Last updated
Quickly create free, open-source online surveys and polls. Offers advanced features, 80+ languages, and easy design for insightful data collection.
European surveys & forms alternative based in Germany.
LimeSurvey is an open-source online survey platform for designing professional questionnaires, polls, and forms with 30+ question types and 800+ ready-made templates. Teams build multilingual surveys with custom branding, logic branching, QR and social sharing, and publish them to any audience worldwide with full GDPR compliance.
The platform combines an intuitive drag-and-drop survey builder with built-in analytics, reporting, and anonymous response handling. Extensive customization (fonts, colors, custom domains) sits alongside API access, integrations, and accessibility features that meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA, making LimeSurvey suitable for academic research, HR, market studies, and enterprise feedback.
Key benefits:
- 30+ question types covering matrices, ranking, file uploads, and scoring logic
- 800+ templates ready to launch polls, NPS, and academic questionnaires in minutes
- 80+ languages supported for truly multilingual global survey distribution
- Logic and branching personalize flows based on previous respondent answers
- Advanced analytics export cleanly to SPSS, Excel, and statistical packages
- Custom branding with fonts, colors, logos, and custom domain URLs
LimeSurvey is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and offers EU-based hosting with 2048-bit SSL encryption. The service is fully GDPR compliant, works in anonymous mode, and is pursuing ISO 27001 certification, giving European researchers and enterprises a sovereign alternative to US survey tools.
Trusted by 60,000+ organisations across 160+ countries, including BMW Group, Ubuntu, GNOME, OpenOffice, and 250+ universities worldwide.
Categories
European alternative to
Head-to-head comparisons
See how LimeSurvey stacks up side-by-side against the non-EU incumbent on jurisdiction, GDPR, pricing, and features.
Tags
Similar European alternatives
Formbricks
Open source experience management platform for gathering user feedback on websites and apps. GDPR-compliant cloud or self-hosted options available.
Sleekplan
All-in-one user feedback platform combining voting boards, roadmaps, changelogs, and satisfaction surveys. Collect, prioritize and act on customer insights.
Typeform
Build beautiful, interactive forms, surveys, and quizzes to get more responses and deeper customer insights. No coding needed. Access thousands of templates.
UmfrageOnline
Swiss survey tool with unlimited questions and responses on the free tier, GDPR and nDSG compliant