Change your questions whenever you like. Every answer remembers the exact wording the person saw, so last year's results still mean what they said.
Pick from eight question types and put them in order. Add a follow-up that only appears when it is relevant.
Publishing gives you a link. Put it in an email, a chat message or on a poster. Nobody needs an account to answer.
Totals for every question as replies arrive, filters to narrow things down, and a spreadsheet whenever you want one.
You reword a question in week three. Every answer from week one now sits under text nobody was shown. The export has one column and two meanings, and no one finds out until the analysis disagrees with itself.
When you publish, we take a permanent copy of the survey exactly as it stands. It can never be edited afterwards. Every answer is stamped with the copy it came from, so you can total up a whole year at once and still open any single reply and see the wording that person actually read.
What it does
Skip questions that do not apply. Pick an earlier answer, choose what it should equal, and the follow-up appears only for the people it is meant for. You cannot accidentally build a loop, because you can only point backwards.
Did the engineers answer differently from the designers? Put two questions side by side and see the split, with totals down every row and column.
One column per question, even when the survey changed halfway through. Questions that did not exist yet are simply blank. Opens in Excel, Numbers or Sheets.
Every organisation is walled off from every other one, and the wall is built into the database itself rather than trusted to our code. If our own software ever asked for the wrong data, it would get nothing back.
People answer by tapping a link. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and nobody is followed around afterwards. It works on an old phone with one bar of signal.
What you get back
| Engineering | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Product management | 5 | |
| Design | 2 | |
| Research | 2 |
13 people answered this question.
| Unclear | Fine | Clear | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Product | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Design | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Design found the first week hardest. That is the sort of thing a single total hides.
No account, no cookie banner, nothing popping up over the question. The whole page is smaller than a single photo, so it opens straight away even on a weak signal in a car park.
Add a question halfway through and the people who answered earlier were never asked it. Most tools quietly divide by everyone anyway. We keep three numbers apart, so a percentage is always a share of the people who could have answered.
The last two rows go against us. Leaving them out would make the first four worth less.
| PeaconSurvey | Typeform | SurveyMonkey | Google Forms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answers keep their original wording | Yes | No | No | No |
| Compare two questions against each other | Yes | Limited | Yes | No |
| Opens on an old phone with weak signal | Yes | No | No | Partly |
| Free allowance | 100 a month | 10 a month | 10 a month | Unlimited |
| Question types | Eight | Many more | Many more | Similar |
| Ready-made templates | None yet | Hundreds | Hundreds | Some |
Pricing
A real survey, start to finish.
For a team running surveys all year.
When the survey is part of the operation.
No. They tap the link and answer. We never ask them for a name or an email address, and nobody is followed around afterwards.
Yes, and this is the part we built the product around. Edit it as much as you like. The replies already collected keep the wording those people saw, so your earlier results stay meaningful.
New replies stop being collected until the month rolls over or you change plan. Anyone who tries sees a plain "not accepting responses" page. They are never shown anything about your account.
Any time, as a spreadsheet, with no limit and no upgrade needed. It opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
You move to the free plan. Nothing is deleted. Every survey and every reply stays exactly where it is, and the free limits apply from then on.
Yes, from the reply itself. It removes their answer and any spreadsheet you had already generated that contained it.
The free plan collects 100 responses a month and needs no card.
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