Compare
Crowdpurr and Nightcap both put trivia and bingo on a big screen while people play from their phones. Crowdpurr is a general audience-engagement platform for live, virtual and hybrid events of every kind. Nightcap is made for bars, with a host that speaks and games built around a night out.
Pick Crowdpurr if you run corporate events, classes, conferences or virtual events and want to build your own trivia, bingo and polls for that audience. Pick Nightcap if you run a bar and want ready-to-go game nights with a voice host, 24/7 Trivia, poker and Football Bingo for $49 a month.
Try Nightcap free for 30 days →Side by side
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
| Nightcap | Crowdpurr | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Bars, pubs, sports bars, breweries, taprooms and restaurants. | Events of every kind: live, virtual and hybrid. |
| Price | $49 per venue per month for every game, and every game added later. The crowd games are free. | Basic free (20 participants and 15 questions per experience, 3 at a time). Classroom $49.99/mo, or $24.99/mo billed yearly (100 participants). Higher tiers up to $999.99/mo. |
| Contract | Cancel anytime. Join at $49 and keep that price for as long as you stay. | Monthly or yearly billing. |
| Free trial | 30 days free, every game. No credit card. | The free Basic plan. No credit card to try it. |
| Hardware | None to buy. Any TV with a browser: a smart TV, a Fire TV Stick or a laptop. | Show it on a projector or TV monitor, stream it, or share it in Zoom or Webex. |
| How guests play | Scan a QR code and play on their own phone. Nothing to download, no account. | Scan a QR code or type in a link. Browser based, nothing to download. |
| Games | Trivia Night, 24/7 Trivia, Bingo, Poker, Game Day Bingo, Sketch and Specials TV (beta), plus 8 free crowd games. | Trivia, Bingo and Polls. |
| Voice host | Yes. An AI host with a real voice reads the questions, calls the numbers and crowns the winners. | Offers a “Fully Automatic Mode”. See their site for hosting options. |
| Always-on trivia | Yes. 24/7 Trivia runs by itself all day: a new round every few minutes and a bar leaderboard. | 24/7 trivia modes, with scheduled start and end times. |
| Sports bingo | Yes. Game Day Bingo for football, hockey, basketball and baseball. Squares mark themselves from the live play-by-play. | Not listed on their site. |
Crowdpurr details are from its own website, crowdpurr.com/pricing, as of October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check their site for what is current. Nightcap details are from our pricing page.
Be honest
Neither one is right for every bar. Here is where each one fits best.
Crowdpurr is a toolkit: you build an experience for your audience, whether that is a company meeting, a classroom or a conference. Nightcap is a bar’s game night out of the box: thousands of trivia questions and theme nights, an AI caller for bingo, poker for the regulars, and quick crowd games between rounds. A venue can still add up to 200 of its own questions, played as a House Round.
Crowdpurr prices by tier and participant count, from a free plan for 20 participants to $999.99 a month for its top tier, as of October 2026. Nightcap is one price per bar: $49 a month for every game.
Nightcap’s AI host speaks in a real voice: it reads every trivia question, calls the bingo numbers and crowns the winners. In a loud bar nothing depends on hearing the host. The trivia question and its answers are on the TV, bingo keeps its call box on the screen, winners are checked automatically, and Game Day Bingo cards mark themselves.
Nightcap’s Football Bingo marks every card from the live NFL or college game, a little behind the broadcast so a phone never spoils a play. Sports bingo that follows a live game is not listed on Crowdpurr’s site.
Questions
Crowdpurr is a general audience-engagement platform for live, virtual and hybrid events, and a bar can use it. Nightcap is made for bars: its games, host and pricing are built around a night out.
It depends on the size of your crowd. As of October 2026, Crowdpurr’s Basic plan is free for up to 20 participants per experience, its Classroom plan is $49.99 a month or $24.99 a month billed yearly for 100 participants, and higher tiers go up to $999.99 a month. Nightcap is $49 per venue per month for every game.
Yes. Each venue can add up to 200 of its own questions, played as a House Round, alongside Nightcap’s library of thousands.
Not for either. Nightcap guests scan a QR code and play in their phone’s browser, with nothing to download and no account. Crowdpurr is browser based too.
Yes. Game Day Bingo plays along with NFL and college football, the NHL, the NBA, the WNBA, college basketball and MLB. Squares mark themselves from the live play-by-play.
Every Nightcap game is free for 30 days, no credit card. Put trivia, bingo or Football Bingo on your TV tonight, then decide. After that it is $49 a month for all of them.