Overview:
LimeSurvey is a free and open-source online survey platform developed since 2006. It enables businesses, academic institutions, governments, and professionals to create, distribute, and analyze surveys. The platform supports unlimited surveys and questions, conditional logic, multilingual surveys in 80+ languages, and customizable templates with CSS/JavaScript. With a focus on data security and compliance, it offers features like GDPR compliance, two-factor authentication, and anonymization. Organizations needing a self-hosted or hosted survey solution for feedback collection, research, or large-scale projects use LimeSurvey.
Core Features:
Unlimited surveys and questions: Create and manage an unrestricted number of surveys and questions per survey.
30+ question types and 900+ templates: Choose from a wide range of question types and apply pre-built survey templates.
Skip logic and question branching: Set up conditional logic to direct respondents to different questions based on previous answers.
Multilingual surveys: Offer surveys in 80+ languages to support global audiences.
RemoteControl API: Programmatically manage surveys and responses via XML-RPC / JSON-RPC interface.
Closed access mode: Distribute surveys via private or invite-only links for controlled participant access.
Use Cases:
Customer, employee, or stakeholder feedback collection: Gather and analyze responses using skip logic, statistics, and advanced analysis tools.
Academic research and field studies: Conduct surveys with multilingual support and GDPR-compliant data handling.
Multilingual surveys for global audiences: Deploy surveys in 80+ languages with a consistent on-brand design using custom fonts, colors, and CSS.
Organizations needing data security and compliance: Apply two-factor authentication, data anonymization, and GDPR compliance for sensitive data collection.
Why It Matters:
LimeSurvey offers a fully open-source survey tool with no vendor lock-in, providing unlimited surveys and questions without per-response limits. Its self-hostable nature allows organizations to maintain direct control over survey data. The platform supports extensive customization through plugins, themes, and a RemoteControl API, enabling integration with existing systems like SAML, LDAP, and REST APIs. Launched in 2006, it remains actively developed with a large community and professional hosting option.
