Live word clouds from your audience’s answers
Ideas visualised, beautifully
Collect words and phrases from your audience and watch them form a beautiful, animated word cloud. The most popular responses grow larger, surfacing shared themes instantly.
Word Cloud
What defines our culture?How live word clouds work
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Ask an open question
Write a prompt such as “One word for this quarter?” and choose how many entries each person can send and how long each can be.
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Share the code or QR
Your audience joins in a phone, tablet or laptop browser with the six-character code or by scanning the QR code. There is no app to install and no audience account to create.
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Watch the cloud grow
Answers appear live. Words that more people submit grow larger, so shared themes stand out straight away.
Size reflects popularity
The more people submit the same word, the larger it grows. Instantly see what your audience is thinking.
Crowd-sourced sizing
Popular words grow larger as more people submit them.
Real-time animation
Watch words appear and grow as responses come in.
Beautiful colours
Automatic colour coding makes the cloud visually striking.
Word Cloud
What defines our culture?Perfect for brainstorming
Ask open-ended questions and collect diverse ideas. Word clouds make it easy to spot themes and consensus.
Open-ended questions
Ask anything and collect single-word or short-phrase responses.
Identify themes
Quickly spot common themes across your audience.
Show or hide
Control when the cloud is visible to participants.
Describe our culture in one word
What excites you about this project?
What should we improve?
Presenter-friendly display
Full-screen word cloud mode looks stunning on projectors. Perfect for presentations and workshops.
Projection mode
Full-screen display optimised for big screens.
Smooth animations
Words animate in gracefully for a polished look.
Hide submissions
Optionally hide the input box while displaying results.
Ways to use word clouds
Meeting icebreakers
Open with “How are you arriving today, in one word?” It gets everyone contributing in seconds and gives you a read on the room. Word clouds for team meetings
Workshop brainstorms
Ask what is getting in the way, or what a good outcome looks like, then use the biggest words as the starting point for group discussion. Brainstorming in workshops
Recapping a lesson
Ask students for the one term they remember from today. The cloud shows what stuck and what needs revisiting. Word clouds in the classroom
Town hall pulse
Ask how people feel about a change and show the result on screen. Entries have no names attached, so people can answer honestly. Engagement for town halls
Word cloud features
Questions, answered
Yes. Free includes 1 word cloud per session for up to 50 participants. Pro allows as many word clouds as you need and up to 500 participants per session.
You choose when you create the word cloud: 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 entries per person, with a maximum length of 20, 30, 50 or 100 characters for each entry.
No. Entries are saved in lower case, so “Growth” and “growth” count as the same word.
Yes. Turn on the filter for a word cloud and each entry is checked against the session’s blocked-words list before it is added.
No. Participants join with the six-character code or QR code and type their answers in any modern browser, with no app to install and no account to create.
Yes. The presenter display shows the active word cloud full screen, sized for a projector or big screen, and it updates as answers arrive.
Ready to visualise your audience's ideas?
Ask an open question and see what comes back. One word cloud per session is included on Free.