6 Best WordPress Survey Plugins (2020)

Looking for the best WordPress survey plugin? We’ve compared the 6 top survey tools to help you decide which is best for your WordPress site.

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Looking for a way to run surveys on your WordPress website? Why not? Collecting feedback from your audience in a user-friendly format can benefit everyone.

To maximize survey efforts on your WordPress site, you’ll need plugin fit for the job. But a quick search on the WordPress.org plugin directory will reveal one thing: there are a lot of choices!

So which one do you pick? Will a free version be powerful enough to do the job? What’s the difference between all these survey plugins anyway?

We’ve put together a list of the 6 best WordPress survey plugins to answer those questions plus a lot more. So let’s jump in!

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What survey features should you look for?

Before we get to our top selections, let’s run through some of the features we require of a top survey plugin. There are some very basic features that you cannot do without. And you know what? Not all survey plugins have them.

So what are the top features to look for in a WordPress survey builder? Have a look:

Survey builder: You’ll need an easy way to build your surveys. The best plugins on this list will feature a drag and drop form builder. It should also feature the most common survey fields like likert scales and multiple choice fields.
Integrations: Many users will already be using email marketing services or CRM platforms. The best survey plugins will feature integrations that allow users to easily integrate their surveys into these platforms.
Data visualization: If you want to create a survey and visualize the results with graphs or charts, you’ll need a plugin that can do that. This could be useful if you want to create a poll and display a running talley of the results in real-time.
Control over your data: The problem with using an online survey builder (like SurveyMonkey) is that they control your data. With many of the top online survey tools, you would need to pay for their mid-tier plan just to have the ability to export your data. WordPress plugins allow you to export data at any time.

The top survey plugins for WordPress

Now that you have a better idea of what to look for in a survey plugin, let’s get into our list of the best options.

1. Formidable Forms

Free Version ✓

Premium: Starting from $99/year

Formidable Forms is one of the best WordPress survey plugins out there. For starters, it features a drag and drop form builder with all the survey fields you would expect (including radio buttons, star-ratings, and much more).

Beyond that, it integrates with some of the top email marketing services like MailChimp and ActiveCampaign. It also integrates with CRM’s like Hubspot and Salesforce. If you are hoping to display survey results, Formidable’s unique Views feature allows you to display your survey data however you want: as graphs, tables, charts, or even entire web pages.

If you have an existing WooCommerce site with payment forms already set up, Formidable can integrate into your site easily. This allows you to build on an existing site rather than start from scratch. Rather than just leaving a comment, your buyers can give their feedback in real-time.

With Formidable, you can even create surveys with conditional logic. That means you only need to ask the questions that make sense for each individual. Everything is Formidable is defined straight from your WordPress dashboard, with no external dependencies.

Where Formidable really shines? It can make any type of form imaginable - not just surveys. It can help you build polls, quizzes, registration forms, and whatever else you can conceive.

2. Quiz and Survey Master

Free Version ✓

Premium: Starting from $79/year

Quiz and Survey Master is an easy to use quiz and survey plugin with a drag and drop element builder. It doesn’t allow for form building in the same sense that Formidable does above, but rather functions more like a SurveyMonkey alternative. Which is great if you are hoping to focus on surveys exclusively.

Another addition, as the name implies, is the ability to build quizzes in popular viral formats. They even have scoring and a leaderboard feature to keep users coming back to your site again and again.

3. OpinionStage

Free Version ✓

Premium: Starting from $228/year

Opinion Stage is more than a survey plugin. It has an entire suite of content creation tools designed to make your site more interactive. If your goal behind making surveys is more geared towards creating interactive site content, OpinionStage is worth a look.

With this plugin, you’ll be able to create slideshows, polls, surveys, quizzes and more. Each of the main types of content comes with their own specific settings which are hyper-focused around that type of content. OpinionStage is kind of like data collection and lead-generation in one plugin.

4. WP-Polls

Free Version ✓

WP-Polls is a poll building plugin that is free to use on your WordPress site. Although it is totally free, it still has some great features. Having said that, it will come in behind some of the other choices on this list when compared to their premium or pro versions.

If your goal is to create quick surveys and polls, this plugin is worth checking out. You can run a poll and display the results immediately after a user completes the poll. It works extremely well considering the plugin is totally free!

5. YOP Poll

Free Version ✓

Premium: Starting from $17/site

Although we still aren’t clear on what a YOP is, YOP poll is a well-known plugin with a loyal user base. One feature that is pretty nifty: the ability to schedule polls to be posted automatically in the future. True, you could schedule a post, but this feature allows you to publish a poll within an existing post or page.

More than that, YOP poll may have the most customization options in terms of visuals (except when compared to Formidable’s visual form styler). With their customizer options, you’ll be able to easily match your site without having to scale back your poll design instead.

6. Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings

Free Version ✓

Premium: Starting from $180/year

Crowdsignal is a popular survey plugin you might not have heard of. But you may have heard of its predecessor Polldaddy! They changed their name and UI and added some very good features along with it. Crowdsignal includes reporting so you can easily display the results of your surveys and polls.

It also features a drag and drop builder to make things really simple for users. Beyond that, it has all the survey fields you would expect and even has a premium version that gives users a lot more options (although, not many additional features).

Wrapping up

We hope this survey plugin roundup has helped you find the best plugin for your WordPress site. Choosing the right plugin is something worth the time investment. Choose wisely now and you’ll save yourself a lot of time in the long run.

For more plugin roundups, WordPress tutorials and form building tips, check out the Formidable blog! See you next time.