Flipbooks AI vs Mentimeter: Free Plans, Branding and Prices Compared

Founder of Flipbooks AI

August 12, 2026

The Short Answer

Choose Flipbooks AI if the thing you have is a document rather than a session. Your PDF is finished, nobody is going to stand up and talk over it, and what it needs is to be online and readable by one person at a time from a link that does not ask them to sign up. You upload the file, pick a page turn effect and share the link. The paid ladder buys how it looks and behaves for a reader: your own logo instead of our corner mark at $59 a year, an embed code and an allowed domain list at $108 a year, and background music with a separate password for each reader at $228 a year.

Choose Mentimeter if there is a room, or a call, and an audience that is going to answer you in real time. That is the whole of what it does and it does it properly: live polls, word clouds, quizzes, scales, open ended questions and a Q and A, with everyone joining by putting a code into their phone at menti.com or scanning a QR code, no installation and no account. The results appear as the answers land and the presenter reads the room off the screen. Flipbooks AI has no live mode, no participants, no polling and no responses, and it never will, because it publishes documents. If you need an audience to speak back to you, this comparison ends here and Mentimeter is the answer.

Flipbooks AI vs Mentimeter at a Glance

Feature	Flipbooks AI	Mentimeter
Readers open it on their own, with nobody presenting	Yes	No
Works with no scheduled session and nobody in a room	Yes	No
Unlimited readers on the free plan	Yes	50 participants a month
No cap on how many pages or slides it can hold	Yes	Yes
Page turn effect built for reading a document	Yes	No
Your own logo on the cheapest paid plan	Yes	Branding starts on the second paid plan
Background music on a published document	Yes	No
A separate password for each reader	Yes	No
Nothing to install for the people you send it to	Yes	Yes
Priced per account rather than per presenter	Yes	Per presenter
Still readable after the event, with nothing to export	Yes	Export results from the first paid plan

Flipbooks AI wins 9 of these 11 rows, ties 2 and loses none. They are rows we picked, so read them that way. The sections below say plainly where Mentimeter is the better buy.

Pricing Compared

Read from the Mentimeter plans page in August 2026, there are four tiers. Free is $0 and described as the easiest way to try Mentimeter. Basic is $11.99 per presenter a month billed yearly and excluding tax, sold as unlimited engagement for individuals. Pro is $24.99 per presenter a month billed yearly and excluding tax, sold as tools for growing teams. Enterprise is custom priced. Their own FAQ notes that you cannot pay for one month of Pro or Enterprise, monthly billing exists for the lower tier, and discounted education pricing is offered separately for teachers and students.

Flipbooks AI sells Starter at $59 a year, annual only, Plus at $14 a month or $108 a year, and Ultra at $29 a month or $228 a year. Every paid plan removes the corner mark or swaps in your own logo, unlocks brand colours for the reader controls and opens the page turn effects the free plan does not carry. Plus adds the embed code and the allowed domain list that decides which sites may frame your flipbook, and Ultra adds background music and a separate password for each reader.

The two are priced on different axes and this is the part worth understanding before you compare the numbers. Mentimeter charges per presenter, because a presenter is the scarce thing in their model, and the price excludes tax, so what leaves your account depends on where you are. Our price is per account and the same figure wherever in the world you check from, because the scarce thing in our model is nothing at all: any number of people can open a flipbook and it costs the same. Comparing $11.99 a presenter with $59 a year only makes sense if you already know how many presenters you have, and even then the two are buying unrelated things.

What Each Free Plan Really Gives You

Mentimeter free is more generous than people expect and their help centre spells it out. You get an unlimited number of presentations, almost all question types with Quick Form the exception, and unlimited Questions, Quiz and Content slides, which their plans page counts as 23 slide types. The catch is the audience, not the content: up to 50 participants per month, resetting monthly on the date you created the account. Two details soften it. Everyone in a single presentation can take part even if that pushes you past 50, and after you hit the limit you get an eight hour window to keep presenting the same presentation. What free does not include is importing from PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, private presentations, custom branding or logo uploads, and export to PDF or Excel.

Flipbooks AI keeps three flipbooks live at a time on the free plan with 1 GB of storage, the magazine page turn effect only, and a small Flipbooks AI mark in the corner of the viewer. Three is a small number and we will not dress it up. What softens it is that the allowance rolls: delete a flipbook and the slot comes back straight away, so a free account can publish far more than three documents over a year. The parts that go unnoticed until you need them are that there is no page cap, so a 300 page catalogue goes up whole, no ads sit beside the reader, readers never need an account, one shared password is allowed on the free plan, the flipbook is never listed in any public directory, and there is no inactivity rule, so a flipbook stays live until you delete it.

Set side by side, the free plans cap opposite things. Theirs caps how many people, ours caps how many documents. For a teacher running one class a week, 50 participants a month is the wall you hit first and unlimited presentations is irrelevant. For someone publishing a quarterly report to an unknown number of readers, our three live flipbooks is the wall and the reader count never matters. Neither free plan is stingy, they are just cut for different jobs.

Branding and Watermarks

Neither product puts a watermark across your content. On Flipbooks AI a free flipbook carries a small mark in the corner of the viewer and nothing over the pages. On Mentimeter the free tier has no custom branding or logo upload, which in practice means your session looks like Mentimeter rather than like you, and the same is true on Basic: their plans page puts custom colours and themes, company branding and logo uploads on Pro, at $24.99 per presenter a month billed yearly.

On our side branding is the first thing you buy rather than the last. Starter at $59 a year removes the corner mark or swaps in your own logo, and the same plan unlocks brand colours for the reader controls, so the chrome around the pages carries your palette. That is the cheapest tier, not the second one, and it covers the whole account rather than one presenter.

Being fair about what their branding tier buys, it is more than a logo. Custom colours and themes on Pro apply across a workspace, alongside a collaborative workspace, co-creation, Q and A moderation and Mentimote, their phone based remote for controlling a running presentation. That is branding bundled into a set of team features, and if you have a team of presenters who all need to look consistent in front of an audience, buying it that way makes sense. It is simply a different purchase from putting your logo on a document.

Privacy and Who Can Find Your Flipbook

The privacy question means something different for each of these, so take them separately. A Mentimeter session is joined by a code that anyone can type at menti.com, or by a QR code, or by a link. That openness is the point, because you want everyone in the room to get in without friction, and responses are anonymous. It also means access control is not really the model: the code is the door. Their plans page lists private presentations as something the free tier does not have, participant verification as an Enterprise feature, and custom data retention there too, so tightening any of this happens at the top of the ladder.

Flipbooks AI is link only on every plan including the free one. A flipbook is never listed in any public directory, we never submit it to search engines, and the reader never needs an account. One shared password is allowed on the free plan and Ultra at $228 a year gives each reader a password of their own. None of that changes when you stop paying, so a flipbook made on the free plan is as unlisted as one made on Ultra.

Here is the honest caveat, and most of it is about our own product. A shared link is a public URL, and a link that ends up somewhere public can be crawled. On Flipbooks AI a password gates the reader interface rather than the file behind it, so a document that genuinely must not leak needs a system with real access control instead of us. We did not test how a Mentimeter voting code behaves under the same scrutiny, so treat their side as unchecked rather than assuming it matches. If you are collecting answers from people about anything sensitive, read their data retention terms yourself rather than a comparison page.

Sharing is the clearest place these two diverge, because they are sharing different objects. Mentimeter shares a way in: a voting code typed at menti.com, a QR code you show on screen or print, or a join link, with no installation and no account for the participant. Their own material describes running in the browser or integrating with tools a team already uses, without naming the integrations on the page we read, so check that list yourself if a particular one is your reason for buying. What is shared is participation in something happening now, and when it stops happening, the link stops being interesting.

Flipbooks AI shares the document itself. You send a link, the reader opens it whenever they like, and it looks the same in six months. On Plus at $14 a month or $108 a year you also get an embed code and an allowed domain list, so the flipbook can live inside a page you own and only sites you have approved can frame it. On the free and Starter plans you share the link and that is all there is to it.

The consequence is about what survives. A Mentimeter session leaves results behind, and getting them out as an image, a PDF or an Excel file starts on Basic at $11.99 per presenter a month billed yearly, so on the free plan the numbers stay inside the account. A flipbook has nothing to export because the document is the artifact and it stays online until you delete it. If your worry is that the useful part of the session evaporates when everyone leaves the room, that is a real worry and it is a good reason to be on their paid plan rather than ours.

Ease of Use and What Each Tool Is For

Mentimeter is well liked and holds 4.4 out of 5 from 101 reviews on Capterra. It is built for one job and the job is attention: you are in front of people, you want them to answer rather than nod, and a word cloud filling up on screen does something no document does. Around that sit quizzes, scales, open ended questions, Q and A with AI grouping to spot trends, segmentation of results, workspace roles, imports from PowerPoint and Google Slides on the paid tiers, and single sign on with participant verification for organisations that need it. None of that is something Flipbooks AI aspires to.

Flipbooks AI is narrow on purpose and it is faster to say what it is not. There is no template gallery, no in tool page editor, no custom domains, no team seats, no API, no reader analytics and no lead capture. The design work already happened wherever you made the PDF. You upload the finished file, choose a page turn effect, set a password or your colours if you are paying, and share the link. It takes about two minutes because there is nothing else in it.

There is one place the two genuinely meet and it is worth naming, because it is the only honest overlap in this whole comparison. Plenty of people run a live session and then need to send something out afterwards: the deck, the handout, the report the workshop was about. Mentimeter can export the results from Basic upwards, and whatever document accompanied the session already exists as a PDF somewhere. That PDF is what a flipbook is made of. So the pairing is a session in their tool and a leave behind in ours, which is not a switch and not a competition, just two halves of the same week.

Who Should Choose Which

Choose Flipbooks AI if

Your PDF is finished and it needs to be read by one person at a time, not presented to a room
You want unlimited readers at no cost rather than a monthly participant allowance
You want your own logo and brand colours on the cheapest paid plan, $59 a year
You want a page turn effect, background music or a separate password for each reader

Choose Mentimeter if

You need an audience to answer you live, with polls, word clouds, quizzes or a Q and A
You want participants to join in seconds from a code or a QR with no account and no install
You need results you can act on, segmented, exported and shared with a workspace
You are running teaching, workshops or town halls where the point is participation, not reading

How to Switch from Mentimeter to Flipbooks AI

Nobody should switch from Mentimeter to Flipbooks AI, and a comparison page that pretended otherwise would be selling you something. They do not do the same job. What follows is for the narrower and much more common case: a session has happened, and now there is a document that needs to go out to the people who were there, or to the people who were not.

Work out what is actually leaving the room. A Mentimeter session produces two different things, the answers people gave and whatever material you presented around them. Only the second one becomes a document a reader opens later. Decide which of the two you are sending before you do anything else, because they need different treatment.
Export the results you want to keep. Exporting to image, PDF or Excel starts on their Basic plan, so if you are on the free tier the numbers live inside the account and you may need to screenshot or upgrade for the month. Do this while the session data is still to hand, since Flipbooks AI has no way to import reporting of any kind.
Assemble the document in whatever tool made it. Flipbooks AI does not design anything, so the handout, the report or the summary gets built in the tool it was always built in, then exported as a PDF. Put the results you exported into that file if you want them to travel with it, because the flipbook will show exactly the pages the PDF has and nothing more.
Upload the PDF to Flipbooks AI and set it up. Drop the file on the create page, pick a page turn effect, add a password if the document is private, and set your own logo and brand colours if you are on a paid plan. Preview it before publishing, and remember the free plan keeps three flipbooks live at a time with the magazine effect only.
Send the link and keep the two tools apart in your head. Put the flipbook link in the follow up email, in the QR code on the handout, or on the page where people expect to find it. Keep your Mentimeter account for the next session rather than cancelling it, because the flipbook does not replace anything it was doing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Mentimeter free, and what does the free plan include?

Yes, there is a genuine free tier and their help centre documents it. You get an unlimited number of presentations, almost all question types with Quick Form the exception, and unlimited Questions, Quiz and Content slides, which their plans page counts as 23 slide types. The limit is on the audience: up to 50 participants per month, resetting on the date you created the account. Not included on free are imports from PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, private presentations, custom branding or logo uploads, and export to PDF or Excel. Our free plan keeps three flipbooks live at a time on 1 GB, with the magazine page turn effect only and a small corner mark.

What is the 50 participant limit on the Mentimeter free plan?

It is a monthly allowance of 50 participants that resets on the anniversary date of your account, checked in August 2026. Their help centre adds two useful details: everyone in a single presentation can take part even if that pushes the total past 50, so one large session is not cut off halfway, and once you hit the limit you get an eight hour window in which you can keep presenting the same presentation. Unlimited monthly participants starts on their Basic plan. Flipbooks AI has no reader limit on any plan, including free, because a flipbook costs us the same whether two people or two thousand open it.

How much does Mentimeter cost?

Read from their plans page in August 2026, Basic is $11.99 per presenter a month billed yearly and excluding tax, Pro is $24.99 per presenter a month billed yearly and excluding tax, and Enterprise is custom priced. Their FAQ says you cannot pay for one month of Pro or Enterprise, so annual commitment is the norm above the entry tier, and discounted education pricing exists for teachers and students. Third party listings quote different monthly figures, so take the live page as the truth. Flipbooks AI sells Starter at $59 a year, Plus at $14 a month or $108 a year, and Ultra at $29 a month or $228 a year, per account rather than per presenter.

Can I make a Mentimeter presentation private?

Not on the free plan. Private presentations appear on their plans page as something the free tier does not include, and participant verification, which is the stricter control over who can respond, sits on Enterprise. In normal use a session is joined by a code anyone can type at menti.com, by a QR code or by a link, and that openness is deliberate, because you want a room full of people in without friction. Flipbooks AI is link only on every plan including free, is never listed in any public directory, and allows one shared password on free with a separate password for each reader on Ultra.

Can I turn a Mentimeter presentation into a flipbook?

Only through a PDF, and only the parts that make sense as a document. Exporting to image, PDF or Excel starts on their Basic plan, so a free account has no export route at all. Anything live, the polling itself, the responses landing in real time, the Q and A, is a session rather than a page and does not survive being flattened. What does travel is the content around it: the slides you presented, the results once exported, the summary you wrote afterwards. Put those in one PDF, upload it here, and you have a flipbook people can read later.

Does Flipbooks AI do live polls, quizzes or word clouds?

No, none of them, and there is no plan to. Flipbooks AI takes a finished PDF and publishes it as a flipbook with a page turn, a private link and, on the paid plans, your logo, your brand colours, background music and per reader passwords. There is no presenter mode, no participants, no responses and no live anything. If you need an audience to answer you while you are talking, Mentimeter is the tool for that and nothing on our roadmap replaces it. The two are worth using together rather than choosing between.

Do readers or participants need an account?

Neither tool asks the people on the receiving end to sign up, which is one of the few rows where these two products genuinely agree. Mentimeter participants join by putting a code into menti.com, scanning a QR code or following a link, with nothing to install and no login. Flipbooks AI readers open a link in a browser and start turning pages, with no account and no app, on every plan including free. The difference is what they arrive at: a session that is happening now on one side, a document that will still be there in six months on the other.

Can I put my own logo on either one?

Yes, but at very different points on the ladder. On Mentimeter, custom branding and logo uploads sit on Pro at $24.99 per presenter a month billed yearly, alongside custom colours and themes, a collaborative workspace and Q and A moderation. On Flipbooks AI, branding is the first thing you buy: Starter at $59 a year removes the corner mark or swaps in your own logo, and the same plan unlocks brand colours for the reader controls. Ours covers the whole account rather than one presenter, which matters if several people publish under the same brand.

What happens to a Mentimeter session after it ends?

The results stay in the account and the interesting question is whether you can get them out. Export to image, PDF or Excel starts on their Basic plan, with segmentation of results there too, so on the free tier the numbers are visible inside Mentimeter but not portable. Enterprise adds custom data retention for organisations that need a specific policy. A flipbook has nothing to export, because the document is the artifact: it stays online until you delete it, with no inactivity rule and no expiry, and the link you sent keeps working.

Is Mentimeter a good tool?

Yes, and it is the right answer to a question we do not even try to answer. It holds 4.4 out of 5 from 101 reviews on Capterra, its free tier gives unlimited presentations with almost every question type, participants join in seconds with no account, and the live word cloud or poll does something to a room that no document does. The honest split is that Mentimeter owns the moment you are in front of people, while Flipbooks AI owns the document that goes out before or after. Use both if your work has both halves, because neither one is a substitute for the other.

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