Describe a survey, get branching questions, response dashboards, and AI summaries, with secure access and hosting handled for respondents.




Set up only the survey views and workflows you need today, then adapt question paths, response handling, and summaries as your process changes.






Manage survey responses in Softr Databases, or connect Airtable, Notion, Google Sheets, and other systems with real-time sync for one source of truth.
Give respondents the right survey views and access in a fully branded portal. Set up secure logins, user groups, and permissions in minutes.
Let respondents complete surveys on any device. Turn your app into a downloadable PWA in one click.
Let respondents complete surveys on any device. Turn your app into a downloadable PWA in one click.
Trigger notifications, response updates, or AI classification with Softr Workflows when respondents submit answers.
Create separate access for respondents, survey owners, and reviewers, so each group sees the right survey views.
Control who can view survey results, edit questions, review answers, or manage response classifications.
Protect survey responses with encrypted data in transit and at rest. Softr Databases is SOC 2 Type II compliant.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Describe your survey and get question paths, submission forms, and dashboards generated in minutes.

Add branching paths, response summaries, or new views as your survey process evolves.

Bring survey questions, submissions, dashboards, and classifications into one app.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




A survey app is a secure space where respondents, researchers, and program teams can log in to complete or manage questionnaires. It can bring together survey forms, response records, respondent profiles, uploaded files, completion updates, and reporting timelines. Instead of tracking invitations in email threads and answers across spreadsheets, a survey app centralizes the process from questionnaire design through response review.
For research and operations teams, the main benefit is keeping questionnaire design, respondent access, and response review in one place. Softr is an AI app builder for business software. Describe the survey workflow in plain language, and it generates the database, pages, and logic, already connected and secure, with no code at any point. You can also start from a template or build the app from scratch. Store responses in Softr Databases, or connect tools such as Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot. You retain visual control over question pages, respondent permissions, review dashboards, and your organization’s logo, colors, and domain.
You can shape the app around the full survey lifecycle, including:
- **AI inside the app:** Ask AI can answer questions about response trends, while Database AI Agents can classify open-text feedback by theme or flag low satisfaction scores for follow-up.
- **Custom components:** A Vibe Coding block can create a branded progress indicator or matrix question component when standard form blocks are not enough.
- **Automations:** Softr Workflows can send a review task when a response is submitted or update a respondent’s status when a questionnaire is completed.
- **Access control:** Give respondents access only to their own questionnaires while researchers can review assigned response sets.
- **Forms:** Add file uploads and conditional logic so later questions depend on earlier answers.
- **Reporting:** Build dashboards and charts from live response data, plus filtered lists, tables, kanban boards, and detail views.
Everything uses drag-and-drop blocks and remains editable later.
Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting AI build it. In Softr, you could request a survey app with respondent login, conditional questions, file uploads, response review, and completion tracking. The result runs on a production-ready, secure foundation rather than raw generated code. Authentication, database logic, and security are handled natively, so a broken prompt is less likely to leave researchers repairing access rules or losing response records on Day Two. When a Vibe Coding block is involved, every prompt and edit is versioned, allowing you to roll back a faulty progress bar or review component instead of trying to re-prompt your way back to an earlier version.
Yes. One survey app can separate research teams, HR departments, program cohorts, or regional offices. Each user sees only the questionnaires, respondents, and response records assigned to them, based on login and role. A central administrator can retain a wider view while a department reviewer works only with that team’s survey results.
A spreadsheet is not required to get started. Softr Databases is built into the platform, so you can create tables for questionnaires, questions, respondents, invitations, and responses before collecting your first answer. If you already track survey invitations or results elsewhere, you can connect Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or SQL, with availability depending on the plan. The REST API connector covers other sources. In either setup, you control how questions, response fields, and review statuses are structured and displayed.
Softr Databases is the recommended starting point for a survey app because it is a native relational source built for business software. Your questionnaire, respondent, invitation, and response data stays native to the app for high performance and instant automation triggers. Softr also connects to 21+ external data sources, including Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, SmartSuite, and BigQuery. One survey app can draw on several sources at once, such as respondent details from Airtable and reporting data from Google Sheets. Most connections support real-time two-way sync, so updates to response statuses and assigned reviewers can stay current.
Survey permissions can match the roles involved in collecting and reviewing answers. For example, respondents may view only their assigned questionnaire and submit their own response, while researchers can view response records for their assigned study but cannot change another team’s questions. You control layout, navigation, and which pages or blocks appear after login. Views can also filter questionnaires and responses by the logged-in user. Before publishing, the built-in preview lets you open the app as a respondent, researcher, or administrator, so you can confirm access without creating test accounts.
Yes. Apply your organization’s logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain, then remove Softr branding. This gives respondents a consistent experience when they open a questionnaire, upload supporting files, or review a completion message, which matters when the survey represents a research program, university, or client organization.
You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, page structure, navigation, and the content each respondent or reviewer sees after login. Arrange the blocks around the survey workflow:
- **Forms** can collect questionnaire answers, consent details, and uploaded documents.
- **Table** blocks can help researchers compare response status, assigned reviewers, and submission dates.
- **List or Card** blocks can show available questionnaires or respondent cohorts.
- **Detail View** blocks can display one response with its notes and follow-up status.
- **Charts** can summarize satisfaction scores, completion rates, or answer categories.
- **Calendar** blocks can show interview dates or scheduled review sessions.
The visual builder keeps every element editable later, so you can refine the review dashboard without rebuilding the questionnaire.
Survey responses can contain sensitive feedback, contact details, eligibility information, and uploaded documents, so access control matters. Softr encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest on secure infrastructure. Role-based permissions, users managed in your data source, visibility rules, and global restrictions can limit who sees respondent names, answers, or reviewer notes. With Softr Databases, data sits in Softr’s secure environment, hosted in Europe, Germany, and the database is SOC 2 Type II compliant. When you use an external source, Softr stores nothing and displays live data according to your access settings. Authentication, access control, and monitoring follow industry best practices.
An AI-generated survey app can be production-ready when it is built on Softr’s business-grade foundation. For a research team, production means real respondents can sign in, submit answers, upload files, and receive the right follow-up while reviewers work with real response records. Unlike tools that generate fragile code, Softr handles authentication, secure hosting, and granular permissions natively. That reduces the Day Two problem of maintaining access rules or protecting questionnaire data after launch. You can generate the first version with AI, then refine questions, reviewer dashboards, and completion workflows visually before real users begin responding.
Pure vibe coding tools generate custom code that can become fragile around authentication, response permissions, and maintenance. Traditional no-code tools often require manual configuration before a research team has a working questionnaire. Softr takes a hybrid approach: describe the survey database, respondent pages, and review logic in plain language, then refine each form, chart, and permission with visual controls. The business-grade infrastructure for authentication, roles, permissions, and hosting is already there, helping non-technical teams move from a first survey to production use. Softr apps are also agent-ready. A logged-in researcher can operate the app through an AI assistant over MCP, but only within the questionnaires and response records allowed by the app’s existing permissions. There is no second permission model to build or audit.
Set up the first automation around response submission: when a respondent completes a questionnaire, Softr Workflows can update the response status and create a review step for the assigned researcher. Native workflows can run when a record changes or a button is clicked. A survey app can also sync with tools such as Stripe for paid research participation or Intercom for support conversations. REST API connections and webhooks cover advanced cases, including sending response data to another system, triggering an external automation from a reviewer action, or displaying respondent details from a connected tool. These workflows require no code.
Describe your survey, then customize and launch it without code.