Access controls
Administrators can limit users’ ability to access data and edit content.
Cat avg: 8.7
Administrators can limit users’ ability to access data and edit content.
Cat avg: 8.7
Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
Cat avg: 7.3
Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.
Cat avg: 8.2
Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.
Cat avg: 8.4
Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.
Cat avg: 8.7
Vendor offers access to an audience or panel of respondents.
Cat avg: 7.9
Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.
Cat avg: 8.1
Features related to the type, look & feel of surveys.
Includes a selection of pre-made survey templates for different types of surveys.
Category average: 8.2
Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
Category average: 7.3
Allows the user to include their company logo (rather than the survey vendor’s logo) and/or create a company template so that branding is consistent across multiple surveys.
Category average: 7.9
Features related to the content (media, question types, answer types, etc) of surveys.
Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.
Category average: 8.4
Includes educational material about question design for research, such as tips, recommendations, and information about best practices.
Category average: 8.2
Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.
Category average: 8.7
Features related to survey flow, or the logic that directs survey question order.
Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.
Category average: 8.2
Features related to reporting & analytics for survey results.
Individual responses are coordinated with demographic information about the respondent. This information is stored and can be used for reporting and analysis.
Category average: 8.4
Data collected within the tool can be exported to another program for additional reporting/analysis.
Category average: 8.5
Includes canned reports that allow users to generate and share accurate survey results.
Category average: 7.9
Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.
Category average: 8.1
Features related to administration & security for survey tools and data.
Administrators can limit users’ ability to access data and edit content.
Category average: 8.7
Supports privacy compliance and confidentiality standards, such as HIPPA.
Category average: 8.8
Features related to the distribution of surveys.
Vendor offers access to an audience or panel of respondents.
Category average: 7.9
Users can place restrictions on who can participate in surveys or how many times the same person can complete a survey.
Category average: 8.2
Supports the creation of online surveys.
Supports the creation and/or deployment of phone surveys, including a mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.
Includes a selection of pre-made survey templates for different types of surveys.
Includes an organization tool, such as a library, that allows the user to save, store and re-use or update past surveys.
Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
Allows the user to include their company logo (rather than the survey vendor’s logo) and/or create a company template so that branding is consistent across multiple surveys.
Survey appears on a single continuous page, rather than requiring respondents to click through to multiple pages.
Survey displays a progression bar so that respondents know where they are in the survey (how much completed vs. how much left).
Survey is optimized for a variety of screens and devices, including mobile.
Users can include audio, images and videos within surveys.
Users can easily rearrange survey elements, such as question blocks, by dragging them into new positions.
Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.
Includes educational material about question design for research, such as tips, recommendations, and information about best practices.
Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.
Supports matrix or grid questions, such as “How often did you: eat breakfast? …exercise?...get 8 hrs of sleep?” where each subquestion has the same set of possible answers (e.g. Always / Often / Sometimes / Never).
Supports multiple languages.
Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.
Users can require that a respondent answer before moving on or submitting, and can specify the type of response (e.g. a phone number) that will be accepted.
Users can include rules that cause certain questions to be skipped based on a respondent’s demographic information, answer to a previous question, or response time, for example.
Users can create rules for questions that are only asked to certain respondents, or only asked if particular behavioral or demographic criteria are met.
Users can create branching question pathways, where a respondent’s answer at a given stage determines the next set of questions they will be asked.
Question order and/or question set can be randomized across the respondent pool.
Individual responses are coordinated with demographic information about the respondent. This information is stored and can be used for reporting and analysis.
Data collected within the tool can be exported to another program for additional reporting/analysis.
Users can view results on dashboards in real-time as they come in, rather than needing to wait to run a report or take counts after the survey is closed.
Includes canned reports that allow users to generate and share accurate survey results.
Includes reporting or dashboard tools for visualizing survey data.
Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.
Supports social sharing, posting, registration via social profile credentials, and/or embedded social content.
Allows users to excerpt and embed text or data from surveys on their website.
Respondent behavior (including survey completion, particular responses, or opt-outs) triggers notifications.
Users can send their own email invitations (outside of the survey tool) to invite contacts to take a survey.
Users can choose from multiple channels for distribution, including distribution through the survey tool, personal email, social, via a link on their website, etc.
Users can embed surveys into their web pages.
Users can set up a pop-up survey or pop-up invitation for website visitors to take a survey.
Supports employee/coworker surveys about performance and work environment.
Option for responses to be collected anonymously or with limited respondent demographic information.
Vendor offers access to an audience or panel of respondents.
There is no upper limit on how many questions users can include per survey.
There is no upper limit on how many responses users can collect/record per survey.
Users can place restrictions on who can participate in surveys or how many times the same person can complete a survey.
Supports multiple users and/or user roles within a central account, license, or subscription.
Administrators can limit users’ ability to access data and edit content.
Supports privacy compliance and confidentiality standards, such as HIPPA.