Mentimeter word cloud alternative
WordCloud+ vs Mentimeter word clouds
These tools answer different questions. Mentimeter is a live presentation and polling tool: the audience types short answers on their phones and the cloud grows in real time. WordCloud+ analyses text you already have, such as survey exports, transcripts or reports.
Checked September 2026 against Mentimeter's own pages. See sources
Choose Mentimeter if...
- You are running a live session and want the audience to answer on their phone, tablet or laptop, with no installs.Source: Mentimeter word cloud feature page
- You want responses to be anonymous by default and the cloud to update as answers arrive.Source: Mentimeter word cloud feature page
- You need a profanity filter and the ability to remove unwanted entries by hand.Source: Mentimeter Help Center: Word Cloud slide
- You want to limit how many answers each participant can submit.Source: Mentimeter Help Center: Word Cloud slide
Choose WordCloud+ if...
- The text already exists: survey comments, interview notes, reviews or a report, rather than one-word answers from a room.
- Answers are longer than a word or two, and you want the recurring phrases found and ranked.
- You want to code responses into themes with Premium, and export the cloud as PNG, JPG or SVG on any plan, including Free.
Side by side
| Feature | Mentimeter | WordCloud+ |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Collecting live responses from an audience, shown as a shared cloud in real time.Source: Mentimeter word cloud feature page | Analysing text you paste in, then styling and exporting the cloud. |
| Length of input | Works best for short responses of up to 25 characters, and accepts up to 400 unique words.Source: Mentimeter Help Center: Word Cloud slide | Whole documents or collections of responses, from which phrases of up to four words are ranked. |
| Cleaning the words | A profanity filter, manual removal of entries, and responses shown in lowercase to avoid duplicates.Source: Mentimeter Help Center: Word Cloud slide | Default stop word lists for 36 Latin-alphabet languages, detected from your text and editable per project. Find-and-replace pairs merge spellings and synonyms. |
| Free plan | Free plan with up to 50 participants a month.Source: Mentimeter plans | Unlimited projects, with watermarked exports. Not for commercial use. |
| Paid plans | Priced per presenter per month and billed yearly, from $11.99 excluding tax for Basic.Source: Mentimeter plans | Premium is $7.00 a month with a 30-day free trial, or $3.50 to remove the watermark from one project. |
| Export | Image, PDF and Excel export on the paid plans.Source: Mentimeter plans | PNG, JPG and SVG on every plan. Free exports carry a watermark. |
What WordCloud+ does differently
Built for text you already have
Paste survey comments, interview transcripts, reviews or reports. WordCloud+ works out the words and phrases in the text and ranks them.
Phrases, not just single words
Phrases of up to four words are extracted and scored, so "delivery was late" can appear as one term instead of three unrelated words. You can choose the scoring method, including plain frequency.
Coding for open-ended responses (Premium)
Create codes with a label, description and colour, then tag phrases with them. Coded phrases are highlighted in your text and coloured in the cloud, which helps when you are grouping free-text answers into themes.
Cleaning that stays with the project
Stop words (with defaults for 36 Latin-alphabet languages) and find-and-replace pairs are saved with each project, so merged spellings and removed filler words apply every time the cloud is rebuilt.
The two work together. Mentimeter's paid plans include Excel export, so you can collect open-ended answers live, export them, and paste the text into WordCloud+ to rank phrases and code themes.Source: Mentimeter plans
Guides
Find patterns in open-ended survey comments
Use phrase ranking and coding to surface the themes in free-text survey answers.
What is a word cloud?
What a word cloud shows, what it is good for, and where it can mislead.
How WordCloud+ works
Create a project, shape the cloud, refine stop words and replacements, then export as PNG, JPG, or SVG.
Try it on your own text.
Paste some text or choose a file. The preview runs in your browser, with no sign-up.
Sources
Checked September 2026. Every statement about Mentimeter on this page comes from the pages below. Products change, so check them before you decide. Mentimeter is a trademark of its owner, and WordCloud+ is not affiliated with it. If something here is out of date, tell us.
- Mentimeter word cloud feature page (https://www.mentimeter.com/features/word-cloud)
- Mentimeter Help Center: Word Cloud slide (https://help.mentimeter.com/en/articles/410469-how-to-use-the-word-cloud-slide)
- Mentimeter plans (https://www.mentimeter.com/plans)