LimeSurvey

Vorteile

It's free, open-source and I can host in my own server (for free). It's even easier to build forms and questionaries than with survey monkey and google forms. The admin interface is easy to use and also the user interface. Very quick to build new forms, to see the answers, etc. Admins can use LDAP to login.

Nachteile

Impossible to say anything bad about this software.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Gründe für den Wechsel zu LimeSurvey

Vorteile

I like how it works and its environment. I recently requested technical support and I am very surprised of how quickly and precisely they answered. It was important for me to solve my problem fast and they were very efficient and kind!

Nachteile

I would like to have more built-in question types and flexibility with the scale-type, for example (1-10 scales and 0-10 scales)

Vorteile

Editable and professional survey platform

Nachteile

You need to spend time on finding a suitable coding. The program will be better if all possible coding are transferred to friendly-user choices. Just choose what you want by click and done.

Vorteile

Comprehensive features for creating surveys

Nachteile

Old fashioned and hard to use UI with plenty of bug. Lock you into a subscription with no advance warning of payment and will not refund.

Vorteile

easy to use, attractive design, functionalities for all needs

Nachteile

During the entire period of use, I encountered no difficulties

Vorteile

Intuitive user interface, most of our end-users can review the quickstart guide and be up and running with few questions to our survey administrators
Unlimited questions per survey - that tool is a limitation on another survey tool we use.
Excellent responsive templates with built-in bootstrap framework
Survey output is web accessible (WCAG/Section 508) minus a few things here and there. There has definitely been proactive work done in this area.
Easily customizable templates
Excellent survey and user permission control

Nachteile

The admin interface still needs a lot of work to make it accessible/WCAG compliant. This is an area they should continue to work on
When they release a completely new version, they need to make sure that online help/resources are ready for when that new version comes out.

Vorteile

I loved the fact that I was able to integrate this right into my vicidial platform and generate leads through it, absolutely amazing!!

Nachteile

The fact that if a survey was not completed, the next call we ran through the survey with picked up where the incomplete one didn't finish at and we had to press the previous button all the way back to the beginning and redo the surveys.

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Gründe für den Wechsel zu LimeSurvey

Vorteile

Firstly we began using LimeSurvey because it has a free version.
Later we found out that it has an amazing development team, both paid people in Hamburg, as well as some fantastic volunteers that spend a lot of time helping others.
Because LimeSurvey is Open Source and written in PHP, it turns out to be extendable and adaptable to our needs. Now, in 2018, after 9 years of living with it, we have it as one of our basic tools for research.

Nachteile

Earlier version were sometimes hard to learn, this has become a lot better, but the administrative user interface does still need some love & attention.

Vorteile

Can create as simple of complex a survey as I need. I like the reusable pieces, the range of question types and options for controlling them. The user interface is clear, and much improved over th eyears.

Nachteile

Analysis and reporting could do with some improvement, but I'll admit I'm not using the latest version yet. It's not simpel to use, but them nothing that allows for complexity is.

Vorteile

The variety of types of questions and the extent to which one can customize surveys.

Nachteile

The complexity of the website itself. You have limesurvey mainwebsite then another one for your survey. The survey website is very unclear and requires quite some knowledge beforehand to be able to make questions. The layout should be simplified to make it more coherent and unambiguous as to what you do.

Vorteile

* Open-source (peu couteux)
* facile à utiliser
* grande flexibilité
* nombreuses fonctionnalités
* analyse des réponses
* génération de rapports
* export des résultats et données en plusieurs formats exploitables

Nachteile

* personnalisation un peu complexe
* anomalies dans certaines langues (notamment celle qui s'écrivent de droite à gauche)

Vorteile

Grande variété de types de questions pour créer des questionnaires rapidement.

Nachteile

Interface procédurale sans effet drag and drop.

Vorteile

a facilidade de acesso, os temos são faceis de opinar .

Nachteile

não há nada que desabone o uso do site lime survey

Vorteile

La création de questionnaires complexes. L’interface

Nachteile

La prise en main un pas des plus intuitives mais une fois qu’on a pris le logiciel en main c’est bon

Vorteile

La possibilité de faire des conditions selon les reponses

Nachteile

La prise en main un peu complexe lors des premiers parametrages du sondage

Vorteile

Outil de sondage en alternative aux outils proposés par Google où encore par Microsoft. Possibilité de fonctionner en mode on-premise.

Nachteile

Interface un peu obsolète et nécessitant une rafraîchissement.

Vorteile

Outil très pratique pour construire des questionnaires en ligne. Restitution d'une base de données claire et fonctionnelle.

Nachteile

Outil pas forcément aisé à prendre en main, certaines boucles ne sont pas simples voire sont impossibles à réaliser.

Vorteile

Depending on the scale and complexity of your surveys, LimeSurvey can be either fairly straightforward and easy to learn or would require more time to get an in-depth understanding of all its features, which require advanced programming skills related to web development (CSS, JavaScript, JSON).
The platform is open-source and is regularly updated. Can be either used hosted by its developers or installed on your local server, which allows for more customization. It has several licenses to choose from if you prefer to use it hosted.
It is based on Bootstrap 3 and has a sophisticated theme editor, which needs to be used for adjusting themes according to your wishes.
It has a nice Stats feature that provides a quick analysis of collected data in real-time. Although, it is mostly helpful when you use default question types without extensive modifications with JavaScript.
It is available in various languages, which is useful for international surveys.

Nachteile

Even though the platform is well maintained, there are still minor bugs/issues that come up once in a while, when you start using it on a regular basis. And because it's an open-source product, it is not as extensively supported as a fully commercial product would be in this regard. Thus, it often takes some time for bugs to be fixed.
Also, it has its limitations when it comes to some complex question types, as it has its own set of default questions and other platforms might have a larger variety of questions to use, which might save time when creating a survey.

Vorteile

- Free
- Extremely easy to set up form, questions, and sections by choosing from the provided options
- Anyone with MS Office experience can make a professional looking survey
- Easy and advanced control of surveys completed, questions answered, skipped or not understood
- Response data visualization
- Hosting options

Nachteile

We had some minor issues with WYSIWYG HTML editor, but these were resolved.

Vorteile

features
ability to create custom designs
availability of professional support (Limesurvey Partners program)
number of available question types
powerful plugins
extensive manual
ability to run surveys offline using "OfflineSurveys" Android app

Nachteile

For new users the interface may require 1-2 hours to get familiar with.

Vorteile

LimeSurvey is an easy to use tool for making surveys and grading simple tests.
I love the fact that it has an integrated interactive tutorial for getting started.
It has all question types/templates that you will commonly use when creating a survey. Its UI is really intuitive and comes with preview images in all question types.
What I like the most about LimeSurvey is that you can configure lots of settings for a survey, like the restricted access control, timing, type of questions, survey logic creation, expiration date, url redirection after completion, etc.

Nachteile

What I do not like about LimeSurvey is its theme/template editor. It could be easier to modify by any non developer.

Vorteile

Is Open Source and have advanced utilities for multiple scenarios. And the information is mine.

Nachteile

A lot of Updates in a month. This gives the impression that the software is not "stable".

Vorteile

The free version lets you have a feel of the software which lets you decide if paying for the additional features is worth the cost. The no features restrictions and an unlimited number of surveys is awesome

Nachteile

The storage limit and advertising on end page as part of the free version. It would also be nice if the company could increase the number of administrators in the free version.

Vorteile

Free and Open source is the most emphasized of this application, colorful and functional. In the business environment have a feedback with your employees, suggestions, concerns is of utmost importance to improve the work environment !.

Nachteile

I had many problems when implementing this software in my work !. It was a clean and simple installation in UNIX environment, without problems in databases or libraries. But when creating surveys the creation of groups and users is a bit complicated! Once the accounts were created and published, many problems occurred when both the send and the commit occurred. The application was blank for several minutes before throwing some kind of error !.

Vorteile

Open source and the community. I love that templates and themes are fairly easy to get off the ground. 2.5 was a huge jump in terms of features and usability.

Nachteile

I wish the serve update wasn't paid, but I get it that you need to make money. I wish there was google authentication (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc) built in as well for admins. Mobile first design is key for the whole platform.

Vorteile

Free to start, a lot of control, can set it up in our environment (as opposed to SaaS), programming is fairly easy.

Nachteile

Still somewhat buggy and not as full-featured as it needs to be to be useful for long-term or complex projects.

Vorteile

I was new to survey software so LimeSurvey was a good adventure and experience. I downloaded and printed the manual and worked my way through it. Great flexibility of options for questions and formats, easy to launch and manage and easy to generate useful reports or data in spreadsheet format. Many of my graduate students subsequently used LimeSurvey for their research and it was easy to direct them and have them manage their own surveys.

Nachteile

Some question formats were counter-intuitive and took time to conquer. Using tokens for surveys was challenging to learn. All was solved eventually.

Vorteile

I like that is free and easy to use. It has a format that is similar to common online review sites that people are familiar with. It gives a robust set of polls and fillin options.

Nachteile

The administrative panel and review results could be better designed and easier to read. A clearer one-page summary of the results would be helpful.

Vorteile

its easy to install in our server unlike the voxco command center that we use for the same purpose

Nachteile

it does not work with the same efficiency as voxco for complexe studies with multiple filtres and quotas .

Vorteile

Functions of stats is most promising and especially the downloading of file in xls format is awesome.

Nachteile

Too much functions , sometimes I get confused. Especially conditional functions

Vorteile

Being an open source tool it gave me an excellent opportunity to implement it immediately without spending a penny

Nachteile

Its implementation can be complicated, installation and updates are currently paid options

Vorteile

Intuitive and easy to use;
Easy to organize the collected data
Possibility to export the results in different formats;

Nachteile

We have not found any cons in more than 3 years of use.

Vorteile

Great way to track info through surveys and online forms. Lots and lots of bells and whistles for the more intricate of surveys and online forms.

Nachteile

It's almost too bulky. Simple, multi-question surveys can be difficult to figure out at times.

Vorteile

The token feature is amazing and very good. I used it for an respondent driven sampling survey and it worked very well. The limeservice allows you to create surveys without ever having to read the manual.

Nachteile

No cons. Everything good.

Vorteile

1. Best solution for taking online surveys.

2. The application is platform independent and well supported by Linux and Windows platforms.

3. Unlimited number of surveys with unlimited number of participants is possible in premium versions.

4. You can add images, text, even videos for taking surveys.

5. Upgrades are released frequently.

Nachteile

1. Need some patience to setup the survey.

2. Two versions are there for lime survey, Lime Survey Pro and Lime Survey CE , need to make payment for accessing the premium features.

Vorteile

The pros are that it's a good alternative to PAID survey services. It's clean, modern design and powerful

Nachteile

Cons are that's it may be difficult to configure a survey where Monkeysurvey for example is really user friendly.

Vorteile

It has a logical, almost revolutionary, approach to survey branching and skip-logic. They hide question, based on equations, rather than using other means! Its quite bulletproof way of doing things, less likely for filters to fail.

Nachteile

It may be a bit hard to understand how it all works at first!

Vorteile

The built in templates make market research a breeze. Also super simple to export the results in a user friendly item.

Nachteile

A little on the pricey end especially with so many free options out there so that is the biggest negative. Other than that, it works well.

Vorteile

Lime Survey provides a variety of options and features for customer, employee or product surveys. Surveys can be open or closed and there are plenty of question types to choose from.

Nachteile

The biggest downside is that you need to be able to install and set the program up on your own server if you want to get the most value from the package.

Vorteile

Di facile installazione, raramente ho avuto problemi di down!

Nachteile

A volte troppo ripetitivo ,non ci sono tantissime novità..lo vorrei un po' più aggiornato

Vorteile

I enjoyed how quickly and easily you can be an administrator for the software and for the surveys. I really enjoy the intuitiveness of it, and when parts of it are not as intuitive, the online manual is incredibly well detailed and well explained.
Some key things that I really love about the software:
-The logic
-How easy it is to get the results
-Copying previous survey to not duplicate the work

Nachteile

On the other hand, I did not like that it is limited in the ways to edit once the survey is live. It deletes all previous data (but does give you the option to export and save them before) which would make embedding the data a tad harder.

Vorteile

It's very practical especially when trying to work in a developing country context.

Nachteile

Still exploring the functionality of Lime Survey. I think it could be a little easier to design new templates.

Vorteile

Its open source, functions are intuitive to use.

Nachteile

The answer cap in the free version could be higher.

Vorteile

Fairly easy to set up surveys and has lot of different features available. Easy to get results and pull reports.

Nachteile

After a survey is live, you can't make any changes without turning it offline.

Vorteile

Deploying the software is easy with a few steps. It offers a clean interface a a lot of features.

Nachteile

Deploying simple surveys are taking a longer time to configure. Without external support it tooks long to get a well designed and clean survey

Vorteile

Ease of use, creating logic and adding questions have been a breeze. Lime Survey is a great tool to use.

Nachteile

Sometimes it gets complex when trying to add an equation with logic. Need a lot of research to find answers.

Vorteile

One of the best things is that it is free, and you can use it online( don't have to download the application if you dont want to). It is easy to use and there is a flexibility in terms of questions and formats. For people answering the surveys they can save the survey and complete it later as well

Nachteile

There are a few things that pop up, which can be annoying. If it is your first time or you don't use it that often you may not notice these things. Also editing your surveys once they are active is extremely difficult.

Vorteile

An alternative for making surveys and polling, and it is customizable.

Nachteile

Some customizations are really difficult to hande.