LimeSurvey
Run detailed surveys with branching, multilingual questions, quotas, and exports.
What it helps with
LimeSurvey is a mature survey platform for questionnaires that need branching, quotas, multiple languages, participant management, invitations, and detailed exports. Research teams, educators, nonprofits, and agencies can use it for work that exceeds a simple form builder. That power creates setup and governance work: administrators must design survey logic, configure email, secure respondent data, manage tokens, plan storage, and validate accessibility and privacy. LimeSurvey Cloud is separate from self-hosting and can reduce operations.
Best fit
Best for serious surveys and research; not for a quick two-field lead form or teams without survey-design expertise.
Setup reality
Needs developer; self-hosting requires a supported PHP web/database stack, installer, mail, permissions, backups, and versioned upgrades.
License context
Copyleft licenseBusiness use is allowed. Sharing duties depend on the specific license and how modified software is distributed or offered.GPL-2.0-or-later; internal/hosted use is allowed; distribution of modified GPL code requires source, while hosting alone is not an AGPL trigger.
Resource facts
- Use case
- Forms & Surveys
- Industries
- All businesses, Education
- Setup
- Needs developer
- Audience
- Some technical experience
- Capabilities
- Cloud option
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