EUSurvey

Overview

EUSurvey is a free survey-management system for publishing public forms, including consultations and satisfaction questionnaires. It suits public agencies, civic organizations and teams that need multilingual, privacy-conscious surveys with the option to self-host. The trade-off is that high-volume projects need restrained form design to stay responsive.

Key features

You can mix text, multiple-choice, spreadsheet and multimedia elements in one form. Conditional logic reveals additional questions according to each participant’s answers, making complex applications or consultations more focused than a single long questionnaire. Scheduled publication and unpublishing help coordinate a campaign, while edits to a live survey preserve existing contributions.

Language coverage is a major advantage for international work: the interface supports 23 official EU languages, and forms can be translated into any of 136 ISO 639-1 languages. Anonymous-form settings keep connection details unavailable to the author, an important choice for sensitive feedback. Managers can delegate permissions for testing or result analysis, enabling collaboration without giving every contributor unrestricted control.

Respondents may save a server-side draft and return later, or answer offline and submit when connected. Results include basic analysis, histograms and charts, with exports to standard spreadsheet formats. API access supports integration, and the source is released under the EUPL licence on GitHub for organizations that want to install and operate the software themselves.

EUSurvey is not designed to hide every scaling concern. Guidance recommends fewer than 25 questions for surveys aimed at about 20,000 answers, and warns that forms with too many elements can load or submit slowly. That is sensible operational advice, but it means a large research instrument may need to be split into smaller forms.

Pricing

There is no paid tier, renewal charge or trial period to weigh. The hosted plan is the straightforward route for EU citizens who want a no-cost service; the open-source edition is for teams that need deployment control or want to manage the environment themselves. Neither plan supplies a published seat or response quota, but the hosted service’s usability guidance makes questionnaire size and audience scale practical constraints.

Platforms

EUSurvey runs on the web and is offered as an API and self-hosted software. The self-hosted option is the better fit for organizations that require operational control, while web access avoids installing an application for ordinary creators and respondents.

Who it's for

Choose EUSurvey for public consultations, multilingual government forms, user-satisfaction programs and other work where anonymity, European data hosting or open-source deployment matters. It is less compelling for a small team seeking a tightly packaged commercial workflow or for a questionnaire so element-heavy that the recommended question and response guidance cannot be met.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Free in both hosted and self-hosted forms: there is no subscription cost, and the open-source edition can be installed as a stand-alone application.
• Exceptional language reach: 23-language interface support and translations across 136 ISO 639-1 languages suit cross-border audiences.
• Practical privacy controls: anonymous forms prevent authors from accessing connection details.
• Flexible fieldwork: drafts and offline completion help respondents who cannot finish in one session or lack continuous connectivity.
• Useful publication control: scheduling and live edits without losing contributions reduce administrative friction during consultations.

Cons

• Scale requires discipline: forms aimed at roughly 20,000 answers should stay below 25 questions, and overly complex forms may become slow.
• Analysis is basic: built-in output centers on charts, histograms and spreadsheet exports rather than an extensive analytical workspace.
• Hosted eligibility is limited: the free hosted plan is described as available to EU citizens.

Alternatives

For polished, general-purpose form design with a free tier, Typeform offers unlimited forms but limits its free plan to 10 responses per month; pick it when presentation matters more than volume. Alchemer is a better choice when you need paid collaboration tiers and annual response allowances up to 100,000.

Qualtrics fits individual survey work requiring a free allowance of one user, three active surveys, 30 questions per survey and 500 total responses. Survey Solutions is another free, downloadable platform with server and tablet components and broad operating-system coverage.

Pick Zoho Survey for a hosted freemium workflow if 10 questions and 100 responses per free survey are sufficient. LimeSurvey suits teams wanting API or self-hosting, with a free allowance of 25 responses per month and one admin user, plus a $39.00 monthly Basic plan. KoboToolbox is aimed at mobile and field collection, while Formbricks offers self-hosting and a free Hobby workspace capped at 250 responses per month.

Verdict

EUSurvey is the right choice for public-sector and civic teams that need a genuinely free survey system, extensive multilingual support, anonymous collection and self-hosting or API access. Its main reason to look elsewhere is scale or analysis: very large, elaborate questionnaires and teams wanting richer commercial reporting may be better served by a specialized alternative.