Jackpoll vs Questback Employee Experience

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.

Questback Employee Experience collects and analyses employee feedback to help organisations address engagement, retention and workplace culture. It offers ready-made survey templates that can be adapted to an organisation’s needs, as well as pulse surveys for recurring feedback on sentiment, engagement and wellbeing. Its analytics are described as using generative AI to show patterns and trends in real time. The Public API can manage surveys, send invitations and retrieve responses for use with apps, CRMs, analytics tools and data pipelines; access uses OAuth 2.0 with a client ID and client secret. Questback says it is GDPR-compliant and stores data in ISO-certified data centres in Germany. Listed controls include encryption at rest and in transit, audit logs, SAML 2.0, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. The service is available via web and API, with engagement surveys, anonymous responses, action planning and benchmarking listed. Pricing is available on request, and a 14-day trial is offered for companies, not private or individual users.