Great Features. Execution Needs Improvement
September 13, 2022

Great Features. Execution Needs Improvement

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Typeform

We have used Typeform to conduct large-scale surveys and research for our company and our industry. Typeform is ideal for the types of surveys we send because it has logic mapping, ie: if a respondent answers a question one way then you can map the next questions they receive. For example, if the survey asks "Is your favorite color red or blue?" Answering "red" might take you one way, while answering blue will take you to a different set of questions.
  • Logic mapping
  • Easy-to-use for end user
  • No protection against bots
  • All surveys are posted publicly
  • Data integrity easily goes down the drain because of the proliferation of bots, I've found.
  • Due to the over 400+ bot responses we garnered before shutting this down, our data was largely unusable.
The logic mapping in Typeform was the deciding factor for us.

Do you think Typeform delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Typeform's feature set?

Yes

Did Typeform live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Typeform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Typeform again?

No

Typeform does require some practice to get used to using it. Because its offerings are robust, it takes some time to learn the program and get the surveys to do what you intend. Despite this, the training sequence you're put through when first using the program, as well as the intuitive nature of question set up and flow, it doesn't take long to get going.
Representatives are always available via chat. They're nice but overly reliant on the community help forum and have a tendency to point to information that can be easily looked up (but that doesn't answer your question).
Typeform is definitely a leader in the online survey space and that's for a reason. Between logic mapping and the ease of use for the end user, it's a solid app. The unfortunate thing, however, is the price tag--particularly considering the protection you receive from bots. Typeform only allows a certain number of responses at certain package levels, ie: the lowest level, you get a very limited number of responses but in order to receive more responses before your survey is locked, you must upgrade. This is what ultimately lead us to cancel with them. When you post a survey on Typeform, that survey is automatically posted publicly on their website--making it widely available to bots. Typeform offers no easy form of protection like a standardized captcha that you can add to the survey in order to filter bots out. Instead, there are several "work arounds" that they advise users to do that have very limited degrees of success. A quick online search shows that Typeform knows this is clearly an issue, yet they have yet to build in a bot-prevention feature. Since their plan prices vary by number of responses, it seems that they have no incentive to limit the amount of bots filling out surveys I believe. Ultimately, we canceled because, although the app is powerful, it just seemed like their business practices were unethical in my opinion.

Typeform Feature Ratings

Survey templates
7
Themes
8
Custom logo/branding
8
Changes to live survey
9
Question design help
8
Multiple question types
10
Survey logic flexibility
10
Response tracking
9
Data export
9
Standard reports
9
Custom reports
8
Analytics
7
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing
Not Rated
Respondent restrictions
1
Access controls
1
Compliance
Not Rated