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Domandata

Survey Software for Social Scientists

Don't waste your time on workarounds. Domandata is survey software made with social science research in mind. Here, survey experiments, panel management, blocking by variables, and complex branching aren't afterthoughts—they're what we're built for. Experience survey software built with you and your work in mind and save hours of time and frustration. We worry about the little details, like creating codebooks, IRB documentation, OSF preregistration, embedded variables, and permutations.

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Design

Write the instrument in reusable blocks and keep question structure readable.

Route

Model respondent paths, random assignment, quotas, and study endings in Flow.

Launch

Preview participant paths, publish the right version, and share live links.

Analyze

Export responses, codebooks, documents, and diagrams with study context intact.

Tools Made for You

Made to make complexity feel simple

Domandata is a powerful engine covered by a polished interface. Throughout the app, you experience the tools and features you need, right when and where you need them. Edit and access your survey in five simple tabs.

Block Builder

Add and edit questions in blocks with a snappy and elegant interface. Pull blocks from your library, the community, or make them from scratch. With 11 question types made for researchers like you, the block builder is where the magic starts.

Flow

Map out the survey flow in a way that just makes sense. Branch into treatment groups, handle random assignment and conditional flows, and set quotas on a canvas that looks and feels like the sort of graphic you can slip in a paper to make it accessible. And yes—we let you export it so you can do just that.

Preview

Never waste your time refreshing your survey to make sure each treatment condition works. Pick which arm you're previewing, and know exactly what experience you should be seeing. Organized to be seen at a glance, with no page breaks, no guessing, and no waiting.

Deploy

When you're ready to ship, you control the flow. Make surveys look exactly how you need them, with custom themes and robust structural options. Preview exactly what your survey will look like before you publish with draft links, push changes to already deployed links, and keep track of who gets to take your survey with personalized links.

Export

Exporting your data has never been simpler. With a push of a button, upload a replication folder, complete with a codebook and data, to OSF. Export visuals, IRB forms, and much, much more in a tab that takes care of tedium for you. Export clean data in just a few clicks.

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Domandata in Action

What you see is what you get

Not sure Domandata is for you? Check the actual tools you'll be using in an interactive setting.

Social Science Surveys

Designed for political science and the wider social sciences.

Domandata supports the patterns students and researchers encounter in real studies: treatment assignment, eligibility rules, reusable question batteries, respondent previews, quotas, and documented exports.

Political Science Surveys

Public opinion studies, turnout measures, issue framing, and experiments.

Social Science Research

Question batteries, respondent paths, quotas, and documented exports.

Survey Design

Reusable blocks, page breaks, randomized order, and participant previews.

Survey Experiments

Treatment arms, random assignment, eligibility paths, and outcome exports.

Built For Research

Designed for every stage of the academic workflow

From individual scholars composing randomized experiments to collaborative teams sharing libraries and classrooms exploring survey methods.

Academic researchers

Build survey instruments, screeners, treatments, batteries, and documented exports in one research workspace.

Research teams

Reuse approved blocks, collaborate around survey structure, and keep shared materials consistent across studies.

Methods classrooms

Teach instrument design, branching, random assignment, and fielding workflows with live examples students can inspect.

Data Security

Your research data is protected at every layer

Survey response data, credentials, and access controls are secured with encryption, database-layer rules, and audit logging — the practices that matter when you are collecting and storing sensitive respondent data.

Encrypted responses

Survey responses and PII fields are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before being written to the database. The encryption key is separate from the database access credential.

Database-layer access control

Row-Level Security enforces ownership and collaboration rules directly in the database. Access restrictions cannot be bypassed by application code.

Multi-factor authentication

TOTP-based MFA is available on all accounts and can be required across an entire team workspace, adding a second factor beyond password sign-in.

HTTPS everywhere

All connections use HTTPS with a two-year HSTS policy. Browsers are instructed never to fall back to plain HTTP, even on first visit.

Hashed API credentials

API keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes. The original key is shown once at creation and never retained, so a database leak does not expose working credentials.

Audit logging

Sign-in, data export, and record modification events are logged with the user identity, IP address, and timestamp — so access history is available for review.

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Plans

All tiers are free during the current testing period

Every plan is available at $0/mo. The plan structure is shown so researchers can see how the feature set is organized before future paid pricing begins.

Free

For researchers drafting academic surveys and previewing instruments.

$0/mo

Free while Domandata is under testing.

  • Build surveys with Block Builder.
  • Preview respondent-facing survey pages.
  • Organize surveys in a personal workspace.
Standard

For survey research projects that need experiments, deployment, and exports.

$0/mo

Free while Domandata is under testing.

  • Full Flow for branching survey logic and randomized survey experiments.
  • Deploy surveys and manage response collection.
  • Export-ready survey data, codebooks, and survey files.
  • Library access for reusable blocks and survey design materials.
Pro

For research teams coordinating shared survey projects.

$0/mo

Free while Domandata is under testing.

  • Everything in Standard.
  • Create shared teams and collaborate on team surveys.
  • Use Flow, Deploy, Export, and Library on shared-team surveys.
  • Panels for organizing participant groups across survey waves.
Beta Tester

For researchers who want early access to features still in development.

$0/mo

Free while Domandata is under testing.

  • Everything in Pro.
  • In-progress features clearly marked throughout the editor.
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For researchers at a participating academic institution.

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Academic Methodology First

Best Social Science Survey Software

Academic social science requires rigorous design, transparent participant routing, and auditable, high-integrity exports. Here is why researchers transition from legacy enterprise builders to Domandata for political science and social science research surveys.

Visual Logic vs. Obscure Routing

Instead of complex logic trees or hidden branching menus, model your entire respondent path visually in Flow. You and your co-authors can inspect randomization blocks, eligibility screeners, and quotas in one clear interactive flowchart.

No-Code Experiments vs. JavaScript scripting

Skip writing custom JavaScript blocks just to run randomized treatment conditions or pipe dynamic text. Define experimental condition arms visually and let Domandata handle text-piping and arm assignment natively.

Analysis-Ready Exports vs. Manual Cleaning

Legacy survey builders isolate question design from your data output. Domandata bundles variable names, recodes, assigned treatment conditions, and randomization histories directly into R, Python, or Stata exports.

FAQ

A few practical answers before you start

These answers explain how Domandata supports careful survey design, experiments, collaboration, and analysis without assuming specialized methods vocabulary.

What makes Domandata the best social science survey software?

Domandata is built specifically for academic methodology. It provides a visual no-code Flow diagram for routing experimental treatment randomizations (eliminating hacky custom JavaScript scripting), supports built-in response quotas, and outputs structured response data with variable names, recoded values, and randomization history intact for clean analysis in R, Python, and Stata.

How is Domandata different from a general survey builder?

Domandata is organized around the work of research: writing the instrument, routing respondents, assigning experimental conditions, publishing the participant link, and exporting data with enough context to audit the study. It is meant to keep design decisions and the details needed for analysis together instead of scattering them across documents and spreadsheets.

Can Domandata run randomized survey experiments?

Yes. You can create condition sets in Flow, assign respondents randomly or by a prior variable, route each arm to different treatment material, cap arms with quotas, and export the assigned condition with the response data. Preview lets you test each path before launch.

What question types can researchers build with?

Block Builder includes multiple choice, dropdown, short answer, ranking, grid matrix and Likert-style batteries, sliders, conjoint tasks, heatmaps, content blocks, reCAPTCHA, and Text Chat questions. The question types are designed to produce understandable response fields for later analysis.

Can teams reuse approved materials?

Yes. The Library lets teams save approved blocks, demographic batteries, consent text, screeners, themes, and recurring end screens. For a whole-study starter, duplicate a prior survey and then review the variables, routes, quotas, contact details, and codebook notes before launch.

How do exports support analysis?

Exports are designed to carry more than raw answers. Researchers can check variable names, recodes, condition assignments, randomized order fields, quota-relevant variables, completion metadata, survey documents, and Flow diagrams, so the analysis file can be read alongside the instrument respondents saw.

Is Domandata free?

During the current testing period, Free, Standard, and Pro are all available at $0. The tier structure is visible now so researchers can understand the feature set before paid pricing is introduced later.

Start building a careful research survey in Domandata.

Create an account, open the app, and begin with the questions, paths, and exports your study will need.

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