8 best employee survey software tools for 2025
Does your HR team rely on assumptions? Without employee feedback, even the best People teams are just guessing — and that guesswork comes at a cost. 34% of professionals want to leave their jobs, and overstretched managers are less equipped to support and recognize their teams.*.
Your story is unique, and generic statistics won’t tell you what’s really happening inside your organization. To make meaningful improvements, you need data from your own team and the right employee survey software. Surveys can help you understand what drives your people — so you can make better decisions, improve policies, and build a culture where everyone feels valued.
This article will break down the top eight employee survey software solutions for 2025; we’ve explored key features, best use cases, pros, and cons to help you find the best fit.
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* Leapsome Workforce Trends Report, 2024
The information below is based on our research on tools for employee surveys. All user feedback referenced in the text has been sourced from independent software review platforms such as G2 and Capterra in February and March 2025.
1. Leapsome
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Leapsome is an AI-powered, holistic HR platform that combines the core features of an HRIS and people enablement features. Our powerful tools include features for performance reviews, goal setting, learning, compensation — and, of course, surveys.
Leapsome Surveys offers customizable, expert-developed templates, and leverages Leapsome AI to analyze survey results and provide detailed action plans in seconds. With granular analytics, users can view results displayed as heatmaps to track trends or question-by-question to investigate which got the highest and lowest scores. You can also dig deeper into open-ended questions with Leapsome’s employee sentiment analysis feature, which uses advanced Natural Language Processing to interpret open-ended answers and visually graph metrics.
Best of all, Surveys syncs seamlessly with the rest of our HR and people enablement features, so you can consolidate all your data and take action on results with objective-setting tools, training courses, and intentional employee assessments.
⭐ Leapsome customer Eurowings Digital has greatly benefited from using our employee survey platform.
Not only does Eurowings report a 12% decrease in the organization’s turnover rate, but it also has an eNPS question score average of 8.5. People and Culture Manager Natasa Kovacevic shared this about her experience:
Whoever is considering Leapsome should just go for it. It’s a great tool. There are two key aspects to any tool that Leapsome absolutely covers. It needs to be intuitive, and it needs to be user-friendly. It shouldn’t take you long to figure out how to use it.
Main features
- AI-powered engagement and pulse survey tools
- Ready-to-use, best-practice survey and question templates
- Several different survey types, like engagement, pulse, and 360-feedback
- AI capabilities, such as response summaries and actionable recommendations
- Employee sentiment analysis
- Granular analytics
- Extensive interconnected suite of people enablement tools, like Reviews, Goals, and Learning
- Built-in HRIS
- ISO 27001 compliance
- Multilingual interface
Best for
Leapsome is best for teams looking for an intuitive, comprehensive HR and people enablement platform. Its ease of use, flexibility, and range of features empower all team members to contribute to improving company engagement levels.
These traits make Leapsome ideal for smaller, fast-growing businesses and larger enterprises. We have the tools and customizability to scale with you as your organization evolves.
💡 If you’re new to using a team survey tool and want guidance, we’re here to help!
We’ve got a step-by-step playbook on how to run an employee engagement survey, and a comprehensive list of 70 employee engagement survey questions.
If you’d like to work with something more robust, we also have a downloadable employee engagement survey question template!
- Consolidates core HR capabilities and employee enablement tools for surveys, real-time feedback (and more) in one platform
- Highly flexible due to its range of features for running reviews, setting team goals, celebrating wins, and creating training courses
- Industry-leading AI capabilities that help you summarize, analyze, and strategize based on survey results
- Possible to set up automated survey cycles
- Built-in library of expert-developed survey and question templates
- Award-winning global setup and support
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- Some HRIS features are still in development
- Slight learning curve due to all the features
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Jessie Martin
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Leapsome is saving us lots of time during our performance appraisals and helps us build an open, value-oriented feedback culture. We’ve compared several platforms, and Leapsome stood out convincingly — it’s user-friendly, intuitive, and highly customizable. As a manager, I love how fast and openly the team at Leapsome reacts to our feedback and suggestions.
Dr. Christian Grobe
Leapsome enhances meaningful feedback and employee engagement. It’s a must-have for every company at any stage. We are growing toward 750 employees, but the rollout was easy, fast, and successful nonetheless. The great customer support helped us through the whole onboarding process.
Thore Schӓck
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With the help of the people analytics, you can quickly understand the significance of the results. We also frequently use the 1:1 function, which, although very simple, is extremely useful.
Erica Ancobia
We see the People team as a partner team rather than an admin team. We want to focus on our employees and not on processes. With Leapsome, we have automated the manual work around feedback and career development so that we can spend our time with our people: understanding their needs, guiding them through their very own DCMN lifecycle, and helping them find purpose in what they do.
Theresa Jasaraj
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Book a demo2. Culture Amp
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Culture Amp is an employee experience platform that allows HR teams to conduct surveys, analyze results, hold performance reviews, and map out career frameworks. It’s great for People professionals who need more in-depth people analytics, especially with its Data Health feature, which automatically highlights missing or incorrect data that could be harming the health of analytics.
Main features
- Ready-to-use survey templates
- Industry benchmarking capabilities
- In-depth analytics
- Career path tools and competency frameworks
Best for
Culture Amp is best for large organizations that prioritize deep employee insights, predictive analytics, and data-driven decision-making but don’t need integrated learning and development capabilities or HR functionalities.
- Focus on employee engagement and company culture
- Granular analytics with a built-in mechanism for spotting data issues
- Industry benchmarking capabilities
- AI-powered insights and predictive analytics
- Customer support is quick to respond
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- Limited survey customization capabilities
- Some users say the report is limited
- Clunky and hard to navigate for new users
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3. Lattice
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Lattice is an HR platform that combines talent management capabilities with an integrated HRIS. The talent management suite enables People teams to conduct surveys, run performance reviews, set and track goals, and create compensation strategies. With the HRIS, they can also take care of core tasks like managing employee data and paperwork.
Main features
- Engagement surveys with AI-powered analytics
- Performance reviews
- Career development matrices and individual development plan templates
- OKRs and goal-setting dashboards
- Integrated HR tools
Best for
Lattice is a good option for companies with larger budgets that are looking for performance management and employee survey tools but can live without advanced AI capabilities or built-in tools for employee development.
- Surveys are integrated with performance management features
- Good survey result segmentation capabilities
- HRIS tools allow you to consolidate your tech stack
- Detailed people analytics
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- Designed primarily for performance management, which means engagement features may not be as robust
- Lack of automated insights
- User interface can feel a bit overwhelming at first
- Some users flag issues with the compensation tool
- Some users feel the platform lacks customization capabilities
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4. Workleap Officevibe
After its acquisition by Workleap, Officevibe now functions as an engagement and employee feedback platform under the Workleap banner. It’s designed for small- to medium-sized teams that need lightweight, easy-to-use surveys and actionable insights.
Main features
- Survey tools and templates
- Built-in AI for data analysis
- Good Vibes tool for encouraging team member feedback and recognition
- Performance management tools
Best for
Workleap Officevibe works well for small teams that are new to running engagement surveys and want simple, automated engagement tracking without complex analytics, full performance management features, or a built-in HRIS.
- Simple to use and intuitive design
- Surveys connect to tools for feedback and recognition
- Encourages continuous feedback through the use of pulse surveys
- Users say the Good Vibes feature “keeps employees engaged and communicating”
- Actionable insights for managers
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- No people management capabilities
- Features need to be developed to support an entire performance review cycle
- Basic reporting capabilities
- Some users say the 1:1 tool lacks features
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5. 15Five
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15Five is a performance management platform that offers tools for running engagement and pulse surveys, as well as features for conducting employee reviews. The platform’s surveys are psychometrically validated, which means the questions effectively measure data.
Main features
- Psychometrically-validated surveys
- AI-powered data model that determines predictive impact
- Pre-made and customizable survey templates, including eNPS
- Performance review and goal-setting tools
Best for
15Five is best for companies that want to focus on employee engagement, modern performance management, and continuous feedback but don’t need a built-in HRIS or multiple language options.
- Granular survey data
- Predictive analytics for actionable insights
- Straightforward interface
- Different survey templates are available, including pulse and 360° surveys
- High Fives feature that encourages peer recognition
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- No built-in HRIS or HR functionality
- Not enough help articles for do-it-yourself troubleshooting
- Some users struggle with the limited language options
- Some users report difficulty setting and tracking goals
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6. Workday Peakon Employee Voice
Operating under the Workday umbrella, Workday Peakon Employee Voice measures employee engagement levels and analyzes the data to create action plans. It has a range of survey formats you can use to measure team sentiment. Plus, Workday Peakon Employee Voice gives users access to real-time data, so you can immediately use employee responses to define your company’s next initiatives.
Main features
- AI-powered, automated pulse surveys
- Continuous listening tools that let you create shorter pulse surveys across communication channels
- Integrated talent management and core HR features
- Advanced analytics and predictive insights
- Anonymous feedback and action-planning tools
- Manager-specific insights and dashboards
Best for
Workday Peakon Employee Voice makes sense for businesses already familiar with Workday products. It’s also ideal for large, data-driven organizations that need real-time engagement tracking and predictive analytics, but don’t need built-in performance management or mind the higher price tag.
- Possible to create surveys across various communication channels
- Helps teams be more strategic about where and how to capture employee pulse
- AI-powered, real-time engagement insights
- Can be purchased alone or as an add-on to other Workday products
- Good variety of survey questions
- Enterprise-level scalability and security
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- More expensive than other options
- Complex implementation and setup
- Limited survey customization
- Limited real-time feedback capabilities
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7. Engagedly
Engagedly includes features for surveying employees, running performance reviews, and carrying out learning and development initiatives. Its proprietary AI tool, “Marissa AI,” can assist People teams by summarizing survey results and answering HR-related employee queries.
Main features
- Engagement, pulse, and 360° feedback surveys
- Anonymous feedback options
- Integrated survey and performance management tools
- Templates for creating individual development plans
- AI-driven insights and reporting
- Gamification elements
Best for
Engagedly is best for companies that want to connect employee engagement and performance management in a structured way but don’t need a built-in HRIS or deep team member engagement analytics.
- Integrated engagement and performance management
- Strong 360-feedback capabilities
- Allows for continuous employee feedback
- Gamification makes surveys more engaging
- Live survey results enable immediate action planning
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- No built-in HRIS and issues with HRIS integrations
- Some users don’t find the platform user-friendly
- Some users flag that basic functionalities are missing
- Some users find it difficult to pull reports from Engagedly, making it harder to share data
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8. Qualtrics
Qualtrics XM for Employee Experience is the platform within the broader Qualtrics suite, which includes surveys and engagement tools. It includes a robust Employee Listening feature for gathering team member feedback from external sources like social media, review sites, and forums.
Main features
- Automated engagement and pulse surveys
- Holistic employee listening capabilities, which lets you capture feedback from chat, email, social media, and review sites
- In-depth retention analytics
- Onboarding and exit management tools
Best for
Qualtrics is best for large or enterprise-level organizations that already have an HRIS in place and are looking for advanced feedback and analytics. While it’s not an all-in-one HR solution, it’s well-known for its in-depth data-gathering capabilities.
- Integrates with Qualtrics XM for Customer Experience and XM for Strategy and Research
- Allows you to gather “unstructured” data from external sources
- Advanced survey customization and flexibility
- Scalable for enterprises on a global level
- Offers a range of templates and questions
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- Not specifically built for HR teams
- No built-in HRIS
- Can be overwhelming for new users
- Needs more customization capabilities when building workflows
- May be too expensive and complex for smaller organizations
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Why customers love us
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Leapsome has been an absolute game-changer for me in terms of my professional growth and development. What I love best about Leapsome is how it has empowered me to take control of my career journey. The user-friendly interface and intuitive design of Leapsome have made it incredibly easy for me to navigate and utilize the platform.
Victor J.
Enterprise (1000+ emloyees)
Leapsome stands out as a best-in-class platform that seamlessly addresses a spectrum of organizational needs, excelling in performance management, employee engagement, OKRs, and learning. Its unparalleled strength lies in its deep integration with existing tools, effortlessly connecting with our HRIS, Slack, Calendar, and Jira.
Jamie S.
Mid-market (50-1000 employees)
Our company is new to Leapsome, but the onboarding has been fantastic. Our Leapsome contact has worked with us every step of the way to make sure that the review process will be easy on HR and all employees. He has walked us through the process step by step to create a review that will be ready to roll out pretty much immediately.
Karen H.
Mid-market (50-1000 employees)
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