Full Product Data Collection
Data collected January-February 2020
Product name | Typeform |
Product URL | https://www.typeform.com/ |
Parent organisation | N/A |
Workflow category | Measurement & evaluation |
Date product founded | 2012 |
Product description | Form-building and survey data collection platform. |
What type of company or organisation is the product owned by? | Privately-owned company (or group) |
Is the company profit-making? | Cannot determine |
How is this product funded? | Subscriptions, VC investment |
What market share does the tool have? | One of the leading products (#3-7) |
Is there an Open Source alternative in this product space? | Yes. SurveyJS, LimeSurvey |
When did the company last release new features? | October 2018: New developer platform |
Have they shared details of the product roadmap? | No |
Is there talk of the product raising further investment? | No |
Is there talk of the product being acquired? | No |
Have there been any newsworthy business issues or challenges in the last 12 months? | No |
Is there a pricing model listed on the website? | Yes |
How clear & transparent is this pricing model? | Very: full pricing listed |
What is the range of prices offered? | Essentials: $35/month or $360/annum Professional: $50/month or $420/annum Premium: $70/month or $708/annum |
What factors drive higher pricing? | Additional features, More audience (e.g. more subscribers, traffic), Ability to whitelabel or customise |
What skills are needed to get this tool set up & usable? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
What skills are needed to USE this tool day-to-day? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
Does this tool use proprietary file formats for saving documents & outputs? | Defaults to common open standard file formats |
Is the product reliant on 3rd-party APIs or interoperability to function? | No |
Have there been any newsworthy technical issues in the last 3 years? | No |
How clear is the Terms of Service for users (i.e. publishing customers)? | Simplified, plain English TOS |
Does the product have a data collection & usage policy on its website? (Can be a GDPR statement)? | Yes, comprehensive. |
Is their data policy “GDPR everywhere”? | GDPR unclear on these details |
Does the product require your audience to sign-in to use it? | No audience sign-in functionality |
IF SIGN IN REQUIRED: Does audience sign-in use 3rd party platforms? | N/A no sign-in required |
Does the public product website mention how to export or transfer your data to another service? | Yes: Export/transfer publisher content |
Does the public product website mention how to delete your data? | Yes: for both publisher and audience data |
Have there been any newsworthy security breaches with this product in the last 3 years? | Yes. Typeform data breach hits thousands of survey accounts |
Does the company have an accessibility statement on its website? | No / cannot find |
Does the company release information on the diversity of the workforce? | No |