TriviaMaker

TriviaMaker is a game-making platform for creating and hosting trivia in educational, workplace, and social settings. It offers seven styles, including Grid, List, Trivia, Wheel, TicTac, Hangman, and Fusion, with modes for classroom use, solo play, presentations, assignments, and embedded games. Hosts can create questions with AI, import spreadsheets, or turn PDF, Word, and TXT files into quizzes. Questions can be multiple choice, true/false, or open-ended, with automatic, live, team, and leaderboard scoring. Participants join using a six-digit code or QR code, without an app download or player account. Hosts can share their screen over video platforms for remote play, or embed games in a website or learning management system. TriviaMaker is available on Android, iOS, and the web. The free Basic plan limits available styles and participation features. Paid options include Premium at $6.99 a month and Premium Plus at $39.99 a year; Enterprise pricing is available by contacting the maker. The privacy policy notes use of analytics and advertising technologies, and says security cannot be guaranteed for internet transmissions.

TriviaMaker combines several quiz formats with ways to create, share, and review games. Check the Basic plan’s limits and the privacy policy before choosing it for a group.

TriviaMaker suits educators, trainers, and event hosts who want to build quizzes for in-person or remote groups. Its assignment, classroom, and embedding modes may also suit learning programs and organizations.

TriviaMaker is a browser-based trivia builder for teachers, trainers, and event hosts who need both live games and assigned quizzes. Its seven formats and broad publishing options make it adaptable across classrooms, meetings, and parties. The main trade-off is scale: the free tier is tightly capped, and larger or highly customized sessions require a paid plan.

Overview

TriviaMaker supports education, corporate training, team building, virtual gatherings, marketing engagement, and informal events. Hosts can run games in person, share a screen through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, or another video platform, or place a game inside a website or learning management system through Embedded mode. Players join from their own devices with a QR code or six-digit code, without installing an app or creating a player account. That low-friction entry is useful when an audience includes guests, students, or coworkers who should not have to register.

Key features

Seven game styles—Grid, List, Trivia, Wheel, TicTac, Hangman, and Fusion—provide genuine structural variety. Basic users receive only limited Grid, Trivia, and List styles, so the broader selection is principally a paid-plan benefit. Modes include Basic, Crowd, Presenter, Solo, Assignment, Embedded, Classroom, and Buzz, covering hosted competitions as well as individual or assigned work.

Question authoring is unusually flexible for a trivia-focused tool. Hosts can generate questions with AI, import Excel or Google Sheets files, or convert PDF, Word, and TXT documents into quizzes. Multiple-choice, true/false, and open-ended questions are supported. Automatic, live, team, and leaderboard scoring let a host choose between instant evaluation, facilitator-led scoring, and competitive rankings.

Reporting goes beyond a final score: analytics include per-participant and per-question performance, answer breakdowns, completion rates, performance trends, and CSV reports. Plan around the 100-response limit when a session may exceed that audience. The schools page advertises 24/7 support, video tutorials, and a knowledge base, which is particularly relevant for educators coordinating recurring activities.

TriviaMaker’s privacy policy describes administrative, physical, and technical safeguards but also says internet transmission is not completely secure and security cannot be guaranteed. The service uses cookies, pixels, device fingerprinting, and other analytics or advertising technologies. Users can request deletion of an account and associated personal data by email; verified requests are deleted from active systems within 30 days.

Pricing

Basic: free. It includes limited Grid, Trivia, and List styles, two teams, 20 buzzers, and 20 Crowd participants. Customization and team features are disabled. This is suitable for small, straightforward games, but the style and audience caps quickly rule it out for larger classes, events, or branded sessions.

Premium: $6.99 a month, billed monthly, with cancellation anytime. It unlocks all seven styles, supports 50 teams, buzzers, or Crowd participants, allows 100 Assignment and Embedded entries, and adds customization. Choose it when you need the full format set for a modest recurring audience and prefer a cancellable monthly commitment.

Premium Plus: $39.99 a year, billed at an introductory price at first sign-up for a limited time. It raises capacity to 200 teams, buzzers, or Crowd participants and 500 Assignment and Embedded entries while retaining all seven styles and customization. It fits regular users who can commit annually and need materially more participation than Premium.

Enterprise: custom pricing. It supports up to 2,000 buzzers, Crowd participants, Assignment entries, and Embedded entries, with all customization and team features, priority support, and custom integration. This is the appropriate tier for large programs or organizations that need integration help; its price must be obtained from TriviaMaker.

A 7-day trial is offered. Confirm renewal terms for any subscription before committing, especially where the Premium Plus introductory price applies.

Platforms

TriviaMaker runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Its browser-centered joining flow is an advantage for mixed-device audiences, since participants do not need a dedicated app.

Who it's for

Teachers can use Classroom and Assignment modes with imports, conversion tools, and performance reports. Corporate trainers gain team scoring, live facilitation, and embeddable delivery. Event and party hosts benefit from QR or code-based joining and varied formats. It is less suitable when a free session needs more than 20 Crowd participants or when guaranteed security is a primary requirement.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Seven formats and eight play modes support lessons, competitions, solo work, and embedded activities.
• AI generation, spreadsheet imports, and document conversion can reduce question-preparation time.
• Players join without accounts or downloads, lowering audience friction.
• Detailed performance reporting and CSV export help educators and trainers review outcomes.

Cons

• The free plan restricts styles, teams, buzzers, Crowd participation, and customization.
• Premium capacity remains limited to 50 participants or 200 on Premium Plus, with a 100-response limit to plan around.
• Analytics and advertising technologies include device fingerprinting, and the policy cannot guarantee transmission security.
• Enterprise pricing is custom, so budgeting for large deployments requires a sales conversation.

Alternatives

Testportal is a better fit for educators seeking a free-forever plan with 100 results storage, advanced test configuration, and advanced reporting across Android, iOS, web, and an extension.

FlexiQuiz suits users who prioritize broad platform coverage and a free tier with 20 responses per month, 20 responses per quiz, unlimited quizzes, and 10 questions per quiz.

SpeedExam is worth choosing when a free plan allowing 25 exam attempts per month, 2,000 questions, and 100 MB of storage matches your assessment workload.

ClassMarker is an alternative for assessment workflows that may need AI exam proctoring, custom certificates, and up to 1,000 monthly credits on its Professional 2 plan.

ExamSoft is a paid platform for organizations whose required capabilities and integrations are defined through a customer order.

Sporcle is the simpler choice when you want downloadable, vetted trivia question sets rather than a full game-authoring system.

Exam.net targets schools and universities needing an annually billed, unlimited-use license across all subjects.

iSpring QuizMaker fits buyers who want a paid, per-user quiz authoring product at $470 a year.

For more options, browse Quiz Maker Software.

Verdict

Choose TriviaMaker if you need varied live trivia formats, account-free audience joining, and analytics that also support assignments or embedded delivery. Start with Basic for small, unbranded games, or move to Premium Plus when participation and format limits justify an annual plan. Look elsewhere if your audience exceeds its response and participant caps, or if the privacy policy’s tracking and security caveats are unacceptable.