Unlimited surveys, responses, questions and pages, no ads. Why?
- branching
- mandatory questions
- filtering reports (instantly!)
- sharing live reports
- exporting pdf and csv
- downloading charts as images
Obsurvey is repeatedly tested on people who have never used obsurvey before. To make sure you find it easy to use.
Below you can see a video of an actual user test of obsurvey.
Obsurvey has been live since 2007.
We're talking about a user that has never user obsurvey before, ever.
The user in the video has never used obsurvey before.
If you are considering another survey solution than obsurvey. Ask them if you can see one of their real user tests.
We also have another user test, where the user creates a survey in just 7½ minutes.
Features
General
Nothing to install
You don't need to install any software to create surveys, collect responses and analyze the results. It's all done on the obsurvey.com servers.
$8/month, 30 day free trial
Obsurvey costs $8/month, with no ads and no limitations. There is a 30 day free trial, no credit card required.
No limitations
Obsurvey has unlimited surveys, unlimited quesions in a survey and unlimited responses to a survey.
Surveys
Required/mandatory questions
Questions that must be answered to proceed
Branching in surveys
Hide/show questions based on what was answered to previous questions, even for questions on the same page
Survey in any language
You can modify all the text, title and buttons of a survey. So your survey can be in any one language. (one language per survey)
Rich text formatting
Use text formatting anywhere in the survey. Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough
HTML editing
Full ability to edit all text of the survey as Html code
Upload and insert images
Upload and insert images anywhere in the survey
Survey themes
Pick any of the predefined themes for your survey
CSS editing
Full ability to edit the look and feel of your survey by editing the CSS of the survey
Undo/Redo
Generally anything you edit/delete can be undone, and redone
Publishing Surveys
Password protect surveys
Protect your surveys with a password that must be entered before you can respond to the survey.
One response per computer
Restrict answers to one response per computer. Using cookies. In the report you can also filter responses so only one response per IP-address is included
Share survey by email
Send an email with a link to your survey
Embed a survey seamlessly in your blog
Put a survey inside one of your blog posts, simply by copying and pasting the provided embed code.
Embed a survey seamlessly in any page of your website
Put a survey inside any of your pages on your website, simply by copying and pasting the provided embed code.
Reporting
Instantly filter
For example: exclude all responses except the ones that answered X to question Y
Unique by IP-address filter
Exclude duplicate answers from the same IP-address, for polls or voting-style surveys
Instantly search or filter all the text typed by survey respondents
Good for finding specific responses, or datamining
Download report as PDF file
The entire report as a single file. Share the report by emailing it as an attachment or by uploading it to your website or sharepoint etc.
Download all answers as .csv file (Excel)
This lets you create pivottables, do other advanced datamining and create your own reports in the tool of your choice
Download charts as image files
Download individual charts for responses to a single question as image files. Easy to insert in your Word document og Powerpoint presentation
Share live reports
Send a link to anyone, and they can see a live report of what is answered to your survey. With all the filtering and PDF-file export
Password protect shared reports
Protect your shared reports with a password that must be entered before you can see the report
View all individual survey responses
In tabular form. With all the same filtering options as for a report
About obsurvey
I'm the founder of Copenhagen Code, the creators of obsurvey
Obsurvey is an online tool for conducting your own online surveys, with your own questions.
It costs $8/month, and there are no limits and no ads, as long as you don't use it for anything illegal.
The idea is that you:
- Create you own survey right here on this website, using the obsurvey tool.
- When you have created your survey, you are given a link to a webpage (a URL). You can send this link in an email, to the people you want to answer your survey. Or you can embed the survey directly in at post on your blog or a page on your website.
- The people you have sent the link to, click the link and answer your survey, or your visitors take the survey directly on your blog or website if you have embedded it.
- When the people have answered your survey, you come back to this website and see an automatically generated report of what was answered.
If you want to know more about me, see my public Linkedin profile
We want you to have an incredibly easy time using obsurvey. You should only have to spend 5 minutes creating an average survey.
For that reason we continually test obsurvey and continually improve the already unique user experience of obsurvey for the better.
Every single feature we add to obsurvey, we try to implement in the best possible way. We spend a lot of time on each thing. So you will not find a list of features that's a mile long. Instead you'll find a Short list. But each item on the list is implemented in a unique way, with a lot of attention to detail and extreme amounts of thought and innovation. All to make sure you will find it extremely easy and fast to use and powerfull enough to get the job done.
We listen to you. If you send me an email, I always respond.
We've build obsurvey to handle quite a lot of survey responses. You can safely collect thousands of responses. Just promise not to sue us if anything goes wrong. If you plan to use it for tens or hunderds of thousands of answers, please drop us an email at allan@obsurvey.com first.
If you would like to contribute to the development of obsurvey, either by betatesting stuff before it's releases. Or by writing code for obsurvey. Please send us an email.
We would really like any feedback you may have on what you think of obsurvey, so we can improve it. Send me a message either in the feedback forum or by email.
Att: Allan Ebdrup
Copenhagen Code
Gammel Koege Landevej 878
2665 Vallensbaek Strand
Denmark
I've written an article about undo functionality in web applications entitled Where did undo go?.
Obsurvey uses my Structured Active Rich Document (SARD) principles, that you can see in action when editing a survey's questions.
We have developed our own JavaScript framework we call Usability in the Application (UIA), for developing AJAX web applications. web applications. Basically the whole application consists of one single large javascript and some serverside webservices.
Wikipedia on AJAX
there are continually improvements of obsurvey in minor releases, but here are some of the bigger milestones for the project
| Mar 2013: | Download survey in printable format (pdf). |
| Feb 2013: | Obsurvey became a paid service. |
| May 2011: | Number, Email, Website and Telephone number question types. |
| Feb 2011: | Themes for surveys. Password protection of surveys. Edit profile |
| Oct 2010: | Required questions. |
| Sep 2010: | Download PDF reports. |
| Sep 2010: | Branching in survey. Only show question when something specific has been answered to a previous question. |
| Aug 2010: | Sharing of live reports. |
| Feb 2010: | Instant report filtering and filtering of individual answers. |
| Jan 2010: | View individual responses |
| August 2009: | Embed survey, arrow key navigation released |
| May 2009: | Single line text questions, "other please specify" option, and insert link released |
| April 2009: | CSV-export released |
| October 2008: | Undo functionality released |
| June 2008: | Upload of images ready |
| March 2008: | Obsurvey online in beta |
| March 2007: | Obsurvey online in pre-beta |
| 2002 - 2007: | Development of Ajax framework called UIA |
Terms of service
- You may not use obsurvey for anything illegal, or use content that you do not have the right to use in your surveys. This includes phishing attempts.
- Obsurvey is provided as is, and comes with no gurantees or warrents in any way, shape or form. You use it at your own risk.
- If you violate the terms or at the sole discretion of Copenhagen Code, your account may be terminated.
- The terms of service may change, check back here.
Videos
(View full screen for best viewing experience)
Basic demonstration of how to use obsurvey. (2 min 31 sec)
Demonstration of the extemely powerful reports in obsurvey. (4 min 26 sec)
Demonstration of viewing, searching and filtering individual survey responses in
obsurvey. (2 min 24 sec)
Demonstration of how to embed a survey on a blog at blogger.com. (58 sec)
Privacy Policy Statement
This is the web site of Copenhagen Code.
Our postal address is
Gammel Køge Landevej 878
DK-2665 Vallensbæk
Denmark
We can be reached via e-mail at allan@obsurvey.com
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From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.
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With respect to security: and we provide basic security at our site, we don not however use SSL (encrypted data transfer), so you should not conduct surveys that contain sensitive information..
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