Workshopy vs Slido
Slido is an audience-interaction layer: you keep presenting in PowerPoint, Google Slides or Zoom, and Slido collects polls, quizzes and Q&A from the room. Workshopy is the session itself — participants open their own copy of the workshop, work through it step by step, and the host sees exactly who is on which step and who is stuck. Choose Slido if your format is a talk with audience input. Choose Workshopy if your format is hands-on work where people move at different speeds.
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Two different products
Slido
An engagement layer bolted onto an existing presentation. The content stays in your slides; Slido handles polls, quizzes, word clouds and moderated Q&A alongside them.
Workshopy
The workshop runtime. The content is a Markdown document that becomes a live session with its own steps, per-participant progress, a help queue, chat and private messages, a report for the host and a page students keep with the lesson.
Side by side
| Workshopy | Slido | |
|---|---|---|
| What it replaces | The worksheet, the shared doc, and the 'is everyone with me?' question | The show of hands and the unanswered chat questions |
| Where the content lives | A single Markdown file you own and can export any time | Your slides — Slido holds the interactions, not the material |
| Per-participant progress | The host sees each participant's step live: working, done or asking for help | Not a feature — Slido collects answers; there is no material to move through |
| Participants working at their own pace | Supported and expected — roaming, lookahead and lookback are configurable per session | Live polls and quizzes follow the presenter; surveys can be answered on each person's own time |
| Polls and quizzes | Broadcasts (announce / acknowledge / single / multi choice) plus graded `#[quiz]` steps | A deep, mature polling toolset — this is the product's core |
| Moderated audience Q&A | Chat, notes on the text, a help queue and private messages — not upvoted Q&A moderation | Strong: upvoting, moderation queue, top-questions view |
| Joining | 6-character code, no account, any device | Join code or link, no account |
| Authoring | Plain Markdown — by hand, or written by an AI app such as ChatGPT or Claude connected to your account; exportable as .md | Built in Slido's editor, alongside your slide deck |
| After the session | A report per class — who finished each step, where they got stuck, polls and quizzes — and a page students keep to reread the lesson | Poll results and Q&A export |
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
- Your session is hands-on — people are building, coding, writing or practising, not just listening.
- Participants finish at different times and you need to see who is stuck without asking.
- You want the material to be a file you own, not slides locked to one tool.
- You run the same workshop repeatedly with new cohorts and want a report from each run.
Choose Slido when
- You are giving a talk or a webinar and want the audience to react, vote and ask questions.
- Moderated, upvoted Q&A at conference scale is the job — that is Slido's home ground.
- You need deep integrations with Webex, PowerPoint and Google Slides as part of an existing stack.
- Your audience is in the hundreds or thousands and never leaves your pace.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use Workshopy and Slido together?
Yes, and for a conference-style session that is often the right call: Slido for audience Q&A across the whole event, Workshopy for the hands-on workshop track where people work at their own pace. They solve different halves of the room.
Does Workshopy do live polls like Slido?
It does polls, but as one feature rather than the product. A broadcast can be an announcement, an acknowledge prompt, or a single- or multiple-choice poll, aggregated live on the host dashboard. Graded quizzes are a separate step type authored in the same Markdown file. Slido's polling toolset is broader — word clouds, ranking, quizzes with leaderboards.
Do I need slides to use Workshopy?
No. The workshop content is the Markdown document, rendered for each participant on their own device. Many hosts still present or talk over it — Workshopy runs alongside Zoom, Meet or a physical room, it does not replace them.
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