Twenty-one ways to ask. Each one shows how many people answered.

Choice and ranking

Four types ask people to choose or to rank. Single choice takes one answer. Multiple choice takes several. You can make an answer such as “None of the above” stand on its own, so choosing it clears every other tick.

A dropdown is a single choice shown as a menu, and its results read exactly the same way. A ranking asks people to put a list in their own order, by dragging, with the up and down buttons or with the arrow keys. A ranking only counts once the member presses “Use this order”, so your starting list is never recorded as their answer. If you make the ranking compulsory, members place every item before they move on.

On a multiple choice question, each percentage is of the people who answered, so together they can pass 100%. A ranking shows each item's average position and how often people put it first.

• Answers that stand alone
• Drag or arrow keys
• Average position and first choice

Find what matters most, and how people group things

To find what really matters in a long list, a MaxDiff question shows a few items at a time and asks which matters most and which least. Every set appears on one page, numbered Set 1 of 6 and so on. If the question is compulsory, members pick a most and a least in each set before moving on. Add three or more items and Survizo builds the sets for you, with four items in each and every item shown about three times. You can change both, up to six items a set and thirty sets. Every member sees the same sets.

A card sort asks people to put each item, such as a product or a feature, into the group where they think it belongs. People tap a group to place each card, and it works just as well with a keyboard or a screen reader. Give people your own groups to choose from. Or let each person name up to ten groups of their own, and see how they sort things in their own words. If the sort is compulsory, every card needs a group before members move on.

A MaxDiff gives each item a score, which is the times it was chosen most minus the times it was chosen least. Beside each score you see both counts and how often the item was shown, because an item shown less had fewer chances to be picked. Your spreadsheet, slide deck and statistics file all carry the same scores, so the numbers match wherever you present them.

A card sort shows each card with the groups it went into. Each group has a count and a share of the people who placed that card. Groups people named are pooled by name, whatever the capitals or spacing, so “Snacks” and “snacks” make one group. Every download lists each card and the groups people put it in.

• Most and least in every set
• Your groups or theirs
• Fair scores for every item

Images and heat maps

Image choice puts pictures side by side, such as packs, ads or concepts. You decide whether people pick exactly one or several.

A heat map shows one image and asks people to tap what stands out. You choose how many spots each person can tap, from 1 to 10. They can tap a marker to remove it, undo the last one, or clear them all.

Every member's taps build one map over your image, so the spots that grab attention show at a glance. A tap beside the image is counted and labelled but kept off the map, so the map shows only reactions to your image. The heat map reports the total clicks and how many people made them.

• 1 to 10 clicks each
• Undo and clear all
• Misses counted separately

Scales, numbers and dates

Three rating scales come ready to use. NPS runs from 0 to 10, an agree-or-disagree scale from 1 to 5 and a star rating from 1 to 5. Each shows how many people gave each score, and the average.

A slider and a number question use the lowest value, highest value, step and unit you set, such as % or hours. If someone types a number outside your range, or off your step, a message tells them what the question accepts. Members type numbers the way they write them at home, so 2,5 in one country and 2.5 in another both count as two and a half.

Both report an average, the middle answer and the range. On a scale of up to 21 points you also get a bar for each value, so a 1 to 7 slider reads like any rating scale. You can set the earliest and latest date a member may pick. It reports the earliest, latest and middle date, with a count for each month. A date stays the same day for everyone, whatever their time zone.

• Fixed 0–10 and 1–5 scales
• Your range, step and unit
• Average, middle and range

Rate many things in one go

A grid lets members rate several statements on the same scale in one go. Each row can take one answer or several. On a phone-sized screen, each row becomes its own card.

A carousel shows members one item at a time, with a picture if you like, and they rate each one on the same options. Members move with Back and Next, or with the arrow keys on a computer. Switch on auto-advance and the next item appears as soon as one is rated.

Every row shows how many people answered it, so each percentage is of the people who did.

• One or several per row
• A card per row on a phone
• A count on every row

Open text and video

Short text gives a one-line box and long text a larger one. Answers are kept word for word.

Depending on your plan, Survizo's AI can read the written answers to a question and sum them up for you. Ask for it and you get the overall sentiment and a short summary. You also get up to eight themes, each with how often it came up and a quote. On a long set of answers, the summary says how many it read, so you know exactly what it covers.

Members can answer on camera for up to 90 seconds, right in their browser. They can watch it back and record again before they submit. Video answers has its own page.

• Short or long text
• Themes on request
• Video up to 90 seconds

Files and signatures

A file upload asks for one file, such as a receipt, a photo or a document. You choose images, documents or either, and a size limit of up to 10 MB. Members can send any common photo, including iPhone photos, or everyday files such as PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Members see the limit and the types before they choose. A file of the wrong type or size gets a clear message before anything uploads.

A signature question gives people a box to sign with a finger, a pen or a mouse, and Clear lets them start again. Their signature is saved as a PNG picture, black ink on white. Files and signatures upload when the member submits, into a private folder only that member can add to. Before Survizo keeps the answer, it checks that the file belongs to that question and is a type the question takes.

In your results, each file is listed by number and type, such as File 3 (PDF). It opens with one click, through a private link that expires soon after. Signatures list the same way, as Signature 1, Signature 2 and on. Your downloads show who sent a file or signed, and point to each one. The files themselves stay safely in Survizo, where your team opens them, so they never travel around in a download.

• Up to 10 MB a file
• Checked against the question
• Opened with one private click

Show a picture, product or prototype first

You can show something above any question for people to react to. Show images that open full screen with pinch and double-tap zoom, a 3D model people turn with a finger or a mouse, or a clickable prototype.

You can offer a survey in twelve languages, with every question, answer and unit translated. Tell Survizo what you want to learn, or hand it your Word document, and its AI drafts the questions for you to approve one by one.

• Images with zoom
• 3D models and prototypes
• Twelve languages