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Slido

Score8.4 out of 10

114 Reviews and Ratings

What is Slido?

Slido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.

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Slido Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Slido has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 114 ratings of Slido's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Record meetings / events

    Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Live chat

    Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.

    Category average: 9.2

  • Quizzes

    Assign assessments to determine audience metrics based on knowledge and skill set

    Category average: 9.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Responsive Design for Web Access

    Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 8.3

  • User authentication

    Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.

    Category average: 8.2

Who Buys & Uses Slido

Slido Reviews

What users are saying about Slido.
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Pros

  • Enhances audience engagement through interactive features like live polls and quizzes
  • Facilitates real-time feedback and immediate understanding of audience sentiment
  • Supports anonymous Q&A, encouraging broader participant contribution

Cons

  • Limited customization options for branding and visual alignment
  • Absence of a dedicated mobile application for optimal mobile experience
  • Simplistic reporting and data export capabilities for post-event analysis

Best solution for increasing audience participation.

Incentivized
Surbhi KatyalView profile
Senior Business Analyst in Information Technology at GlobalLogic (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido helps a lot in improving business problems by enhancing meeting engagement and productivity by simple adding polls, Q&A and quizzes. It gives transparency and build trust by giving every participant. It saves time in getting quick feedback. faster decision making and easy to identifying knowledge gap. it increase connections and transparency. It ensure for faster communication as well.

Pros

  • Quicker decision making and analysis.
  • Live polls and Q&A.
  • Increase audience participation.
  • Quickly integrate with other Webex products.

Cons

  • Poor internet speed shows delays in response of the app.
  • Limited customisation option, needs to be added more.

Return on Investment

  • Easily identify the audience sentiments.
  • Boost audience participation and interest.
  • Saves maintenance cost as well as time.

Get quick insights of your attendees with Slido

Incentivized
Akash Singh
Founder in Information Technology at Revenue Riots (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm use Slido to engage with my audience during meeting, presentations and events. It helps me to get live polls, questions and answers etc. Anonymity feature is the best thing which make users to contribute without hesitation.

Pros

  • Live Polls feature is the best thing in slido
  • Anonymous Q&A functionality
  • Real-Time Analytics

Cons

  • Mobile app experience in glitchy and not optimized
  • Limited logics in polls and interactivity
  • Starting plans has limited functionality

Return on Investment

  • Pricing is a major factor because in Starter plan it has limited featuress
  • Lack of custom reporting feature
  • Not always but sometimes struggling with the interface.

Alternatives Considered

ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Brevo, Amazon Web Services, Asana, Basecamp and Trello

Other Software Used

ChatGPT, Brevo, Asana

Fabulous product for improving participation in webinars

Incentivized
Nikita SinghView profile
Technical Specialist in Information Technology at LTIMindtree (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido is one of the finest audience interaction solution for online webinars and events. Seamless integrate with Webex meetings where we can assess polls, Q&A, surveys and quizzes. It makes the events more interactive, productive and increase the engagement. It has inbuilt analytics & reporting tool so that we can create the participation of audience reports and helps in decision making as well.

Pros

  • Makes webinar more interactive.
  • Easy to for us to understand the audience sentiments.
  • Boost audience participation or engagement.

Cons

  • Need subscription for adding polls & surveys.
  • Limited customisations options needs to be added more.
  • Poor internet bandwidth impact the performance of the events.

Return on Investment

  • It increase participations in our events.
  • Saves times and boost productivity.
  • Easy to understand audience sentiments.

Best Anonymous polling tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido helps our organization to collect polls from users and teams to shape our products better. With Slido's simple design anyone without tech experience can help us to improve our product experience and share their thoughts

Pros

  • Anonymous poll
  • Interactive UI
  • Anonymous vote

Cons

  • Anonymous vote with login required should be a feature to add

Return on Investment

  • Interactive Quiz
  • Polls

Alternatives Considered

Polly

Easy Way to Get Response in Real Time.

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In Meetings and seminars Slido is generally used also used to collect user feedback and Q&A sessions it improve our sessions and understand audience sentiment , we integrate Slido with teams and collect feedback which is interactive and user friendly , it is interactive and best that improve communication under our organization.

Pros

  • Feedback Collections.
  • Q&A Sessions.
  • Real Time response collections.

Cons

  • More Types of Polls and Graphs to show result.
  • More Mobile Friendly.
  • UI Can be Improved.

Return on Investment

  • Engagement imrpovement.
  • Improved Feedback Quality
  • Time Saving

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams

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