Workshopy vs Mentimeter
Mentimeter turns your presentation into an interactive one: you build slides in their editor and the audience responds from their phones with votes, word clouds, scales and quizzes. Workshopy is not a presentation tool — it hands each participant the workshop content itself and shows the host a live grid of who has completed which step and who is stuck. Mentimeter is the better fit for interactive talks and workshops driven from the front of the room; Workshopy is the better fit for hands-on sessions where people work through material themselves.
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Two different products
Mentimeter
An interactive presentation builder. The deck is the unit of work, the audience responds to it slide by slide, and the results are the artefact.
Workshopy
A workshop runtime. The Markdown document is the unit of work, each participant progresses through it independently, and the artefact is the per-participant report.
Side by side
| Workshopy | Mentimeter | |
|---|---|---|
| Unit of content | Steps in one Markdown file | Slides in a Mentimeter presentation |
| Who controls the pace | Configurable — host-paced, or participants roam freely with lookahead/lookback | The presenter, slide by slide — or each person, in Survey mode |
| Per-participant progress | Live, per person: the step they are on, done, or asking for help | Not applicable — participation is per-slide response |
| Asking for help | Need help with a note, a help queue taken oldest first, and private messages to the teacher | Q&A and open-text slides |
| Interactive question types | Single/multi choice broadcasts and graded quiz steps | Extensive: word clouds, scales, rankings, 2×2 grids, quiz competitions |
| Visual polish of results | Functional: a live room of student tiles and a report per class | Strong: animated, presentation-ready result visuals |
| Authoring | Plain Markdown — write it, import an existing .md, or let an AI app such as ChatGPT or Claude write it in your account | Mentimeter's visual slide editor |
| Content portability | Export any template or report as a .md file; no proprietary format | Export to PDF or Excel; the interactivity stays in Mentimeter |
| Editing during a live session | Host can edit, insert, hide or delete steps mid-session; changes propagate live | Slides are built in an edit view, separate from presenting |
Compiled from each product’s public documentation. Deliberately no price comparison — published prices change without notice and a stale number here would be worse than none. Check both pricing pages.
Which one to use
Choose Workshopy when
- The session is practical work with a deliverable, not a presentation with audience input.
- You need to know who is stuck, right now, without stopping the room.
- You write content in Markdown already, or you want an AI to draft the whole workshop as text.
- You want the same workshop to run again next month with a new cohort and produce a comparable report.
Choose Mentimeter when
- Your deliverable is a presentation and you want it to be interactive.
- You want polished, animated result visuals to show the room live.
- You need question types Workshopy does not have — word clouds, ranking, scales, 2×2 grids.
- Your facilitators prefer a visual slide editor over writing text.
Frequently asked questions
Is Workshopy a Mentimeter alternative?
For hands-on workshops, yes. For interactive presentations, not really — Workshopy has no slide editor and no word clouds or ranking questions. The overlap is polls and quizzes; the difference is that Workshopy gives each participant the material and tracks their progress through it, which Mentimeter does not do.
Can I import my Mentimeter deck?
No — there is no importer, and the formats are not comparable. What Workshopy does import is Markdown: paste or upload an existing .md file and each top-level # heading becomes a step. If your material started life as a document, that path is usually a few minutes of work.
Does Workshopy work for large audiences?
Up to 200 participants in one session on the Pro plan, 30 on the free plan. That covers most workshops and classrooms but not conference keynotes — if you are presenting to a thousand people, an audience-response tool is the right shape.
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