Best Free Alternatives to Thinglink in 2026

Google’s classroom hub for assignments, grading, communication, and workflow management inside Workspace for Education.

Interactive presentation platform with live polls, quizzes, surveys, and classroom engagement tools that fit into existing teaching workflows.

Microsoft’s survey, quiz, and poll builder with branching, Excel analysis, and browser-based response collection.

Art-inspired writing platform for creating stories, picture books, and other creative writing projects with illustrated prompts.

Game-based learning and engagement platform for quizzes, polls, presentations, training, and interactive sessions in education and business.

Educational activity generator for quizzes, crosswords, matching games, word tasks, dictation, and other interactive learning formats.

Flipgrid, later renamed Flip, is a retired video discussion platform; Microsoft ended the standalone service on September 30, 2024.

Classroom creation platform for multimedia books, comics, journals, reports, and student publishing with simple collaborative workflows.

Audience interaction platform for live polls, Q&A, quizzes, and word clouds in meetings, webinars, events, and classrooms.

Research-based interactive science and math simulations for exploring STEM concepts through virtual experiments.

Education-focused browser coding environment for Python, HTML, and shareable interactive code, but scheduled to shut down in early August 2026.

Baamboozle is a classroom game platform for quick teacher-led learning games that can be played from a single screen.