Honestly vs Jackpoll

Honestly is an employee engagement platform for collecting feedback and supporting data-informed decisions about workplace culture. Its survey options include annual, pulse, onboarding, exit, leadership, custom, 360° feedback, and psychological risk assessment surveys. Surveys can run from weekly to annual or as one-off efforts. Teams can review dashboards and AI analysis, create initiatives, and track their progress. Employees can participate through the mobile app, email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, links, or QR codes. Honestly describes more than 100 HR system integrations, with additional data import through connectors, a native REST API, automated SFTP, or Excel. The company says the service is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and hosted in Germany. Security controls include 2FA, audit logs, 256-bit encryption at rest and in transit, and SSO for enterprise clients. Pricing is per employee with annual billing: Team is €24.00 per employee per year, Business is €30.00 per employee per year, and Enterprise is €42.00 per employee per year.

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.