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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Qualaroo

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AQualaroo Insights allows you to survey or nudge site visitors at various stages of their visit, to gather insights and generate sales leads.

    $199

    per month

    Lighthouse Studio

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASawtooth Software headquartered in Provo offers the Lighthouse Studio survey research tool as an advanced platform for Conjoint Analysis and MaxDiff. With it, users can create balanced experimental designs hand-in-hand with traditional survey questions.N/A
    Pricing
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
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    Qualaroo
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    Features
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
    Survey Format & Appearance
    Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.3
    12 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Survey templates9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themes9.010 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Custom logo/branding9.910 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Survey Content
    Comparison of Survey Content features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.7
    11 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Changes to live survey9.811 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Question design help9.610 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple question types9.711 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Survey Logic
    Comparison of Survey Logic features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.2
    12 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Survey logic flexibility9.212 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Survey Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.6
    12 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Response tracking9.212 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Data export9.912 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Standard reports9.911 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Custom reports9.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics9.911 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Survey Administration & Security
    Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Access controls9.811 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Compliance9.811 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Survey Distribution
    Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Qualaroo Insights and Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    Feature
    Qualaroo Insights
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Vendor-offered crowdsourcing9.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Respondent restrictions9.09 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Jotform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Alchemer
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Qualaroo
    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    QuestionPro
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.8
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QualarooLighthouse Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Qualaroo
    It makes it easy to move from design to development. We collect highly targeted feedback without organizing a meeting to discuss every iteration, saving time and effort. The comments are open-ended and unorganized. But with survey Nudges, we can ask additional questions about design UI/UX.
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    Sawtooth Software
    Anyone wanting to design and analyze advanced studies, particularly those that incorporate discrete choice modeling (such as MaxDiff and / or Conjoint) should be using Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. The capabilities and flexibility offered by this platform for these choices is far beyond any other platform I am aware of. It is less appropriate where you need the survey tool to 'play well with others.' Two examples: 1) pulling in live data streams so they can be cleaned and visualized. 2) Integrating into any service where an API call is appropriate such as adding / removing people from a mailing list, incentive management tool, or qualitative community tool.
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    Pros
    Qualaroo
    • Qualaroo’s question engine connects fragmented data points spread across all the customer feedback gathered from varied sources.
    • Qualaroo allows us to connect with our customers’ questions directly so that we can focus on the most important ones on priority.
    • The insights we get from Qualaroo surveys help us prioritize which hypotheses to formally run as an experiment first, and which to implement straight away.
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    Sawtooth Software
    • Powerful programming capabilities
    • Advanced analysis
    • Fantastic customer and technical support
    • Good documentation
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    Cons
    Qualaroo
    • I wish the dashboard was a little more interactive so that you can do some deeper analysis - things like filtering out people who answered a certain way
    • I wish the building of the survey "nudge" was easier and more visual - it's a bit clunky and hard to reorder questions.
    • I wish there was a way to add more logic into questions, as you have to duplicate questions to get around this which can make the building process difficult
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    Sawtooth Software
    • They could focus on integrating API type functionality
    • I would love if the data came out labeled
    • I am not a fan of the 'limited' time a study can stay up. This causes issues with longitudinal studies.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Qualaroo
    The micro-survey landscape is evolving very quickly and it seems like there is a new entrant almost every month. I'm generally happy with Qualaroo (we got what we expected) and I like the folks on the Qualaroo team (support is fast and friendly and rarely needed), but there haven't been real improvements to the platform in the last eight months. We will be re-assessing Qualaroo's features and price versus other competitors when our current contract is up.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Usability
    Qualaroo
    We know the value of consumer feedback and believe that users actually want to be a part of the process. With Qualaroo, we have learnt that people like answering certain types of questions, especially if you ask them something about themselves — like what they want most and their motivations behind purchases — they can’t resist typing a response.
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    Sawtooth Software
    It is incredibly powerful, very rhobust and has fantastic support. The only reasons I'm not giving it a higher rating are 1) There is a very steep learning curve when it comes to designing more complex studies. 2) It is difficult to get Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio to 'talk' to other systems as the Perl upon which it is built is not really designed to work with API calls, etc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Qualaroo
    I've never experienced an outage where Qualaroo was unavailable. I don't think I've even gotten notices for scheduled down/maintenance time. The platform is always available.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Performance
    Qualaroo
    Our developers complain that Qualaroo is just one of several similar site add-ons that slow down our site performance. I'm skeptical that Qualaroo has any measurable impact on our page load times, but don't have any hard evidence either way. The Qualaroo admin interface and reporting mechanisms are all quick and reliable.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Support Rating
    Qualaroo
    I have only contacted customer support twice, and they have managed to solve my problem every time. There is a slight waiting time between the query and resolution, but other than that I don’t need to contact them time and again to understand things since their help section is sufficient most of the time.
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    Sawtooth Software
    I cannot explain how great the support team is. They are prompt and very thorough in their responses.
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    In-Person Training
    Qualaroo
    Not available for the Pro edition.
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    Sawtooth Software
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Qualaroo
    Qualaroo doesn't offer full-blown online training, at least not that I've used or needed. The online help documentation is adequate and Qualaroo-sponsored webinars are informative.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Implementation Rating
    Qualaroo
    Have your technical team set up the "Identify" feature right out of the gate - this is a "fire and forget" feature. Once it's set up, your data is much more valuable. Also, if there are very specific kinds of page targeting you might imagine doing, have a technical person set up and test at least 2-3 examples of using Qualaroo's regular expression features to achieve this targeting. With a couple good examples in place to work from, it becomes much easier to create your own regular expressions for custom targeting.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Alternatives Considered
    Qualaroo
    Qualaroo makes it very easy to launch a quick survey based on templates or custom questions with an intuitive user interface. It is also very flexible and can be easily integrated with AB testing thanks to the advanced options. Reports are getting better but analytics wise it's still not up to the refinement level of SurveyMonkey but it does beat the latter in terms of UI experience. When compared to SurveyGizmo, the flexibility on surveys is what stands out and how easy it is to create different survey flows.
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    Sawtooth Software
    While QuestioPro has the capability to build surveys and even do some advanced analysis, it is less powerful (and less intuitive) than Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. It cannot handle studies with the complexity we are used to designing. The CMNTY Platform was initially sold to us as a combined Quant / Qual platform, but we found very quickly that the quant side of it is extremely limited.
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    Scalability
    Qualaroo
    Qualaroo's simplicity has its down sides when it comes to scaling. Managing multiple nudges across multiple domains, at least in the Pro edition, is challenging. The active nudges all appear as a single list on the admin home page, automatically grouped by domains. Archived nudges are on a separate tab. It would be helpful to have a folder system to organize nudges. Also, once you have multiple active nudges that are targeted to different sections of your site using regular expressions, it's difficult to keep track of what is appearing where. It's also difficult, if not impossible, to figure out where you may have competing nudges. And there's no ability to assign reporting or configuration access to other members of your team. The Pro edition has a single login, which must be shared if you have multiple staff who want to use Qualaroo.
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    Sawtooth Software
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    Return on Investment
    Qualaroo
    • Qualaroo has proven to be extremely useful when it comes to improving conversions.
    • We deployed Qualaroo on our website to survey visitors and uncover their pain points about our landing page.
    • Using the feedback, we made several critical changes to our page, including the visibility of the CTA button, information on the page, and the quality of pictures. Since the implementation, there has been a significant increase in conversions, and our visitors have been getting a lot more value from the landing page.
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    Sawtooth Software
    • Our business is survey data so we rely heavily on sawtooth
    • The advanced design and analytics are incredibly useful
    • Negative - I wish it would work natively with API calls
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