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Get ludicrous audience engagement by turning the Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet chat into beautiful visuals.

StreamAlive turns what people type in the chat into live polls, word clouds, quizzes and maps on your shared screen. In Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, nobody has to scan a code, open a link or reach for their phone.

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Works where you do: Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live and Substack Live. Also inside your PowerPoint, Canva or Gamma slides.

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What’s one skill you want to build this quarter? In one word, what makes feedback useful? Answer in the chat

0 responses
  1. Sarah Chen Leadership
  2. James Okoro Communication
  3. Aisha Rahman Creativity
  4. Tomás García Communication
  5. Priya Nair Delegation
  6. Daniel Kim Coaching
  7. Mei Lin Leadership
  8. Olu Adeyemi Public speaking
  9. Hannah Weber Communication
  10. Marco Bianchi Negotiation
  11. Fatima Zahra Feedback
  12. Lukas Novak Confidence
  13. Grace Park Leadership
  14. Arjun Mehta Communication
  15. Chloe Martin Prioritization
  16. Yusuf Ali Coaching
  17. Ben Carter Storytelling
  18. Elena Popescu Communication
  19. Noah Schmidt Empathy
  20. Inês Duarte Leadership
  21. Kwame Mensah Communication
  22. Ruth Levi Focus

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A meeting in Microsoft Teams or Zoom. People type answers in the meeting chat and StreamAlive turns them into a word cloud on the shared screen. You can type your own answer in the chat.

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#1 in Apps for EducationFeatured in the Zoom Workplace app

Type in the chat.

Other tools ask people to get their phone out, scan a QR code, open a link and enter a code, and then they get distracted by notifications. With StreamAlive, they type in the chat.

That’s the only instruction your audience needs. Nobody picks up a phone to take part, so notifications never get the chance to pull them away, and their attention stays with you.

Before StreamAlive, we were using other well-known QR-based interaction tools. About 60 – 70% of people would follow a QR code. Now that all they have to do is type in the chat, we see more like 90 – 95% of participants engaging.

Rachel Locke Founder & CEO, Virtual Approval

Polls, quizzes, word clouds and more, all answered in the meeting chat.

Share any of them on your screen. Your audience answers by typing in the meeting chat: a number for a poll, a word for a word cloud, a city for a map. Every answer appears on screen as soon as it’s sent.

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Where are you joining from today? Type your city in the chat

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  1. Priya Nair Bangalore
  2. Tom Becker Manchester
  3. Olena Kovalenko Kyiv
  4. Lucas Silva São Paulo
  5. Ada Obi Lagos
  6. Jack Wilson Sydney
  7. Emily Clark Austin, TX
  8. Aoife Byrne Dublin
  9. Wei Ling Singapore
  10. Marta Nowak Warsaw
  11. Thabo Nkosi Cape Town
  12. Sophie Turner London
  13. Jonas Weber Berlin
  14. Diego Ramírez Mexico City
  15. Yuki Sato Tokyo
  16. Grace Wanjiru Nairobi
  17. Rui Costa Lisbon
  18. Ethan Brooks Toronto
  19. Hannah Price London
  20. Omar Saleh Dubai

Type in the chat to join in.

Introverts. Extroverts. Everyone is a textrovert.

How StreamAlive works

  1. You connect StreamAlive to your meeting and share your screen.
  2. Your audience types answers in the meeting chat. That’s all they do.
  3. StreamAlive turns every message into a live visual on your screen.

  1. Paste your Teams or Zoom meeting link into StreamAlive and press Connect. It waits in the lobby like a note-taking app. Admit it, and it starts reading the chat.

  2. Share your screen in the meeting and choose the StreamAlive window, the same way you’d share slides. Or present it from your PowerPoint deck.

    This is the step people miss. Your audience can only answer what they can see.

  3. Everyone sees your question the moment you share. Your polls, word clouds, quizzes and maps are slides in your StreamAlive presentation, set up beforehand.

  4. They type their answer in the meeting chat. No codes, no links, no second screen.

  5. StreamAlive reads each answer in the chat and updates the poll on your shared screen automatically, so the whole room watches the result build.

  6. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed. Connect StreamAlive to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot and ask what the room thought.

Where should we start today? Type 1, 2 or 3 in the chat

  1. Giving feedback 25%
  2. Running one-to-ones 19%
  3. Difficult conversations 56%
0 responses
  1. Leah Brooks Morning all!
  2. Dev Patel 3
  3. Nora Kelly 3
  4. Sam Adeyemi 1
  5. Julia Weiss Difficult conversations
  6. Chris Lam 3
  7. Ana Lima 2
  8. Tom Becker 3
  9. Priya Shah 1
  10. Max Müller 3
  11. Zoe Turner 2
  12. Omar Farouk 3
  13. Lily Chen 1
  14. Ivan Petrov 3
  15. Emma Jones Running one-to-ones
  16. Kofi Asante 3
  17. Sara Lind 1
Illustration of the six steps. The presenter pastes the meeting link into StreamAlive and presses Connect. StreamAlive waits in the meeting lobby and is admitted, then posts in the chat that it is reading the chat. The presenter presses Share and picks the StreamAlive window, a poll appears on the shared screen, and answers typed in the chat fill the poll bars as they arrive. After the session, the report shows who took part and how each question landed, and an AI assistant can answer questions about it.

Training, onboarding and all-hands in Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, with or without PowerPoint, Canva or Gamma.

Everyone answers in the meeting chat, including the people who never unmute. Share StreamAlive on its own, or put it inside the deck you already present.

  1. Mark Evans 2
  2. Rosa Diaz 1
  3. Ali Khan 2
  4. Jo Baker 3
  5. Tim Ryan 2
  6. Eva Lund New logo pipeline
  7. Sam Ng 1
  8. Gus Hart 2
  9. Mira Roy 1
  10. Dan Fox 2
  11. Kate Bell 3
  12. Raj Iyer 2

Type in the chat to add your own answer.

A Microsoft Teams meeting. First the host shares the StreamAlive window on its own; then the host shares PowerPoint, where the same interaction sits on a slide. Answers typed in the Teams chat fill the interaction either way. Choose a slide in the slide list to switch interaction, or type your own answer in the chat.

A question for every kind of session

  1. Onboarding “Where in the world are you joining from?” Map
  2. Leadership development “One word for the manager you want to be.” Word cloud
  3. Compliance training “Which of these is a phishing red flag?” Quiz
  4. Workshops “How confident are you with the new process?” Rating
  5. All-hands “What should leadership answer today?” Q&A
  6. Webinars “Which topic should we cover next?” Poll
  7. Sales kickoff “Who pitches first? Type anything to enter.” Spinner wheel

Know who took part, not just who turned up.

Every session ends with a report: comments, commenters, comments per minute and how each interaction landed. Share it with whoever asks whether the training worked.

Connect your StreamAlive data to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot to mine it for insights and trends.

A sample StreamAlive session report showing total comments, how many people commented, the busiest minute and a chart of comments per minute with each interaction marked.

  • It reads the chat. That’s all.

    StreamAlive doesn’t record your meeting, and it has no access to your video, audio or shared screen.

  • Single sign-on, SCIM and your brand

    Team accounts with SSO and SCIM provisioning, your logo and colors, even the name of the bot that joins your meetings.

  • Built for big rooms

    StreamAlive has been tested live with audiences of more than 45,000 people.

  • Ready for your security review

    Certifications, policies and subprocessors are listed in our Trust Center.

    Visit the Trust Center

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The fact that StreamAlive’s interactions are powered by the chat is huge for us. There’s no second screen, no apps, no QR codes. People stay focused on the session instead of figuring out the tech.

Brent Kelly President, Sitkins Group

Svitlo means light.

Svitlo School has provided free, extracurricular online learning in English for more than 4,000 Ukrainian children whose education has been disrupted by war. In 2026 it piloted StreamAlive in its Zoom classes.

Svitlo’s team first saw StreamAlive at an online event. Nobody was sent to a separate polling tool or asked to scan a QR code. People answered inside Zoom and watched the answers appear.

In a classroom, that matters. Children can take part without leaving the lesson, reaching for a phone or speaking in front of everyone. With word clouds, quick polls and map questions, every student answers at the same moment, and the quiet ones stop holding back.

39% more children taking part. Active participation rose from 66.9% to 93.1%. In a class of ten, that’s two or three more children using their voice and sharing their answers.
Before StreamAlive
With StreamAlive
8 messages in a lesson. Then 67. Average chat messages in a lesson. Every rise in the line is one message.
Before StreamAlive
With StreamAlive
more chat messages per lesson
8.5×
From 8.0 to 67.1 on average
more chat every minute
14×
From 0.18 to 2.62 messages a minute
average lesson, against 50 before
47 min
More voices without slowing the class down

For a school built on making every child feel seen and heard, that shift from ‘most students engaged’ to ‘nearly every student engaged’ is the real story behind the numbers.

Svitlo School, pilot results report

I literally couldn’t have imagined a better and quickest tool… for such deep interaction. We laughed, bonded, and shared a moment.

Svitlo team organizer, after the team’s weekly Zoom Working Day

Svitlo School + StreamAlive Pilot: Results and Impact, 2026. Baseline May 11 to June 8, with StreamAlive June 23 to July 27, 199 session records.

Read the Svitlo story

Why we built StreamAlive.

Four minutes with co-founder Lux Narayan on why presenters lose the room, and why everyone is a textrovert.

Lux Narayan, co-founder of StreamAlive 3:57, captioned

Lectures , seminars and classes on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet.

Students answer in the Zoom, Teams or Meet chat, and the results appear on your shared screen or right on your PowerPoint slide. The quiet ones answer at the same moment as everyone else, without speaking up in front of the room.

#1 in Apps for Education on the Zoom App Marketplace

Cameras off, microphones off, and the whole class answering. Answer too, then reveal it.

A Zoom lecture with every student's camera and microphone off. Students type their quiz answer in the Zoom chat; each answer appears on the shared StreamAlive quiz and the student's tile lights up. You can answer in the chat, reveal the correct answer and move on to the next question.

  • Lectures

    Check understanding halfway through with a quick quiz, and see the whole room’s answer at once.

  • Seminars

    Open the discussion with a word cloud before anyone has to speak.

  • Classes

    Every student practices at the same time, in writing, in the chat.

  • Open days and welcome weeks

    Put every new student on the map in the first minute.

  • Office hours

    Collect questions from the chat, even the ones without a question mark.

  • Who goes next

    Spin the wheel from everyone who has typed in the chat. No class list to upload.

I use StreamAlive in my virtual teaching because it helps create an active learning environment within the meeting. It allows students to participate without leaving the current platform, making it convenient for those using laptops with limited screen space.

Tatiana Rodriguez Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University

When I first tried StreamAlive’s browser chat I wasn’t sure if it would help engage students any differently, but it turned my class from a handful of participants to everyone participating, whether it was the shy students or the ones who thought they were too cool to give their opinions.

Manish Agarwal Lecturer, Indian Institute of Management
StreamAlive for educators

Works where you already present.

  • Microsoft Teams and Google Meet

    Connect with the meeting link. Simple.

  • Zoom

    Use the StreamAlive app for Zoom, or connect with the meeting link.

  • YouTube Live and LinkedIn Live

    Connect the StreamAlive Chrome extension to your stream. It reads the live chat.

  • Restream and StreamYard

    Connect the StreamAlive Chrome extension to your studio. It reads the stream chat.

  • PowerPoint

    The add-in puts interactions on your slides and runs them in Slide Show.

  • Google Slides

    Paste StreamAlive’s quick link on a slide. It opens the interaction in a tab, where you connect and share it.

  • Canva and Gamma

    Embed an interaction from any slide.

  • In-person and hybrid

    People in the room join a browser chat, no app needed. Hybrid sessions feed one visual.

Questions people ask before their first session

Do attendees need to download anything or scan a code?

Not in Teams, Zoom or Google Meet. They type in the meeting chat they’re already using. In a room, people join a browser chat on their phone or laptop with a short code, and there’s still no app to install.

How does StreamAlive get into my meeting?

Give it the meeting link, or connect your Zoom account and pick the meeting. StreamAlive joins the way a note-taking app does, and the host admits it. On Zoom you can also use the StreamAlive app for Zoom.

Can StreamAlive see or record our meeting?

No. It reads the chat so it can build the visuals. It doesn’t record, and it has no access to your video, audio or shared screen.

Will it work with the slides I already have?

Yes. Put interactions on your slides with the PowerPoint add-in, embed them in Canva or Gamma, or upload your deck to StreamAlive’s presentation builder. With Google Slides, paste StreamAlive’s quick link on a slide: it opens the interaction in a browser tab, where you connect to your meeting and share it.

Does it work in other languages?

Yes. Your audience can answer in any language. StreamAlive’s presenter screens are in English.

How much does it cost?

Sessions of up to five participants are free. Paid plans start at $100 for a pack of 4 sessions, Pro is $75 a month billed annually, and the Scale plan adds single sign-on, shared templates and live onboarding for teams of presenters.

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