UX Research Tools List For 2022

Dec 1, 2021 | User Research

There is an abundance of UX research tools available in the market, so much so that we spend quite a bit of time figuring out which tools are the right tools.

There isn’t an ultimate UX research tool, and you may even end up purchasing UX research tools that have overlapping functionality that you’re almost paying double for the same thing. To avoid situations like these, we have compiled an exhaustive list for all your UX research needs.

Some UX research tools publish their prices while some you must contact them. We try to include those prices of the UX research tool when available (but they can change).

UX Research Tools List For 2022

You may navigate to any section easily by clicking the links below:

UX Research Tools for Active Research

Active Research: For when you want to conduct studies for user feedback

Usability Testing
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Applause
Overview: a comprehensive platform that provides functional testing, user experience testing, and usability testing
Price: Contact for pricing

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Maze
Overview: offers rapid testing from prototypes to cop
Price: Free – $25/month

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Netizen Testing
Overview: specializes in remote usability testing from wireframes, A/B testing, to websites across various platforms
Price: Special Promotion of $24.90/participant for 3 participants or more

TryMyUI
Overview: provides remote and mobile user testing, along with wireframe and prototype testing
Price: $99/month – $5,000/month

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UserBob
Overview: offers fast and agile usability testing for websites and apps
Price: $20 – $36

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Userbrain
Overview: platform can test live websites, prototypes, or websites that are under development on various devices
Price: $23/month – $35/user test

Specialized Testing
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Wynter
Overview: Conducts customer development surveys, and message testing for website, ad, and email copy
Price: $1/test credit – contact for annual contract

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Fable
Overview: Engage people with disabilities for user research, accessibility testing, and on-demand user testing
Price: Contact for pricing

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Obvi
Overview: A bring-your-own-participant platform that uses text and mms messaging for user research for quick responses to assignments
Price: Free – $299/month

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Useberry
Overview: User testing platform built for designers, product teams, and researchers
Price: Free – $84/month

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UsabilityHub
Overview: Remote user research platform that validates with real users
Price: Free – $199/month

Surveys
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Typeform
Overview: People-friendly forms with conditional logic, and built-in photos and video libraries to bring questions to life
Price: $25/month – $83/month

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SurveyLegend
Overview: Mobile-friendly surveys that provide real-time insights
Price: Free – S65/month

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Google Surveys
Overview: Market research tool by Google that gathers data from survey questions from internet users
Price: $0.10/response – $10/response

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Google Forms
Overview: Online survey creation tool by Google for personal use and business teams
Price: Free

Usability Testing + Video Interviews
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Loop11
Overview: Usability testing platform for moderated and unmoderated projects that comes with video, audio, and screen recordings
Price: $63/month – $399/month

Specialized Testing + Surveys
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Helio
Overview: Survey platform for design, product, and marketing questions for targeted delivery
Price: $49/survey – $399/survey


UX Research Tools for Passive Insights

Passive Insights: For when you want to passively gather feedback as users interact with your product

Analytics
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Google Analytics
Overview: Web analytics platform by Google that connects your insights to results
Price: Free – $12,500/month

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Kissmetrics
Overview: Advanced product and marketing analytics platform for Saas and E-commerce
Price: $299/month – $499/month

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Mixpanel
Overview: Self serve product analytics with interactive reports and data integrations
Price: Free – $25/month

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Heap
Overview: Digital insights platform that shows you everything your users do on your product or site
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Amplitude
Overview: Digital optimization system that brings together digital product analytics and digital personalization
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

A/B Testing
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Google Optimize
Overview: Website optimization tool for online markets and webmasters to increase visitor conversion rate
Price: Free

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Apptimize
Overview: Multivariate testing and feature release management solution for mobile apps, websites, and OTT
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Adobe Target
Overview: Optimization engine with AI-powered testing, personalization, and automation at scale
Price: Contact for pricing

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AB Tasty
Overview: Platform for feature management, experimentation, AI-powered personalization, core capabilities, and dynamic widgets
Price: Contact for pricing

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Launch Darkly
Overview: Feature management platform that dynamically controls the availability of application features to users
Price: $10/month – $20/month

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Optimizely
Overview: Open and extensible Digital experience platform providing one consistent foundation behind every digital touchpoint
Price: Contact for pricing

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Split
Overview: Feature flag platform that manages and measures every feature
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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PageSense
Overview: Conversion optimization and personalization platform the measures key website metrics
Price: $16/month – $49/month

Heatmap, Eye Tracking, Session Recording
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Crazy Egg
Overview: Offers heatmaps, scrollmaps, click reports, A/B testing, as well as website recordings
Price: $24/month – $249/month

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UXCam
Overview: Mobile app experience analytics platform for mobile product teams with sessions recording, heatmap, and funnel analytics
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Tobii
Overview: Eye-tracking sensor technology that detects where the user is looking for unique insights into user behaviour
Price: Contact for pricing

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Smartlook
Overview: Records users on websites and mobile apps to find out where users are struggling
Price: Free – $79/month

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SessionCam
Overview: Uncover insights using session replay, heatmaps, conversion funnel, customer journey mapping
Price: Contact for pricing

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Hawkeye
Overview: User research platform that uses eye-tracking to provide insights into user behaviour
Price: Free – $200/month

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Fullstory
Overview: Digital experience intelligence platform that combines analytics, session detail and collaboration tools
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Eyequant
Overview: Platform that brings together neuroscientific research, artificial intelligence and neural network modelling to simulate user reactions
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Contentsquare
Overview: Digital experience analytics platform that analyzes digital behaviours
Price: Contact for pricing

Automated Feedback
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Userpilot
Overview: Provides growth insights, engagement layer, and user sentiment to help product teams deliver a personalized in-app experience
Price: $249/month – $749/month

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Apptentive
Overview: Actionable mobile customer feedback that measures shifts in customer emotion
Price: Contact for pricing

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Appcues
Overview: Measures product adoption and growth to understand how users engage with your product
Price: $249/month – $879/month

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Gainsight
Overview: Saas platform that connects and centralize customer data to reflect insights
Price: Contact for pricing

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Instabug
Overview: Platform for bug reporting, crash reporting, app performance monitoring
Price: $149/month – $249/month

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Pendo
Overview: Digital adoption platform software and product analytics software to deliver better digital experiences
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Promoter
Overview: E-commerce feedback solution that uses Net Promoter System (NPS) to collect and analyze feedback
Price: Free – $225/month

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Tribe
Overview: Community platform that takes care of the essential components of the community and extends the capability
Price: Free – $199/month

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Usabilla
Overview: Collect real-time feedback across all your digital channels to improve customer experience
Price: Contact for pricing

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UserLeap
Overview: Captures relevant insights by surveying customers within the product experience and uses AI-powered analysis
Price: Free – $79/month

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Usersnap
Overview: Website feedback platform the tracks bug reports, feature requests, customer ratings, and experience
Price: $19/month – $149/month

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WalkMe
Overview: Digital adoption platform to measure digital experience analytics (DXA), tracked events and funnels, along with session stream and session playback for better user experience
Price: Contact for pricing

Heatmap, Eye Tracking, Session Recording + Automated Feedback
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Hotjar
Overview: Tracks user behaviour uses heatmaps and recording and automates feedback with a real-time suggestion box
Price: $99/month – $989/month

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Lucky Orange
Overview: Conversion optimization suite that provides analysis with historical statistics, as well as recordings of every user that visits your website
Price: $10/month – $100/month

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Mouseflow
Overview: Allows full replay of the visitor experience to analyze pain points using session replay, as well as heatmaps, tracking funnels and feedback
Price: Free – $299/month

A/B Testing + Heatmap, Eye Tracking, Session Recording + Automated Feedback
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VWO
Overview: Platform for testing, insights, product and feature experiences, as well as cart abandonment campaigns, and scale growth roadmap
Price: Contact for pricing


UX Research Tools for Insights Management

Insights Management:  For when you want to organize and store the collected data

Transcription
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Descript
Overview: Transcription software using AI and professional transcriptionists, as well as screen recording and remote recording
Price: Free – $24/month

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Fireflies
Overview: AI assistant for meetings that records, transcribe and searches across your voice conversations
Price: Free – $ 19/month

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Otter
Overview: Generates notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other voice conversations using AI
Price: Free – $30/month

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Reduct
Overview: Transcribes recordings and allows for searching, editing, and video sharing
Price: $30/month – Contact for pricing

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Rev
Overview: Transcription service by professional transcriptionists and AI for audio and video
Price: Contact for pricing

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Temi
Overview: Speech to text transcription using speech recognition software for audio and video files
Price: Contact for pricing

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Trint
Overview: Converts audio and video into searchable, editable, and shareable content
Price: $48/month – $85/month

Research Repositories
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Airtable
Overview:  Workspace solution on one platform, with the power of a database and the familiarity of a spreadsheet
Price: Free – $24/month

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Aurelius
Overview: Research and insights platform that helps to handle the end-to-end process of research
Price: $49/month – $259/month

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Dedoose
Overview: Cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research
Price: $10.95/month – $14.95/month

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Delve
Overview: Online qualitative analysis tool for quick human insights and research reports
Price: Contact for pricing

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Sticktail
Overview: Platform that connects and organizes insights from all departments
Price: Free – € 299

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Trello
Overview: Project management and collaboration software to support teamwork and productivity
Price: Free – $12.50/month

Note-Taking
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Evernote
Overview:
Note-taking software that captures text, photos, and files with search capability and keyword tags
Price: Free – RM 43/month

Transcription + Research Repositories
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MaxQDA
Overview:
Qualitative and mixed methods data analysis tool with a transcription feature
Price: Contact for pricing

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NVivo
Overview:
Automated transcription assistant for audio and video data in qualitative and mixed methods research
Price: Contact for pricing

Transcription + Note-Taking
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Grain
Overview:
Record, transcribe, clip, and share video from Zoom in real-time
Price: Free – $36/month

Research Repositories + Note-Taking
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Confluence
Overview: 
Remote-friendly team workspace for project collaboration, integrated across the Atlassian suite
Price: Free – $10/month

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ConfirmKit
Overview:
User research platform for team collaboration with various forms and guides, and insight aggregation
Price: $29/month – $49/month

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Dropbox Paper
Overview:
Real-time co-editing service by Dropbox for teams to collaborate and assign tasks
Price: Free – $25/month

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Google Drive
Overview:
Cloud-native collaboration that integrates with the Google suite, and Google’s AI and search technology
Price: Free – RM 42.99/month

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Notion
Overview:
Workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases for writing, planning, and organizing
Price: Free -$8/month

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UserBit
Overview:
Research platform for UX and product teams to manage user interviews, analyze surveys, and create personas
Price: $17/month – $99/month

Transcription + Research Repositories + Note-Taking +
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EnjoyHQ
Overview:
User research platform for data centralization, analysis and insight sharing
Price: $25/month – Contact for pricing

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Dovetail
Overview: 
User research analysis and repository platform the includes transcription services, insight sharing, and participant management
Price: $15/month – $600/month


UX Research Tools for Design

Design: For when you want to create visuals or prototypes

Wireframing
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Balsamiq
Overview: 
Rapid low-fidelity UI wireframing tool that reproduces the experience of sketching using a computer
Price: $9/month – $199/month

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Whimsical
Overview: 
Collaboration tool for architecture diagrams, user flows, brainstorming, product specifications, and ideation
Price: Free – $20/month

Brainstorming
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FlowMapp
Overview: 
UX tool for web design for flowchart, sitemap, personas, customer journey map, and user flow
Price: Free – $199/month

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Lucidchart
Overview: 
Diagramming application and visual workspace for diagramming, data visualization, collaboration, and brainstorming
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Miro
Overview: 
Collaboration whiteboard platform for teams for meetings, workshops, brainstorming, and mind mapping
Price: Free – $16/month

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Mural
Overview: 
Digital workspace for visual collaboration to support agile teamwork
Price: $12/month – $20/month

Prototyping
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Axure
Overview: 
UX tool to build realistic and functional prototypes with even triggers, conditions, and actions
Price: $25/month – Contact for pricing

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Framer
Overview: 
Prototyping tool with flexible layouts and building blocks to leverage code to enhance workflows
Price: Free – Contact for pricing

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Marvel
Overview: 
Design platform for wireframing, prototyping, and design generation
Price: Free – $42/month

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Proto.io
Overview: 
Drag and drop prototyping tool with no coding required and micro animations
Price: $12/month – $80/month

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ProtoPie
Overview: 
No coding required prototyping tool, create interactions using your native keyboard, camera, or multi-touch
Price: $11/month – $50/month

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UXPin
Overview: 
Code-based design prototyping tool with synchronization to Git repository
Price: $19/month – $83/month

Design + Prototyping
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InVision
Overview: 
Product design platform for ideas to development with real-time team collaboration
Price: Free – $7.95/month

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Adobe Creative Cloud
Overview: 
Collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for design, video, web, UX, and photography
Price: $19.99/month – $52.99/month

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Figma
Overview: 
Collaborative design and prototyping tool with interactions and smart animations
Price: Free – $45/month

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Sketch
Overview:
Vector graphics editor for macOS for user interface and user experience design for website and mobile apps
Price: $9/month – Contact for pricing


UX Research Tools for ResearchOps

ResearchOps: For when you want to build and manage research participants and studies

Scheduling
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Calendly
Overview:
Simplified scheduling tool with smart coordination and automatic reminders
Price: Free – $12/month

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Doodle
Overview:
Smart scheduling tool with basic calendar integration, secure AWS hosting, and Cloudflare security
Price: $6.95/month – $8.95/month

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YouCanBookMe
Overview:
Online scheduling tool to manage team availability, with customizable notifications, and integrations with Zoom, Zapier, Gmail and Stripe
Price: $8/month – $10/month

Scheduling + Recruiting & Payment + Research CRM
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Ethnio
Overview: 
Participant management tool for UX research that keeps track of participant activity using CRM
Price: $66/month – $349/month

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Respondent
Overview:
Recruitment and participant management tool that handles payment through the Respondent platform
Price: Contact for pricing

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User Interviews
Overview:
User interview recruitment platform or invite your own and build an ongoing customer research habit with CRM and automation
Price: Free – $250/month


UX Research Tools Across Active Research, Passive Insights, Insights Management, ResearchOps & Design

Specialized Testing + Transcripts
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LivingLens
Overview:
Provides video insights using content recognition and analytics tools
Price: Contact for pricing

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Voxpopme
Overview:
Video survey software platform that uncovers human insights
Price: Contact for pricing

Video Interviews + Transcripts
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Zoom
Overview:
Teleconferencing software program with closed captioning and live transcription features
Price: Free – $35/month

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Whereby
Overview:
Video conferencing platform with screen sharing and recording capability
Price: Free – $9.99/month

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Skype
Overview:
Communication tool for video and voice calls and chat across various devices including Xbox and smartwatches
Price: Free – $7.99/month

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Methinks
Overview:
Self-serve qualitative market research tool that uses video chat tools to interview target customers
Price: Contact for pricing

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GoToConnect
Overview:
Teleconferencing platform with screen sharing, meeting recording, and transcription features
Price: $12/month – $19/month

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Google Meet
Overview:
Video and voice meeting platform that can include polls and Q&A, breakout rooms, and dial-in phone numbers
Price: Free – $8/month

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BlueJeans
Overview:
Video conferencing tool for meetings, live streaming, digital workplace, and telehealth
Price: $9.99/month – $99/month

Specialized Testing + Video Interviews + Transcripts
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Dscout
Overview:
Suite of research tools for recruitment, user interviews, diary studies, and surveys
Price: Contact for pricing

Usability Testing + Video Interviews + Transcription
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Lookback
Overview:
Provides real-time, remote moderated testing as well as simple and unmoderated remote testing on any device
Price: $99/month – $229/month

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PingPong
Overview:
Remote UX research platform that takes care of recruitment to payouts for user interviews and user tests
Price: Contact for pricing

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PlaybookUX
Overview: 
User experience testing and interviews using video based feedback
Price: $49/participant – $449/month

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UserTesting
Overview: 
Human-insights platform with capabilities to engage customers and empathize with them to discover and share insights
Price: Contact for pricing

Usability Testing + Specialized Testing + Video Interviews + Transcription
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Userlytics
Overview: 
User research platform with a global participant panel with picture-in-picture recording, annotations, and automatic reporting
Price: $49/participant – $999/month

Usability Testing + Surveys + Video Interviews + Transcription
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FocusVision
Overview: 
Market research and customer experience software for qualitative and quantitative research
Price: Contact for pricing

Usability Testing + Surveys + Note-Taking
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Optimal Workshop
Overview: 
User experience research (UXR) platform to improve the UX of your website, app, products, and prototypes
Price: $99/month – $199/month

Surveys + Automated Feedback + Research CRM
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Qualtrics
Overview: 
Experience management software that includes actions automation and workflows, smart analysis and recommendations
Price: Contact for pricing

Surveys + Research Repositories + Note-Taking
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Handrail
Overview: 
Integrated platform for planning, collecting, analyzing, and sharing user research
Price: Contact for pricing

Automated Feedback + Research Repositories
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Productboard
Overview: 
Customer-centric product management platform to help you understand what your customers need
Price: $20/month – $120/month

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Uservoice
Overview: 
Product feedback management software for growing SaaS companies to gather, aggregate, analyze and follow through on feedback
Price: Contact for pricing

Surveys + Automated Feedback
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Alchemer (formerly SurveyGizmo) 
Overview: 
Enterprise online survey software & tools for customer-centric transformation
Price: Contact for pricing

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SurveyMonkey
Overview: 
Survey software to create surveys to measure and understand feedback
Price: RM59/month – RM209/month

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Survicate
Overview: 
Survey and Net Promoter Score (NPS) software to help you capture customer feedback
Price: Free – $599/month

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Zonka Feedback
Overview: NPS surveys for customer feedback across different platform
Price: start from $24/month (bill yearly) for personal, start from $79/month (bill yearly)

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YesInsights
Overview: 
Simple one question and NPS surveys for customer feedback without any coding required
Price: $20/month – $149/month

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Comfirmit
Overview:
Customer feedback management platform to uncover and share insights for customer, product, and employee experience
Price: Contact for pricing

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Crowd Signal
Overview:
SaaS software to help you create polls, surveys, and ratings, and quizzes to uncover insights
Price: Free – $59/month

Usability Testing + Specialized Testing + Surveys + Video Interviews + Automated Feedback + Transcription
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UserZoom
Overview:
Experience Insights Management (XIM) to gather, analyze and share UX and CX insights across your business
Price: Contact for pricing

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