A research survey for your thesis or project

Start with your hypotheses and who you're surveying: from these, the AI assistant builds a draft questionnaire, and you adjust the wording to your methodology. Before you collect, the assistant checks the questionnaire and flags leading and double-barreled questions; then take it yourself as a participant, and the test run won't count in the results. Set the number of responses you need and share the link: the survey closes by itself. If you're researching a market, see For marketers; student surveys are covered on For teachers & educators.

Yes. On the Free plan, with no credit card, you get an AI assistant draft, templates, a link and QR code, auto-close at the number of responses you need, a summary with charts and each response separately; unlimited surveys, one active at a time, with up to 10 questions each. Pro adds longer questionnaires, Likert-scale matrices with shuffled statements, screening questions and skip logic, scoring for psychology tests, CSV and XLSX export, Google Sheets, a copy of the questionnaire for the repeat measurement, and two team seats for your advisor or co-author. Expert adds up to five groups with their own links, the post-test as a separate wave and five team seats. Pro is billed monthly: turn it on for data collection and export, and cancel once you have your data; your collected responses stay in your account. See prices and the full list in the plan comparison.

Google Forms is free and works well for a simple questionnaire: it has scales, grids, section branching and response export to Google Sheets. Pollsar adds what matters for research: the AI assistant drafts the questionnaire from your hypotheses and flags leading questions, the survey closes by itself at the number of responses you need, each response shows its completion time, and control and experimental groups get their own links and separate summaries. You can build a short questionnaire in Pollsar for free, too.

You invite participants yourself, and it's easiest to collect answers where people know you: in class group chats, in relevant social media groups, or with a QR code on a slide or handout. The questionnaire opens on a phone with no sign-up or app, so people can fill it out between classes. How many responses you need depends on your study and your department's requirements: agree on the number with your advisor and enter it in the settings, and the survey closes by itself. If you're comparing groups, on Expert each one gets its own link and limit.

Yes. Pollsar's AI assistant builds a draft from your topic, hypotheses and participant description and flags leading wording; drafts work on the free plan too. The methodology and conclusions stay yours: you edit the questions for your study, and you can invite your advisor to the team to review the questionnaire before launch.

Pollsar builds the summary and charts for each question on its own, for free. On Pro, export responses to CSV or XLSX: one row per participant, one column per question. SPSS opens this file through data import, and R reads CSV. Pollsar doesn't create .sav files: you set value labels in SPSS.

Usually 8–10 questions tied to the project goal are enough: who's answering (grade or age), what people know and do about the topic, how they feel about it on a scale, and what they'd suggest themselves. A questionnaire like this fits the free plan, and Pollsar builds charts for every question. If your project is about the internet and online life, take the ready-made social media survey, and the AI assistant drafts one on your own topic.

Yes, on Pro: points for answers add up in a variable for each scale, participants see their result on the final page, and the scores go into Google Sheets along with the answers. If the personality test is only part of a longer questionnaire, use the 20-item Mini-IPIP.