Apptentive, now part of Alchemer vs. SnapSurveys

It works very well for consumer-centric applications. If you had an app with in-app purchases, or a retail store app, or even a simple gaming application, Apptentive would be more powerful. In our case, we have an app that serves as a productivity tool, so Apptentive gives us great insight and tools, but we do not take advantage of them as much as other apps might.

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We would recommend this product to others and it really does fit the needs of the virtual world and still meets the needs of those that need to complete paper. It really is a happy middle place as it works either way. Again, the interface is user-friendly and the ability to do surveys offline is great.

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• Push notifications for app store reviews.
• Targeted interactions based on in-app events.
• Easy in-app messaging service for direct access to our support team.

Incentivized

• Snap has wonderful vast functionality. I love showing off it's latest new features!
• As well as online surveys, you can produce mobile, paper and kiosk versions with Snap.
• You can run surveys in multiple languages (including double-byte such as Japanese and Chinese) and analyze all the results together.
• Smart reporting is definitely worth checking out if you have multiple tailored reports to produce over time.
• Their support people are extremely professional and knowledgeable.
• Their worksheets (available on their website) are invaluable and very well written.
• Their Research Department, staffed by guru users of the software, can provide additional resource for a fee.

• Apptentive's metrics aren't as customizable as we would like but what it does measure it does a good job at.
• Managing multiple apps (iOS and Android) can make for extra work because you're duplicating work on Notes and Events.
• Finding the right way to interact can take multiple tests, surfacing best practices across the industry would be a help.

Incentivized

• Difficulty of use: Since the software has such sophistication, using all the features requires a very detailed understanding which takes a lot of time and effort.
• Tiering of features: The licensing model is a bit unclear and not the easiest to understand.

Though there are many aspects of the product I enjoy and are very useful, it needs to be updated a bit. When using the software you can see that a lot of time was spent on the backend of things, such as the included questions. However, you can see that the way in which it is put together and how it looks did not receive as much attention. I really would enjoy something that is more aesthetically pleasing and not something that looks like it predates 1999

I think as an organization there is always room to grow, however, this application has really helped us with our dilemma with offline, online, and paper surveys. We are able to make our surveys fun and engaging and the interface for the person creating the survey is user-friendly. Customer service is very helpful if you need additional support.

Incentivized

We haven't used or evaluated another tool similar to Apptentive. We selected it and it has worked for what we needed it for. I'm sure other solutions provide similar options. We keep Apptentive because it is already integrated with our apps and we've continued to be able to use it for what we need without worrying about how a new tool would connect to everything that goes into a mobile app.

Incentivized

Since I have invested so much time in this program and have been using SNAP Surveys since around 1990, I honestly have not focused that much on other competing software programs. The little bit that I have seen is that some popular web-survey programs (like Survey Monkey) may have nice looking front end features but limited analysis capabilities and SPSS has strong analysis capabilities but is not a strong questionnaire designer.

• Apptentive has helped us increase our app store ratings which results in better listings in search results, etc.
• Apptentive has helped give us better insights from our users.
• Apptentive has helped us better manage emergencies that we can address without an App Store update now.

Incentivized

• Information gathered from surveys could be measured by key figures.
• Increased employee efficiency, and help with better customer service.
• Each department could review the finding and put them to use.

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