Quick start

Four steps, about a minute.

1Sign in at Host room using Google.
2Create a room — give it a name, hit Start room instantly.
3Share the code. Open the QR from the dock and project it, or read out the six-character code.
4Press Present when you’re ready to put questions on the big screen.

Nobody in the audience needs an account, an app, or even to type their name. They open a link and they’re in.

Creating a room

Two paths, depending on how much you want to decide up front.

From your dashboard, choose + New room and name the session — the name is what your audience sees when they join. Then pick a path:

Start room instantly

Opens immediately with sensible defaults: questions and the confusion signal on, downvoting off. Best when people are already in the room. You can change anything later.

Continue to set up

A second step for choosing your theme, which widgets appear, and room settings before the doors open. Ends on a share screen with your QR code and join link.

Either way you land on the host dashboard — your control room for the session. Rooms stay in your dashboard afterwards, and you can delete one any time from its card.

Getting the room in

Three ways in — use whichever suits your venue.

Project the QR code. Open QR from the dock on the left for a full-screen code. This is the fastest way to get a large room in.
Read out the join code. Six characters, shown next to your room name. People enter it at your site’s Join a room page.
Send the link. Useful for remote or hybrid attendees — paste it in the chat.

Too far from the screen to scan? Anyone already in the room can tap the join code in their own header to show the QR on their phone, so the person beside them can scan it. Codes spread through a big room without anyone moving.

On a laptop or projector you can also pop the QR into a small floating window (Pop out in the QR view) and keep it on screen while you set up your slides.

The host dashboard

Two buttons up top, everything else tucked into the dock.

The dashboard is deliberately quiet so you can run a session from it without hunting.

Present (top right) opens the full-screen stage view for your projector.
End Session (outlined red) closes the room and takes you to the recap.
The dock — the round button on the left edge — fans out Theme, Widgets, QR, Settings and Other.

Working the question queue

Each question card carries the two actions you reach for constantly:

Answered — moves it out of the live list once you’ve addressed it. Audience members can still see it under their Answered tab, and you can bring it back if you tap it by mistake.
Display — puts that question on the big screen. See Presenting.

The ⋯ menu holds the rest: star it as Question of the Day, tag it, keep it off the stage, or remove it.

Questions are sorted by what the room has upvoted, so the question most people want answered rises to the top on its own. You don’t have to triage — the room does it for you.

Widgets

Show only what this session needs. The board reflows as you toggle.

Open Widgets from the dock and switch things on or off mid-session — nothing is lost when a widget is hidden, it just stops taking up space.

Questions

The live queue, ranked by the room. Your main working surface — always on.

Confusion meter

How many people have quietly signalled they’re lost, as a share of the room. Bursts when it crosses your threshold.

Live poll

Ask a quick question, watch answers arrive from every phone. Re-votable, results live.

Question of the Day

Celebrates a standout question. Appears automatically the first time you star one.

Topics

List your talking points and mark which you’re on. Questions and confusion signals get attributed to it, so the recap shows which part lost people.

Name wheel

Call on someone at random, full screen. Cold calls without the awkwardness.

Notes

Write notes and choose who sees them: hidden (you), live (the room now), or post (after it ends).

Broadcast

Push a banner to every screen at once — “back in 5”, a link, a change of plan.

Waiting lobby

A playful holding screen while people arrive; sends everyone into the room when you start.

Any widget can float. In Chrome or Edge, the pop-out icon on a widget puts it in a small always-on-top window — so you can switch to your slides and still watch questions or the confusion meter. Handy on a single screen.

Presenting on the big screen

One question at a time, big enough to read from the back.

Present opens the stage view — designed for a projector or second screen. It shows a single question in large type, with the room name, the join QR in the corner, and a quiet confusion indicator.

Choosing what shows

Automatic. Left alone, the stage shows the top-voted open question, so the screen is never empty.
Take control. Press Display on any question to put that one up instead. Only one question holds the screen at a time, so displaying a new one replaces the last.
Find it again. The question currently on screen is highlighted in your queue. The list never reorders, so nothing jumps around while you’re scrolling.

Two screens is the ideal setup: the stage view on the projector, your dashboard on your laptop. One screen only? Use the pop-out floating windows instead — see Widgets.

Customising your room

Make it yours, and tune how the room behaves.

Theme

From the dock, Theme sets your accent colour (presets or any custom colour), switches the background between the warm gradient and a plain surface, and lets you upload your logo. Your branding carries through everywhere — the host view, every audience phone, and the stage. Hit Publish changes to push it live.

Room settings

Under Settings in the dock:

Downvoting — off by default. Leaving it off avoids pile-ons on unpopular questions.
Require a name — off keeps the audience anonymous, which is the point for most rooms.
Answered section — gives answered questions their own tab for the audience.
Enable “I’m lost” and Show on stage — the confusion signal, and whether the audience sees the meter too.
Burst threshold — what share of the room being lost triggers the alert.
Lost signal lasts — how long one press counts before it fades.
Questions on stage — how many questions the stage cycles through.
Submissions / min — intended rate limit per person. Not enforced yet.
Auto-hide below score — the minimum score a question needs to be picked up by the stage automatically. It does notremove anything from your queue or the audience’s list, and it has no effect unless Downvoting is on, because without downvotes a score can never fall low enough to trigger it.

Having someone moderate for you

Presenting and moderating at once is hard. Here’s where this stands today.

Co-moderation isn’t supported yet

A room can currently be moderated only by the account that created it. Sending the host link to a colleague lets them seethe dashboard, but their actions — marking answered, displaying questions, running polls — will be rejected, because those controls are tied to the room’s owner. Multi-host is on the roadmap.

What works today

Sit together. The most reliable option: your moderator drives the laptop with the dashboard while you present from the stage view on the projector.
Give them the room, take the stage. Have your moderator create the room from their own account and run the dashboard; you present from the stage screen, which needs no sign-in at all. This is the cleanest split if someone else will do the filtering.
Let the room moderate itself. For many sessions you don’t need a human filter — upvotes already push the best questions up, and low-scoring ones can auto-hide.

What the audience sees

Worth knowing, so you can tell them in one sentence.

They scan or enter the code, optionally type a name, and they’re in — no account, no install. On a phone it behaves like an app; on a laptop it’s a full page.

Ask — with an Ask anonymously switch. Anonymous is the default, and the badge in their header always shows how their next question will be signed.
Vote — a thumbs-up on anything they also want answered. This is what ranks your queue.
Signal — one tap on I’m lost. Anonymous and counted with others; you see how many, never who.
Follow along — your shared notes, live polls, and their own private notes, which they can download afterwards.

After the session

End Session closes the room and produces the recap.

You get a summary of the session: questions asked, answered, total upvotes, how many were in the room, and how many signalled they were lost — plus the full ranked list of questions and the standout Question of the Day.

Your audience gets their own closing page: the room’s top questions, any notes you shared for afterwards, and their private notes to download.

Questions you never got to are still captured. A common and good use of the recap is answering the leftovers by email or at the start of the next session — the room notices.

Getting the most from it

The tool only works as well as the way it’s introduced.

“Doesn’t this stop people talking to each other?”

It’s the most common worry, and it’s worth answering head-on: this is not a replacement for raising your hand.Hands stay up. If someone is confident enough to speak, that’s still the best possible outcome and nothing here discourages it.

What it changes is who elsegets heard. In any room, the people who ask out loud are a small and unrepresentative slice — usually the most confident, most senior, or most extroverted. Everyone else has questions too; they just weigh the risk of looking foolish in front of peers and decide it isn’t worth it. Those questions don’t disappear, they just go unasked — and they’re often the ones that reveal what the room actually didn’t follow.

So the goal isn’t fewer voices, it’s more data from more of the room. You want the widest possible read on what people are thinking — and then you use it to have a better human conversation, out loud.

How to introduce it (30 seconds, out loud)

How you frame it in the first minute decides whether people use it. Something like:

“Scan this code. If you have a question at any point, put it in there — anonymously if you’d rather. Upvote anything you also want answered so I know what to prioritise. And if I lose you, hit the ‘I’m lost’ button; I won’t know who it was, I’ll just know to slow down. You can still put your hand up any time.”

What separates a quiet room from a useful one

Say “anonymous” out loud. People don’t assume it. Naming it is the single biggest lever on participation.
Answer an anonymous question early, and warmly. The first one is a test of whether it’s safe. Answer it well and the queue fills.
Project the questions. Seeing their question on the big screen — and seeing others upvote it — is what convinces the room this is real.
Explicitly invite hands too. It signals you’re adding a channel, not closing one.
Act on the confusion meter visibly. “A few of you are lost — let me take that again.” Once people see the button change your behaviour, they’ll use it.
Leave the room open afterwards. Questions often arrive once people have had time to think.

Where it fits

Lectures & classes

Confusion meter is the star — you find out you’ve lost the room while you can still do something about it. Pair with Topics to see which concept caused it.

Panels & Q&A

Upvoting does the triage, so panellists spend the time on what most of the audience actually wants. Display questions one at a time on the big screen.

All-hands & town halls

Anonymity is the whole point — you’ll get the questions people won’t ask in front of their manager. Expect them to be the useful ones.

Sermons, workshops, training

Notes and the recap extend the session past the room; people process afterwards and the conversation keeps going.

FAQ

Do people need an account or an app?

No. They scan a code or enter six characters in a browser. Nothing to install, no sign-up. Only hosts sign in.

Is it really anonymous?

Questions post as “Anonymous” unless someone chooses to attach their name, and the switch is right there in the composer so it’s always their call. Confusion signals are only ever shown as a count — you see how many feel lost, never who.

Can I stop someone posting something inappropriate?

You can remove any question from the ⋯ menu, and it disappears from every screen. You can also keep a question off the projector with Keep off stagewhile leaving it in the list. For sensitive rooms, consider having someone watch the queue while you present — removal is manual, there’s no automatic filtering.

What if nobody asks anything?

Usually a framing problem rather than an audience problem — see Getting the most from it. Saying “anonymous” out loud and answering the first question warmly does most of the work. A poll is a good icebreaker when a room is cold: it takes one tap and gets people in.

How many people can join?

Rooms are built for everything from a seminar table to a large hall. If you’re planning something unusually big, do a dry run first.

Can I use it for a remote or hybrid session?

Yes — send the join link instead of projecting the QR. Remote attendees get the same experience, and the stage view can be screen-shared.

Does the room close when I stop presenting?

Only when you press End Session. Leaving it open lets people keep asking afterwards, which is often when the good questions arrive.

Can I reuse a room?

Each room keeps its own questions and join code. For a recurring session, a fresh room each time keeps recaps clean — and old rooms can be deleted from your dashboard.

What does it cost right now?

Every feature is free during early access while we learn what people actually use. We’ll give plenty of notice before anything changes.

Ready to try it?

Open a room, project the code, and see what your room has been sitting on.

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