Factile - A free online survey tool

In May this year, I launched Factile at http://www.factile.net. It is a free and open source survey platform that I created and aims at making the job of data collection and analysis simpler.

It supports a variety of question types (Text boxes, Radio buttons, Check boxes, Combo boxes (dropdowns), Text areas, Plain texts, matrix of choices/ rating scales). The surveys generated are fully mobile device compatible. So you can create a survey and share it with people to take on iPads/ iPhones/ BackBerry/ Samsung S2s, really, anywhere! It is truly free and unlimited. There is zero usage cost, and you can add as much content to your survey as you like. And, if you wanted to download it and install on your infrastructure, you can!

Whats more? You can define logic in the survey, you can build charts of the captured data, customize the appearance of the survey to match your requirements and the best is, you can request for missing features and I'll be happy to oblige!

More on Factile:

1. Better Navigation: Clickable bars showing the steps in survey creation/ editing to enhance user experience.
2. Offline Survey Capability: Even if the survey participants are in transit or are in areas of unreliable connectivity, they can still 'work offline'. i.e. They can keep on working through the survey and just submit the results once they are back on the network! Easy-peasy !
3. Word Clouds: Factile now has the capability to build a word cloud (aka tag cloud) of free text responses. Factile combines all responses for free text questions, removes common words (aka stop words) and generates a word cloud. Just so you can analyse survey takers' comments much more easily.
4. Insights: This is a feature that was always planned and was delayed. You can now select a group of questions and define constraints to generate a list of top 5 combinations as picked by the users. So for example, if you wanted to see what demographic group tweets/ blogs the most, you could comine the demographics related questions, add a constraint around tweeting/ blogging and get sorted and aggregated insights.
5. Custom URI: Would you like your survey to be called http://www.factile.net/mycoolsurvey instead of the long system generated identifier? You can do so now!

Obviously, Factile is freely downloadable and customizable (and these surveys work on mobile devices, as would be convenient to use on a mobile device and not as small difficult to click HTML radio buttons).
You can let me know if you want a feature/ faced a bug by logging an issue on github, or just leave a comment on this blog! You can also send an email at https://groups.google.com/group/factile.
I did a quick video on the use of Factile a week or so back and uploaded to YouTube. You can watch it here.

Check out http://www.factile.net and let me know of what you think.