LimeSurvey
Open-source survey platform for creating surveys that respondents take through a link or an embed on a website.
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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.
Sources
- 2026-11-03: links
www.limesurvey.org/ - 2026-11-03: links, GitHub stars
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey - 2026-11-03: links, Categories, Written in, Runtime, License, Databases, Content API, Multilingual
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/master/README.md - 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
www.limesurvey.org/legal-notice - 2026-11-03: Minimum runtime
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/7.9.0%2B261029/composer.json - 2026-11-03: Install with, Admin interface
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Installation - 2026-11-03: Content API
www.limesurvey.org/manual/RemoteControl_2_API - 2026-11-03: links
www.limesurvey.org/pricing - 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/7.9.0%2B261029 - 2026-11-03: First release
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/1.45a - 2026-11-03: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/contributors - 2026-11-03: links
account.limesurvey.org/limestore