iSpring QuizMaker pricing: cost per user, iSpring Suite plans, and a video-first alternative

Is iSpring QuizMaker free?

No. iSpring QuizMaker runs a 14-day trial with full functionality, and after that it is a paid annual license at $470 per user. There is no permanently free tier of the QuizMaker product, which is what separates it from the classroom tools most people compare it against.

iSpring does publish a separate free product, iSpring Free, which is a cut-down PowerPoint publishing tool rather than the quiz authoring application. If you found a page promising free iSpring quiz software, check which product it names before you plan around it. Searches for a free download of the full version mostly lead to pirated installers, which is a poor idea in a company that will later be asked to prove its software is licensed.

How much is iSpring Suite?

iSpring Suite is priced per author per year, and this is where a US buyer runs into a genuine problem: iSpring shows the price in the currency of the country you are browsing from. Viewed from Europe, the three tiers read 970 EUR for iSpring Suite, 1,290 EUR for iSpring Suite AI and 720 EUR for iSpring Cloud AI, all per author per year. There is no URL parameter or query string that switches the page to dollars.

That matters because a large number of review sites, directories and comparison posts have republished those same three numbers with a dollar sign in front of them. The numbers are identical, which is the tell. Currency conversion does not produce a perfect one to one match across three separate tiers. Until iSpring quotes you in writing, treat a US dollar Suite price you found on an aggregator as unconfirmed, and budget from a quote rather than from a blog post.

The practical route for a US team is to use the contact form iSpring puts on the pricing page, which explicitly covers high volume licenses, academic and freelance discounts and custom quotes. iSpring also lists a US phone line on the same page.

Does iSpring QuizMaker work on a Mac?

No. iSpring QuizMaker is Windows software. iSpring states the requirement plainly on the download: Windows 11 or Windows 10, in 32-bit and 64-bit builds. iSpring Suite has the same constraint and adds PowerPoint, since Suite authoring happens inside PowerPoint itself.

For a lot of teams this is the deciding factor rather than the price. Design and marketing departments run on Macs, universities issue Chromebooks, and a per-seat license that only one half of the team can install turns into a bottleneck where one Windows machine becomes the quiz factory for everybody. The workarounds are a Windows virtual machine, a remote desktop, or a browser-based tool. iSpring Cloud AI is the browser option inside the iSpring range, though it is aimed at scrollable courses rather than at standalone quiz authoring.

Does iSpring QuizMaker import questions from Excel?

Yes, and the importer is one of the better reasons to own the product. iSpring QuizMaker reads .xls and .xlsx files, expects the questions on the first worksheet with field names in row 1, and recognises 16 question type codes such as MC for multiple choice, MR for multiple response, TF for true or false, MG for matching and SEQ for sequence. The correct answer is marked by putting an asterisk in front of it. Rows it cannot parse are skipped and listed with error descriptions in an Import Result window rather than failing the whole file.

The columns it looks for are Question type, Question text, Image, Video, Audio, Answer 1 through Answer 10, Correct Feedback, Incorrect Feedback and Points. Points accept any value from 0.1 to 99999 including one decimal place, and an empty Points cell falls back to the default in Quiz Properties. Microsoft Excel has to be installed on the machine for the import to run.

This matters when you are moving questions between tools. VidQuiz exports a generic CSV with Number, Type, Question, Option A to D, Correct Answer, Explanation and Timestamp columns, which is not the layout iSpring expects, so getting a VidQuiz quiz into iSpring means opening that CSV in Excel, rearranging the columns to iSpring’s field names, adding the asterisk to each correct answer and saving as .xlsx. It is a ten minute job for a whole quiz, not a click.

What are the best iSpring QuizMaker alternatives?

It depends which part of iSpring you are actually replacing, and being honest about that saves money. If you need SCORM packages, branching and drag and drop interactions for compliance training, the real alternatives are other authoring suites, and a video quiz generator is not one of them. If what you need is questions written from material you already have, the answer is different.

VidQuiz is the alternative for the second case. It is aimed at teams whose source material is video: recorded training, a webinar, a product demo, a lecture. Rather than typing questions from a video you watched twice, you paste the link, review the draft, edit what is wrong and export. It costs less than a tenth of a QuizMaker seat at the entry tier and it runs on whatever machine the person actually has.

The honest limits are worth stating up front. VidQuiz writes multiple choice, true or false and short answer questions. It does not do drag and drop, hotspot, matching, branching or info slides, it does not build SCORM packages, and it is not a PowerPoint tool. If those appear on your requirements list, iSpring is the better purchase and it is a good product at what it does.