Survs vs SurveyMonkey
Survs is a European alternative to SurveyMonkey — same surveys & forms use case, built under EU data-protection law.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- No
SurveyMonkey by Momentive.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
About Survs
Survs is a European online survey tool that lets teams create, distribute, and analyse questionnaires with a clean interface, themed templates, and real-time reporting. Researchers, marketers, and HR teams build surveys in minutes, send them by link, email, social network, or website embed, then watch responses arrive and update dashboards live.
The platform pairs an approachable builder with serious analytics: responses can be filtered, cross-tabulated, and exported to Excel, CSV, or SPSS, while shareable web reports let stakeholders explore results without a login. Multi-user accounts with custom roles make it simple for agencies and enterprises to collaborate on surveys under one workspace.
Key benefits:
- Intuitive builder with themes, logic, and a wide range of question types
- Multi-channel distribution via link, email, social media, and website embeds
- Real-time analysis with filtering, cross-tabs, and shareable web reports
- Data exports to Excel, CSV, and SPSS for deeper statistical work
- Team collaboration through multi-user accounts and custom roles
- Mobile-friendly surveys that render cleanly on every device
Survs is operated by Enough Pepper, Lda, a Portuguese company founded in 2009, with data handled under Portuguese and European privacy law and full GDPR compliance. Storing survey responses inside the EU gives research, academic, and enterprise customers a sovereign alternative to US-owned survey platforms subject to extraterritorial data requests.
Praised by TechCrunch, ReadWrite Web, and .net magazine for striking the balance between an easy-to-use interface and feature-rich survey capabilities.
Why choose Survs over SurveyMonkey?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. SurveyMonkey is headquartered in US, which means personal data processed through it can be subject to non-EU legal regimes — the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or similar laws depending on the provider. After the 2020 Schrems II ruling, EU organisations must carry out a transfer impact assessment for every such data flow.
Survs removes that overhead. As a Portugal-based provider, it operates natively under GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors — health, public administration, finance — that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single non-EU jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.