Webinar software free to host, with the deck running live in every browser

What “free” actually means here

Today a free account and a paid account have identical capability. Nothing in the live room is a paid unlock — not chat, not private DMs, not the hand queue, not captions, not cohost links, not audience microphone and camera — and there are no attendee tiers to buy. The word free is doing real work here rather than pointing at a stripped plan.

That is a statement about the product as it stands now, not a permanent pricing promise. What it means for you today is simple: you can run the whole live room without paying for any part of it.

Your audience receives the deck itself, rendered locally

The structural difference from every other free webinar tool is that nobody screen-shares. You author the animated deck in the same product and press Present, and each attendee’s browser renders that real deck, synced slide by slide — entrance and exit effects, motion and click-advance holds intact — rather than a compressed video of your monitor.

Screen sharing of another application is available too, as a stage source you switch on deliberately and off again. The deck is what the room sees. If your webinar depends on demoing another program live on screen, that is not something this does.

How people get in: a code, a link or a QR

Schedule the talk and you get an eight-character code, a join link and a QR. Attendees enter a display name and they are in — on a phone or a laptop, with nothing to install and no account. A lobby with a countdown holds early arrivals and shows a live count of how many are already waiting, then moves them into the talk the moment it starts.

One hard limit to be clear about: nobody is emailed or notified when you go live, because there is no mail transport in the product. You put the code, link or QR in front of people yourself — in a calendar invite you send from elsewhere, a chat message, or on a slide.

A room that can answer back

A webinar is only interactive if the room can answer, and this one can. Raised hands form an ordered queue that survives a reload, so you work through it in the order people asked. Everyone talks in the public chat, and any individual can pull you or a colleague aside in a private one-to-one that your whole team sees in one shared inbox. Attendees can unmute and switch a camera on when you allow it, so a broadcast becomes a conversation.

Captions are one button for the whole audience, with a searchable transcript kept afterwards. Quizzes, word clouds and leaderboards are all in the room, authored on a slide beforehand. What the room does not have, so you can plan around it: emoji reactions, and raised hands carry no text — a question that needs words goes in the chat.

Staffing the talk: cohosts, moderators and limits that hold

You staff a talk with per-talk invite links. A cohost link makes a colleague someone who can drive the slides and the chat; a moderator link is limited to chat and the hand queue only. You can see who is on duty and online. Host controls let you mute everyone at once and stop all audience video, and latecomers arrive under the same rules.

The proof point is that the cohost-and-moderator split is enforced on the server, not merely hidden in the interface, so a moderator provably cannot move your slides. Be aware that we do not email an invite link — staff links are copied and pasted by hand.

What this deliberately does not do

A short list, placed here rather than in a footer, because this audience assumes all of it silently:

• There is no recording and no replay library — the talk is a live hour, not a video asset.
• There is no registration funnel and no reminder or notification emails, because the product sends no email at all.
• There are no breakout rooms.
• Screen sharing of another application is opt-in, not the default.

And the load-bearing one: the deck never becomes a file — there is no PDF, PPTX, MP4, image or download. A second person can still see it by joining the live session or by opening the published page.