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Wordwall

Interactive and printable classroom activities that teachers build from templates.

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About Wordwall

Wordwall is a British service where teachers build interactive and printable activities from templates. A teacher picks a template such as Quiz, Match up or Spin the wheel, types in the content and plays the activity on a classroom screen or sends it to students. Students open an assignment link and play without an account, and the teacher sees each student’s results. The free Basic plan allows 3 activities and 12 templates. In the Netherlands on 13 October 2026, Standard cost €5 a month and Pro €7.50 a month, or €40 and €60 a year.

Wordwall lets a teacher enter a list of words, questions or pairs once and turn it into a game or a worksheet. The same content can switch between templates in one click, so a Match up can become a Crossword or a Gameshow quiz. Activities run in the browser on computers, tablets, phones and interactive whiteboards, and most of them also print as PDF worksheets.

The idea came from a secondary school classroom in London in 2006. One of the founders, then a teacher, wrote a program that showed a typed list of words with a random picker. Josh Smith and Ben Watson registered Visual Education Ltd in August 2006 and sold Wordwall as software for interactive whiteboards and audience response handsets. In 2016 they moved the product to the web as wordwall.net.

By 2020 the site had 1 million daily visitors, and in 2021 it passed 100,000 paid subscribers. In March 2025 the London investor Queen’s Park Equity took a majority stake, and Melissa Esmundo became CEO. The team of about 25 people works remotely from 12 countries.

History

  1. 2006 A teacher in a London secondary school writes the first Wordwall program. Visual Education Ltd is registered on 9 August.
  2. 2008 Wordwall is sold bundled with interactive whiteboards.
  3. 2010 The company makes its own audience response handsets.
  4. 2013 Adds a choice of graphical themes.
  5. 2016 Launches wordwall.net, a web version that runs on any device.
  6. 2020 Reaches 1 million daily visitors.
  7. 2021 Passes 100,000 paid subscribers.
  8. 2025 Queen’s Park Equity invests in March. Melissa Esmundo becomes CEO, and the founders leave the board.
  9. 2026 AI content generation reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and image files. Six older templates, among them Seating plan, are retired.
  10. 2026 New terms of service take effect on 12 August, with rules on harmful content and children’s data.

Wordwall funding and investors

Not disclosed Investment
  1. March 2025
    Majority investment Amount not disclosed

    Lead: Queen’s Park Equity Queen’s Park Equity Fund I

    Source: Osborne Clarke, Companies House

Queen’s Park Equity invested through Harbour Bidco (UK) Limited, which holds 75% or more of the shares of Visual Education Ltd since 12 March 2025, according to Companies House. The amount was not disclosed. Wordwall says it carries no advertising and lives on subscription revenue.

Leadership

  • Melissa Esmundo CEO and director since March 2025
  • Greg Watson Non-executive chair and director since March 2025

Founders Josh Smith and Ben Watson ran the company from 2006 and left the board in March 2025, according to Companies House. The team of about 25 works remotely from 12 countries.

How Wordwall works

interactive templates
34
printable formats
21
activities on the free plan
3
  • Quiz and Gameshow quiz
  • Match up and Matching pairs
  • Spin the wheel
  • Group sort
  • Labelled diagram
  • Crossword and Wordsearch
  • Switch template in one click
  • Assignments with results
  • Printable PDF worksheets
  • Embed on a website or VLE
  • AI content generation
  • Visual themes, timers and scoring

Products

  • Interactive activities 34 templates, among them Quiz, Match up, Group sort, Spin the wheel, Maze chase and Labelled diagram. Content switches between templates in one click. Templates
  • Assignments and results The teacher sets an assignment and shares a link. Students play on their own devices, and each assignment records up to 500 submissions with results by student and by question. Set an assignment
  • Generate with AI On Standard and Pro, AI writes content for a chosen template, subject and age group, or builds it from an uploaded PDF, Word, PowerPoint or image file. How it works
  • Printables 21 printable formats. Standard and Pro users print an activity or download it as a PDF, with an answer key. How to print
  • Community library Teachers make activities public and tag them by age, subject and topic. Other teachers play them for free or copy and edit them. Community
  • School plans One licence for a group of teachers. The administrator shares an invitation link, and teachers attach their own accounts. School plans

How much is Wordwall?

  • Basic €0/mo Free, 3 activities, 12 templates
  • Lowest paid plan Standard €3.33/mo €40 a year, billed yearly, or €5 monthly
  • Pro €5/mo €60 a year, billed yearly, or €7.50 monthly
  • School, 5 teachers, Standard €216 a year 5 users for the price of 4
  • School, 5 teachers, Pro €324 a year 5 users for the price of 4

Is Wordwall free?

Basic is free without a card: 3 activities for the life of the account, 12 templates and the community library. Deleted activities still count toward the 3. Wordwall has no time-limited trial.

Individual plans on wordwall.net for a visitor in the Netherlands on 13 October 2026, in euros. Wordwall sets prices by location, and its terms say prices may differ between users because of price tests. Prices exclude taxes. Yearly billing gives 12 months for the price of 8. School plans for 5 teachers cost €216 a year for Standard and €324 for Pro.

How to cancel Wordwall

Terms
  • wordwall.net ↗
    1. Click your username at the top right
    2. Open Manage Payments
    3. Select Cancel Subscription, click Yes and choose a reason
  • Standard or Pro features stay until the end of the paid period, then the account moves to Basic.
  • Activities stay in My Activities and still play, but editing stops above the 3-activity limit.
  • School plans expire on their own and need no cancelling.
  • Billing questions go to help@wordwall.net.

Refund rules

Individual plans
Renew automatically each month or year on the start date until cancelled.
School plans
Renew only when the administrator pays again.
Taxes
Prices exclude taxes, which are added at checkout and may change at renewal.
Disputes
English law, courts of England and Wales.

From the Wordwall help center of 31 July and 3 August 2026 and terms effective 12 August 2026, checked on 13 October 2026.

Plans for schools

School plans
  • 01A school buys Standard or Pro seats for a group of teachers, from 1 to 50 users, or asks for a price above that.
  • 02The administrator shares an invitation link from the My School page and can remove teachers who leave.
  • 03School plans do not renew automatically. Schools pay by card, bank transfer or cheque.
  • 04Any group can buy a school plan, whatever kind of organisation it is.

For 5 teachers in the Netherlands on 13 October 2026: €216 a year for Standard, €324 for Pro. A quote stays valid for 30 days.

Ratings and platforms

4.4Trustpilot · Excellent 30 reviews · company profile claimed

Is Wordwall worth it?

What teachers like

What teachers criticise

What teachers write in reviews, not our rating. The free plan allows 3 activities, and Standard costs €40 a year in the Netherlands.

Wordwall reviews

  • As an educator
    “As an educator, Wordwall has become one of my favorite classroom tools.”
    Mary M. · 8 October 2026 · App Store
  • Wordwall makes it easy to find fun…
    “Wordwall makes it easy to find fun games for my students to practice or review their vocab words.”
    Brittany G. · 1 October 2026 · App Store

Latest news

  1. New Wordwall terms of service take effect
  2. Wordwall shareholders agree an investment from Queen’s Park Equity, Osborne Clarke

Contacts and company data

Legal entity
Visual Education Ltd, 33 Glasshouse Street, London W1B 5DG, United Kingdom
Company number
05900439, England and Wales
Incorporated
9 August 2006
Status
Active
Nature of business
SIC 85600, educational support services
Parent
Harbour Bidco (UK) Limited, 75% or more, since 12 March 2025
Ultimate investor
Queen’s Park Equity Partners I LP, Guernsey
Average staff 2025
19, company accounts
Trade marks
UK00918195621 and UK00002488001

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Wordwall FAQ

Wordwall is a website where teachers build interactive games and printable worksheets from templates. It belongs to Visual Education Ltd, a company registered in England in 2006.

Yes. The Basic plan is free without a card. It allows 3 activities for the life of the account, 12 templates and free play of community activities. Deleted activities still count toward the 3.

In the Netherlands on 13 October 2026, Standard cost €5 a month or €40 a year and Pro €7.50 a month or €60 a year, without tax. Wordwall sets prices by location, so the currency and amount differ in the US and the UK.

Basic includes 12: Quiz, Match up, Flash cards, Speaking cards, Group sort, Spin the wheel, Complete the sentence, Find the match, Unjumble, Anagram, Open the box and Matching pairs. Pro adds 22 more, among them Gameshow quiz, Crossword, Wordsearch, Maze chase, Labelled diagram and Hangman.

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