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    Google Forms

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle 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…N/A

    Pollfish

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/APollfish is a survey platform that aims to provide reliable consumer data quickly. It is designed for businesses of any size, including market research agencies, marketing departments, advertising agencies, product development teams, and consulting firms. The platform offers features such as fast surveys and advanced filtering options, to empower businesses to make informed decisions based on high-quality results.

    $0.95

    one-time fee per completed survey

    Pricing
    Google FormsPollfish
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    DIY Platform
    Starting at $0.95
    per response
    Full Service Projects
    Projects start at $5,000
    per project
    Enterprise
    Packages starting at $10,000
    per year annual commitment
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google FormsPollfish
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google FormsPollfish
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Forms
    Google Forms is the low cost, easy to use option. In reality, this positions Google Forms as truly a unique product. The only instance where Google Forms doesn’t apply is when you need to source respondents or need to conduct live interviews. But, Google Forms is the best for …
    Incentivized
    Prodege LLC
    Chose Pollfish
    Pollfish was more suited for my needs to design surveys for strangers to use and get paid responses. It was definitely newer, and while it had some glitches and shortcomings, it had a better UX than some of the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    Much better and deeper functionality, easier to use as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    Easy to use, excellent customer service, decent templates
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    We selected Pollfish because it was more user friendly, cost effective, and advanced in its capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    Started using when Google Surveys were deprectaed
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    Pollfish is the most cost effective and the quickest survey platform. However there are questions when it comes to the actual reliability of the results that are retrieved from Pollfish surveys. However, its speed makes it tough to use other platforms, even at a potential …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pollfish
    Honestly, it came down to having a user-friendly platform at an affordable cost. For the type of analysis we do, we don’t need a heavy, highly complex solution like Qualtrics -- after trying it, we found it far too intimidating and expensive to maintain. Pollfish provides a …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    60 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    56 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    Google FormsPollfish
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    6.7
    123 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Pollfish
    7.6
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Survey templates7.7114 Ratings8.250 Ratings
    Themes6.2112 Ratings6.535 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding6.1100 Ratings8.135 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    8.0
    121 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pollfish
    8.5
    56 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Changes to live survey8.9115 Ratings7.438 Ratings
    Question design help7.398 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Multiple question types7.9120 Ratings9.756 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    7.0
    110 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Pollfish
    8.5
    54 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Survey logic flexibility7.0110 Ratings8.554 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    8.4
    122 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pollfish
    8.3
    56 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Response tracking8.3120 Ratings8.954 Ratings
    Data export8.1116 Ratings8.456 Ratings
    Standard reports7.9113 Ratings8.349 Ratings
    Custom reports9.286 Ratings7.541 Ratings
    Analytics8.594 Ratings8.346 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    7.9
    116 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Pollfish
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Access controls7.8113 Ratings8.940 Ratings
    Compliance7.990 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Google Forms and Pollfish
    Feature
    Google Forms
    7.6
    90 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Pollfish
    9.1
    45 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing7.842 Ratings9.542 Ratings
    Respondent restrictions7.588 Ratings8.741 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google FormsPollfish
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (127 ratings)
    9.1
    (57 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (67 ratings)
    8.8
    (57 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (49 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google FormsPollfish
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
    Despite its minor shortcomings, PollFish is still very good for startups that need to gauge their product idea's potential acceptance and customer demand, and also very useful for fine-tuning their branding, messaging, product features, and even pricing. This is so much better than traditional polling and surveying, which were more expensive and much slower in the past.
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    Pros
    Google
    • 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.
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    • Obtain people's opinions on a specific topic, both quantitatively and qualitatively, as it has option for open answers.
    • Being able to segment my audience not only by country and state, but also by city and even socioeconomic level (something that is particularly difficult outside of the United States).
    • Be able to insert videos in order to make quick creativity tests.
    • Obtain quick results. Most of the times in only one day, even with specific segmentations.
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    Cons
    Google
    • 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.
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    Prodege LLC
    • The survey editor UI can be quite annoying. The way it scrolls back up to the top of the page whenever I click on a question to edit it makes it so that the page is constantly moving.
    • Oftentimes I get an "oops an error occurred" message but it never actually explains what is going wrong.
    • Customer support can sometimes take a long time to respond making it challenging when faced with a platform question or capability I am not familiar with.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    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
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    Usability
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
    For what it is and what it offers, I think it is very user friendly, intuitive and reactive. As long as you don't treat it as a powerful full service research tool and look at it more as the scrappy DIY option, it will actually exceed expectations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    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
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    Performance
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
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    Support Rating
    Google
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
    Pollfish is the most cost effective and the quickest survey platform. However there are questions when it comes to the actual reliability of the results that are retrieved from Pollfish surveys. However, its speed makes it tough to use other platforms, even at a potential sacrifice of the quality of data.
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    Scalability
    Google
    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.
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    Prodege LLC
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • High positive impact and return of investment; easy to use and seamlessly integrated with current Google Drive and Suite
    • Ability to create surveys on demand and quickly, saving time and energy
    • Easy to train others in using Google Forms so that there is not a bottleneck of knowledge
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    Prodege LLC
    • Drives a lot of traffic to our website when consumer insights pieces are put out
    • Had one customer request a meeting based on seeing our consumer data leading to a $100,000+ close on an opportunity
    • Drives our strategy for certain areas of our product development
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    Pollfish Screenshots

    Screenshot of an executive ready report generated with AI Reports, with comprehensive AI survey analysis. The engine reads questionnaire context, runs statistical tests, and codes open-ended responses to draft a polished, evidence-based report.