RefractSurvey Feature Inventory
A quick, scannable checklist of everything RefractSurvey can do right now. Every item links to a page with more detail.
Organizing your work
- Unlimited projects, each keeping its surveys, codes, and media completely separate
- Unlimited surveys per project — draft, active, or closed
- Groups for organizing a survey's questions into sections, shown one at a time to respondents
- Drag-and-drop reordering of groups, questions, and answer options
Asking questions
- 10 answer-collecting question types: short text, long text, email, number, date, yes/no, scale, single choice, multiple choice, and URL entry
- 3 context-only block types: description text, image, and link display
- Optional per-option descriptions on single/multiple-choice answers
- Markdown formatting (bold, italic, underline, headings, nested lists) in question text and long-text answers, with a live preview
- Required or optional on any question
- Click-through survey preview before publishing, with no risk of it counting as a real response
Collecting responses
- One-time, respondent-friendly access codes, with a printable sheet for handing them out on paper
- Anonymous by design — no IP address ever recorded against a response
- Automatic rate-limiting against code-guessing and password-guessing alike
- Mobile-friendly survey-taking, down to small phone screens
Making sense of it all
- Per-survey analytics with switchable bar/pie charts for every scale and choice question
- Histogram charts for number and date questions
- A full individual-response view for reading answers one at a time
- Zip-file backups that round-trip a survey's structure, images, and responses — exportable and importable from the browser, or via the command line for oversized files
Reusing your work
- A shared, install-wide template library, independent of any one project
- A built-in, ready-to-use "Indie Game Feedback" template (28 questions across 4 groups)
- Soft-delete and restore for templates, so nothing is lost by accident
Managing your team
- User accounts with activate/deactivate, separate from survey respondents entirely
- Fine-grained, per-project permissions, plus reusable role presets
- A dedicated Media Library per project, with real image validation on upload
Making it yours
- 15 color themes, including an animated Rainbow option
- A custom application name, shown throughout the interface
- A guided installer that checks every requirement for you — see Getting Started
Not currently included
A few things RefractSurvey deliberately doesn't do, in case you're checking for them:
- No CSV export — the zip/JSON backup format is the only export option
- No exportable images/CSVs of an individual analytics chart
- No cross-survey or cross-project analytics rollup — analytics is always per-survey
- No enforced password complexity rules beyond a minimum length (by design — see Users)