Interact
Take an honest inventory of your last training session: a slides program for projecting, an online polling tool for votes, a timer on your phone, a file drop-off service to collect work, a spreadsheet to keep track of who participated. Five tools, five windows, five different logics — and you in the middle, conducting an orchestra that has never rehearsed together. This pile-up has a cost. Time to add it up — and then do without it.
The visible cost: subscriptions that add up
Each brick in the pile seems reasonable on its own: a few euros a month for the polling tool, a few for the drop-off service, a licence for the presentation software. But nobody ever does the sum. Put end to end, the independent trainer’s toolkit easily exceeds the price of a single subscription — for tools that each serve only a fraction of the session. And every subscription comes with its own ceiling, its own free-plan limits, its own pricing grid to keep an eye on.
SnapInteract makes the opposite bet: one app, one subscription. The free tier is deliberately generous — a monthly ceiling of 8 interactive activities, and everything else unlimited. Pro costs 9.99 € per month or 59.99 € per year. Details are on the pricing page, but the idea fits in one sentence: the price of a single brick in your current pile, for the entire session. And you can try Pro for 14 days, no credit card required.
The invisible cost: the mental load of the mille-feuille
The real price of the pile-up does not show on a bank statement, though. It is paid in attention. Five tools means five accounts and five passwords. Five interfaces, each evolving at its own pace, with surprise updates on the morning of a training day. Five operating logics to hold in your head: here you create a room, there an event, elsewhere a session — three words for the same thing, three different procedures.
- Before the session: prepare in three tools, triple-check everything is ready, open five tabs in the right order.
- During the session: switch between windows, hunt for the right tab while the room watches, re-project the right screen.
- After the session: gather scattered results — votes here, assignments there, timings nowhere.
- All year long: track five billing cycles, five changing free plans, five different data policies.
That load appears in no price comparison. You feel it on Sunday evening while preparing, and on Friday at 4 pm when fatigue makes every tool switch a little more laborious.
The worst moment: switching tools mid-session
There is one precise instant where the pile-up exacts its full price: the transition. You are in your slides, attention is right there, and you want to launch a poll. You have to leave presentation mode, find the polling tool’s window, project the right screen, dictate a new link or a new code to the participants — who themselves have to change pages. Thirty seconds of dead air, sometimes more. Thirty seconds during which the room steps out of the session, phones drift towards notifications, and the momentum you had built dissipates.
A lively session is a rhythm. And rhythm does not survive tool switches: every technical transition is an exit door offered to the room's attention.
When everything lives in the same app, the transition disappears. The next slide IS the poll. The quiz opens in the flow of the presentation, on the same projected screen, and participants stay on the same page — the one they joined via QR code at the start of the session, with no account and nothing to install. You drive the whole session from a single place, including from your iPhone or Apple Watch while walking around the room.
What SnapInteract brings together, concretely
SnapInteract is not a polling tool with optional slides, nor presentation software with a quiz bolted on. It is the whole session, designed as one: your slides (PDF or PowerPoint import), the 14 interactive activities — quiz, poll, word cloud, open question, scale, estimation, fill-in-the-blanks, matching, ranking, annotated diagram, assignment drop-off, idea wall, structured feedback, debate —, a projected shared timer that you control, QR-code assignment drop-off, participant tracking, and end-of-session statistics with PDF export.
One preparation file, one control screen, one QR code for participants from start to finish. Preparation works entirely offline; in the room, local wifi is enough. And your data — courses, sessions, answers — stays on your Mac: bringing the tools together also means bringing the data together in one place, yours.
What about grades? They flow into SnapJury
One companion remains, and only one, because the craft justifies it: assessment. When a quiz in assessment mode produces a grade out of 20, that grade is not meant to sleep inside the facilitation tool — grades flow into SnapJury, the companion app dedicated to the grade book. This is not a return to pile-up: it is a deliberate craft boundary. Running a session and keeping a grade book are two distinct activities; making them talk to each other automatically, with no manual export-import, is exactly what the tool pile-up never managed to do.
Where to start without breaking everything
No need to migrate everything on a Monday morning. The simplest path: take an existing session, import your PDF or PowerPoint slides into SnapInteract, and replace a single moment — the opening poll, the closing quiz — with the equivalent activity in the flow of your slides. You will experience the absence of switching in real conditions. Next session, add the shared timer, then the closing structured feedback. Within two or three sessions, the pile empties itself — not because anyone told you to, but because each external brick has become redundant.
The free tier is plenty for this transition: 8 interactive activities per month, everything else unlimited. And if your training pace outgrows it, Pro can be tried for 14 days without a credit card — enough time to do your accounts, in euros and in peace of mind.
Frequently asked questions
Does SnapInteract really replace my presentation software?
You keep your materials: SnapInteract imports your PDFs and PowerPoint files (converted on import) and projects them in the flow of the session, with interactive activities inserted between slides. You prepare wherever you like; you run the session in one app.
What does the free tier include?
It is deliberately generous: a monthly ceiling of 8 interactive activities, and everything else unlimited. Pro costs 9.99 € per month or 59.99 € per year, with a 14-day trial and no credit card required.
Do my participants need to install anything?
No. They join by scanning a QR code or typing a short 6-character code, in any browser, with no account. They stay on the same page for the whole session, whatever the activity.
Where do quiz grades go in assessment mode?
The quiz in assessment mode automatically computes a grade out of 20 per participant, and these grades flow into SnapJury, the companion app dedicated to the grade book. No manual export, no retyping.
