iSpring QuizMaker and ProProfs Quiz Maker both help you build quizzes and tests, but they are made for different ways of working. iSpring QuizMaker is a Windows desktop program: you author on your PC, publish the quiz as HTML5 or an LMS package, and rely on an LMS or your own website to host it and track the results. ProProfs Quiz Maker lives in the browser, where building, sharing, grading, and reporting all happen in one place.
That one difference shapes almost everything else. It changes how you collaborate, how learners reach your quiz, what happens when an exam needs to be proctored or an essay needs to be graded, and what the whole setup costs. So the right pick depends less on which tool lists more features and more on where you want the work to happen.
This guide compares the two across authoring, exam security, AI, reporting, distribution, learner experience, compliance, and pricing, and it says plainly where iSpring QuizMaker is the better fit. If you want the short version, start with the At a Glance table, then jump to the section that matches your biggest requirement.
Choose ProProfs Quiz Maker
• You need a browser-based quiz maker that works on any computer, with nothing to install
• You need graded, certified, or proctored exams, not just a quiz that plays inside an LMS
• You’re building employee training, compliance testing, or hiring assessments
• You want AI to grade essays and summarize reports, not just write questions
Choose iSpring QuizMaker
• You author on Windows and want a desktop tool with fine control over question design
• You publish to an LMS you already run and need SCORM, xAPI, cmi5, or AICC output
• You have a few authors serving large audiences and want a flat per-author license
• You don’t need native proctoring, AI grading, or built-in certificates and recertification
At a Glance
Before we get into each feature area in detail, here’s how ProProfs Quiz Maker and iSpring QuizMaker compare across the entire platform, from authoring and AI to security, pricing, and support. A check marks the stronger side on that row; where both are roughly equal, both get one.
| What matters | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job |
✓Quizzes and assessments for business, training, and education
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✓Quizzes, tests, and surveys authored on the desktop and published to the web or an LMS
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| Where you build |
✓In any modern browser on any computer, with nothing to install
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–Windows 11 or 10 desktop app only, 32 and 64 bit; learners can take the published quiz on any device
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| Free plan |
✓Forever-free plan with unlimited quizzes and unlimited AI, up to 12 questions per quiz
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–14-day free trial with full functionality, then a paid license
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| Entry paid price |
✓$19.99 a month for 100 active quiz takers, billed by the month with a 15-day money-back guarantee
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–$470 per user per year, billed annually, licensed to a named user
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| Question types |
✓20+ types, including audio, video, essay, and document response
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–14 question templates, including drag-and-drop, hotspot, sequence, and numeric
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| AI capabilities |
✓AI builds a quiz from a topic, refines any question, coaches learners on wrong answers, grades essays against your rubric, flags AI-written answers, and summarizes reports; unlimited on every plan
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–AI question generation sits in iSpring Suite AI and iSpring Cloud AI, sold separately; none documented in the standalone QuizMaker
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| Question bank |
✓1,000,000+ ready-to-use questions plus a separate hiring assessment library
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–Question pools you build yourself; no ready-made library documented
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| Grading |
✓Auto grading plus AI essay grading against a custom rubric
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–Auto-graded questions with custom points and penalties; essay is an ungraded survey-type question
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| Exam security |
✓Native proctoring with screen share, webcam, and microphone, plus tab-switch blocking, IP restriction, and timed windows
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–Time limits, attempt limits, shuffling, and negative scoring; no proctoring or tab-switch blocking documented
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| Certificates |
✓Automated, branded certificates on a passing score, with expiry dates
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; certificates depend on the LMS you publish to
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| Compliance recertification |
✓Automated retake scheduling with reminders and audit-ready reports
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; recertification depends on your LMS
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| Reporting depth |
✓Individual, group, and team reports, grade book, time per question, and AI Report Summary
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–Short and extended results per attempt, sent by email, to a server, or to an LMS; no dashboard documented
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| Distribution |
✓Link, password link, QR, embed, WordPress plugin, classroom portal, and lead-gen forms, all hosted for you
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–HTML5 files you host yourself, an LMS package, or a direct publish to iSpring Learn
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| LMS standards |
✓SCORM and Tin Can (xAPI) compliant, with LRS integration
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✓SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5, and AICC, with compatibility manually tested on 156 LMSs
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| Security and compliance |
✓GDPR and CCPA compliant; hosted on SOC 2-level AWS and IBM infrastructure with encryption in transit, daily backups, and a web application firewall
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✓GDPR compliant, with ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification for its web services, documentation on request
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| Support |
✓24/7 live chat, plus phone and email, and a dedicated success manager on Business plans
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–Email and a US phone line; support hours are not stated on the QuizMaker page
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| Ecosystem |
✓Free inside ProProfs Training Maker, a full LMS, with Survey Maker, WebinarNinja, and Knowledge Base in the same family
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✓Part of the iSpring family: iSpring Suite, iSpring Learn LMS, and iSpring Cloud, each sold separately
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Quiz and Question Authoring
Every quiz starts here, and this is where the biggest practical difference shows up: ProProfs Quiz Maker is built in a browser, while iSpring QuizMaker is a Windows desktop program with its own rhythm.
| Authoring feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| AI generation |
✓AI Quiz Builder writes a complete, ready-to-publish quiz from a topic; AI Quiz Assistant refines any question on demand
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–AI generation is part of iSpring Suite AI and iSpring Cloud AI, sold separately; the standalone QuizMaker page documents none
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| Bulk import |
✓Upload Excel or Word and AI reads questions, options, correct answers, points, and tags automatically
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–Import from Excel, but the file must follow QuizMaker’s special column format
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| File-to-quiz |
✓Build from an uploaded PDF, DOCX, PPT, XLS, or image, with offline authoring supported
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–Not documented; questions are imported from Excel or another quiz
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| Branching logic |
✓Route takers to different next questions based on prior answers, for personality-quiz style outcomes
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✓Branching scenarios send each learner to the next question or an info slide depending on how they answer
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| Sectioned scoring and timing |
✓Each section scored and timed independently, for topic-specific competency testing
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✓Question groups with results by group, and time limits per question or for the whole quiz
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| Math equations |
✓Built-in math editor for symbols, fractions, roots, and trigonometric functions in questions, answer options, and explanations; turn it on from the quiz’s advanced settings
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✓Built-in Equation Editor for square roots, powers, integrals, and more, such as dose calculations for nurses
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| Team collaboration |
✓Unlimited instructors and admins on every paid plan, with shared folders and role permissions
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–One license per named user, so every author needs their own seat
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| Languages and accessibility |
✓70+ interface languages plus text-to-speech and speech-to-text
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–An accessible publishing mode for output; audio can be added to questions
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| Design and branding |
✓100+ themes with your logo and brand colors; the White Label add-on removes the “Powered by ProProfs” link
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✓Ready-made themes, custom themes in your corporate colors, and animation effects
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: AI Quiz Builder writes the first draft and AI Quiz Assistant keeps refining it, all in the browser. Excel and Word imports, file-to-quiz, branching logic, and independently scored sections then turn that draft into a quiz that can actually assess someone, built by as many instructors as you need.
iSpring QuizMaker: A mature desktop authoring tool with branching scenarios, info slides, question groups, a built-in Equation Editor, and Excel import. The trade-offs are Windows only, one paid seat per author, and AI that lives in a separate, higher-priced iSpring product.
Assessments, Question Bank, and Proctoring
If you need a quiz that can be trusted as a real exam, this is the section that matters most. iSpring QuizMaker gives you solid testing rules, and the gap opens at one specific point: knowing who is taking the test and what they are doing on screen.
| Assessment feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Question types |
✓20+ types: multiple choice, checkboxes, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, hotspot, order list, essay, document and image submission, audio and video response
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–14 templates, including multiple choice, true/false, type-in, numeric, sequence, matching, hotspot, and drag-and-drop; essay works only as an ungraded survey question
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| Question bank |
✓1,000,000+ ready-to-use questions across 100,000+ quizzes, plus a separate 100+ test hiring assessment library
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–Question pools you build yourself, drawing a fresh set for each attempt; no ready-made library documented
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| Random draw and shuffle |
✓Pull a set number of questions at random from a bank; shuffle question and answer order
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✓Draw from a question pool and randomize questions and answers
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| Time and attempts |
✓Per-question or total time limits and scheduled availability windows
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✓Time limits, attempt limits, custom points, penalties, and negative scoring
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| Proctoring |
✓Native screen share, webcam, and microphone proctoring with reviewable recordings and screenshots
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–Not documented
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| Tab and window control |
✓Tab-switch blocking plus copy and print disabling
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–Not documented
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| Access control |
✓Unique taker ID, IP-range allowlist, password-protected private quizzes, and reattempt blocking by taker or IP
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–A user info slide collects name and email; other access control depends on your LMS or server
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| Save & Resume |
✓Progress auto-saves in real time so a dropped connection doesn’t lose it
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–Not documented in QuizMaker
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| Certificates |
✓Automated, customizable certificates on a passing score, with expiry dates
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; certificates depend on the LMS you publish to
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: The full exam toolkit is native: 20+ question types including audio and video responses, random draws from a 1,000,000+ question bank, proctoring with recordings you can review afterward, tab-switch blocking, IP restriction, and certificates with expiry dates, all without a third-party add-on.
iSpring QuizMaker: Strong testing rules for a desktop authoring tool: question pools, shuffling, attempt and time limits, and negative scoring that discourage guessing. What it leaves out is anything that watches the test taker, such as proctoring or tab-switch blocking, and certificates and access control are left to whichever LMS hosts the quiz.
AI Capabilities
AI now shapes how most quizzes get written. The real value shows up after the first draft, in what the AI can still do once people start answering.
| AI feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Quiz generation from a prompt |
✓AI Quiz Builder writes a complete, ready-to-publish quiz from a topic
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–iSpring Suite AI and iSpring Cloud AI generate questions from text you select; not documented in the standalone QuizMaker
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| Question formats generated |
✓Full quizzes across many question types
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–Single choice and multiple response questions only
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| Editing assistance |
✓AI Quiz Assistant rewrites a question, adjusts difficulty, or restructures any part on demand
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–Generate more adds questions; edits to questions, answers, and feedback are made by hand
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| Per-question feedback |
✓AI Feedback Coach gives tailored feedback on wrong answers
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–Not documented; answer feedback is written by hand
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| Essay and open-response grading |
✓AI Essay Grader scores open-ended responses against a custom rubric, with comments
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–Essay is an ungraded survey-type question, so no automatic scoring
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| Integrity detection |
✓AI-Generated Answer Detection flags responses that look AI-written
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–Not documented
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| AI on reports |
✓AI Reports and Report Summary answer natural-language questions on your data and surface the key takeaway
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–Not documented
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: AI writes the quiz from a topic, refines any question on demand, coaches learners with feedback on wrong answers, grades essays against a custom rubric, flags AI-written responses, and summarizes your reports, all unlimited on every plan, including free. The feedback coach tailors comments on wrong answers; it is not a live AI tutor.
iSpring QuizMaker: AI question generation is available through iSpring Suite AI and iSpring Cloud AI, powered by third-party AI technologies, and iSpring states it does not use your content to train models. It drafts single-choice and multiple-response questions from selected text. Grading, feedback, and report analysis stay manual.
Reporting and Analytics
Once a quiz wraps up, what you can do with the results matters as much as the questions you asked. This is where the difference between a quiz builder and an assessment platform is clearest.
| Reporting feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time reporting |
✓Track progress and pull reports while takers are still mid-quiz
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–Results are sent as each attempt finishes, by email, to a server, or to an LMS; no live dashboard documented
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| Report depth |
✓Individual, group, and team level: scores, completion status, time per quiz and per question, pass/fail trends, and taker IP address
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–A short report (completion time, score, question list) or an extended one (general info, results by question group, how each question was answered)
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| Question-level analysis |
✓Question-level difficulty to show which questions trip people up
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–Per-attempt detail on each answer; no cross-learner difficulty analysis documented
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| Group view |
✓Gradebook with total points and average score across every quiz for a group’s members
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–Depends on your LMS; no grade book documented in QuizMaker
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| Emailed results |
✓Automated notifications to takers on completion, with certificates emailed to learners
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✓Send results to the instructor and the learner by email automatically, on pass, fail, or both
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| Exports |
✓Excel, CSV, and PDF, filterable by date range or group
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–Results as email text or detailed XML, or posted to your server over HTTP
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| LMS data record |
✓SCORM and Tin Can (xAPI) compliant, recording directly into a SCORM Cloud LRS
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✓Scores and results returned through SCORM, xAPI, cmi5, or AICC to your LMS
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: Reports run at individual, group, and team level, with a grade book, time per question, pass/fail trends, question difficulty, and IP tracking, exportable to Excel, CSV, or PDF and shareable with people who have no ProProfs account.
iSpring QuizMaker: Results go where you send them: an email to the instructor and learner, your own server, or an LMS. That is flexible, and the instructor’s email is a nice touch for small programs. The dashboards, grade book, and cross-learner trends you would use to manage a program come from the LMS, not from QuizMaker.
Quiz Sharing and Distribution
Getting a quiz in front of the right audience works differently depending on whether you want the tool to host and deliver it or you have somewhere else to put it.
| Distribution feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and links |
✓Plain link, password-protected link, and QR code, hosted for you
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–Publishes HTML5 files you upload to your own site or server; hosted sharing through iSpring Cloud requires iSpring Suite AI
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| Email invitations |
✓Personalized email templates to takers, with automated notifications on completion
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; invitations come from your LMS
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| Website embedding |
✓Embed code, iframe, a dedicated WordPress quiz plugin, other LMS platforms, and custom HTML sites
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✓The HTML5 output can be embedded in a website or blog
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| Classroom or learner portal |
✓Takers log in to see new, pending, and completed quizzes, with unlimited groups and subgroups and self-registration
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–Through iSpring Learn, a separate LMS, or the LMS you already use
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| Lead generation |
✓Gate results behind a lead form, segment leads by score, and sync with Mailchimp, Salesforce, HubSpot, and more
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–Not documented
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| Selling quizzes and courses |
✓Sell via Stripe (0% ProProfs fee) or the ProProfs gateway (9.5%), with the E-commerce add-on at $300 a year
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–Not documented in QuizMaker
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| LMS standards |
✓SCORM and Tin Can (xAPI) compliant, with LRS integration, so quizzes report into your LMS
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✓SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5, and AICC, with compatibility manually tested on 156 LMSs for playback, scoring, and reporting
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| Printable tests |
✓Print or download any quiz as a PDF, with options for questions only, with feedback, with correct answers highlighted, or with an answer key
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✓Export a quiz to a Word document for a printable test or handout
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: A quiz goes out by link, password-protected link, QR code, website embed, WordPress plugin, learner portal, or lead form, with unlimited groups behind the portal and marketing integrations behind the forms, and it can be sold through Stripe. All of it is hosted for you.
iSpring QuizMaker: QuizMaker is a publisher, not a host. It outputs HTML5, an LMS package, a direct publish to iSpring Learn, or a Word handout, and it is thorough about LMS compatibility, with five standards and 156 LMSs checked by hand. If you already have an LMS, that care is valuable. If you do not, you will need somewhere to put the files.
Learner Experience
How a quiz feels to take says a lot about what a tool is designed for. Both products treat the person taking the test well, with different strengths in what they build around that moment.
| Experience feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Practice vs. secure modes |
✓Practice mode (feedback shown, flexible retakes) and Secure Exam mode (cheating prevention on) are switchable on the same quiz
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–Per-quiz rules for attempts, time, scoring, and feedback set before publishing, rather than named modes
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| Teaching inside the quiz |
✓AI Feedback Coach gives tailored feedback on wrong answers
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✓Answer feedback that explains why an answer is wrong, plus info slides with theory or a full article between questions
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| Results page |
✓Branded, personalized results pages at completion
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✓Learners see results immediately and can review their answers in full
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| Community and discussion |
✓A built-in Q&A community lets learners comment on questions and discuss; announcements notify learners of upcoming quizzes
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–Not documented
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| Pausing a quiz |
✓Progress auto-saves in real time so a dropped connection doesn’t lose it
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–Not documented in QuizMaker
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| Device access |
✓Works on tablet and phone in the browser, with no confirmed native offline app
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✓Mobile-ready HTML5 output that plays on computers, tablets, and smartphones
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: Practice mode and Secure Exam mode are switchable settings on the same quiz, results pages are branded and personalized, learners can talk to each other about questions in a built-in community, and an interrupted quiz resumes where it stopped.
iSpring QuizMaker: Learners get immediate results with a full answer review, and the feedback and info-slide tools let you teach inside the quiz itself, which is a real strength for training that mixes theory with practice questions. Whether a learner can pause and resume depends on the LMS.
Compliance Deadline Management
For teams that have to prove a training or certification deadline was met, this short section covers what each tool does when a certificate is about to expire.
| Compliance feature | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate expiry dates |
✓Certificates carry a defined expiry date
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; depends on your LMS
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| Automated recertification |
✓Reassigns the same quiz for a scheduled retake before expiry, with reminder notifications
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–Not documented in QuizMaker; depends on your LMS
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| Audit-ready reports |
✓Downloadable compliance reports on demand
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–Per-attempt reports by email or server, and records held in your LMS; no dedicated compliance report documented
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: The same quiz reassigns for a scheduled retake before a certificate expires, with reminder notifications and downloadable audit-ready reports on demand, replacing a spreadsheet and a recurring calendar reminder.
iSpring QuizMaker: It is an authoring tool, so compliance tracking is the LMS’s job. QuizMaker sends clean, standards-based results to that LMS, and expiry, reminders, and audit records come from whichever system you pair it with.
Beyond a Quiz Tool
Both vendors sell a wider family of products. Here is how each one grows with you, and how much of it you have to buy separately.
| Ecosystem | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| Courses and content authoring |
✓Courses, classrooms, and learning paths in ProProfs Training Maker, which includes Quiz Maker at no extra cost
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✓iSpring Suite builds full courses in PowerPoint, with QuizMaker built in; sold as a separate license
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| Full LMS |
✓Bundled free inside ProProfs Training Maker, a complete learning management system
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✓iSpring Learn, a cloud LMS, sold separately; QuizMaker publishes to it in one click
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| Surveys |
✓Survey Maker add-on ($300 a year, 500 responses a month) for web forms and surveys
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✓Survey question types in the same tool, mixed freely with graded questions
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| Where you work |
✓One browser-based account across Quiz Maker, Training Maker, and the rest of the family
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–Desktop authoring on Windows, with cloud services sold separately
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| Wider suite |
✓Part of the Smarter Employee Learning Suite and People Development Suite alongside Training Maker, WebinarNinja, Knowledge Base, Survey Maker, and PeopleGoal
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✓iSpring Suite, iSpring Cloud, iSpring Learn, and tools for video and screen capture
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ProProfs Quiz Maker: A team that outgrows quizzes can add a full LMS, courses, and classrooms without switching products, since Quiz Maker comes free inside ProProfs Training Maker. Survey Maker, White Label, and E-commerce add-ons extend it further, and WebinarNinja sits in the same learning suites.
iSpring QuizMaker: iSpring has a deep family of its own: iSpring Suite for course authoring, iSpring Learn for an LMS, and iSpring Cloud for sharing. They work well together, but each is a separate purchase, and the authoring side stays on a Windows desktop.
Which Should You Choose?
Here is the simplest way to decide.
Pick ProProfs Quiz Maker if
Pick ProProfs Quiz Maker to Build, Host, and Prove Quizzes From Any Browser
If you need a simple quiz maker for employee training, compliance testing, hiring assessments, or exams that have to hold up, and you want it to work without a Windows PC or a separate LMS, this is built for it. Create quizzes with AI from a topic or an uploaded file, choose from a 1,000,000+ question bank, grade essays automatically against your rubric, and add native proctoring, tab-switch blocking, and certificates with expiry dates, with no third-party add-on. Share by link, embed, or learner portal, roll results up into a grade book, reassign retakes before a certificate expires, and reach a real person by 24/7 live chat, plus phone and email. And when you need more than quizzes, it grows with you: Quiz Maker comes free inside ProProfs Training Maker, a full LMS, alongside webinars, surveys, and a knowledge base, so you are never left with separate systems that do not talk to each other. You can start free.
Pick iSpring QuizMaker if
Pick iSpring QuizMaker if You Author on Windows and Deliver Through Your Own LMS
If you build on a Windows PC and publish to an LMS you already run, iSpring QuizMaker fits that shape well. You get 14 question templates, branching scenarios, info slides, question pools, and a built-in Equation Editor, with SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5, and AICC output that has been manually tested on 156 LMSs. Its $470 per user per year license does not rise with the number of quiz takers, and iSpring documents ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification for its web services. It works best when your LMS handles tracking, certificates, and reminders, and you don’t need native proctoring or AI grading.
One-line takeaway: iSpring QuizMaker is a capable desktop tool for building quizzes that play inside your LMS. ProProfs Quiz Maker is the one to pick when the quiz also has to be hosted, proctored, graded, certified, and proven without an LMS doing that work.
Migrating from iSpring QuizMaker to ProProfs Quiz Maker
Switching over doesn’t mean starting from scratch. Most teams move in an afternoon, especially when they bring existing question sets along instead of rebuilding everything by hand. The goal is to carry your content over, then turn on the hosting, proctoring, AI grading, and recertification features that QuizMaker leaves to your LMS.
- Step 1: Export what you have. Publish each quiz from iSpring QuizMaker to a Word document, keep your project files, and pull your results from your LMS or email before you start rebuilding.
- Step 2: Rebuild with bulk import. Upload the Word or Excel file to ProProfs, or use file-to-quiz, so you’re not retyping every question by hand. Check that the correct answers came across.
- Step 3: Add the controls QuizMaker left to your LMS. Turn on native proctoring, tab-switch blocking, AI essay grading, certificates, and automated recertification reminders for anything that now needs to be a real exam.
- Step 4: Set up your classroom or groups. Recreate your audience as groups or subgroups so reports and certificates route correctly, and keep SCORM or xAPI publishing if your LMS still needs it.
- Step 5: Run a pilot, then cut over. Test one quiz end to end, compare the report against what your LMS used to show, and switch fully once it matches.
The Buyer’s Guide: ProProfs Quiz Maker vs iSpring QuizMaker
TL;DR
- iSpring QuizMaker is a Windows desktop authoring tool that builds quizzes for the web or an LMS. ProProfs Quiz Maker is a browser-based assessment platform that also hosts, delivers, and reports on them.
- ProProfs Quiz Maker adds native proctoring, AI essay grading, AI report summaries, certificates, and automated recertification that iSpring QuizMaker does not document, leaving tracking and certification to your LMS.
- Both publish to your LMS through SCORM and xAPI; iSpring QuizMaker also adds cmi5 and AICC, with compatibility tested on 156 LMSs. It also has per-author pricing that does not rise with the number of takers.
- iSpring holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification for its web services. ProProfs Quiz Maker is GDPR and CCPA compliant and runs on SOC 2-level hosting infrastructure, but does not hold its own ISO certificate today.
- Pricing models differ: ProProfs bills per active quiz taker each month, iSpring bills per author each year.
Which one should you actually buy?
Buy based on where the quiz has to live and what has to happen after someone answers. If the quiz runs inside an LMS you already pay for, and that LMS handles tracking, certificates, and reminders, iSpring QuizMaker is a capable way to build it. If you want one place to build, host, proctor, grade, certify, and report, without depending on a separate LMS to do those jobs, ProProfs Quiz Maker is built around that.
How do the pricing models actually compare?
ProProfs Quiz Maker charges $19.99 per 100 active quiz takers a month, billed by the month. An active quiz taker is one unique person in a month, however many quizzes or attempts they make, and instructors are unlimited. iSpring QuizMaker costs $470 per user per year, billed annually and licensed to a named user, with no charge per quiz taker.
| Scenario | ProProfs Quiz Maker | iSpring QuizMaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1 author, 100 takers a month |
✓$19.99 a month, about $240 a year
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✓$470 a year
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| 5 authors, 100 takers a month |
✓$19.99 a month, about $240 a year, with unlimited instructors
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✓$2,350 a year (5 licenses)
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| 1 author, 1,000 takers a month |
✓$199.90 a month, about $2,399 a year
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✓$470 a year, plus an LMS or hosting
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The honest read is that the two cross over at roughly 200 active takers a month for a single author. Below that, ProProfs costs less, and it is far cheaper for a team of several authors with a modest audience. Above that, iSpring QuizMaker costs less per year, but its price covers only the authoring tool: you still need an LMS or web hosting to deliver the quiz and keep results, and AI generation means a separate iSpring Suite AI or Cloud AI license. Compare what you would actually need, not just the QuizMaker price, and always recheck both vendors’ live pricing pages before budgeting, since both change these numbers.
Quiz builder or assessment platform: which category am I actually in?
A tool that authors a quiz and hands it to something else is a quiz builder, and iSpring QuizMaker does that very well, with branching, equations, and wide LMS compatibility. A tool that also hosts the quiz, controls the exam, grades it, certifies it, and reports on it is an assessment platform, and that is where ProProfs Quiz Maker sits. Mixing up the two is a common reason a team ends up stitching several tools together.
How do the AI tools actually differ day to day?
ProProfs’ AI is part of Quiz Maker on every plan: it writes a quiz from a topic, refines any question, grades essays against a rubric, coaches a taker on a wrong answer, flags AI-written responses, and summarizes a report the moment you open it. iSpring’s AI generates single-choice and multiple-response questions from text you select, inside iSpring Suite AI or iSpring Cloud AI, which are sold separately. From there, grading, feedback, and reporting are manual.
What should I know about security before I commit?
ProProfs Quiz Maker is GDPR and CCPA compliant and runs on AWS and IBM infrastructure described as SOC 2-level, with encryption in transit, daily backups, a web application firewall, DDoS mitigation, and continuous security scans. That SOC 2-level posture belongs to the hosting providers rather than to ProProfs, and ProProfs does not currently document its own ISO 27001 certificate or a HIPAA business associate agreement. For buyers with specific legal requirements, ProProfs offers a negotiated Enterprise Security license covering data ownership and a recovery data vault, which is a contract option rather than a certificate.
iSpring documents GDPR compliance, a data processing agreement, and ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification, with documentation available on request, and it names ISO 27001 certified hosting providers. Its security page is written about its web services, and QuizMaker itself is a desktop application, so where your learner data ends up depends on the LMS, server, or email you send results to. Neither vendor publicly documents a HIPAA business associate agreement on the pages we reviewed. If your procurement team requires an audited ISO 27001 certificate specifically, iSpring has a clear advantage, and you should confirm current status directly with each vendor.
What does reporting actually look like once the test is over?
ProProfs Quiz Maker produces individual, group, and team reports, a grade book across every quiz a group has taken, and question-level difficulty, exportable to Excel, CSV, or PDF and shareable with people who have no ProProfs account. iSpring QuizMaker sends a short or extended report for each attempt to the instructor, the learner, a server, or an LMS. If you need to prove a training program’s outcomes over months, the program-level view comes from your LMS with iSpring and from the tool itself with ProProfs.
What kind of support will I actually get?
ProProfs offers 24/7 live chat with a response under two minutes, phone support Monday to Friday, 8AM to 6PM EST, at (855) 776-7763, and email support with a one-business-day response guarantee, plus a dedicated success manager and personalized onboarding on Business plans and 1,000+ self-serve help articles and video guides. iSpring provides extensive help documentation, email support, and a US phone line, +1 800 640 0868; its QuizMaker page does not state support hours, and 24/7 technical support is listed with its Suite plans. If you want a person to talk to before a deadline, confirm the hours for the plan you would buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best iSpring QuizMaker alternative for browser-based quizzes?
ProProfs Quiz Maker is the closer fit if you want to build in a browser, host and deliver quizzes without an LMS, and add proctoring, AI grading, certificates, and automated recertification. If your quizzes live inside an LMS you already run, iSpring QuizMaker is still a capable choice.
Is there a free iSpring QuizMaker alternative?
ProProfs Quiz Maker’s forever-free plan lets you create unlimited quizzes with unlimited AI, at up to 12 questions per quiz, across 20+ question types including audio and video response. iSpring QuizMaker offers a 14-day free trial with full functionality, then $470 per user per year.
Who are the other iSpring QuizMaker competitors worth knowing about?
For desktop and course authoring, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora are the usual comparisons. For hosted quiz and exam platforms, ClassMarker, TestGorilla, and Typeform come up often. ProProfs Quiz Maker sits closest to the hosted assessment group, built around grading, proctoring, and certification across business, training, and education.
Can I use ProProfs Quiz Maker on a Mac?
Yes. ProProfs Quiz Maker runs in a browser, so you can build and manage quizzes on any computer without installing anything. iSpring QuizMaker is a Windows 11 or 10 desktop application, although learners can take a published quiz on any device.
Can ProProfs Quiz Maker publish to my LMS the way iSpring QuizMaker does?
Yes, for the mainstream standards. ProProfs Quiz Maker is SCORM and Tin Can (xAPI) compliant, with LRS integration. iSpring QuizMaker supports a wider list, adding cmi5 and AICC, and has manually tested compatibility with 156 LMSs, so if you need one of those standards or a very specific LMS, check it first.
Which is more affordable at scale?
It depends on your cost driver. ProProfs Quiz Maker bills $19.99 per 100 active quiz takers a month, so cost tracks how many people take quizzes, with unlimited instructors. iSpring QuizMaker costs $470 per user per year, so cost tracks how many authors you have and does not rise with takers. A single author serving a large audience will usually find iSpring cheaper, before the cost of an LMS or hosting; a team of several authors with a modest audience will usually find ProProfs cheaper.
Is ProProfs Quiz Maker secure enough for certification exams?
It includes native proctoring with screen share, webcam, and microphone, tab-switch blocking, IP restriction, and timed windows without needing a third-party add-on. ProProfs is GDPR and CCPA compliant and hosted on AWS and IBM infrastructure described as SOC 2-level, though that posture belongs to the hosting providers rather than to ProProfs, so confirm your specific compliance requirement before committing.
Can I move my iSpring QuizMaker questions into ProProfs Quiz Maker?
Yes, without retyping. iSpring QuizMaker can export a quiz to a Word document, and you can upload a Word or Excel file to ProProfs, where AI reads the questions, answer choices, correct answers, points, and tags. Check that the Word export includes your correct answers, and add them in a spreadsheet if it does not.
Straight Answers About iSpring QuizMaker
The pointed questions buyers ask, answered on the facts. Where iSpring QuizMaker is the better choice, it says so.
Does iSpring QuizMaker run on a Mac or in a browser?
No. iSpring QuizMaker is a desktop application for Windows 11 and 10, in 32 and 64 bit. Learners can take a published quiz on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, but the authoring itself happens on a Windows PC. ProProfs Quiz Maker is built and managed in a browser.
Does iSpring QuizMaker offer proctoring or tab-switch blocking?
Not that we found. Its testing rules cover question and answer shuffling, question pools, time limits, attempt limits, custom points, penalties, and negative scoring. Anything beyond that, such as access control, depends on your LMS or server. ProProfs Quiz Maker includes native proctoring, tab-switch blocking, copy and print disabling, and IP restriction.
Can iSpring QuizMaker grade essays or issue certificates?
Essay questions work only as survey-type questions, which are not graded, and no AI grading is documented. Certificates are not documented in QuizMaker either, so they depend on the LMS you publish to. ProProfs Quiz Maker grades essays with AI against a custom rubric and issues branded certificates with expiry dates.
Does iSpring QuizMaker host quizzes and track results?
Not by itself. It publishes HTML5 files for you to host, SCORM, xAPI, cmi5, or AICC packages for an LMS, a direct publish to iSpring Learn, or a Word handout, and it sends results by email, to a server, or to an LMS. Hosted sharing through iSpring Cloud requires iSpring Suite AI. ProProfs Quiz Maker hosts the quiz and reports on it in one place.
Does iSpring QuizMaker have AI?
AI question generation is part of iSpring Suite AI and iSpring Cloud AI, which are sold separately from the $470 QuizMaker license. It drafts single-choice and multiple-response questions from selected text, and iSpring states its AI is powered by third-party technologies and does not train on your content. No AI grading, feedback, or report summaries are documented.
Is there a free version of iSpring QuizMaker?
There is a 14-day free trial with full functionality, after which QuizMaker is a paid annual license at $470 per user. ProProfs Quiz Maker’s forever-free plan lets you create unlimited quizzes with unlimited AI, at up to 12 questions per quiz.
What does iSpring QuizMaker genuinely do better?
Four things, clearly. It adds cmi5 and AICC to the SCORM and xAPI output both tools offer, with compatibility manually tested on 156 LMSs. It charges per author rather than per quiz taker, so it is far cheaper once one author serves a large audience, with roughly 200 active takers a month as the break-even against ProProfs for a single author, before LMS or hosting costs. It has info slides, so you can mix short lessons and quiz questions in one flow. And iSpring holds ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification for its web services, with documentation on request, which ProProfs does not currently hold. If any of these is a hard requirement, iSpring QuizMaker is the stronger pick.
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