7 Trivia by Springworks Alternatives for Slack and Microsoft Teams

If you went looking for Trivia by Springworks lately, you may have landed somewhere unexpected. The old Springworks pages now redirect, the app has a new owner and the prices have changed.

So this page does two jobs. It sets out what happened to Trivia and what it costs today. Then it compares seven alternatives, for teams that would like to look around before renewing.

Quick answer. Trivia is now published by Heron HR at trytrivia.co, and paid plans start at $1 a user a month with a $29 monthly minimum. If you want a game every workday that nobody has to gather for, use Halftime. For another in-chat game bot with flat pricing, look at Ricotta. For one quiz a week, use Water Cooler Trivia. For a live quiz with a host, use Kahoot! 360 or PlayQuizNow.

What happened to Trivia by Springworks

Trivia was built by Springworks as a game app for Slack and Microsoft Teams. Here is what its own pages and listings showed on November 10, 2026.

• The owner is Heron HR. The Slack Marketplace listing and the Microsoft marketplace listing both name Heron HR as the publisher. Trivia's site refers to Heron HR's acquisition of Trivia.
• The site is trytrivia.co. The old Springworks Trivia addresses redirect to the Springworks homepage or to pages for EngageWith, which is a different Springworks product with different pricing.
• Security paperwork is in transition. Trivia's site says it was SOC 2 compliant under prior ownership and that a SOC 2 review is under way after the acquisition. If your procurement team asks for a current report, ask Heron HR directly.
• The app still runs. It is listed for both Slack and Microsoft Teams, and the Microsoft listing shows a rating of about 4.5 from 106 ratings.

What Trivia costs now

The Slack and Microsoft Teams pricing pages show the same three plans.

Every plan starts with a 7-day Pro trial and no card. Only monthly prices are shown.

Two things to check before you budget. The FAQ on Trivia's homepage still quotes $0.50 and $1 a user and a 90-day trial on Teams, which no longer matches the pricing pages. And the Slack pricing page describes billing two ways, once as everyone in channels where Trivia is enabled and once as people who were active that month. Ask which applies to you, because in a large channel the difference is real money.

Trivia alternatives at a glance

Prices are what each company published on November 10, 2026.

How we put this list together

We read each company's own website and marketplace listings on November 10, 2026, and compared format, platform, who has to be present and any price the company publishes. Sources are Trivia for Slack, Trivia for Microsoft Teams, Ricotta, Water Cooler Trivia, QuizBreaker, Polly, Kahoot! 360 and PlayQuizNow.

Halftime is our product. We have not run the other tools with a team, so this is a comparison of what each one says it offers, not a hands-on review. Nobody paid to be included, and we are not affiliated with Trivia, Heron HR, Springworks or any company listed here.

What Trivia does well

Trivia runs inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. The game list is broad for a chat app, with instant quizzes, image quizzes, Pictionary, Emoji Rebus, GIF Charades, Hangman, True or False, riddles and a bluffing game called Gotcha. Its listing describes play as real time, meaning the team gets together in a channel for a few minutes. For people who cannot make it, self-paced quizzes stay open for 24 hours and are answered in a direct message.

It can schedule recurring sessions such as a Friday game, and it bundles coffee pairing, a water cooler prompt, birthday and work anniversary celebrations and a quiz about teammates called Know Your Team.

That suits a team that is online at the same time, already lives in Slack or Teams, and enjoys a quick live round. The free plan makes it easy to try.

People usually look elsewhere for one of these reasons.

• The ownership change prompted a review, or procurement wants current security documents.
• The team spans time zones, so a live round leaves half the team out.
• Per-user pricing in a large channel costs more than a flat plan would.
• Game threads and reminders made the channel noisy. That comes up repeatedly in Trivia's older G2 reviews.
• Part of the company is not in Slack or Teams.

1. Halftime for a daily game nobody has to gather for

Best for. Teams across time zones, or teams that are simply busy at different times.

Halftime opens one two-minute game for the team each workday. Everyone plays in the browser when they have a spare moment, results are revealed later in the day, and a weekly leaderboard and champion carry the story from one day to the next. The library has more than 50 games across arcade, puzzle, word, trivia and strategy, so it is not trivia every day.

Microsoft Teams, Slack or email carries the reminder and the result. On Teams, teammates do not install anything, which matters on locked-down work laptops. For a meeting or a social, the same games run as a live session with a room code.

Pricing. $39 a month flat for a team of up to 20 players, after 30 days of full access with no card. The price does not move with channel size or activity.

Choose it when. You want the daily habit without asking everyone to be free at 3pm.

Watch out for. The game is played in the browser, not inside the chat. It is not a bot you can summon for a round on demand in a channel.

2. Ricotta for async games inside the chat

Best for. Teams that want to stay in the chat app and prefer a flat price.

Ricotta Games & Trivia posts trivia, icebreakers and word games into Slack, Microsoft Teams or Webex, and positions them as asynchronous. A scheduler can spread games across the week. The Slack library includes a Wordle-style Word of the Day, a daily anagram, This or That, Never Have I Ever and two-player games in direct messages.

Pricing. Flat per tier with a user cap. On Slack, the homepage lists Basic for up to 50 users at $24 to $34 a month depending on billing. On Microsoft Teams, Starter is $34 a month for up to 40 users in the organisation. Both have a 14-day trial.

Choose it when. Trivia's format suits you and the per-user price does not.

Watch out for. Ricotta's site shows two different Slack price lists, and the Teams library is smaller than the Slack one. The full picture is in Ricotta alternatives.

3. Water Cooler Trivia for a weekly quiz by email or chat

Best for. Teams that mostly want the trivia and are happy with once a week.

Water Cooler Trivia sends each person a ten-question quiz every week by Slack, Microsoft Teams or email. Answers are free text, people respond in their own time and results follow on a schedule.

Pricing. $10 a month for up to 10 participants, $25 for 11 to 25, $50 for 26 to 50 and $100 for 51 to 100, with a four-week trial and no card.

Choose it when. You want trivia as a standing weekly tradition, including for people on email.

Watch out for. One format, one day a week. See Halftime vs Water Cooler Trivia.

4. QuizBreaker for quizzes about your own team

Best for. Teams that liked Trivia's Know Your Team quiz more than the general knowledge rounds.

QuizBreaker collects answers to personal questions and turns them into a scheduled guessing quiz, delivered by email or Slack. The plan also includes live trivia and virtual escape rooms for video calls.

Pricing. Essentials is $39 a month billed annually, or $49 month to month, for up to 100 users, with a 21-day trial.

Choose it when. The aim is for people to learn about each other.

Watch out for. Its pages do not mention Microsoft Teams delivery, so Teams-only companies should confirm first. See Halftime vs QuizBreaker.

5. Polly for trivia next to your polls

Best for. Teams that already use polls and surveys in Slack or Teams.

Polly's Team Trivia is a live, timed game run by a presenter, alongside its polls, surveys and Q&A.

Pricing. On Microsoft Teams there is a free plan that lists quizzes and trivia games, and Pro is $19 a month billed annually. On Slack, trivia starts on Basic at $19 a month for one licence billed annually.

Choose it when. You would rather add trivia to a tool you already pay for.

Watch out for. Someone has to run each round. See Halftime vs Polly.

6. Kahoot! 360 for a big live quiz

Best for. All-hands meetings, training sessions and company socials.

Kahoot! 360 is the workplace edition of Kahoot. A presenter runs the quiz on a shared screen and everyone answers at once.

Pricing. Per presenter, billed annually. Pro Start is $9 a month for up to 50 participants, Pro Standard is $25 for up to 200 and Pro Plus is $39 for up to 1,000. The Microsoft Teams integration sits under Kahoot! 360 for Enterprises.

Choose it when. You want a produced live moment for a large group.

Watch out for. It is an event, so it needs a host and a time. See Kahoot alternatives for work teams.

7. PlayQuizNow for a live quiz in a Teams meeting

Best for. A quick quiz inside a Microsoft Teams meeting.

PlayQuizNow is a live multiplayer quiz tool with question generation and leaderboards. In Microsoft Teams it runs on the meeting stage or as a card in a channel, and players join with their Microsoft 365 accounts. It also has a Slack command.

Pricing. The pricing page lists a free plan for up to 10 live players a game, Pro at $99 a year for 100 live players and Pro+ at $249 a year for 500, plus a $9 one-off event pass for 200 players.

Choose it when. You want a live round in a meeting that is already on the calendar.

Watch out for. It is live only in Teams, so somebody hosts. Its homepage and pricing page give different free player limits, so check before a big session.

Which alternative fits which job

Live round or daily habit

Most of the decision comes down to one question. Can your team reliably be in the same channel at the same time?

If yes, a live round is hard to beat. Five minutes of Pictionary with everyone present is loud and funny, and Trivia, Polly, Kahoot and PlayQuizNow all do it well.

If not, a live round quietly becomes a game for whoever happens to be online. The same six people play, the others scroll past the thread later, and the tool gets blamed for a scheduling problem. An async format fixes that by removing the appointment. Everyone gets the same game and the same window, and the shared moment is the result, not the round.

Plenty of teams run both. A daily async game for the baseline, and a live round at the monthly social. For more on the difference, read async games vs virtual team building. For Teams-specific options, including games that need no app, see Microsoft Teams games for work.

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