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Online Survey Maker

A survey measures a population, which makes it a different job from a form. The questions have to aggregate, the wording has to stay identical between waves, and the reporting has to turn four hundred responses into something a person can read in a minute.

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That shapes what matters in a survey tool: scales and grids rather than text boxes, forced trade-offs rather than "rate each of these", charted summaries rather than a list of submissions, and no requirement for respondents to sign in.

How it works

Setting it up.

01

Ask closed, not open

Linear scales, rating grids, checkboxes and dropdowns produce answers you can count. Keep free text to one question, in a survey of four hundred people, every open box is four hundred paragraphs.

02

Force the trade-off

A budget allocator gives respondents a fixed total to divide and a priority matrix makes them rank. Both prevent the result where every option is "very important" and nothing is learned.

03

Read the summary

Closed-set questions are charted in the response summary. You can also make that summary public per form, so respondents see the aggregate. Open text, uploads and drawings are never published.

04

Send it and repeat it

Share a link, embed it, or email it to a contact list in paced batches. For the next wave, duplicate the form rather than editing the live one, so old responses stay attached to the wording they were given.

What you get

Included, on every plan unless noted.

  • Rating scales, linear scales, rating grids and tick-box grids
  • Budget allocator and priority matrix for forced trade-offs
  • Anonymous by design: respondents never sign in
  • Charted response summaries, publishable per form
  • CSV and PDF export of everything
  • Email sending to a contact list in paced batches
  • One question at a time (slideshow), progress bar, shuffled order
  • EU-hosted, GDPR-first storage
What it does not do

We would rather you find this out here than after signing up.

  • No cross-tabulation, weighting, or statistical significance testing (export to CSV for that
  • No respondent panel to buy a sample from; you bring the audience
  • No multilingual surveys) one form per language
  • No quotas, so a survey cannot close a segment once it fills
  • A linear scale cannot branch; pair it with a choice band if the follow-up depends on the score
Put it to work

Templates that use this.

Customer Satisfaction Survey

CSAT and NPS with the follow-up question matched to the score.

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Market Research Survey

Segment respondents, force real trade-offs, and get answers that aggregate.

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Employee Feedback Form

Anonymous pulse checks, 1:1 prep, and exit interviews.

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FAQ

Online Survey Maker: common questions.

What is the difference between a survey and a form?

A form processes one person and its answers trigger something for them. A survey measures a population, and a single response means little on its own. Surveys therefore want consistent wording and questions that aggregate; forms want precision and branching.

Can surveys be anonymous?

Yes, and it is the default position: respondents never sign in, so a survey with no name or email question genuinely cannot be traced to a person.

Can respondents see the results?

If you enable the public response summary for that form. Only closed-set question types are aggregated, and free-text "other" values appear only once at least three people gave the same answer.

Can I run the same survey every quarter and compare?

Yes. Keep the questions identical and duplicate the form each wave, then compare the exports. Questionful does not merge waves for you, so the comparison happens in your spreadsheet.

How deep is the reporting?

Charts per closed-set question, plus CSV and PDF export. There is no cross-tabulation or weighting; for that, take the CSV into a spreadsheet or a stats tool.

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Run satisfaction and product-feedback surveys where the follow-up question depends on the answer you just got.

Try it on the free plan.

Unlimited forms and 100 responses a month. Paid plans from €19.

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