quizquiz.co vs SpeedQuizzing

If you're choosing between quizquiz.co and SpeedQuizzing for a pub quiz night, the short answer is that they're built for different kinds of evening. SpeedQuizzing is a speed game where players race to lock in answers on their phones. quizquiz.co is built for the traditional format, where the host reads a question, teams huddle, someone writes the answer down and the room sets the pace.

If you want a buzzer-race night, buy SpeedQuizzing and stop reading. If you want teams arguing over a pint and a pen, keep going.

The two tools side by side

Everything on the SpeedQuizzing side comes from its own site as I read it on 21 October 2026. Check speedquizzing.com before you commit. The other column is this site's own product, so you know which way we'd lean.

What the two nights feel like

This is the real difference, and it's worth spending time on because everything else follows from it.

A SpeedQuizzing night

The question goes up on the screen and the clock starts. SpeedQuizzing says players have only ten seconds to lock in their answers, and the fast formats reward speed. There's no time to go and ask the next table, and barely time to argue with your own.

It's loud and a bit frantic, with thumbs hovering over phones. A team that knows the answer instantly gets rewarded for knowing it instantly, which is a very different skill from knowing it eventually. The host's job is closer to a game show presenter: keep the energy up, call the results fast, move on.

That suits a crowd that wants something lively. It also means less conversation between tables, which is a feature to some venues and a drawback to others.

A traditional quiz night

The host reads a question, then reads it again. The team of five leans in. The person who knows football says "it's definitely Lampard", the person who doesn't says "are we sure?", and thirty seconds of debate follows. Someone writes it down. Two tables away, a team decides they're going with a completely different answer and are quietly delighted about it.

The pace belongs to the room. If a question is hard, the room takes longer. If everyone's had a few drinks and wants to chat between rounds, they chat. Scores get totted up during the interval, and the winners are announced to a mix of cheering and accusations.

That's the night quizquiz.co is built to serve: slides on the TV, the host walking the room with a phone as a remote, and teams either scribbling on paper or answering on one phone per team. If you want ideas for shaping that kind of evening, how to run a great pub quiz covers the practical side.

Setting up as the host

SpeedQuizzing Pro is a desktop application for Windows or Mac. You install it, you run the quiz from that computer, and a pub that wants a screen for the room can use SpeedQuizzing's optional Live-Screen on a TV or projector. The site also says venues may need a small WiFi hub, which it sells in its shop.

That's sensible if you've got a laptop that lives at the venue. It's less convenient if you're borrowing a computer or turning up at a village hall with a Chromebook.

quizquiz.co runs in a browser. You build the quiz on whatever you've got, open the presenter on the laptop connected to the TV, and drive it from your phone if you want to wander about. The cost of that convenience is a dependency on the network. The slides keep going if the wifi drops mid-quiz, but the YouTube clips stop, and the phone remote and any team phones disconnect. A printed question sheet has no such problem. Teams answering on phones are usually on their own mobile data rather than the venue wifi, which helps more than you'd think, but test the room before the first night either way.

What players need to do

On SpeedQuizzing, players install the free app from the Apple, Android or Amazon stores. Individuals or teams sharing a device can play. For regulars who've already got it, that's no obstacle. For a first-timer, it's a few seconds of friction per team while they find and download it.

I don't want to overstate this. An app isn't a disaster, and a dedicated app is a reasonable thing to ask for in a game built on locking in an answer within seconds.

On quizquiz.co, players scan a QR code on the big screen, pick a team name and answer in their phone's browser. No app, no account. Or you skip phones entirely and hand out printed answer sheets, which you can generate from the quiz in one click, with a host copy that has the answers on it. Answers on phones are marked automatically, and the host can override any mark.

Pricing: two different models

SpeedQuizzing sells prepaid credits instead of a subscription. One Pro activation costs 3 credits. An activation covers one day on one computer, allows unlimited player devices, stays live until 6am the next morning, and comes with a Quizpack of 70+ questions. Credits never expire, and buying more at once lowers the unit price.

There's a free demo mode, capped at four player devices, so you can try it before paying.

The figures live on SpeedQuizzing's price breaks page rather than its main pricing page, which is probably why they're easy to miss. The smallest bundle is 3 credits for $30, and one activation costs 3 credits, so $30 is the minimum to start hosting. Larger bundles bring the unit price down, up to 156 credits for $1,012. The page shows dollars without naming a currency code, and this was checked in October 2026.

It's a real cost, but there's nothing to cancel and the credits don't expire. For someone hosting once a month, paying as you go can beat a subscription you'd forget about.

quizquiz.co has a free plan that covers running quiz nights, presenting, answer sheets, the phone remote and team play, and the site says those won't be paywalled. The limits are three saved quizzes and 20 AI-generated questions. Pro lifts both, adds your own colours and saved branding presets, and removes the quizquiz.co branding from slides and handouts. It's a subscription or a one-off lifetime payment, and the current prices are on the pricing page.

The two models suit different habits. Pay-per-night is a good match for someone who hosts now and then. A flat plan is a better match for someone hosting every week who doesn't want to think about credits.

Questions: SpeedQuizzing includes them, quizquiz.co doesn't

This one's a genuine weakness on our side.

Every SpeedQuizzing activation comes with a Quizpack of 70+ questions, which you can edit in its online Question Manager. Hosts can also write their own. If you've never written a quiz and don't want to start, that's a big deal.

quizquiz.co doesn't supply ready-made question packs. You type or paste your own questions, bulk import them from a document, or use AI suggestions for the last few (20 free, then Pro). I do publish a lot of free material to lean on, including 50 of the best pub quiz questions and a list of quiz round ideas. That's a partial answer at best. You're still the one picking and checking the quiz, and if that's the part of hosting you dread, it's a real point against me.

Round types: SpeedQuizzing's list is rich

SpeedQuizzing's play page lists Fastest Fingers, Buzzin', Multiple Choice, First Letter of the Answer, Picture questions, Sequence, Multi Tap, Nearest Wins, Wordsnake, Keypad games, Bingo and Spin The Wheel. It also says some hosts run music rounds such as "Beat the intro".

That's a lot of variety, and it fits the speed format well.

quizquiz.co is narrower. It does standard questions, picture rounds with grid layouts, and music and video rounds where you paste a YouTube link and set the start point and clip length. It has no buzzer or fastest-finger format at all. If you want those, go elsewhere. For ideas on the formats it does cover, see our posts on picture rounds and music rounds.

When SpeedQuizzing is the better choice

Pick SpeedQuizzing if any of these sound like you. It also has far more round formats than I do, so a host who likes to vary the night will have plenty to play with.

You want a buzzer-race night. If the whole point is players racing to answer, quizquiz.co simply can't do it. SpeedQuizzing's Fastest Fingers and Buzzin' formats are built for exactly that, and it's what the product is about.

You run a venue and want something your customers can't do at home. A fast, phone-based game with a proper format has a different feel to a quiz people could run on a laptop themselves. It's been around since 2011, it claims well over 2,000 events a week (its own figure), and real venues run it week in, week out. That's a lot of refinement.

You don't want to write a quiz. A 70+ question Quizpack comes with every activation. If your priority is turning up and running something, that's worth a lot more than any feature on ours.

You want unlimited player devices without thinking about it. One activation covers any number of phones for the day. Nobody gets turned away, and you aren't counting heads.

You host occasionally. Credits never expire, so someone running a charity night twice a year isn't paying for months of a subscription they aren't using.

When quizquiz.co is the better fit

Pick quizquiz.co if you want teams talking to each other, you like the pen-and-paper feel, you're hosting from a borrowed laptop or a tablet, or you'd rather not make players install anything. It also suits you if you'd like the option of printing answer sheets and running the whole night on paper, with phones as a bonus instead of a requirement.

There are other things worth being upfront about. quizquiz.co is a small independent project next to a product that's been refined since 2011. The free plan only saves three quizzes. And it doesn't do multi-week league tables across a season.

I couldn't find league tables, multi-venue management or venue branding documented on SpeedQuizzing's pages either, but that tells you nothing about whether they exist. If those matter to you, ask them before you buy.

How I'd choose

Picture your ideal Tuesday night. If it's a room of people racing each other and groaning when someone's faster, that's SpeedQuizzing. If it's tables of friends arguing over whether it was 1994 or 1995, that's the traditional quiz.

You can try both without paying. SpeedQuizzing has a free demo mode capped at four player devices, and you can build a quiz on quizquiz.co without even making an account. Do a test run of each with a few friends and see which night you'd rather host.