Google Surveys vs. Pollfish

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Surveys
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Google Surveys is an app for custom surveys, and is part of Google Apps for Work. The insights from audience targeted surveys can be expressed in instant, easy-to-digest graphs and charts help you make sense of the survey data. Surveys natively integrates with other solutions, allowing you to use data from one product while working in another. Survey responses from real people can be sourced by Google's Opinion Rewards app, where respondents answer questions in exchange for incentives.
$10
per completed survey
Pollfish
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Pollfish 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 SurveysPollfish
Editions & Modules
Surveys
10¢
per completed survey
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google SurveysPollfish
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is charged on a pay-per-complete basis, with prices starting from $0.95 per survey complete.
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Community Pulse
Google SurveysPollfish
Considered Both Products
Google Surveys

No answer on this topic

Pollfish
Chose Pollfish
Much better. There were several times where SurveyMonkey gave me so many obvious bot answers that I questioned the reliability of all the data. Google Surveys is fine for quick internal surveys (like where should we order lunch from) but I don't use it for much else.
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 …
Features
Google SurveysPollfish
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
6.4
16 Ratings
22% below category average
Pollfish
7.0
49 Ratings
13% below category average
Survey templates6.916 Ratings8.249 Ratings
Themes6.014 Ratings6.434 Ratings
Custom logo/branding6.413 Ratings6.434 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
5.7
15 Ratings
38% below category average
Pollfish
8.9
54 Ratings
6% above category average
Changes to live survey7.014 Ratings8.136 Ratings
Question design help4.812 Ratings8.750 Ratings
Multiple question types5.115 Ratings9.854 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
4.6
14 Ratings
56% below category average
Pollfish
8.6
52 Ratings
5% above category average
Survey logic flexibility4.614 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
5.9
15 Ratings
30% below category average
Pollfish
8.4
54 Ratings
5% above category average
Response tracking5.815 Ratings9.052 Ratings
Data export5.814 Ratings8.554 Ratings
Standard reports6.313 Ratings8.147 Ratings
Custom reports4.811 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Analytics6.613 Ratings8.744 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
7.3
15 Ratings
16% below category average
Pollfish
9.3
38 Ratings
8% above category average
Access controls7.314 Ratings9.338 Ratings
Compliance7.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
Google Surveys
5.1
12 Ratings
45% below category average
Pollfish
9.2
43 Ratings
13% above category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing5.19 Ratings9.640 Ratings
Respondent restrictions5.111 Ratings8.839 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google SurveysPollfish
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.5
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google SurveysPollfish
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Google Surveys is perfect when trying to collaborate with co-workers and find a date & time that works best for them to get together, whether it's for a regular meeting, team photo session, celebratory dinner, or Christmas celebration. It's also great for getting feedback on proposed changes that would affect the team.
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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
  • Measure the pulse of how our members are feeling (yes/no questions, multiple-choice questions).
  • Learn how students are doing with specific projects (textual-based questions, essay-type answers).
  • Run an election for board members (use of the "other" notation so that people can write in their own choices).
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Prodege LLC
  • 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
  • While it is very intuitive, there are many ways you can fine-tune your survey (such as word limits, counts, etc) and these are not always obvious where those settings are.
  • I would like to see some ways of changing the formatting (and maybe I just haven't explored that yet), ie: colors, set up on the screen.
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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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Usability
Google
Relatively simple so that those who are less than familiar with computers can figure it out. User friendly and already embedded with other Google products. Receives an 8 because many features available with Google Surveys are also available with similar, free products on the internet today. Good, but not stellar.
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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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Support Rating
Google
This is by far the only area where I think that there is room for improvement because Google does not respond as fast as I would like them to. We live in a fast-paced world and this is probably the only area where Google can improve on and as a teacher, I find it challenging to wait for a day or two for a response when everything that I am doing in the Google Classroom is running instantly and with no breaks in between.
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Prodege LLC
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Google is a quick and easy to use survey analysis tool that allows you to send cheap or free surveys to an audience. In comparison to tools like SurveyMonkey I would have more faith in the Google technology and robustness of sample. As we have Microsoft 365, sometimes Microsoft forms is a preferred internal source of surveying for free and easily analysing the data. For more robust and accurate market research projects, or even just insights that I can trust more, I would recommend a Market Research Provider as they offer a lot more options to target a key audience and you can rely on their data a bit more - it is weighted, nationally representative etc. Companies with their own research panels tend to have greater data quality that you can put more trust in
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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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Return on Investment
Google
  • Google Surveys are responded by our customers - dealers, retailers and end users. As it's easy to handle, greater is its adoption and hence it definitely has a good ROI.
  • Employees as internal stakeholders also use it well to drive initiatives & projects within the organization. This enhances their engagement showcasing digital workplace and hence again a good ROI.
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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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