Pear Deck Review 2026 – Features, Pricing & Alternatives

Name: Pear Deck
Brand: Pear Deck

Pear Deck is a Lesson Planning tool. Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool that adds formative assessment and real-time student responses to Google Slides and PowerPoint lessons. Key features include Generate with AI, Interactive question slides, and Anonymous real-time responses. Best for k-12 teachers, school and district administrators and students.

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About

About Pear Deck

Pear Deck lets teachers build interactive slide lessons in Google Slides or PowerPoint, embedding questions, polls, and drawing prompts that students answer live on their own devices. Teachers see responses in real time and can run lessons at their own pace or let students go individually.

Capabilities

Key Features

Generate with AI.

Teachers can create a classroom-ready lesson or assessment from a topic, standard, or uploaded file, producing differentiated lessons, practice sets, and tests in under a minute.

Interactive question slides.

Add multiple-choice, text, number, and drawing response slides to any deck so every student answers on their device while the teacher tracks participation live.

Anonymous real-time responses.

Student answers display anonymously on the projected screen, letting learners share ideas without being singled out while teachers gauge understanding instantly.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Pear Deck has a free plan covering core interactive features, with paid tiers (Premium around $149.99/year per teacher, plus school and district pricing) that unlock the full question types, AI lesson generation, and content library.

It works for any subject since teachers build their own slides, and its certified Content Orchard library includes 1,000+ lessons in Math (grades 3-12), English Language Arts (grades 3-12), and digital citizenship (grades 2-6).

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