Google Forms is an app for creating forms and surveys, and is part of Google Apps for Work. The product focuses on ease of use; the interface is similar to a document editor, with drop down lists of options and drag and drop question re-ordering. Users can embed images and video into surveys. Users can also program the question flow with custom logic. Google sends users basic summaries of the survey results automatically, or users can export the raw survey results data and analyze it via…
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Pointerpro
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Pointerpro is an assessment platform designed for professionals who want to turn their expertise into personalized, scalable guidance. Instead of stopping at data collection, Pointerpro transforms each completed assessment into an automatically generated, fully branded PDF or PowerPoint report containing personalized results and recommendations. This enables organizations to deliver insights instantly, without manual analysis. The platform supports advanced scoring…
$828
per year
Pricing
Google Forms
Pointerpro
Editions & Modules
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Professional Plan
$69
per month 2000 monthly responses
Enterprise
On Request
5000+ monthly responses
ReportR
On Request
10000+ monthly responses
DistributR
On Request
15000+ monthly responses
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Forms
Pointerpro
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Professional Plan
Price: $69 per month (billed annually)
Unlimited questionnaires & questions
Large variety of question types
Removable Pointerpro branding
Advanced question logic & piping
Offline functionality
Zapier and Make integration
Emails with customizable content
Questionnaire in multiple languages
Custom scoring
Variable end messages & outcomes
Show dynamic final screen messages based on scores and answers.
Email invitations with unique tracking link
Enterprise Plan
Custom pricing available upon request
Professional features plus:
Custom formulas for advanced calculations
Response upload
Use formulas in question logic & piping
Payment processing
Before, during or after completing a survey or assessment.
Extended design options with custom CSS
Integration via WebHooks
A Webhook is a notification sent over the web, which transfers data from one app to another.
Questionnaire campaigns (on request)
A campaign shows a group of questionnaires all in one screen which can be accessed with just a single link.
Full white labeling
URL and email domain white labeling.
Multiple users and team management (on request)
Dashboard Builder (on request)
ReportR Plan
Custom pricing available upon request
Enterprise features plus:
Drag & drop PDF report builder with preview
Large variety of report widgets
Use logic to show and hide report widgets based on responses and scores
Individual, aggregated & team PDF reports
Generate a PDF right after taking the questionnaire
PDF distribution via email & download
Extended design options with custom CSS
Integrate with external databases
Multiple users and team management (on request)
Dashboard Builder (on request)
Aggregate Reports (on request)
optional AI prompt widget to scale report content faster
DistributR Plan
Custom pricing available upon request
ReportR features plus:
Distribution Portal to leverage assessment distribution
Respondent base feeding by customers/co-workers
Respondent invitation templates with unique links
You create the templates for customers/co-workers. Unique respondent links are generated. Real-time response collection and result view
Real-time response collection and result view
Your customers/co-workers collect responses. You view overall results.
Email campaign template creation
Created by your customers/co-workers
Optional: charge for assessment/report access
Overview of to-do assessments for respondents
Overview of responses and reports for respondents
Dashboard Builder
Multiple users and team management (on request)
Aggregate Reports (on request)
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Pointerpro
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Pointerpro
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Survey Anyplace allows respondents to save progress, offered a respectable UI (User Interface), and offered surveys with a modern design. It seems most survey tools are designed for short/quick responses. The really modern, intuitive and design aesthetic options aren't designed …
Google Forms is great for simple surveys, such as quick polls, but any logic beyond conditional pages is not supported. Google Forms is best used when the survey participants have and are permitted to use a Google Account to fill out the form; we ran into issues with hospital IT departments. I don't believe there's a better free tool out there than Google Forms, though.
They get the job done. We were able to do everything that our client wanted and needed. Its a free quiz on their website, so having to pay $1,500 a year for this service is hurting our bank. My only complaint is the price. If you are able to lower your price or offer promotions, then I would have no problem staying. We are currently looking for cheaper alternatives.
Live results: When a user completes the form the results are added instantly.
Easy to create: Google Forms has a simple interface that allows for a wide range of question types. Google will even try to guess the question type based on the question (but this can be overridden).
Answers export to Google Sheets: It is easy to have each response to your form add a row to a Google Sheet, allowing for further analysis or processing.
Ability to automatically collect email addresses within a domain: If you have a form that has been shared with users in your domain, you can set it to automatically collect the users' email addresses without them needing to type it in. Makes checking whether all students have completed the form easy.
Intuitive branching logic mechanics. Survey Anyplace offers a nicely pipeline/process map format to visually see the branching logic for more robust question sets.
Reliable results. Survey Anyplace offers important tracking data to evaluate and hold respondents accountable to completing the surveys.
Users can save progress and come back. This allows busy respondents time to think about deeper questions, specifically when the surveys are being used in an interviewing approach.
Sometimes finding the output -- a Google Sheet with all responses-- is a little difficult. It's also sometimes confusing to figure out how to get back into the Google Form Survey itself.
As always, sharing among an institutional Google account and your personal Google account can be frustrating. You have to make a copy and can't share across the two different accounts very easily.
Creating something highly customized at the ReportR level means you will need to have some savvy with CSS if you want to do it yourself. But it also means you can create something truly incredible and they do not have the same limitations as other similar software.
I will definitely renew my use of Google Forms because I really like the ease of use and the number of tools that Google forms provide. I also love that I can administer a test in real-time and get results in a timely manner
Overall ease of use for staff, volunteers, and adult learners, and easy to get reports and to share reports via Sheets. As a free tool, it does more than expected. Easy to change the look and brand it to your organization, or just make it more fun, depending on what you want to use it for.
This is a great platform. The ease of use and ability to generate instant reports is killer. I highly recommend this platform for those who want to showcase a professional survey to impress their clients and employees. For us, this helps expand our product offering greatly, which also supplements our other services. [Survey Anyplace is a] great product and platform!
In the years I've used GoogleForms I've never ran into any issues with the reliability or availability. Google is a gigantic company with essentially limitless resources which makes it very easy to trust that I will continue to be able to enjoy the same reliability I've come to know and expect from GoogleForms
One of the things that comes as a benefit of the lack to create complex logic branching and truly custom design is that there isn't lot of room to bog down the software. GoogleForms has always loaded just as fast as my internet service and device would allow it. I'm not sure about front end integrations or integrations into the form itself, as I've never explored it, but on the backend, I've never had any issues with integrations channeling from GoogleForms from the GoogleForms's end of things.
We haven't used much official support for Google Forms. However, because it is so widely used, there are a ton of articles and guides available online to help administrators of varying technical abilities to work through problems that arise. Additionally, Google provides an official support forum where there are discussions with other users as well as Google developers that can help address issues if needed.
I wish there was a better live chat feature. Seems like I have to wait 30-60 every time I need to talk to someone. Though once I am able to speak with someone via the chat in my account, they have been very helpful in answering my questions or pointing me in the right direction.
Google Forms doesn't really require "implementation": simply log into GDrive and create a survey! You can configure settings per survey to, for example, automatically write responses to a GSheet.
Although both platforms offer similar functionalities, Google Form has a personal advantage and it is the impeccable integration with the different applications of the Google suite, this allows to make use of all of them in a transparent way, which in the work environment allows to perform work efficiently and without affecting the quality of it.
Survey Anyplace is an excellent piece of software.
It can create in depth surveys and has a huge functional capability! I would highly recommend using Survey Anyplace for any business as it is so adaptable!
The support team are fabulous and always on hand to answer any queries and set up Zoom calls for more tailored help! Mark has been brilliant in helping me to create a complex survey!
GoogleForms lacks the ability for complex logic branching and the ability to truly design it in a custom manner. It's pretty obvious when you land on a GoogleForm that it is in fact a GoogleForm. This rating solely reflects the lack of flexibility which in turn makes it something that wouldn't usually be scaled. That being said, if needing to scale a simple solution, GoogleForms would be up for the job.
As a publisher, the quizzes provide us with compelling type of "advertising" product to engage our clients' audiences.
We use the quizzes to direct respondents to thought leadership content for lead gen. The "correct response" feature in the quizzes provide the most interesting sample of our clients' content.