
One is a 20-year-old bootstrapped company that makes nothing but forms. The other is a free feature tucked inside a $200 billion suite. That difference decides which one you should actually use.

SurveyMonkey, PostHog, Lyssna and a cluster of smaller rivals have built a quiet industry around one question: what do you actually think? Here is how six of them make money from your opinions, and what each does differently.

Two feedback platforms, born five years and one continent apart, bet on opposite answers to the same question: what do users actually want? One counts votes, the other reads the room.
Survox, LimeSurvey, Typeform and PostHog trace a 50-year shift in how the world asks questions - from punch cards and phone banks to forms that feel like chat and surveys that pop up mid-click.