Claryoo vs Mentimeter
Mentimeter turns slides into a live, interactive surface for the audience. Claryoo gives the host a private read on what the room is doing. Different categories, often stackable.
Claryoo and Mentimeter aren't the same kind of tool. Mentimeter is built around the presentation: your slides become a live, interactive surface where the audience votes, types, and responds. Claryoo is built around the host: a private panel that reads the room while you talk and tells you, quietly, what's drifting.
Both work live. Mentimeter asks the audience to engage on purpose. Claryoo reads what the audience does without being asked.
New to this category? See How to read the room in virtual meetings for the four approaches hosts can take.
TL;DR
Mentimeter is an interactive presentation platform. Hosts build slides containing live polls, word clouds, Q&A, quizzes, and surveys. Participants respond via a short code at menti.com. Free tier; paid Pro and Enterprise plans. 500+ million people have participated across education, training, and events.
Claryoo is a real-time host intelligence panel. It joins your Zoom call and surfaces confusion, drop-off, and unanswered questions in a private view only you see. No participant input required. Beta on Zoom; free during beta, three months free at launch for waitlist members.
Pick Mentimeter when the presentation is the session: workshops, lectures, keynote events, training where you want the audience visibly participating.
Pick Claryoo when stopping for an activity would feel forced: sales demos, founder pitches, onboarding calls, recruiter screens, internal reviews.
Use both for 60+ minute trainings. Mentimeter handles deliberate moments; Claryoo catches the rest.
What each tool does
Mentimeter
Mentimeter is a presentation tool first. You build a deck inside Mentimeter (or use its AI to generate one) and intersperse interactive slides: multiple-choice polls, open-text word clouds, quizzes, audience Q&A, numeric scales. When you present, the audience joins at menti.com with a code and responds in real time. Results render on the shared screen as votes come in.
The product's strength is the visibility of the interaction. The poll is a moment in the room. The word cloud builds in front of everyone. Bosch, NHS, Siemens, and the University of Manchester use it for exactly these moments.
Claryoo
Claryoo joins your Zoom call, listens to audio, reads chat, and shows you a private panel that flags moments worth acting on. Three people typed a pricing question in chat in 90 seconds and you missed two. The room went silent after the integration step. Someone asked something live, you said "good question, coming back to that," and never did.
Nothing is broadcast or auto-posted. The panel is host-only.
Feature comparison
| Claryoo | Mentimeter | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary user | Host (private) | Audience (public) |
| Input model | Passive (audio + chat) | Active (menti.com code) |
| What it surfaces | Confusion, drop-off, unanswered questions | Poll results, word clouds, quiz scores, Q&A votes |
| Visibility | Host-side only | On the shared screen as it builds |
| Built around | The meeting | The presentation |
| Live polls / quizzes / word clouds | No | Yes |
| Real-time signal detection | Yes | No |
| AI content generation | No | Yes (presentation + quiz generator) |
| Platforms | Zoom (Meet, Teams coming) | Any tool via menti.com; embeddable |
| Pricing | Free during beta | Free; Pro + Enterprise |
| Scale | Beta | 500M+ participants |
Pick Mentimeter when
The presentation is the session and the audience is meant to be visibly part of it:
- A university lecture with a comprehension check every 15 minutes.
- A corporate training that opens with a word cloud surfacing what the group already knows.
- A keynote that starts with a poll to set the tone.
- A workshop where 50 people vote on which breakout scenario to discuss.
- An all-hands where leadership wants a live temperature check on a new strategy.
Pick Claryoo when
Stopping to run an activity would feel wrong:
- A sales demo with two prospects. You can't ask them to scan a code.
- A founder pitch where a mid-deck word cloud breaks the narrative.
- A customer onboarding call where the silence is the actual risk.
- A recruiter screen where the candidate's pause matters more than the rehearsed answer.
- A live training where you're sharing your screen and can't see who looks lost.
Use both when
You've planned for engagement and you want a safety net. A 90-minute training: deck built in Mentimeter, word cloud at the start, two polls in the middle, Q&A board at the end. Claryoo runs in the background and catches the question typed during your Mentimeter quiz, the silence that opened up when you moved into the technical section, the moment three people asked the same compliance follow-up.
Mentimeter handles the deliberate moments. Claryoo handles the rest.
Pricing
Mentimeter has a free plan with limits on interactive questions per presentation. Pro and Enterprise add more questions, advanced types, branding, analytics, SSO, and integrations. Education and Enterprise pricing also exist. See mentimeter.com/plans for current limits.
Claryoo is free during beta. Waitlist members get three months free at launch. Post-launch tiers will be published before billing starts.
What about Slido, Otter, or Read.ai?
Mentimeter and Slido are both audience-input tools. Slido is a meeting add-on; Mentimeter is built around the presentation deck. Same model: the audience engages on purpose.
Otter, Fireflies, and Read.ai are post-meeting notetakers. They work after the call: transcribing, summarizing, sending recaps. They answer "what happened?" Claryoo answers "what's happening right now?"
The three categories: audience speaks (Slido, Mentimeter), host watches (Claryoo), recap after (Read.ai, Otter, Fireflies). Pick by which problem you actually have.
FAQ
Is Claryoo a replacement for Mentimeter? No. Mentimeter is built around interactive presentations. Claryoo is a host-side intelligence panel.
Does Claryoo record the call? No. Audio is transcribed live and deleted when the call ends.
Can Claryoo read Mentimeter poll results? Not directly. Mentimeter renders results in its own slide; Claryoo reads Zoom audio and chat. If the host references the poll out loud, Claryoo picks it up.
Does Mentimeter integrate with Claryoo? No. Both run independently on the same call without conflict.
Which is better for a university lecture? Mentimeter. Lectures have a clear audience-engagement loop.
Which is better for a customer onboarding call? Claryoo. Onboarding calls rarely have room for a structured poll but are full of the silent-confusion patterns Claryoo catches.
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