Quizizz earned its place in math classrooms by fixing the single worst thing about live quizzing for math: the shared countdown. Where Kahoot marches every student through the same question on the same ticking clock, Quizizz let students move at their own pace, with timers long enough to actually work a problem. For math teachers, that one design decision — self-paced mode — was the whole pitch, and it was a good one. The memes between questions didn't hurt either.
So why are so many math teachers searching for alternatives? Usually not because Quizizz broke. It's because they've noticed the ceiling: Quizizz is still a quiz engine. The memes and power-ups sit on top of the same basic transaction — multiple-choice recall questions, answered once, scored, done. If what your students need is deeper practice, or a different kind of live energy, you need a different tool, and which tool depends entirely on which job you're hiring it for.
Quick disclosure before the list: this is Infinilearn's blog. We make one of the tools below — a free math RPG for grades 3-9 — and we've put it where we honestly think it belongs, in the practice category, not pretended it competes with Quizizz's live-event lane. We've also included a section on what Quizizz still does best, because this is a guide, not a hit piece.
First, Credit Where It's Due
It's worth being precise about what Quizizz fixed, because the fix is why it deserves to stay in your rotation even if you add alternatives. Self-paced mode is quietly one of the most accessible formats in edtech: the student who processes slowly isn't publicly outrun, the anxious student isn't performing against a projector countdown, and nobody's wrong answer gets a spotlight. Under Common Core, the middle grades stack fast — one-step equations in 6th grade, two-step in 7th, linear functions in 8th — and the students most at risk of falling off that ladder are exactly the ones a shared timer punishes hardest. Quizizz's format protects them. That matters, and most of the flashier alternatives don't do it.
If your frustration is with the shared-countdown format generally rather than Quizizz specifically, our guide to Kahoot alternatives for math covers that ground in more depth.
The Ceiling: A Quiz Engine Is Still a Quiz Engine
Here's the limit no meme can fix. A quiz engine serves a fixed set of questions to every student, scores them, and stops. Three things follow for math class:
- The questions are recall-shaped. Multiple choice, one shot, no scratch-work loop. Fine for "which property is this?"; thin for a multi-step equation, where the learning happens in the working, not the picking.
- Every student gets the same set. The kid missing 6th grade ratio foundations and the kid ready for 8th grade slope receive identical questions. No quiz engine adapts to where each student actually is.
- The engagement is seasoning, not structure. Memes and power-ups are decoration on top of questions. Students see through decoration by about October of 7th grade. Tools where the game is the structure — where answering powers something students actually care about — hold attention much longer.
None of this makes Quizizz bad. It makes it one tool, good at one job. Below are the alternatives, sorted by which job you're actually hiring for.
If the Job Is a Live Event
These are Quizizz's direct competitors: teacher-hosted, class-wide, high energy, best used for review days rather than daily practice.
1. Blooket
Best for: Repeatable middle school review · Price: Core free; Plus tier a few dollars a month · Format: Live game-show modes
Blooket separates the question set from the game: build a set once, then host it in any of a rotating cast of game modes with real strategy layers — collecting, stealing, defending. Middle schoolers reliably prefer it to plain quizzing because answering earns moves in a game rather than just points on a board. The same set stays fresh across modes for months, which is great prep economics.
Pros: Hugely popular with middle schoolers; reusable sets; cheap paid tier; solo modes exist alongside live rounds. Cons: Game modes can overshadow the math; community set quality varies wildly, so vet before hosting. We compared it head-to-head with Kahoot in Blooket vs Kahoot.
2. Gimkit
Best for: Classes that love strategy and economies · Price: Limited free tier; Pro about $10/month or $60/year as of this writing · Format: Live modes with in-game currency
Gimkit's twist is money: correct answers earn in-game cash, and students decide how to spend it — upgrades, power-ups, mode-specific strategy. That economic loop gives repeated answering a purpose, so students voluntarily grind through many more questions per session than a straight quiz produces. Charming detail: it was created by a high school student, a fact we at Infinilearn are contractually incapable of not appreciating.
Pros: The earn-and-spend loop drives high question volume; modes feel like real games. Cons: The free tier is genuinely limited, so budget for Pro; the strategy layer can eclipse the content. If the price is the sticking point, see our Gimkit alternatives roundup.
3. Kahoot
Best for: Whole-room energy and fact recall · Price: Free basic tier for teachers; paid tiers aimed at schools · Format: Live trivia
Yes, the tool Quizizz was built to fix — but it still owns one thing: the shared, eyes-on-the-projector, game-show moment. Quizizz's self-paced mode is kinder and better for math, but it's also quieter. When you want the room loud and unified for a pre-test hype day, Kahoot delivers that better than anything self-paced can.
Pros: Zero learning curve for anyone; unmatched communal energy. Cons: The countdown rewards speed over reasoning, which is exactly wrong for multi-step math — keep the content to facts and vocabulary.
4. 99math
Best for: Arithmetic fluency sprints · Price: Free · Format: Live math races
The only math-specific tool in the live category. The teacher starts a round, students race through arithmetic, and the whole thing takes minutes. It does one job — fact fluency — and does it cleanly, which makes it a great warm-up bell ringer for 5th and 6th grade or for older students whose computation speed drags down everything else.
Pros: Free; math-native; fast to run. Cons: Narrow by design — fluency sprints, not concepts. It will never touch an equation or a graph.
If the Job Is Actual Math Practice
This is the job quiz engines only look like they're doing. Practice means each student repeatedly working the skills they're weak in, with enough depth and duration to build mastery — not one shared question set on a Tuesday.
5. Infinilearn
Best for: Grades 3-9 · Price: Free (optional premium) · Format: Fantasy RPG
Our own tool, so apply skepticism accordingly. Infinilearn is a free fantasy RPG where students battle monsters, run quests, and fight bosses across 15 zones — and every attack, spell, and ability is powered by solving a real math problem matched to Common Core standards for grades 3-9. The part that makes it practice rather than decoration: the engine tracks each student's accuracy topic by topic, and weapon attacks pull problems from that student's weakest subjects. A 7th grader who's solid on integers but shaky on proportional relationships simply meets more proportion problems mid-battle, without anyone assigning anything.
The teacher tools are free: classrooms, a built-in diagnostic to locate each student's level, assignments, and tracking by topic, standard, and student. The full game is free too — every zone and all the math, no ads, nothing paywalled — and multiplayer is limited to preset chat phrases, no open text.
Pros: Free with no content paywall; adaptive to each student's gaps; persistent game students play voluntarily between classes; free teacher dashboard and diagnostic. Cons: Grades 3-9 only; multiple choice (no typed free-response yet); browser-based with no phone app; newer and smaller than the incumbents on this list.
6. Khan Academy
Best for: Instruction plus mastery practice · Price: Free · Format: Video lessons and practice sets
The best free instruction available, full stop. Khan pairs video lessons with mastery-based practice sets for every grade, so it covers the job no game does: teaching a concept the student hasn't met yet, then practicing it. It's a nonprofit and completely free.
Pros: Free; every grade and topic; instruction and practice in one place. Cons: It isn't a game and doesn't pretend to be — students need self-motivation or your structure to stick with it.
7. DeltaMath
Best for: Auto-graded homework · Price: Capable free tier for teachers; paid tiers roughly $100-200/year per teacher as of this writing · Format: Problem bank with auto-grading
Hugely popular with middle and high school math teachers for a reason: assign problem sets by skill, students get instant feedback, you get the grading time back. The paid tiers add instructional videos, help features, and test-security tools. Be honest with yourself about the student experience, though — kids experience DeltaMath as homework, because it usually is homework. That's not a flaw; it's the job description.
Pros: Deep, skill-targeted problem sets; auto-grading; strong free tier. Cons: Zero game appeal; motivation has to come from the gradebook.
What Quizizz Still Does Best
Before you replace anything, know what you'd be giving up. Two things on this list have no clean substitute above.
- Asynchronous assignments with instant data. Assign a Quizizz for homework or a station, students complete it whenever, and you see results without hosting anything live. Blooket's solo modes gesture at this, but Quizizz's assignment flow is the smoothest version of "low-stakes check, zero grading" in the live-quiz category.
- The accessibility of self-paced mode. As covered above: no public countdown, no leaderboard spotlight on slow processors. If you teach students who shut down under timed competition — every math teacher does — this format protects them in a way Kahoot, Gimkit, and most Blooket modes structurally can't.
The takeaway isn't "quit Quizizz." It's that Quizizz is a checking tool wearing a game costume. Keep it for checks. Hire a real event tool when you want energy, and a real practice system for the daily work of building mastery.
The Bottom Line
Sort your candidates by job and the choice mostly makes itself. For live-event energy: Blooket for repeatable middle school review, Gimkit if your class runs on strategy and you'll pay for Pro, Kahoot for the loud communal hype day, 99math for free fluency sprints. For actual practice: Infinilearn for free, adaptive, game-first practice in grades 3-9; Khan Academy when students need to be taught, not just quizzed; DeltaMath when you want rigorous auto-graded homework and don't need it to be fun.
And keep Quizizz for the two things it genuinely does best — self-paced checks and asynchronous assignments with instant data. The teachers who seem happiest aren't the ones who found a single perfect tool; they're the ones who stopped asking one quiz engine to do three different jobs.