There is no upper limit on the number of participants in a live Mentimeter session, and it is regularly used at conferences with thousands of attendees. What varies by plan is the monthly allowance: the Free plan covers 50 participants per month, with the Basic, Pro and Enterprise plans facilitating unlimited participants every month. Attendees join from their own phones, so audience size is not constrained by a shared screen or a room.

Open with a low-stakes poll to initially engage your audience. Try to mix interactive elements such as scales, surveys or word clouds into your slide deck about every ten minutes or so. Another good idea is to run a Q&A session continuously in the background, which lets audience questions accumulate over time, rather than waiting for the final two minutes. Finally, close with a short feedback slide while the room is still full; response rates are far higher in the room than by email afterwards.

With Mentimeter's Q&A software, audiences submit and upvote questions from their phones throughout the session. Questions can be submitted anonymously, which reliably surfaces key questions that would previously be unasked. Our Q&A moderation feature (available on paid plans) lets the host screen all questions before they appear on screen, which can be worth using for keynotes, town halls and any session with external attendees.

Cvent and similar event management platforms handle the logistics around an event (registration, ticketing, agendas, streaming and networking). Slido and Poll Everywhere are direct alternatives in audience response, and the practical differences are presentation quality and workflow: Mentimeter is built as a presentation tool first, so polls, Word Clouds, quizzes and Q&A live inside the same deck you present from rather than sitting alongside it. All three tools let attendees join without an account.

Absolutely, because participants always respond from their own device, rather than a shared screen. In hybrid events, this removes any imbalance. Every response enters through the same channel, and carries equal weight on screen. Display the QR code on the stage screen for the room and share the join link in the stream chat for remote attendees.

Keep a post-event survey to five questions or fewer and run it in the room before people leave. Good questions include an overall rating scale, open feedback questions, a multiple choice question, and a Net Promoter-style question.

Yes. Responses are saved automatically and can be exported to Excel, PDF or image files for analysis. This is useful for speaker reports, sponsor recaps and Y-O-Y comparison. Export is available on the Basic plan and above; on the Free plan, results remain viewable in your account but cannot be downloaded.

No. Attendees join a Mentimeter session from any browser by scanning a QR code or entering the join code at menti.com. No app install, no sign-up, no software. At event scale, this is the difference between a handful of responses and a representative sample, because every download step loses a share of the audience. Only the presenter or organiser needs a Mentimeter account.