Best Video-to-Quiz Tools by Price and LMS Export

Best video-to-quiz tools in 2026

The best video-to-quiz tool depends on one thing above all: whether the finished quiz has to leave the tool. Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, writes a good quiz for free and then keeps it, because Google documents no quiz export at all. Quizgecko puts LMS export on its $29 Ultra tier only. VidQuiz reads a YouTube link and exports to Google Forms CSV, QTI 1.2, Moodle GIFT, Blackboard, PDF and CSV on every plan. Pick by destination first, then by features.

Prices below were read first-party from each vendor in August 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a figure in US dollars, none is invented for it.

This is a fair, honest comparison. Each tool here is capable, and the goal is to help you match a tool to your workflow, not to crown a single winner. Throughout, remember that any AI tool writes a first draft: you should review and edit questions before you share them, and none of these tools can promise perfect accuracy.

How to compare video-to-quiz tools

Before the list, it helps to know what actually separates these products. A few questions cut through the marketing.

• Does it read video, or just text? Some tools are built for documents and treat video as a secondary input. Others are video-first and read the spoken content directly.
• Does it tie questions to moments? Timestamped questions let learners jump back to the exact part of a video, which is a big deal for review.
• Is it multiple-choice first? MCQs are the workhorse of comprehension checks, so MCQ quality matters most for many users.
• Can you edit and share easily? You will always tweak questions, then share a link or export to an LMS.

Tool	Reads a video link itself	Timestamps on questions	Export a finished quiz	Entry price
VidQuiz	Yes, YouTube	Yes, on every question	Google Forms CSV, QTI 1.2, GIFT, Blackboard, PDF, CSV, on all plans	Free, then $49
Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM)	Yes, public YouTube URLs	No, citations point at the source	None. Flashcards download as CSV, quizzes do not	$0
Quizgecko	Video is one input among many	Not a per-question feature	LMS export on the Ultra tier only	Free, then $16
QuizRise	Yes, from captions and public transcripts	Not a per-question feature	Several formats	Free plan, no published price list
Questgen	No, works from text and documents	No	Several formats	See vendor
Kahoot! AI	No, generates from topics	No	Played live or self-paced in Kahoot	$19 per month, billed annually
ProProfs Quiz Maker	Yes, and it timestamps	Yes	Several formats, plus its own delivery	Free tier, then $19.99 per 100 takers billed yearly

Two columns in that table decide most purchases. The export column is the one people discover too late, and the price column hides a second question: whether you are billed for creating quizzes or for the people who take them. ProProfs meters active quiz takers, Kahoot meters participants per session, and VidQuiz meters videos converted and never counts learners at all.

The tools, compared fairly

Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM), the best free option with one catch

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook in July 2026, and it remains the strongest free way to get a quiz out of a lecture. Add a public YouTube URL, a PDF or an audio file as a source, open the Studio panel and select Quizzes, and it drafts a multiple choice quiz you can set to easy, medium or hard and steer with a written prompt. While you take it there is a Hint button and an Explain button on every answer.

The catch is the one nobody mentions in a feature list. Google's help page for the feature gives flashcards a control to download them as a CSV file, and gives quizzes no download control at all. The quiz is takeable only inside the notebook, by people who have access to that notebook, and generating or deleting one needs edit access. There is no answer key to print, no file to import and no link to send a class. Usage is capped by your Google AI plan, free at $0, Plus at $4.99 a month, Pro at $19.99 and Ultra at $99.99 or $199.99, and since September 2, 2026 those caps are compute-based and refresh every five hours up to a weekly ceiling. Our full breakdown of NotebookLM quiz limits and pricing covers what each tier changes.

VidQuiz, the video-native option

VidQuiz is built around one idea: a video is the source, not an afterthought. You paste a YouTube video to quiz link, or a course module, lecture, or webinar, and VidQuiz reads the spoken content and writes multiple-choice questions tied to the moments they came from. Every question carries a timestamp chip, so learners can review the exact point in the video. It is MCQ-first, you edit any question before sharing, and the whole flow is tuned for video. If most of what you quiz is video, this is the natural fit. You can try it on a sample on the VidQuiz home page.

Quizgecko, the flexible generalist

Quizgecko is a well-rounded quiz maker that turns text, documents, web pages, and other sources into questions in several formats. If you often start from written material and want one flexible tool, it covers a lot of ground, and its student focus is genuine: two million-plus users, subject pages for medicine, nursing, dentistry, law and pharmacy, and an NCLEX-RN question bank in beta.

Its plans are Free at $0, Plus at $16 a month or $9 billed yearly, and Ultra at $29 a month. Two details matter more than the headline price. Quizgecko meters by tokens per course, 10,000 on Free, 75,000 on Plus and 150,000 on Ultra, so the binding limit is the size of your source document rather than the number of quizzes. And LMS export is an Ultra-only feature, so if your reason for buying is getting questions into Canvas or Moodle, your entry price is $29 rather than $16. See a side-by-side on our Quizgecko alternative page.

Questgen, fast text-to-question

Questgen does its core job well: feed it text, a paragraph, or a PDF and it produces multiple-choice and other questions quickly. For teams whose material already lives in documents, that focus is genuinely useful. The trade-off for video users is that you typically need the text first. More detail is on our Questgen alternative page.

QuizRise, the multi-source all-in-one

QuizRise is versatile, creating questions from text, topics, web pages, documents, and video in several formats. If your material comes from many places, that range is a real plus. If video is your main source, a video-first tool will feel more tailored. We compare the two on our QuizRise alternative page.

Kahoot! AI, for live play

Kahoot! is a beloved live quiz and game platform, and its AI features speed up building topic-based questions for energetic classroom and team play. If your goal is a lively shared game, it is excellent. If your goal is comprehension from a specific video, a tool that reads the actual recording fits better. See the comparison on our Kahoot AI alternative page.

ProProfs Quiz Maker, the full assessment suite

ProProfs is the broadest option here and the one to look at if you want a single vendor for everything. It supports 20+ question types, a very large ready made question library, AI grading of written answers, and AI generation from documents, webpages and video, and it sits alongside a wider training and LMS product line. It has a free tier for small quizzes, which most tools on this list do not. The thing to check before committing is the meter: the main Quiz Maker plans are priced per active quiz taker, so a quiz that reaches a large cohort costs more than one that reaches a small one. We put the two pricing models side by side on our ProProfs alternative page, including the cases where ProProfs is the better buy.

Which video-to-quiz tool should you choose?

A simple way to decide:

1. If your source is video, pick a video-native, MCQ-first tool with timestamps, especially for YouTube, courses, lectures, and webinars.
2. If your source is mostly documents, a flexible text-and-PDF generator will serve you well.
3. If you want live competition, a game platform is the right home for that energy.

Whatever you choose, treat the AI output as a draft. Read each question, fix anything off, and confirm the answer keys before you share. That habit gives you the speed of automation with the quality control of a human in the loop.

Is there a free tool to make a quiz from a YouTube video?

Yes, and Gemini Notebook is the best of them at $0, provided you only need the quiz for yourself. Add the video URL as a source, generate a quiz in the Studio panel and take it there. The moment you need to send it to somebody else, the lack of any quiz export becomes the blocker rather than an inconvenience.

Free tiers on the quiz-first tools are smaller but produce a file. Quizgecko's free plan allows limited course creation at up to 10,000 tokens per course, QuizRise offers three quizzes a month at up to 20 questions each, and VidQuiz gives three quizzes as a one-time demo with every export format unlocked. If the quiz has to reach a gradebook, the export is worth more than the volume.

Which video-to-quiz tool works with an LMS?

Check the format your LMS actually accepts before you check anything else, because the mapping is not interchangeable. Canvas and Brightspace take QTI 1.2 as a zip with imsmanifest.xml at the root. Moodle core has no Excel or QTI importer and wants GIFT or Moodle XML. Blackboard supports a tab-delimited upload in both Original and Ultra, and its QTI route is Original only.

That is why a tool that produces one generic export often fails at the last step. Our quiz format converter guide maps each format to the platforms that read it cleanly, including the failure modes that produce an unhelpful error rather than a clear one.

Try it on your own video

If your content is video, the fastest way to judge a tool is to run a real recording through it. VidQuiz lets you paste a link and see MCQs with timestamps in seconds, so you can decide for yourself. You can try VidQuiz on a sample or read our guide on how to create a quiz from video. Get started when you are ready.