Textiful vs Slido

Slido details are from slido.com, its pricing page, and its community help pages as of November 12, 2026. Plans and features change, so check their site for the latest.

The short version

Slido helps you run the session. Audience Q&A with upvoting and moderation, polls, quizzes, surveys, and word clouds, built into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Teams, and Webex. It works in any browser, anywhere in the world, and its free plan covers 100 participants.

Textiful helps you keep the audience afterward. People text a keyword to 33777 or scan a QR code, vote in a live poll or add to a word cloud, and in the same text conversation give their email, get your slides, and land in your email tool or CRM.

If you need Q&A, quizzes, or an audience outside the US, Slido is the better tool. If the talk is how you find clients and you want to know who was in the room, Textiful does the polling a room needs plus the lead capture.

At a glance

	Textiful	Slido
How people join	Text a keyword to 33777 or 55444, or scan a QR code that opens a text	slido.com with an event code, a link, or a QR code, in a mobile browser
Needs a browser or Wi-Fi	No, a mobile signal is enough	Yes, an internet connection and a browser
Polls and word clouds	Yes, with a results page for the projector	Yes, plus quizzes and surveys
Audience Q&A with upvoting	No	Yes, with moderation
Presentation add-ins	No; results open in a browser tab	PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Teams, Webex
Who answered	Every contact identified by phone, plus the email and name they give	Anonymous by default; names and emails optional, compulsory names on Professional and up
Email tool or CRM	Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, and HubSpot built in; others through Zapier or webhooks	Not listed on their site; spreadsheet export from Engage and up
Send slides afterward	Yes, by text or email, to everyone who asked	Not listed on their site
Free plan	14-day trial (card required)	Yes: 100 participants, 3 polls per slido
Paid plans	From $19/month, by conversations	From $17.50/month billed yearly ($210), or $60 for a single event
Countries	US only	Works in a browser anywhere

How people join

Slido participants go to slido.com and type the event code, or scan a QR code or tap a link. Everything runs in the phone's browser: Slido retired its mobile apps on March 30, 2026. That's quick for a room with good Wi-Fi or mobile data.

Textiful runs on text messages. People text a keyword to 33777 or 55444, or scan a QR code that opens their texting app with the message written. The poll question arrives by text and they reply with a letter. There's no page to load, so a ballroom with overloaded Wi-Fi doesn't slow anyone down, and the keyword can be said out loud for the back row.

Knowing who was in the room

Slido is built for engagement first. By default, people can ask questions and vote anonymously. A host can turn on "Require authentication" with name and email under Privacy settings, and the names and emails then appear in Slido's exports; requiring names for everyone takes the Professional plan or higher.

Textiful identifies each person by design. Every text-in comes from a phone number, and the same conversation that carries the vote asks for an email, a name, or a question of your own, one text at a time. You know who voted, what they said, and how to reach them.

Getting contacts into your email tool or CRM

This is the biggest difference. Slido's integrations are presentation and meeting tools. As of November 12, 2026, its site lists no connection to Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, or Salesforce, and a Slido staff answer on its community forum (December 29, 2025) says there's no direct Zapier integration and suggests exporting a spreadsheet. Enterprise plans offer a data API that needs technical work.

Textiful sends each contact to your list within seconds. Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, and HubSpot are built in, with tags or lists for the talk, and anything else connects through Zapier or a webhook. Your welcome email can go out before the applause ends.

After the session

With Slido, the session's data lives in Slido's analytics and exports. Following up means downloading a file and importing it.

With Textiful, the people who asked for your slides get them right away as a handout, by text or email, and they're already in your follow-up sequence. That's the part of a talk that turns into clients.

Using both

Slido and Textiful can share a talk. Run Q&A with upvoting in Slido while you speak. Put a Textiful keyword and QR code on the last slide: "Get today's slides. Text DEMO to 55444, or scan the code." Slido runs the conversation in the room, and Textiful keeps it going afterward.

Pricing

Slido is billed yearly; it doesn't offer monthly payments. As listed on November 12, 2026 (excluding tax):

• Basic: free, up to 100 participants per slido, 3 polls and 1 quiz.
• Engage: $17.50/month, billed $210 a year, up to 200 participants, with unlimited polls and data exports. A single event (up to 7 days) is $60.
• Professional: $75/month, billed $900 a year, up to 1,000 participants, with moderation, branding, and advanced privacy. A single event is $240.
• Enterprise: $200/month, billed $2,400 a year, up to 5,000 participants. A single event is $1,000. Custom plans go up to 20,000.

Textiful prices by conversations, meaning each person who starts your flow, however many questions they answer: $19/month for 100, $34 for 300, $49 for 500, $89 for 1,000, and $149 for 2,000, with every feature on every plan. One keyword is included, more are $10/month, and QR codes are free. See Textiful pricing.

For a room of 300 where you want names, Slido Professional ($900 a year, or $240 for the event) covers the session. Textiful's $34 plan covers 300 people who text in and puts them in your email tool.

Who each one is best for

Choose Slido if:

• You need audience Q&A with upvoting and moderation, quizzes, or surveys.
• You run internal meetings, all-hands, or hybrid events on Zoom, Teams, or Webex.
• Your audience is outside the US, or spread around the world.
• You want a free plan for small groups.

Choose Textiful if:

• You speak to find clients and want everyone who's interested in your email tool or CRM.
• You want each vote tied to a person you can follow up with.
• The room's Wi-Fi is unreliable, or you want a keyword you can say out loud.
• You want to send your slides to everyone who asked, automatically.
• Your audience is mostly in the US.

Use both if you want Slido's Q&A during the talk and Textiful's capture at the end.

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