QuestionWell alternative and pricing: an AI question generator that exports a QTI file you keep

Is QuestionWell free?

QuestionWell runs a genuinely usable $0 tier rather than a decorative one, but it is metered at five per calendar month across most of what you would want to do. Five reading exports, five vocabulary worksheet exports, five video quizzes, five runs of the research-backed tools, five exports to Kahoot, Quizizz, Canvas and the rest, five AI question edits, and two imports. Questions generate five or ten at a time rather than thirty.

The two limits that catch people out are not the meters. The first is two classes, which is fine for a trial and awkward for anyone who teaches four sections. The second is three months of storage, so question sets you built last spring are not waiting for you in the autumn. Neither is hidden, but both are easy to skim past when you are evaluating on a Tuesday afternoon.

Whether five is enough depends entirely on your rhythm. A teacher building one quiz most weeks will hit the ceiling by the second week. A teacher building a unit assessment every few weeks may never notice it. The cheapest way to settle it is to run that tier through one ordinary month and count what you bumped into.

Does QuestionWell work with video?

Yes, with one specific shape of video. QuestionWell's features page lists the video route as finding a YouTube video or linking a website to use as context, and the free plan meters video quizzes at five a month. So a lecture that is already published on YouTube is well served, and the interactive player at its play address lets students answer against that video with a code.

What is not on the list is uploading a media file. The Premium plan's upload types are PDF, DOCX, PPTX, JPEG and PNG, which are documents and images. If your source is an .mp4 that Zoom wrote to your desktop, a Camtasia render, a Panopto download or an .mp3 of a training call, there is no route that takes it without first publishing it somewhere public.

It is worth being clear that VidQuiz has the same blind spot, because no honest comparison survives pretending otherwise. VidQuiz has no speech recognition of its own. A YouTube link it reads unaided. For anything else, including an uploaded .mp4, you paste that recording's transcript and the questions are written from the text. The uploader will take the media file alongside it, but the transcript is the part that gets read, and without one the upload is refused outright.

Where the two diverge is what the transcript route will swallow. QuestionWell describes readings of roughly 1,000 words free and roughly 10,000 words on Premium. VidQuiz accepts up to 60,000 characters on every plan, which is a long session rather than an article, and it timestamps each question back to the point in the recording it came from so you can check a doubtful one in seconds.

What is the best QuestionWell alternative?

It depends on which part of QuestionWell you are replacing, and the honest answer for most teachers is nothing. If you work from readings, topics and standards, and you want questions in Kahoot or Quizizz by the end of your prep period, QuestionWell at $70 a year is already the efficient answer and swapping it for something else will cost you money and export destinations.

The case for moving is narrower and it is about the output. If the finished question bank has to exist as a file, because it goes into an LMS your team administers, because it gets archived with the course, or because somebody will rebuild that course in three years, then a tool whose exports are platform integrations is the wrong shape. VidQuiz produces the package: QTI 1.2 zipped with imsmanifest.xml at the root, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab-delimited upload, a Google Forms CSV, plain CSV and a printable PDF with the answer key.

The second case is length and provenance. VidQuiz takes up to 60,000 characters of transcript on any plan against QuestionWell's roughly 10,000 words on Premium, and it puts the timecode of the originating moment on each question, which matters when a learner disputes an answer and somebody has to go and check the recording.

It is also fair to say where that leaves you worse off. VidQuiz exports six file formats, not twenty platforms. There is no Kahoot, Blooket or Gimkit integration, no gradebook sync, no standards alignment, no vocabulary worksheets and no document uploads. It costs more per person and its free tier is a one-time demo of three quizzes rather than a renewing allowance. Some teams run both, using QuestionWell for reading-based classwork and VidQuiz for recorded sessions that have to end up in the LMS as a file.

Is QuestionWell safe and legitimate to use?

QuestionWell is a real, established product rather than a wrapper that appeared last month. It publishes its pricing openly, runs a documented school and district plan with LTI 1.3 and Clever integration, and is written about by university digital-learning departments. The same basic diligence applies as with any AI tool in a classroom: check it against your district's approved-vendor list and its data agreement before you put student work through it.

The accuracy question is separate and applies to every tool in this category, this one included. AI-generated questions are a first draft. They occasionally test a detail the speaker got wrong, occasionally write a distractor that is arguably also correct, and occasionally miss the point a lesson was actually about. Read every question before a student sees it. Neither QuestionWell nor VidQuiz guarantees the correctness of what it generates, and both let you edit before anything is shared.

QuestionWell vs Conker AI: which one should a teacher pick?

These two come up together constantly because they solve an overlapping problem for the same buyer, and the search suggestions pair them directly. Both generate multiple-choice questions with AI, both are aimed at classroom teachers rather than at enterprise training teams, and both are priced within reach of an individual paying out of pocket.

The distinction that matters in practice is breadth versus finish. QuestionWell puts its weight into generation and distribution: the standards alignment, the Bloom's configuration, the readings and vocabulary it builds alongside the questions, and the long export list that gets those questions into whichever game or LMS your school already uses. If your school lives in Kahoot and Canvas, that export list is the whole argument.

Whichever of the two you land on, the source-file limitation is shared. Both expect text, a topic or a link. Neither is the tool you reach for when the thing you need to assess is a two-hour recording sitting in a shared drive, which is the case VidQuiz is built for.

Which export should I use to get questions into my LMS?

If you are moving questions out of VidQuiz, the destination decides the file. Canvas and Brightspace read QTI 1.2, which VidQuiz exports as a zip with imsmanifest.xml at the root. Moodle reads GIFT. Blackboard reads a tab-delimited .txt through its Upload Questions route, which works in both the Original and the Ultra experience. Google Forms takes a CSV laid out in the columns a Form import expects.

If you are moving questions out of QuestionWell, you are choosing a platform rather than a file: it pushes into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Schoology, Kahoot, Quizizz, Blooket, Gimkit, Socrative, Quizlet, Google Forms, Google Slides and the Microsoft pair. That is less to think about, and it is one of the genuine reasons to stay.

The practical difference shows up at audit time rather than at import time. A QTI package or a GIFT file is a document you keep, diff and re-import in three years when the course is rebuilt or the LMS is replaced. An integration is a connection that works until somebody changes an API. Neither approach is wrong, and which one matters depends on whether anybody is ever going to ask you to produce the question bank again.