FeedbackPulse vs Jackpoll

FeedbackPulse brings employee pulse surveys, eNPS, 360 feedback, and lightweight performance reviews into one web platform. Teams can customize and schedule surveys, segment them by team, location, or tenure, and benchmark results against industry peers. Survey results remain hidden until at least three people respond. Optional AI-assisted analysis can summarize feedback and identify themes, and administrators can switch AI features on or off. Slack supports survey invitations and reminders, while AI assistants can access the platform through MCP; native API support is being prepared for a future release. The Free plan costs $0 per month and is limited to 10 employees and five active or scheduled surveys. Pro costs $4 per employee per month billed annually, or $5 billed quarterly. Max costs $8 per employee per month billed annually, or $10 billed quarterly. Larger teams can try Pro free, though no trial duration is stated. FeedbackPulse says its production hosting and backups use EU infrastructure, data is encrypted at rest with AES-256, and it offers a Data Processing Agreement as a GDPR-compliant processor. Its focus is employee feedback, not payroll, benefits, time off, or recruitment.

Jackpoll is an open-source survey and quiz builder for collecting responses, running live polls, and hosting presenter-led quiz games. Its 15 question types include short answers, multiple choice, checkboxes, grids, file uploads, sliders, rankings, signatures, and word clouds. Forms can span multiple pages and use drag-and-drop editing and conditional logic; collaborators can edit together with editor and viewer roles. Quiz sessions can be auto-graded, while live games let participants join by PIN or QR, use phones as buzzers, earn speed bonuses, and follow a leaderboard and podium. Responses appear in real time and can be exported to CSV, Excel, or per-response PDF. Webhooks can POST each response to an endpoint, and email notifications can arrive immediately or as a daily digest. Privacy features include consent notices, retention controls, export, and erasure. The maker describes the product as GDPR-compliant and EU-hosted. Respondents do not need accounts, but survey management requires an account or self-hosting. Hosted and self-hosted options are free; the frontend, API, and deployment stacks use the MIT licence.