Best quiz and assessment apps

Tools for live quizzes, formative checks and practice games in class or at home.

  1. 1.Kahoot!Top pick

    Live quiz games that put the whole class on their phones or laptops, with a free plan for basic quizzes.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.6
  2. 2.Sparx Maths

    Personalised weekly maths homework for UK secondary schools, with bookwork checks, support videos and reports on who has finished.

    • Learning apps
    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Paid
    8.5
  3. 3.Wayground

    The quiz platform formerly called Quizizz, now with presentations, video questions, AI tools and 25+ accommodations for live or self-paced work.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.5
  4. 4.Edpuzzle

    Turns YouTube clips and your own videos into lessons with embedded questions, and shows which students watched and how they answered.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.3
  5. 5.IXL

    Skill-by-skill practice in math, ELA, science, social studies and Spanish, with a diagnostic and detailed analytics for K-12 schools.

    • Learning apps
    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Paid
    8.3
  6. 6.Seneca

    Free UK revision and homework platform for KS2 to A Level, with self-marking courses and paid school plans that add AI-marked exam questions.

    • Learning apps
    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.3
  7. 7.Additio App

    Teacher gradebook and planner with rubrics and skills-based grading, on web, iOS and Android, for a low yearly fee.

    • Teacher planners
    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Paid
    8.2
  8. 8.Gradescope

    Mark scanned paper exams and uploaded homework question by question with shared rubrics, from Turnitin. Free Basic plan, quoted Institutional plan.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.2
  9. 9.Nearpod

    Interactive lessons with polls, quizzes, drawing and games built into the slides, run live or student-paced, from Renaissance.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.2
  10. 10.Blooket

    Quiz review wrapped in arcade-style game modes, popular with upper primary and lower secondary students.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.1
  11. 11.Gimkit

    Quiz games where students earn in-game cash for correct answers and spend it on upgrades, with a low-cost Pro plan and no ads.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.0
  12. 12.Pear Deck

    Adds questions, polls and drawing slides to Google Slides or PowerPoint lessons so every student answers on their own device.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    8.0
  13. 13.Curipod

    Teacher-led live lessons where students write, get instant AI feedback against a rubric and revise in the same class period, with no student accounts.

    • AI tools
    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.9
  14. 14.Formative

    Live assignments where teachers watch each student's answers, drawings and shown working appear in real time, and give feedback as they go.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.8
  15. 15.Plickers

    Multiple-choice checks where students hold up printed cards and the teacher scans the room with a phone, so no student devices are needed.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.8
  16. 16.Quizlet

    Flashcard study sets with Learn, Test and the team game Quizlet Live, strong for vocabulary but with ads and paywalls on the free plan.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Learning apps
    • Freemium
    7.7
  17. 17.Wooclap

    A live polling and question tool with over 20 question types, used mostly in universities, and free for school teachers in France and Belgium.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.7
  18. 18.Mentimeter

    Live polls, word clouds, Q&A and quiz slides that students answer anonymously from a browser, built for lectures and presentations.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.6
  19. 19.Turnitin

    Similarity checking and AI writing detection for essays, plus online marking tools. Strong on matching text, with an AI score that needs care.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Paid
    7.5
  20. 20.Socrative

    Quick quizzes, polls and exit tickets that grade themselves and show results per question as students answer.

    • Quizzes and assessment
    • Freemium
    7.4