What your respondents see¶

You send a link. This is the other end of it — worth knowing, because it is what you will be asked about, and because a respondent who gets stuck simply stops answering.

They need no account, no app and no appointment. The link opens in whatever browser they already have, on a phone as readily as a laptop.

Watch it once¶

Fifty seconds, no sound: the link opened by someone who was sent it, an answer recorded out loud, and sent. Subtitles are on by default.

One question at a time¶

Each step fills the screen on its own. They move forward with the button, or with the arrow keys; steps that allow it can be revisited by going back.

A step marked required will not let them past until it has an answer. Everything else can be skipped, and skipping leaves the answer empty rather than blocking the form.

Recording, or writing instead¶

Where you ask for audio or video, they record in the browser: press record, talk, stop, listen back, and re-record if they want to. Nothing is installed.

On the advanced media recorder they can also simply write their answer. That matters more than it sounds: plenty of people will not record themselves, and without a written path they abandon the form rather than send a bad take.

Nothing is lost halfway¶

Answers save as they are given, step by step, not at the end. A closed tab, a dead battery or a lost connection costs the current step at worst. Reopening the same link continues where they left off, with their earlier answers already in place.

Confirming an email¶

If you asked for a verified address, they press the button, receive a mail, click its link, come back to the tab and press I clicked the link. Only then can they continue.

They can ask for the mail again after a minute — the wait is enforced by us, not by the page, so reloading does not shorten it. Nothing is sent unless you turned the option on.

Finishing¶

The closing screen is the last thing they see: your thank-you, your wording.

If the form locks answers after submit, that screen carries a submit button, and pressing it is what makes their answers final. Afterwards they see their answers read-only, with Start over with new answers if they want to give you a fresh set — the submitted ones stay exactly as they were.

Without that setting there is no submit button, and a returning respondent simply keeps editing the same answers.

What they never see¶

Your other forms, your files, anyone else's answers, or who else you sent the link to. A response belongs to the person who gave it, and to you.