# LimeSurvey

Open-source survey platform for creating surveys that respondents take through a link or an embed on a website.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/limesurvey/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.limesurvey.org
- repository: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey
- docs: https://www.limesurvey.org/manual
- pricing: https://www.limesurvey.org/pricing
- plugins: https://account.limesurvey.org/limestore
- discord: https://discord.gg/DEjguXn
- forum: https://forums.limesurvey.org
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LimeSurvey/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: LimeSurvey GmbH
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2007
- hqCountry: DE

### Kind

- category: forms
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.1
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: mysql, mariadb, postgres, sqlserver
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: multilingual surveys

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: zip download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-2.0-or-later

### Releases

- currentMajor: 7
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-29

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3787
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 241
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.limesurvey.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://www.limesurvey.org/legal-notice (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://www.limesurvey.org/legal-notice (read 2026-11-03)
- hqCountry: https://www.limesurvey.org/legal-notice (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/7.9.0%2B261029/composer.json (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.limesurvey.org/manual/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.limesurvey.org/manual/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://www.limesurvey.org/manual/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://www.limesurvey.org/manual/RemoteControl_2_API (read 2026-11-03)
- i18n: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://www.limesurvey.org/pricing (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/7.9.0%2B261029 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/7.9.0%2B261029 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/1.45a (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/contributors (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://account.limesurvey.org/limestore (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

LimeSurvey is an open-source survey platform for creating surveys that respondents take through a link or through an embed on the creator's own website. The software is written in PHP and needs one of four databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server. It is installed from a zip package or through a command line route. LimeSurvey GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, is the company behind the project.

The platform has a web administration page, multilingual surveys, and single sign-on through LDAP. A RemoteControl web service based on XML-RPC and JSON-RPC lets another application control LimeSurvey. A hosted version, LimeSurvey Cloud, is offered next to the self-hosted Community Edition.

## Worth knowing

ComfortUpdate, named next to the Community Edition on the pricing page, is a paid update service for self-hosted installs. It is not a separate edition with extra features.

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