Website feedback widgets are a simple way to get feedback from your users or site visitors.
They should be easy to install, customisable, and able to connect with project management and bug tracking software.
Which feedback widget should you choose? We’ve listed 11 of the best feedback widgets by category:
- Simple, flexible, and affordable
- Complex, powerful, and higher price point
- Best for customer satisfaction
- Best for bug reports
- Which feedback widget is best for you?
Simple, flexible and affordable
These feedback widgets are good all-rounders, and reasonably priced. However, they they might lack specialist features or advanced customisation options.
1. Saber Feedback
Saber is an easy to use and flexible feedback widget that supports screenshots. It provides 14 form field types including emoji rating, check box and text box, as well as form logic. You can receive feedback by email, in your dashboard, through exporting data, or through native integrations like Jira, Trello and Slack. It automatically captures client-side errors and technical information.
Price: $29-$199
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Good all-rounder, plays well with other software, and supports visual feedback
Disadvantages: Doesn’t have a free or under $20 plan
Saber Feedback’s forms can be customised to meet your needs
2. Feedbackify
Feedbackify offers a basic website feedback widget at an affordable price. Use a drag and drop form builder to create a form, including a 1-10 rating question. Customise your feedback button in a few simple ways – or use a text link to launch your form. Collect feedback through the Feedbackify dashboard.
Price: $19 a month
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Inexpensive, simple to use and install
Disadvantages: Limited functionality, customisation options and integrations
Feedbackify has a simple form editor
Complex, powerful, and higher price point
These feedback widgets can perhaps more accurately described as ‘customer experience software’. Their main market is enterprise-level companies, with more complex feedback requirements. However, they can be a good choice for medium-sized companies as well.
1. Wootric
Wootric is designed to let you gather feedback from customers and your team (through employee pulse surveys, for example). Feedback forms can be customised to gather net promoter scores, customer satisfaction scores or customer effect scores. You can survey customers via email, in-app, mobile, SMS and intercom messenger. It connects with customer service software, and text and sentiment analysis is available through the dashboard.
Price: $89-$224
Free trial? No
Advantages: Multiple features and survey channels supported
Disadvantages: Lower-priced plans are restricted in scope – text and sentiment analysis price on request
Wootric can be used for employee surveys
2. Survicate
Survicate is a customer survey platform that allows you to send surveys by email, link or in chat. You can also run targeted surveys on websites, in web apps or in mobile apps. Surveys can be customised using multiple survey templates, CSS and conditional logic. It connects with a wide range of software, including email software and marketing automation.
Price: Free-$249
Free trial? No
Advantages: Flexible customer survey platform that works across multiple devices
Disadvantages: Limited data retention and survey responses on cheaper plans
Survicate’s dashboard includes some analytical options
3. Usabilla
Usabilla provides feedback buttons that work on your website or in-app. Email and in-page feedback are also supported. Feedback can be gathered using slide outs, full page or exit surveys. You can ask questions on specific pages, based on user behaviour and demographics. Usabilla also supports visual feedback via screenshots and connects with a wide range of software.
Price: Request a quote (minimum $10,000 per year)
Free trial? No
Advantages: Easy to gather feedback in different ways across different devices
Disadvantages: Higher price point and no way of easily trying product out
You can use Usabilla for feedback on emails
Best for customer satisfaction
These widgets specialise in customer experience ratings, helping your discover how happy customers are with your website, new feature, most recent buying experience and so on. Many of the other feedback widgets mentioned also allow you to measure customer satisfaction.
1. Emojics
Emojics measure customer satisfaction and sentiment through emojis. You can add emoji reaction buttons to your website, newsletter, sales email or support interaction. Based on customer feedback, you can customise your response. Choose from over 300 emojis – presets are also available.
Price: $14-$59
Free trial? no
Advantages: Fun way to gather feedback
Disadvantages: Could seem a bit silly or inappropriate for some brands/situations
Emojics lets you choose from over 300 emojis
2. RatingWidget
RatingWidget is a basic star rating system widget that works with most website. It has an extensive collection of star and thumb themes (60+) and is quick to set up. It’s ideal for gathering one-click feedback for your online store, blog or website. RatingWidget is translated into 40 languages. It also has a WordPress plugin.
Price: $3.99-$29.99
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Quick to install and easy to use
Disadvantages: Basic widget with limited functionality
Add star ratings to your Google Search Engine Results page with ratingwidget
3. AskNicely
AskNicely gathers feedback using NPS surveys that can be sent via email, SMS/text, or web surveys. Follow-up questions can be customised depending on the initial answer. AskNicely is ideal for monitoring the performance of front-line teams (AskNicely calls this ‘front-line coaching’, which is automated). It integrates with Salesforce, Hubspot, Microsoft Dynamics, and so on.
Price: Request a demo
Free trial? No
Advantages: Ideal for monitoring performance of front-line teams
Disadvantages: Can’t try out product or easily find out price
Show personally relevant feedback to employees with AskNicely
Best for bug reports
These feedback widgets make it easy for users and team members to send you bug reports. Most of them connect with bug tracking software and support visual feedback. Feedback widgets that support screenshots and automatically capture technical information are also suitable for bug reporting, for example, Saber Feedback and Usabilla.
1. DebugMe
DebugMe is a bug-tracking and visual feedback tool aimed at web designers and developers. The feedback toolbar enables you to report the issues right from your website. Feedback is sent to a kanban-style board. DebugMe also integrates with Jira, Trello, Redmine, and more.
Price: Free-$45
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Streamlines the workflow for web developers and designers working on a project together
Disadvantages: Less suitable for other use cases
DebugMe’s toolbar sits on your website
2. BugHerd
BugHerd aims to be a bug tracking tool that sits on your website. Feedback will be pinned to your website like a sticky note. The sidebar also allows you to log an issue, change ownership, status, see your full task list and so on. Feedback is sent to a task management board. BugHerd connects with software such as GitHub, Slack and Basecamp.
Price: $39-$189
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Helps you track bugs without needing to use bug tracking software
Disadvantages: Bug tracking software, connected with a simple visual feedback tool, would work better for some companies
Bugherd sends feedback to a task management board
3. Marker.io
Marker.io is a visual bug tracking tool. You can draw arrows and write text direct on your website to identify problems, and bug reporting templates can be customised to a certain extent. Feedback is centralised in your issue tracker through native integrations. It works on local, staging and live websites. Currently you need to install a browser extension to get the tool to work.
Price: $49-$159
Free trial? Yes
Advantages: Connects easily with your existing issue tracker or project management software
Disadvantages: No dashboard and need to install a browser extension
Mark up feedback with arrows and emojis using Marker.io
Which feedback widget is best for you?
The feedback widget that best suits your needs. Be clear about you main priorities: do you need your feedback widget to be simple and affordable? Or full-featured?
Do you need a visual feedback widget or is that not important? Do you want a specific type of feedback or do you need a widget that is more of an all-rounder?
Also consider whether the feedback widget will enhance your existing toolkit or try and replace it, leading to extra work and frustrated team members.
Most importantly of all, understand how you’re going to collect, process and act on your feedback. Feedback is important to everyone across your company, so how are you going to get them involved and improve your product?