Tarphi vs Blooket: Which One Engages Students More?

If you've heard of Blooket, you know it as a fun, game-based quiz platform that turns regular questions into mini-games with coins, avatars and playful themes. 

Tarphi, on the other hand, is a full-fledged K-12 content-creation and learning platform built from scratch around teachers’ workflows: authoring, live quiz games, homework/assignments, detailed analytics, self-study and flashcards.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of Tarphi vs Blooket, so you can choose the one that works better for your needs.

Blooket is a game-first learning platform: quizzes wrapped in fast, exciting game mechanics. Teachers create or select question sets and then launch them inside themed game modes. Students join with a code or link and play through mini-games such as:

• Tower Defense

• Gold Quest

• Crypto Hack

• Café

• Racing

• Blook Rush

Each mode rewards students with coins, power-ups, or collectibles (“Blooks”) that keep the experience fun and competitive. After each game, Blooket generates performance feedback or reports including correct/incorrect breakdowns, scores, and general performance insights depending on the plan used.

Tarphi is a comprehensive teaching and game-based learning platform built for the modern K–12 classroom. Where most of the tools focus only on gameplay, Tarphi supports the entire teaching process from start to finish: Create > Present > Assign > Assess. 

Tarphi’s focus isn’t just a game. It’s a unified learning workflow that combines engagement with structured pedagogy, teachers’ productivity and real learning outcomes.

Here’s what Tarphi offers:

• Full Content Authoring: Manual creation, template picks, or AI-powered quiz/lesson creation (from text, document, URL).

• Multiple Interaction Modes: Live quiz games (classic, team mode, precision mode), Presentation mode, Study mode, Flashcard mode, solo and competitive lesson review games.

• Homework & Self-Study Support: Assignment with full control over deadlines, time limit, answer visibility, retakes, and leaderboard toggles.

• Deep Reporting & Analytics: Question-level insights, participant-level stats, time-per-question, class-wide proficiency view, exportable reports.

With Tarphi, you can create lessons or quizzes manually, use AI, start from templates, or pull from a question bank. Once the content is ready, you can reuse it in multiple ways, as a presentation mode (live lesson), study mode, flashcard mode, solo practice game, or a competitive class game, without rebuilding anything.

What makes Tarphi even more flexible is that teachers don’t need to lock students into a game at the start. You can begin with regular teaching and switch into a live quiz at any moment to check understanding on the spot. This flexibility fits the natural flow of the classroom and gives teachers the flexibility to assess exactly when they need it.

Blooket: Quick Question Sets

Blooket offers two types of questions: 

• Multiple Choice 

• Typing Answer

To create these questions, you can use the manual process, import from Quizlet or spreadsheets, or use the Khanmigo Blooket Generator to get AI-assisted question sets. If you’re short on time, there’s also a library of ready-made question sets you can use.

Tarphi: Advanced Authoring Designed for Real Instruction

With Tarphi, you can create 3 types of activities, either manually or using AI:

• Quizzes (8 different question types)

• Collect Opinions (Live Polls, Linear Scale)

• Presentation Slides (8 different layouts)

Multiple Activity & Question Types

Tarphi offers 8 different types of questions, including multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the blank, open-ended, Word Scramble, Sentence Scramble, Match Up, and Match Sequence. That’s a lot more than Blooket, right? Yes, Blooket only supports two question types, which limits how deeply you can assess students’ understanding. 

For example, if you’re an ELA teacher, Word Scramble or Sentence Scramble questions are essential for evaluating language skills.  Blooket doesn’t have these, so assessing students properly can be difficult. But you can do so easily with Tarphi.

Blooket also lacks activities like Collect Opinions or Presentation Slides. It’s mostly about gamified quizzes, which are fun and engaging but don’t support formative assessment or structured teaching. Tarphi, on the other hand, gives teachers these options to combine engagement with real learning outcomes.

AI Using Classroom-Ready Content

One standout feature of Tarphi is its AI-powered activity generation. With Tarphi AI, you can generate classroom-ready, academically aligned content rather than just random questions. Tarphi AI includes advanced academic controls:

• Grade level (K–12)

• Curriculum standards (US, UK, AU, International, or more)

• DOK level (Recall, Concept, Strategic Thinking, Extended Thinking)

• Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create)

• Lexile reading level

This means every AI-generated activity can match your lesson goals, difficulty level, and student needs. Blooket’s AI via Khanmigo is helpful for generating quick question sets, but it doesn’t give the same level of curriculum and pedagogy controls.

Rich Media, Slides & Answer Explanation

Beyond AI or manual creation, Tarphi also gives you ready-made templates (seasonal or special event-based), so you don’t always have to start from scratch. Also, you can import slides from PDF files, Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides, making it easy to repurpose old materials. 

Besides all these, Tarphi gives you full formatting and media support for images, GIFs, audio, and video in activity creation, where Blooket offers only image and audio support.

Wait, there’s more! The real game changer: the answer explanation panel. You can add an explanation for every quiz question you create. This ensures that your students don’t just click through questions for fun; they actually understand their mistakes and learn from them. It’s a feature that brings real learning into every activity, something Blooket simply doesn’t offer.

Modify Lessons & Differentiate with AI

Tarphi’s AI Modify tools let teachers:

• Adjust difficulty

• Change reading level

• Rewrite questions in a simpler or more advanced way

• Adapt the same set for different groups

You don’t need to rebuild content from scratch for each level; a few clicks and prompts can reshape activities for struggling learners, on-level students, or advanced groups. Blooket doesn’t provide so.

Audio Support for Language-Heavy Instruction

Tarphi also supports audio answer options, which is especially powerful for:

• Phonics practice

• ESL classrooms

• Listening comprehension

• Early literacy

Blooket doesn’t support dedicated audio answer choices in the same structured way, making Tarphi much stronger for language and early literacy teaching.

Who wins?

• Blooket works well if you just need quick question sets.

• Tarphi gives teachers the flexibility to build lessons that are both engaging and academically aligned. For real classroom-ready structured content, with varied content types, answer explanations, combine pedagogy, and rich media, Tarphi is surely the winner.

Blooket Game Modes: Fun, Fast, and Theme-Based

Blooket turns quizzes into games that reward students with coins, collectibles, and avatars. It offers several game modes that you can play live, solo, or assign as homework.

• Live only: Classic, Racing, Crypto Hack, etc.

• Solo or Homework only: Crazy Kingdom, Pirate Pool, Study, etc.

• Live or Solo or Homework: Café, factory, etc.

Tarphi Game Modes: Balanced Teaching, Practice, and Play

Tarphi gives teachers multiple modes that support live teaching, self-paced practice, flashcards, assignments, and gamified review. Here’s how Tarphi structures engagement:

Presentation Mode (Live Teaching) 

In Tarphi, the Presentation Mode works almost like a digital teaching assistant. Teachers can open any lesson and start explaining it slide by slide. It works just like a normal presentation. After teaching a concept, teachers can switch to a quick live quiz at any moment; no need to restart the session. This helps teachers have a quick review and formative assessment. This is something Blooket cannot do, as Blooket only hosts game sessions.

Teachers can switch between cards automatically or manually. This mode also allows overlay controls like: 

• Leaderboards for live quizzes

• Immersive reader (text-to-speech) 

• Fullscreen, Live / Share QR Code

• Remote Control, Magic Effects, and Draw tools

Study Mode

Study mode is designed for self-paced student practice outside of live lessons. Here, students can interact with quizzes using drag-and-drop, touch, or swipe, making learning both fun and effective. The mode includes ambient sounds like rain, thunder or waves, background music, and visual effects such as rain, snow, or bubbles to help students focus. 

Blooket has a Study mode, which is a solo, self-paced game mode, but it’s more like a flashcard-style format. And it doesn’t have these kinds of amazing options.

Flashcard Mode

Flashcard Mode automatically turns any quiz into fun, gamified flashcards (front/back), letting students mark each card as Known or Unknown. It also shows completion stats and a handy pie chart so learners can easily see their progress. This way, students can have fun while keeping track of what they’ve learned and what still needs practice.

Compared to Blooket, which only presents questions in a basic flashcard-style review (in Study game mode), Tarphi’s Flashcard Mode is more interactive, visually engaging, and designed to help students master topics over time rather than just review them.

Solo and Competitive Review Games

Tarphi offers both solo and competitive review games to make learning fun and effective. In solo games, students can play games on their own or complete homework at their own pace. These games include options like Snake Quiz, Race Quiz, Gold Quest etc.

Competitive games, on the other hand, involve live participation from the whole class. Options like Classic Play, Squad Battle, and Precision Run bring teamwork and friendly competition into the classroom. Each game follows different logics to make the experience engaging and entertaining while still reinforcing learning.

As Tarphi is growing day by day with new solo and competitive review games, students always have fresh and engaging ways to practice and compete, keeping the learning experience exciting and motivating, without compromising educational value.

Who wins?

• Blooket is mostly about quick, fun games, but its modes are basic and don’t offer much variety for meaningful learning. You can play, but there’s not much else to explore.

• Tarphi balances engagement with teaching. Its mix of live lessons, self-paced study, flashcards, and competitive review games keeps students engaged as well as provides proper learning. So, if you want your classroom to be both exciting and effective, Tarphi is definitely the way to go.

Blooket Homework

Blooket supports: 

• Self-paced quiz games outside of live sessions.

• Assigning games for students to complete at their own pace.

Tarphi Homework 

With Tarphi, you'll find assigning homework simpler and flexible. You can pick any quiz or activity from the library and decide exactly how students will complete it. You have the option to show answers immediately or keep them hidden, set a timer or let students go at their own pace, allow retakes, and even display a leaderboard if you want to add a little friendly competition.

After students finish, Tarphi gives you a clear, detailed report showing how well everyone understood the topic, making it easy to spot who’s doing well and who might need extra help.

Who wins?

• Blooket works well for quick lesson review and light practice.

• Tarphi takes it further by giving teachers full control over how assignments are delivered, tracked, and managed. With detailed settings for answers, retakes, timers, leaderboards, and deadlines, plus integration with LMS and a structured assignment view, Tarphi is better for serious homework, practice, and long-term learning.

Blooket Data and Reporting 

Blooket provides:

• Reports for live games and homework.

• Correct/incorrect, unattempted question breakdowns.

• Downloadable individual student reports.

Tarphi Data and Reporting

Tarphi gives you a complete view of how your class is doing. You can see overall performance at a glance, dig into details for each student and every question. From total questions answered to percentages of correct and incorrect responses, points earned, average time per question, and even the fastest and slowest responses, Tarphi provides all the insights you need. With this information, it’s easy to plan your next lesson in a way that really targets what your students need.

Who Wins?

• Blooket reports give a simple, quick snapshot of student performance that’s good for a general overview.

• Tarphi reports go deeper. It shows detailed insights on student accuracy, time spent, and mastery, helping teachers see who needs extra support and how the class is progressing.

Blooket: Engagement Without Instructional Depth

When it comes to pedagogy, Blooket delivers excitement more than structured learning. Its game modes are fast, flashy, and packed with rewards, which makes it incredibly appealing to students. But inside the classroom, this often creates a challenge: students focus on winning coins or power-ups rather than learning.

Because the platform relies on only two basic question types, teachers can’t dig very deep into student understanding. Most games push students to answer quickly so they can advance, which leads to guessing rather than thoughtful responses. This speed-driven gameplay makes it hard for teachers to assess skills that require sequencing, vocabulary development, grammar practice, or deeper reasoning.

Blooket also lacks curriculum-aligned features like DOK levels, Bloom’s taxonomy, standards, grade level, and Lexile reading level. Without these structures, teachers often end up rewriting or adjusting questions themselves to ensure they meet the right level of instructional quality.

In many classrooms, Blooket is used as a fun break rather than a reliable formative assessment tool. Its reports offer simple right/wrong data, but they don’t give enough detail for teachers to adjust instruction or identify specific gaps. The fun factor is high, but the pedagogical depth is limited.

Tarphi: Pedagogy, Feedback with Actionable Insights

Tarphi maximizes students' engagement with exciting games like Blooket, but it also focuses on learning effectiveness. Teachers can make sure every activity is academically aligned, and the built-in feedback system, showing clear explanations after each question, helps students understand their mistakes instead of just guessing and moving on. It turns game time into actual learning time.

And because Tarphi supports a bunch of question types beyond basic multiple choice, teachers can assess everything from vocabulary and sequencing to reasoning and comprehension. Even better, each question can include an explanation, so after answering, students immediately learn the “why” behind correct answers. That turns every game or study session into a mini teaching moment instead of just a competition.

On top of that, assignments come with flexible controls (answers shown/hidden, timers, retakes, leaderboard settings), so teachers can match the pressure level to the purpose: high-stakes review, low-stakes practice, or mastery-focused learning. Combined with deep reporting, Tarphi helps teachers not only collect data but actually use it to plan what comes next.

In short, Tarphi doesn’t separate pedagogy, engagement, and data; all three work together. AI helps align content with learning goals, explanations clear misconceptions in real time, and reports tell you what to reteach. The result is a platform that feels like a game to students but acts like a genuine instructional tool for teachers.

Blooket: Collectible Fun and High-Energy Game Sessions

Blooket is built to feel like a party every time you launch a game. Students jump in with a code, pick their avatars, and immediately start chasing coins, power-ups, and new Blooks. Most of the excitement comes from what happens around the questions, stealing coins, defending towers, managing a café, or racing classmates.

Because each mode adds its own twist, Blooket sessions feel more like mini-games than traditional quizzes. That makes it perfect for quick energy boosts, end-of-unit reviews, or “just for fun” sessions where motivation and laughter matter more than careful thinking. The downside is that students often care more about winning coins than reading questions slowly, so engagement can drift away from the learning itself and toward the game mechanics.

Tarphi: Engagement That Stays Strong Beyond the Game Screen

Tarphi also brings game energy into the classroom. Live game modes like Classic Play, Squad Battle, Race-style games, and other solo and competitive reviews give you that same “everyone’s locked in” vibe you get from Blooket, while still keeping the focus firmly on the content.

During teaching, Tarphi layers in extra engagement tools: animated themes, subtle background motion, sound effects, and “magic effects” like confetti, bubbles, blur, drumrolls, and silence that teachers can trigger at key moments. Add in Draw tools and highlights on screen, and lessons start to feel more like an interactive show than a static slide deck.

When it’s time for quieter focus, Tarphi shifts the mood. Study Mode and Flashcard Mode use ambient sounds (rain, forest, café, etc.), visual overlays like snow, rain, bubbles and background music tracks to help students stay calm and on task. Instead of hype all the time, you get a mix of high-energy game moments and deep-focus practice moments, all inside the same platform.

So while Blooket shines at pure game excitement, Tarphi is designed to keep students engaged throughout the learning cycle: during the lesson, during practice, during games, and even when they’re quietly working on their own.

Pricing of Blooket

Blooket starts with its free Starter plan, which gives teachers the basics: creating or discovering sets, searching question sets, accessing unique game modes, and hosting games for up to 60 players. To unlock more serious classroom features, teachers need to move to the paid upgrades.

The Plus plan costs $4.99 per month when billed annually at $59.88. It adds all Starter features with exclusive game modes, advanced game reports, audio questions, question set folders, copy & duplicate sets and raises the player limit up to 300. The Plus Flex plan is $9.99 per month for those who prefer monthly billing without long-term commitment.

For groups, Blooket sells bundles such as Friends, Department, Small School, and School. These packages range from 10 to 80 Plus seats and cost between $550 and $3,000 per year. The pricing is designed mainly for schools that want multiple teachers using Blooket’s premium play modes.

Pricing of Tarphi

Tarphi has three individual pricing plans: Basic, Standard, and Pro. The Basic plan is completely free and is ideal for small groups. It offers creating up to 5 activities, 5 AI generations, 10 payers per session, 5 student assignments and 5 reports.

The Standard plan costs $7 per month or $60 per year, which effectively brings the monthly price down to five dollars. It unlocks unlimited activities, all themes, self-paced mode, unlimited assignments and reports, improved live-teaching tools, AI generation from text and URLs, and the ability to import PDFs or sync slides. For most teachers, this tier offers everything needed for daily classroom use.

The Pro plan, priced at $10 per month or $96 annually, provides Tarphi’s full feature set. This includes unlimited players, custom themes and branding, AI generation from text, documents, and URLs, adjustable question timing and points, private activity creation, team mode, print/export options, and advanced controls such as remote teaching.

For schools, Tarphi keeps things simple with annual per-teacher licenses. The Standard School plan costs $55 per year, while the Pro School plan costs $90 per year. Schools also get member management, teacher invitations, and seat controls without complicated bundles or pricing tiers.

Overall, Blooket’s pricing focuses on unlocking more game modes and player capacity, while Tarphi’s pricing is designed to give teachers more instructional tools and classroom flexibility at a lower cost.

Choosing between Tarphi and Blooket really depends on what role you want the tool to play in your classroom.

If your goal is pure excitement, coins, avatars, and quick review games, Blooket is a great fit. Students love its themed modes, and it’s perfect for fun, reward days, or quick recap sessions where the main objective is engagement.

Tarphi, on the other hand, is built for everyday K–12 teaching. It combines lessons, quizzes, study tools, assignments, flashcards, and analytics in one place. You can start with a lesson in Presentation Mode, jump into a live quiz, send out homework, and then check detailed reports,  all using the same content, all within the same platform.

If you want a platform that:

• Lets you teach and not just host a game

• Supports formative assessment and standards-aligned content

• Helps you track misconceptions and plan the next lesson

• Still keeps students excited with fun games and visual effects

Tarphi is the more complete and classroom-ready choice. It doesn’t replace excitement; it balances excitement with meaningful learning and strong teacher control.