Kahoot vs Blooket: Which One is the Best?

A confession: I bought both subscriptions in the same year.

If you have landed on a Kahoot-vs-Blooket comparison, you already know the marketing pitch from both sides. I will spare you. Here is what actually happened when I ran them in the same classroom, same kids, same year — and the rule I now use to pick between them.

Why I still love Kahoot

Kahoot has been around since 2013 and the library is enormous. Whatever I am teaching — irregular verbs, the water cycle, fractions — there is already a high-quality Kahoot someone made and shared. The smart practice feature, which repeats the questions students got wrong, has measurably improved my review days. Kahootpia is a small reward layer that my younger students absolutely care about. And if I create something polished, I can sell it on their marketplace, which a few teacher friends have actually made money from.

The catch is price. The features that matter — detailed reports, longer question types, team mode — sit behind the higher tiers. If your school is paying, fantastic. If you are paying out of pocket, it adds up.

Why kids ask for Blooket

Blooket walked into the room three years later and made one design decision that mattered: one set of questions, many game modes. Gold Quest, Tower Defense, Cafe, Crypto Hack, Battle Royale — the same twenty questions feel like five completely different games. For a teacher who runs review games every Friday, that variety is the difference between engagement and groans.

Blooket is lighter on its feet. Browser only, no app, free tier is generous, paid tier is cheaper than Kahoot. The trade-off is the reporting is shallower and the content marketplace does not exist.

My actual rule

If I am doing high-stakes review before a test and I want the spaced-repetition smart practice to do the work, I open Kahoot. If I am doing a Friday afternoon points day where the goal is just to keep them awake and entertained, I open Blooket. After two years of this I stopped agonising over which one to subscribe to and started subscribing to both — the combined cost is still less than a single textbook.

What is missing from both

Here is the thing nobody mentions in these comparisons. Kahoot and Blooket are both standalone game tools. They do not know which unit I am teaching, they do not push the result into my gradebook, and they do not pair with my behaviour system. After every game I am screenshotting scoreboards and pasting them somewhere.

What I actually use now

This year I started running my Friday games inside KiwiBee's Wordwall-style game maker, which is connected to ClassSpark points so the winners get rewarded automatically. Scores flow into the gradebook, and there is no copy-paste step. I still open Kahoot for the smart-practice feature and Blooket for novelty, but the routine games now live in the platform where my class already does.

Where this fits in KiwiBee

Whichever quiz platform you pick, KiwiBee is the layer that catches the results: Wordwall-style classroom games, classroom gamification and points, and a connected gradebook. Try it free at app.kiwibee.io.