team answers out loud. Power-ups can swap or steal points, so the surprise teachers like in Blooket is still there, and Baamboozle sums it up as play from one screen, no devices needed. It is popular with language teachers because answering aloud is the point of the exercise. If you teach from an interactive board, pair it with one of the best online whiteboards for teachers.

The free plan is free forever, with three conditions: it is ad supported, it gives you one folder, and you play public games. Paying for Baamboozle+ unlocks all Plus games (such as Bowling, Snakes & Ladders and World Pup Soccer), editing of any game, Class PIN, slideshows, unlimited folders and private games. It costs $4.99 a month paid yearly, $59.88, or $7.99 billed monthly, and you can cancel or change your plan anytime.

The limit is data. Because teams answer aloud on one screen, a class game gives team scores, not a score per student. Homework needs Baamboozle+: its Class PIN lets students play any game on their own devices, and a PIN stays active for 28 days (the same help page also says up to 90, so plan homework on 28). Use it as a warm-up or a review game, and keep a quiz tool for grades. Tip: twelve months on the monthly plan cost $95.88, $36 more than the yearly plan, so switch to yearly once you know you will keep it.

Kahoot! is the name everyone knows, and three of the guides we read rank it among the first Blooket alternatives. The format is simpler than Blooket: questions on a shared screen, a countdown, music, and students answer on their devices by tapping a color. The game layer is lighter, which some teachers see as a feature. It works for a quick check at the end of a lesson and for very large groups, and the free plan includes ready-made content, templates and a question bank built by its community.

The free plan, Kahoot! Go, is where the comparison hurts: the plan comparison gives it 40 participants in a live kahoot, fewer than the 60 players of Blooket Starter, and the plans FAQ still says up to 10 per game, so count on 10 until a test game shows more. The paid Kahoot!+ plans for teachers raise the cap step by step. Bronze costs $3 a month billed annually ($36 a year) for 50 participants and adds AI creation from 3-page files; the grid also shows it billed monthly at $9 a month, three times as much, although the plans FAQ says educational plans are billed yearly only. Silver, Gold and Kahoot! One list at $9, $15 and $25 a month billed annually at full price, with 100, 200 and 800 participants, and Kahoot! often discounts them in seasonal sales.

Watch the participant cap before you buy: a class of 45 does not fit in Kahoot! Go and needs at least Bronze. For an assembly of 300 students, the cheapest teacher plan that reaches that size is Kahoot! One (800 participants), since Gold stops at 200. The AI tools (PDF to kahoot, notes scan) are capped by page count on lower plans.

Socrative is the alternative for teachers who realize that what they used Blooket for was really assessment. It runs quizzes, quick questions and exit tickets with automatic grading, and shows results live as students answer. It has team-based Space Races to add a bit of competition, but the tool is built around the report, not the fun. Teachers who complain that Blooket rewards luck often end up here or on Wayground. For other ways to grade quick checks, see our ranking of the best survey and quiz tools.

The free plan is small but real: 5 quizzes, 1 room, 50 students per activity, 30-day report history, automatic grading and a weekly AI quota (15 generated questions a week). Essentials costs $10 a seat a month, $120 billed annually, and adds unlimited quizzes, 5 rooms, rostered rooms and 90-day reports. Pro costs $15 a seat a month billed annually from 2 seats, $360 a year for 2, with a 10% saving that a single seat does not get; it raises the cap to 300 students per activity, 30 rooms and unlimited report history. Students always use it for free, on any device.

The detail that catches people out is the AI quota: it is counted per week, and it resets, so a teacher who builds all quizzes on Sunday night hits the free limit fast. Plan your quiz creation across the week, or import existing quizzes from Excel instead of generating them.

Nearpod is not a quiz game; it is a lesson platform with games inside. You upload the slides you built in your presentation software (PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides) or pick a ready-made lesson, then add interactive steps: quizzes, polls, Draw It, Fill in the Blank, Matching Pairs, Memory Test and Time to Climb, its game mode. Students follow the lesson on their device, live or at their own pace, and the teacher sees every answer. Teachers leave Blooket for it when they want one tool for the whole class period rather than a game at the end.

The free plan is Silver: $0, 300 MB of storage, 40 student joins per lesson and the core features. Gold costs $159 a year for 1 GB, 75 joins per lesson, the Google Slides add-on, drag and drop and multiple sessions at once. Platinum costs $397 a year for 5 GB, 90 joins and student notes. School and district licenses are on quote, with 250 student joins per lesson and unlimited storage.

The cost per month looks high next to Blooket-style tools: Gold works out at $13.25 a month over a year. Storage is the real limit on Silver, since uploaded videos and slide decks eat 300 MB quickly; compress your files before you upload. If you teach mostly online, compare it with our ranking of the best virtual classroom platforms.