PlaybookUX vs. UserTesting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PlaybookUX
Score 8.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
PlaybookUX is a user testing software for both moderated and unmoderated research. The vendor helps companies receive video based feedback from their target demographic on product usability, designs, websites, ideas and more. They handle recruiting, incentivizing, transcribing, and analyzing. When it comes to recruiting, the vendor says they allow you to specify job role, industry, age, household income and…
$0
total
UserTesting
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UserTesting aims to enable every organization to deliver the best customer experience powered by human insight. The vendor states that with UserTesting’s on-demand Human Insight Platform, companies across industries can make accurate customer-first decisions at every level, at the speed business demands.N/A
Pricing
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Editions & Modules
Bring your own customers
$0
total
Unmoderated
$49
per participant
Moderated
$100
per participant (30 minutes)
Moderated
$150
per participant (60 minutes)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Considered Both Products
PlaybookUX
Chose PlaybookUX
PlaybookUX is much cheaper than UserTesting.com. They are also easier to use and set up studies than user testing. I liked how simple it was and we could conduct both moderated and unmoderated for very cheap.
Chose PlaybookUX
We are previous UserTesting.com customers but found their subscription model to be inflexible for our needs. PlaybookUX not only fit our budget, but the flexibility has let us scale up and scale down testing as needed.
Chose PlaybookUX
Comparable to UserTesting, Validately, and Intellizoom. My favorite is definitely UserTesting.com. Many tests are available to screen. The interface is very streamlined. I wish there was more tests available with PlaybookUX. The testing payment amount is very competitive …
UserTesting
Chose UserTesting
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1. UserTesting
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Best Alternatives
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Small Businesses
Smartlook
Smartlook
Score 8.3 out of 10
Smartlook
Smartlook
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Score 8.7 out of 10
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Score 8.7 out of 10
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Optimizely Web Experimentation
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(4 ratings)
8.1
(129 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.4
(117 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.9
(119 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PlaybookUXUserTesting
Likelihood to Recommend
PlaybookUX
PlaybookUX is fabulous for ad-hoc tests with small budgets, but can also scale up to larger projects easily. I've recommended the tool to several people and they love it, too!
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UserTesting
UserTesting solves the problem of recruitment. Thanks to UserTesting I can recruit participants from different countries around the world with the characteristics I need. Recruitment is a very difficult process for a small research team and I sometimes still struggle with that; for example, when recruiting minors for research. But not having to do the whole recruitment and reward process is a huge benefit.
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Pros
PlaybookUX
  • They recruited our demographic.
  • Customer support was awesome.
  • Studies are very easy to set up.
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UserTesting
  • Taking notes with video clips. I can take notes while I am watching a session and I can create clips of UX issues or bugs occurring. This really helps when I share them with other teams.
  • Exporting all your notes. I analyze all usability tests by exporting my notes from UserTesting. I wish I could bulk export multiple tests though.
  • Setting up demographics. This helps me reach out to users who are similar to our audience.
  • Setting up screeners. Some studies require specific audiences (using a specific tool etc.), by setting screeners I can make sure I reached the correct audience.
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Cons
PlaybookUX
  • With other testing platforms, I can update my profile, but I'm not sure how to do it with PlaybookUX.
  • It would be nice to have a login location where I can see my available tests.
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UserTesting
  • The organization of the work spaces/dashboards could use some work.
  • I don't feel as supported as I used to from a customer success perspective. I used to have dedicated, go-to professionals to reach out to about my account who knew my project context, account history, etc. Recently we've been pushed into general support pools, and it doesn't feel like my account gets any personalized attention anymore.
  • I would like to see a more refined experience for collaborators - the test plans I share with them are plain text/hard to read.
  • Would be nice to be able to conduct focus groups using this tool.
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Likelihood to Renew
PlaybookUX
No answers on this topic
UserTesting
I'm very happy with my experience of the product and the level of service and learning resources they provide. If the service becomes more expensive than it currently is then we might not be able to justify additional cost - but this is theoretical. I would recommend UserTesting and would ideally renew our contract.
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Usability
PlaybookUX
Setting up a study only takes 5 mins. and you can preview a study before sending it out so you don't make any mistakes.
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UserTesting
The video review interface is user-friendly and makes it easy to navigate between different test responses. This helps us quickly analyze and understand the feedback we receive from users.
UserTesting's platform is straightforward and intuitive to use when setting up tests. We can easily select the type of test we want to conduct, define our objectives and criteria, and invite participants to take the test.
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Reliability and Availability
PlaybookUX
No answers on this topic
UserTesting
Never encountered any problems
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Performance
PlaybookUX
No answers on this topic
UserTesting
Perfectly fine. Never had any problems.
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Support Rating
PlaybookUX
Very responsive when I had a technical question about a test.
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UserTesting
The support team at UserTesting is super helpful, responsive, and overall respectful and nice. They respond to your chat requests very quickly if you need immediate support within the tool, where time is of the essence. If you need support via email, they are quick and responsive there too. They are also very nice and helpful
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Implementation Rating
PlaybookUX
No answers on this topic
UserTesting
From a technical perspective, the implementation was extremely smooth. Most of the change management / implementation hurdles were clearing use of the tool through our various security, legal, and information privacy teams. Once these concerns were addressed (UserTesting.com was very helpful in providing all the needed documentation), the implementation process was very simple and we were able to get going right away.
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Alternatives Considered
PlaybookUX
Both have different set of unique features and usability.
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UserTesting
UserTesting allows for a quicker recruiting process for our studies. Additionally, UserTesting has more unmoderated research features and capabilities. I think that their payment model is also easier than UserInterviews. We typically user UserTesting for reaching our hard to reach segments and recruiting prospective users not already within our product user population.
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Scalability
PlaybookUX
No answers on this topic
UserTesting
The package we have limits the number of people who can set up tests. This prevents us from scaling the use of the platform.
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Return on Investment
PlaybookUX
  • Quick testing at scale
  • Excellent price points
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UserTesting
  • Cost savings of over $100K as we dont involve our research vendors as much as we used to do in the past
  • Better tested experience get out in the market quickly even when we don't have enough time available with our researchers; our designers who are well-trained on usertesting.com can test out quickly
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ScreenShots

PlaybookUX Screenshots

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UserTesting Screenshots

Screenshot of UserTesting's several solutions for gathering rich customer experience narratives.Screenshot of Interactive Path Flows
Built on recent research in data mining, the Interactive Path Flow aggregates interaction data across multiple participant sessions to visualize the customer journey, surface unexpected behaviors, and locate key moments in the customer journey.Screenshot of Keyword Mapping
Similar keywords are automatically grouped based on overall sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) to identify themes. Highlight reels associated with each keyword are grouped together, to discover the why behind each sentiment.Screenshot of Video capture and live streaming
Digital and real-world customer experiences are recorded on desktop and mobile devices or live streamed for in-platform viewing.Screenshot of Audience targeting
Audiences are specified by screening contributors from UserTesting’s global network of contributors or connecting to any preferred network.