Comparison for higher education · as of November 5, 2026
LehrPuls or Poll Everywhere?
Poll Everywhere, based in the USA, is a cloud service for universities and large events: participation in the browser or by SMS, add-ins for PowerPoint, Keynote, and Google Slides, analytics across several sessions. LehrPuls runs on the instructor's laptop in Europe, without an account and without a vendor in between; participants answer in the browser of their smartphone. This comparison shows what the two share and where their priorities diverge.
The basis is the competitive analysis for LehrPuls 1.22 dated November 9, 2026. The information on Poll Everywhere comes from its public product, help, and pricing pages, last checked on November 5, 2026; the current state at the vendor is what counts. Every LehrPuls feature named here is included in every license.
At a glance
| Based in | Smallest education plan per year | Free plan | Export in the free plan |
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| Poll Everywhere | USA | $108 (Lecture, 700 responses per poll) | 40 responses per poll | yes |
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| LehrPuls | Austria | €79 one-time (up to 500 participants) | trial version, complete, up to 6 participants | yes, in every license |
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Comparison by area
Legend: ✓ available · ◐ limited, partial, or only as a workaround · ✗ not available · € only in paid or higher plans · by design = a deliberate decision by LehrPuls. The rows match the full analysis, where all ten services stand side by side.
Question types
| Question type | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Multiple choice, one correct | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple choice, several correct, with partial credit | ◐ | ✓ or all-or-nothing |
| Poll, including multiple selection | ✓ | ✓ with “Other” |
| Open question | ✓ | ✓ |
| Short answer with automatic matching | ✓ | ✓ as fill-in-the-gaps |
| Number with tolerance | ✗ | ✓ with unit |
| Estimate (median, reference value) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ordering with a solution | ✗ | ✓ |
| Matching / categorizing | ✗ | ✓ also with images |
| Fill-in-the-gaps | ✗ | ✓ |
| Gap with a choice list | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scale, one statement | ◐ | ✓ eleven templates |
| Scale with several statements | ◐ | ✓ up to eight |
| Word cloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ranking without a solution | ✓ | ✓ |
| Point budget | ✗ | ✓ |
| Image question: place a point | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image question: correct area | ✓ | ✓ up to ten |
| Labeling an image | ✗ | ✓ |
| Images as answer options | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2×2 grid | ✗ | ✓ |
| Idea wall with grouping and voting | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sketch as an answer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Photo or file as an answer | ✗ | ✓ up to five |
| Audio or video answer | ✗ | ✗ |
| Formula input with equivalence recognition | ✗ | ✓ |
| Formulas (LaTeX) in question and answers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ask for confidence in the answer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Poll as a segment (segmentation) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Question block with a shared scenario | ✗ | ✓ |
| Peer Instruction with two rounds | ✗ | ✓ |
| Notice with link, QR code, and response buttons | ✗ | ✓ |
| Highlighting text passages | ✗ | ✗ |
| Interactive video | ✗ | ✗ |
Projector, presentation, and control
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Projector view with code and QR always visible | ◐ | ✓ and Wi-Fi QR |
| Presenter view (next question, notes, controls) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operable copy of the wall with zoom | ✗ | ✓ |
| Hide results until the reveal | ✓ | ✓ default |
| Growing chart while collecting | ✓ | ✓ switch per question |
| Comparing two runs (before – after) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Show an earlier question from the archive without leaving the flow | ◐ | ✓ |
| Several questions open at once (block, stations) | ◐ | ✓ |
| Control by clicker and keyboard | ◐ | ✓ |
| Smartphone as a remote | ✓ | ✓ |
| Overlay on another presentation without the cloud | ◐ | ✓ overlay |
| Add-in for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Integration with Teams, Zoom, or Webex | ✓ | ◐ relay and window sharing |
| Random wheel | ✗ | ✓ with fairness memory |
| Leaderboard / podium | ✓ | ◐ podium on demand |
| Emoji reactions | ✗ | ✗ |
| Discussion round without devices (plenary answer) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Boards for scenario, groups, and breaks | ✗ | ✓ |
Live operation, groups, and audience questions
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Questions wall with upvoting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approval before display | ✓ | ✓ |
| Downvotes, labels, threshold | ◐ | ✓ |
| Word filter against insults | ✗ | ✓ |
| Written reply to the person asking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Messages and files to everyone, groups, individuals | ✗ | ✓ |
| Participant posts with a photo or PDF | ✗ | ✓ |
| Close joining | ◐ | ✓ |
| Remove a single device | ✗ | ✓ |
| Group work with a group answer | ✗ | ✓ three forms |
| Station work, group planning across the semester | ✗ | ✓ |
| Instant question without preparation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add questions during the session | ✓ | ✓ |
| Suspend and resume over days | ◐ | ✓ |
| Manual grading during the session | ✗ | ✓ |
| Exclude an answer or question from the analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Paper mode without participant devices | ✗ | ◐ discussion round |
Analytics and reports
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Report per session with distribution per question | ✓ | ✓ |
| Results per person | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analysis across several sessions and semesters | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analysis by topic (topic tree) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Learning curve per course | ◐ | ✓ |
| Time analysis, planned versus actual | ✗ | ✓ |
| Attendance | ✓ | ✓ without location tracking |
| Manual grading afterward | ◐ | ✓ with comment |
| Report as PDF | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to Excel or CSV | ✓ € | ✓ every license |
| Long format with codebook, filter by course, topic, time | ✗ | ✓ |
| Anonymized export with minimum size | ✗ | ✓ |
| Recap for learners | ✓ | ✓ without an e-mail address |
| Audience questions archived per session | ✗ | ✓ |
Question analysis and test theory
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Share correct per question | ✓ | ✓ as difficulty index |
| Discrimination per question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Distractor analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Quality map across all uses of a question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Longitudinal view of the same question across sessions | ◐ | ✓ without personal reference |
| Error rate per gap, item, position | ✗ | ✓ |
| Peer Instruction learning gain, round 1 → 2 | ✗ | ✓ |
| Check whether the solution can be guessed | ✗ | ✓ |
| Quality hints while writing the question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Flag for difficult questions | ✗ | ✓ |
| Breakdown by a preceding question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Grouping open answers | ✗ | ◐ by hand, AI via MCP |
Interfaces, import, and integration
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Read-only results interface for every instructor | ✗ | ✓ every license |
| Access for AI assistants (MCP) | ✗ | ✓ local, with results data |
| Learning platform integration (LTI) with grade passback | ✓ € | ✗ by design |
| Sign-in with the university account (SSO) | ◐ | ✗ no account needed |
| Import questions from a spreadsheet | ✓ | ✓ Excel, ODS, CSV |
| Import from Moodle, GIFT, Aiken | ✗ | ✓ |
| Questions from documents via AI | ✓ | ◐ prompt route, no network traffic |
| Export questions and import them again | ◐ | ✓ |
| Co-editing content in a team | ◐ € | ◐ in turns via the baton, no account (since 1.21) |
| Import participant lists | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in AI with data sent to the vendor | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Open source or self-hostable | ✗ | ◐ runs locally without a server |
Participant side
| Feature | Poll Everywhere | LehrPuls |
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| Join without an account or app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous, pseudonym, or name selectable per session | ◐ € | ✓ four ways |
| Join only via the course list | ◐ € | ✓ without an account |
| Switching devices mid-session | ◐ | ✓ via QR code |
| Participation by SMS | ✓ | ✗ |
| Group's status on every device | ✗ | ✓ |
| Recap with one's own answer and the solution | ✓ | ✓ up to 14 days on the device |
| Answering asynchronously over days | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Accessibility statement (WCAG) | ◐ | ✓ WCAG 2.2 AA, partially conformant |
| Content in several language versions | ◐ | ✓ equal-ranking per question |
When Poll Everywhere is the better choice
- Participants should also be able to answer by SMS, and polls should run as an add-in in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides or in Teams and Zoom.
- You need more than 500 responses per question: the Lecture plan accepts 700 responses per poll.
- The free plan (40 responses per poll) should already allow the export, and the learning platform should receive grades through LTI (paid plans).
- Asynchronous answering over several days and built-in AI for questions from documents are a must.
When LehrPuls is the better choice
- Answers should not be created with a vendor based in the USA: LehrPuls keeps questions, answers, and course lists in the instructor's data folder, with no data processing agreement on your own network.
- You need numbers with tolerance, ordering and matching with a solution, fill-in-the-blank, point budgets, an idea wall, or formula input — not available in Poll Everywhere; a presenter view is missing there too.
- The questions wall should have a word filter and allow written replies to the person asking; messages and files should go to everyone, to groups, or to individuals.
- You want two-round Peer Instruction, group work with a group answer and station work, plus discrimination, distractor analysis, and a quality map per question.
- You want to buy once: €79 one-time instead of $108 per year.
Read on
All ten services side by side, with sources and legend: competitive analysis (also as a PDF). More one-on-one comparisons: overview. What LehrPuls is and how to try it: start page.
Poll Everywhere is a trademark or product name of its respective owner. This comparison was written by the maker of LehrPuls and is not affiliated with Poll Everywhere. All information without guarantee; we gladly accept notes on outdated information at office@lehrpuls.com.