SurveyLegend for Polls and Contests: Plans, Privacy and How It Works
SurveyLegend is an online survey and poll tool from SurveyLegend AB that turns a question into a shareable link and tallies responses as they arrive. Its own pricing pages list a free Starter plan that needs no credit card, allows up to three surveys and takes 1,000 responses per survey, while paid tiers add unlimited surveys, pictures and white-labelling.
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What the SurveyLegend tool does
SurveyLegend is a browser tool for questionnaires of every size, from a one-question poll shared as a link to a long survey with dozens of items. The company behind it is SurveyLegend AB, and its own help centre treats the poll as the light end of the survey: same builder, same link, same tally. That matters for anyone running a contest vote, because the settings that govern a poll are survey settings, and they sit in the same places.
The word logo turns up twice in the vendor's material, and both times it is about branding rather than design. The free Starter plan carries ads and a watermark on what you build, so the vendor's mark sits on your poll instead of yours. Only at the top Legendary tier does the pricing page list white label as part of the deal. Between those two points, the app in the browser does the ordinary work of a poll tool: a question, options, a link and a count.
- A poll is a survey with one question, built in the same editor and shared with the same kind of link.
- Respondents who finish can be shown the collected results immediately, if the creator switches that feature on.
- A public results link sends anyone to a live analytics page where the tally updates in real time.
Making an account and the login
Signing up means creating an account on the vendor's own site and choosing where to start. The Starter plan is the vendor's no-cost entry point, described as free forever and aimed at getting started with simple surveys. The vendor states that it requires no credit card, so the login you make costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Once the account exists, the builder opens in the browser and everything after that happens on the web page itself.
Respondents are a different story, and the distinction matters for contests. Under the default setup the tool checks the web browser, not a login, when it decides whether a submission is allowed. A person answering your poll does not need an account with the vendor; the browser they answer from is the thing the setting watches. That design keeps the voter's side friction-free, and it also means the participation rule is a browser rule, which the next section takes up in full.
Plans and pricing, minus the numbers
The vendor lays out four tiers, and three of them are paid. Starter is free forever, carries up to three surveys and takes 1,000 responses per survey, with ads and a watermark attached. It is pitched at simple surveys, which covers most one-question contest polls comfortably. Pro is the first paid tier, offered monthly or billed annually at a lower per-month figure. Business adds unlimited surveys and unlimited pictures, 10k API calls, and the security and encryption the vendor's material calls top-notch. Legendary tops the range with white label, API capacity and phone support.
No amounts appear in this text, for a simple reason: prices move, and a page that quotes a figure goes stale the day the vendor edits its pricing table. The structure, though, holds. Free covers three surveys and a thousand responses; the paid ladder removes the caps in the order shown below. For a contest organiser the question is not the tier name but the caps underneath it, because a poll that outgrows 1,000 responses needs a paid tier long before it needs a redesign.
Repeat votes and the browser rule
The single setting that shapes a contest poll most is the participation limit, and the vendor's own wording on it is blunt. By default, the setting that blocks repeat submissions is off, which means no participant can submit the same survey more than one time from the same web browser. Note what the check is: a browser, not an account, not a name. The tool counts submissions per browser and stops the second one.
The same default can be changed. Enabling multiple participations lets people answer as many times as they want from the same browser, which is a legitimate choice for an open opinion poll and a poor one for a contest. This is where the terms bite: SurveyLegend prohibits avoiding, or attempting to avoid, the limitations it imposes on an account, and it reserves the right to limit, inactivate or terminate an account while investigating suspected bad behaviour. So the switch exists for the creator to set, and the rulebook sits over anyone who tries to slip past the setting the creator chose.
How the vendor flags fake votes
Contest organisers worry most about machine votes, and the vendor has built two responses to them. When its mitigation system detects a spambot, it silently ignores that bot's votes, so nothing is collected or registered in the database at all. The count never sees them. That is the hard filter, and it runs without the creator lifting a finger.
The softer filter sits in the export. Responses from possible bots are marked as suspected spambot in the exported data, and the user then decides whether to include them or filter them out. The split is worth understanding before any contest: outright bots vanish, borderline cases get a label and land in front of a human. Nothing in the vendor's material claims every fake vote is caught, and nothing here will claim it either. What the creator gets is a machine filter, a labelled export and the last word.
- A detected spambot's votes are silently ignored, so nothing from them lands in the database.
- A possible bot's responses are marked as suspected spambot in the exported data instead.
- The marking leaves the final call to the user, who can include the data or filter it out.
What the terms of use forbid
Three clauses of the vendor's terms carry the weight for anyone running a vote. The terms prohibit misusing the services by meddling with their customary operation, and they prohibit attempting to access the services by any method other than the interfaces and instructions provided. In plainer words: use the tool the way it presents itself, through its own pages and buttons, and nothing else.
The third clause is the one that speaks to contests directly. Attempting to avoid the limitations the account carries is prohibited, and the vendor pairs it with the right to limit, inactivate or terminate an account, or stop providing the services, when it investigates suspected bad behaviour. Read together, the clauses draw a clean line. The participation setting is the creator's to set; staying inside it is everyone else's obligation; and the price of crossing it is set out in the same document.
- Misusing the services by meddling with their customary operation.
- Accessing the services by any method other than the provided interfaces and instructions.
- Avoiding, or attempting to avoid, the limitations SurveyLegend imposes on an account.
Data, payments and staying safe
On data, the vendor's clearest statement is about IP addresses. Its system does not collect respondents' IP addresses by default, and the vendor ties that choice to GDPR compliance; the collection starts only if the creator enables the feature. For a public contest poll that is a real privacy point, since respondents can answer without their address being stored behind the scenes. The Business plan is additionally listed with security and encryption, described in the vendor's material as top-notch.
On payments, the honest gap first: the vendor's pages behind this text do not name the payment methods it accepts. What they do say is concrete enough for planning. The Starter plan requires no credit card, so trying the tool exposes no card details at all. Paid tiers bill monthly or annually, with the annual route quoted at a lower per-month figure. Anyone who needs a specific payment method should confirm it with the vendor before committing to a yearly bill.
Reviews and what to compare
A useful comparison between poll tools runs on features, not star ratings. The three checkpoints above separate tools quickly, and SurveyLegend answers each of them on its own pages: a browser-based participation limit that is on by default, a free tier capped at three surveys and 1,000 responses each, and real-time results both inside the finish screen and on a public analytics link.
The alternative to a paid tier, when the free caps pinch, is a bigger plan rather than a workaround, because the terms treat attempts to dodge the account's limits as a violation. Reading reviews before choosing is sensible, but read them for the features that touch your contest: how the tool counts, what it labels as suspicious and where the caps sit. Those are the levers that decide a vote, and they are exactly what the vendor documents.
- The participation rule, because it decides whether your contest can be gamed from one browser.
- The response cap, because 1,000 responses per survey on the free plan is a hard ceiling.
- The results options, because real-time tallies and public links change how a contest feels to voters.
Where this tool stops
SurveyLegend counts votes and shows them; it does not judge a contest. The organiser's own rules decide what a winning vote is worth, and no setting in the builder changes that. Buying votes for a poll does not move any of the settings described above, and the vendor's terms treat attempts to get around the account's limits as grounds for action against the account. The tool also stays clear of political voting; the vendor's material does not cover that ground, and neither does this page.
The honest gaps, gathered in one place: no student, teacher or NGO discount appears on the pricing pages; no accepted payment methods are named in the material behind this text; and no dedicated iPad app is described, so tablet users work in the browser. None of these gaps is hidden. A tool that states its own limits plainly is easier to plan a contest around than one that pretends it has none.
| Plan | What the vendor lists | Where it bites |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free forever; three surveys; 1,000 responses per survey | Ads and a watermark on what you build |
| Pro | Paid, billed monthly or at a lower yearly per-month figure | The first step above the free caps |
| Business | Unlimited surveys and pictures; 10k API calls; security and encryption | Still not white label |
| Legendary | White label, API capacity, phone support | The top of the range, so the biggest commitment |
How to do it
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Pick the free plan or a paid tier
Sign up on the vendor's site and start on the Starter plan, which is free forever, needs no credit card and covers three surveys with 1,000 responses each. Upgrade later if a contest outgrows the cap.
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Build the poll in the editor
Write the question and add the answer options, using pictures if the vote needs them. Unlimited pictures belong to Business and above, so an image-heavy poll is a plan question as much as a design one.
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Set the participation rule
Leave the default in place and one web browser submits once. Turn on multiple participations only when repeat answers genuinely serve the survey, and remember the terms forbid trying to dodge the limits the account carries.
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Share the link
Send the survey link to your group. Under the default setup respondents need no account; the browser they answer from is what the tool checks, not a login.
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Watch the tally, then unpublish
Open the live count as responses arrive, or hand out a public results link for a real-time view. When the vote ends, unpublishing deactivates the survey so the link stops working for everyone.
Common questions
How do I sign up?
Signing up takes an email address and a couple of minutes on SurveyLegend's own site. You start on the free Starter plan, which the vendor says requires no credit card, and you can build up to three surveys before any paid tier enters the picture.
Are there any discounts?
SurveyLegend's pricing pages list no student, teacher or NGO discounts. They set out a free Starter plan and paid tiers instead, so for most people the discount is the free tier itself, which needs no credit card and covers three surveys with 1,000 responses each.
How tech savvy should I be to use SurveyLegend?
Basic web skills are enough to use SurveyLegend. The tool works in a browser, and the settings that decide a poll are a short list of toggles: the participation limit, whether respondents see the tally when they finish, and whether a public results link goes out. If you can fill in a form online, you can handle the builder.
Can I create surveys on my iPad?
SurveyLegend works in a web browser, and its participation rules are set per browser rather than per account. The vendor's pages describe no dedicated iPad app, so the practical route is opening the builder in the tablet's browser and working there, the same way a desktop user would.
Which payment methods do you accept?
The vendor's own pages do not list accepted payment methods in the material behind this text. What they do state is that the free Starter plan requires no credit card at all, and that paid tiers bill either month by month or once a year at a lower per-month figure.
How does monthly and yearly subscriptions work?
SurveyLegend sells its paid tiers on both rhythms, and its pricing pages quote the yearly option as a lower per-month figure billed once a year. The free Starter plan sits outside both arrangements, since it never bills anything and never asks for a card.
Are my data and payments safe?
SurveyLegend leaves IP collection off by default, a choice the vendor ties to GDPR compliance, and its Business plan is listed with security and encryption. On payments the honest answer is narrower: the free plan never asks for a card, and the vendor's pages do not name its payment processors in the material behind this text.
Can respondents see poll results in real time?
Yes. A creator can let respondents who finish a poll see the collected results at once, and can also switch on a public results link that sends anyone to a live analytics page where the tally updates in real time.
Where these facts come from
- surveylegend.com. surveylegend.com/user-guide/limiting-participation-surveys/.
- surveylegend.com. surveylegend.com/user-guide/track-using-ip-addresses/.
- surveylegend.com. surveylegend.com/terms-and-privacy/terms-of-use/.
- surveylegend.com. surveylegend.com/security/how-to-prevent-cheating-in-your-surveys/.
- surveylegend.com. surveylegend.com.
This page cannot promise that any vote passes detection, cannot promise a contest win, and carries no price amounts, because vendors change them. It does not teach ways around a poll's one-submission rule, links no vote seller, and stays out of elections and political voting entirely. What it can do is show the settings, the terms and the gaps exactly as SurveyLegend's own pages state them.
X prohibits coordinating with or compensating others to inflate engagement metrics, and it names Polls among the features covered. The Pet Industry Business Awards name the consequence in their own contest: a business may be investigated, lose votes or be disqualified on reasonable evidence of purchased votes. No seller can stop an organiser from doing that.
Slido says it is alerted when an event gets an unusually high number of votes in a very short time, and Crowdsignal says its built-in measures detect patterns of potentially abusive voting. Ordinary participation arrives spread across the voting window, from different people at different moments. Nothing on this site is a method for getting a vote past a check, and a vote that a tool blocks does not count.
Organiser rules differ: the RSPCA Pet of the Year Awards allow extra votes through donations on their official mechanism, while OpenTable Australia treats a vote cast in exchange for money or a reward as null and void. Both are contest rules, not statutes, and whether payment is lawful where you live is a question for a lawyer. Orders are refused for any contest whose rules ban paid votes, and for political ballots.
Votes ordered for a poll that never appear on its count are refunded after the poll closes. A refund never covers an organiser's decision: Localsearch may void all votes for a disqualified nominee, and Mentimeter says a user whose access it cancels under its Acceptable Use Policy is owed no refund or compensation. No result is promised.