LimeSurvey

What it is

LimeSurvey is a survey tool: you build surveys, questionnaires and polls, share them and read the results. The home page puts it plainly, "You don't need to be an expert to create professional surveys and questionnaires", and it counts organizations in 160+ countries among its users. It is for researchers, teams collecting customer or employee feedback, event organizers, schools and public bodies, more than for someone who wants a payment form or a lead-capture page.

Because it is a survey platform, it sits in the forms category through what it shares with form builders: questions in, structured responses out. Survey links on LimeSurvey Cloud show an address of the form somedomain.limesurvey.net, a point the FAQ explains when it covers domain aliasing.

What you build and how

The editor is a survey builder with a range of question types. The home page says "From question types and fonts to layout and logic, LimeSurvey lets you fine-tune every part of your survey." The event planning page names the same strengths in a list: easy and simple to use, real-time results analysis, customized branding and various question types. It calls the platform an all-in-one tool for collecting information and feedback from vendors, clients and attendees.

Templates

The company says it offers 800+ expert-built survey templates, for market research, customer feedback, academic studies and internal evaluations, among other uses. The template gallery shows the range: a pet survey, supplier evaluation form, student evaluation form, employee satisfaction template, course evaluation form, employee evaluation form, event feedback form, conference registration form, employee motivation survey and employee information form. The event planning page adds an event planning form template, an event planning questionnaire template and an event registration form template. A template is a starting structure, so you don't open a blank page.

Polls

There is a separate polls product with a poll maker for creating, distributing and analyzing polls, and its own poll templates. They include a coaches poll, a customer service improvement poll, an event date selection poll, an event location preference poll, an exit poll and a feature vote poll. A date or location vote is a tidy way to settle a plan with a group.

Sharing and results

Sharing is by link or code. The home page says LimeSurvey lets you "share surveys, questionnaires and polls with a simple link or QR code", so you can reach people through email, social media, posters or flyers. Results come back through built-in analytics, and the event planning page promises real-time results analysis and data export. One reviewer on the home page, a data analyst, says "I push it to its limits by writing custom reports to extract data the way I need it."

Domain aliasing, teams and canceling

The FAQ explains why domain aliasing exists. Participants may hesitate when a click from your website changes the address to somedomain.limesurvey.net, so aliasing lets you use your own website domain for the survey. Domain aliasing is available only on a paid subscription. The event planning page says LimeSurvey offers an unlimited number of survey users, user management and data protection.

The FAQ also covers canceling. You open Billing History from the profile menu, find the plan and use the "Cancel this plan" link. After the paid period ends, the account falls back to the FREE plan.

What the pages state about plans and limits

The pricing page lists these paid plans, with prices shown in Fr. and a euro equivalent marked with an asterisk.

• Basic costs 44 Fr. per month billed monthly (=47€).
• Expert costs 40 Fr. per month, 480 Fr. billed annually (=517€), and carries a "Best price" label.
• Business costs 70 Fr. per month, 835 Fr. billed annually (=900€).
• Corporate is described as ideal for large organizations, with advanced features. The page mentions a direct contact (CSM), check-ins and optional onboarding, training and customisation.

There is also a free plan. The FAQ makes the limits concrete: response volume is a balance. LimeSurvey warns you by email when the balance is getting low, and you can set the warning level in your account settings. If the balance falls below zero, participants can no longer answer your surveys, and you get another email. On the FREE plan, access is locked completely until your monthly period ends and access returns, or until you buy a subscription plan. Unused response volume expires at the end of each subscription period, so it doesn't roll over. The FAQ also notes that the number of administrators and some services such as domain aliasing depend on the plan.

Discounts exist for some groups: 30% for teachers, 50% for students and 30% for charitable organizations. Teachers and students must agree to use LimeSurvey only for classroom work. To apply, you sign up for a free account and email your username with a scan of your faculty or student ID, or proof of charity status for a charitable organization. The company confirms by email once the discount is in place.

For proof of use, the home page carries testimonials. One reads, "We've put 28,000 responses through LimeSurvey this year. Well supported and continuously improving." It is signed Sophie W., government agency. Others come from a public sector user, an academic institute and a nonprofit. These are comments the company chose to display.

Who it suits and who it doesn't

LimeSurvey suits a researcher, school, nonprofit or public agency that needs questionnaires and polls with a decent template library, QR-code sharing and live results, and a free plan to try it. Event planners can lean on the registration, feedback and date-poll templates. A team that wants its own domain on survey links should budget for a paid plan, since aliasing is not on the free one.

The response-volume model needs attention. A free account that runs out of balance is locked until the month resets, and unused volume on a paid plan expires, so a one-off burst of responses needs planning. And this is a survey tool, not an app or workflow builder. The pages say nothing about payments, automations or integrations, so someone who wants to build an intake portal with routing or an online order form should look at a general form builder. The product does one thing, collecting and reading responses, and its pages show it doing that thoroughly.