Happy Mood Score vs Jackpoll

Happy Mood Score is a web-based pulse survey and employee engagement platform for growing teams, including teams spread across offices or working remotely. It emails one question at a time, and employees can answer without logging in or installing an app. Questions can use standard or eNPS formats with custom answer options, and surveys can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly for a selected time zone and dispatch day. Dashboards display engagement scores, trends, team heatmaps, response-rate breakdowns, and score distributions. Managers can organize employees into teams and view team scores, response rates, and rankings. Employees can also give public kudos linked to company values. The site lists English, Spanish, French, and German, with each person seeing their own language, and says confidentiality thresholds protect small teams from responses being traced to individuals. The Free plan is free for up to 20 employees with all features; Growth is $19 a month for 21 or more employees, at a flat rate rather than per seat.

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.