Tally alternative for richer answers: Feedbaq vs Tally
Tally is a good choice for basic surveys and forms. When you need detail from the people answering, Feedbaq is the Tally alternative built for it: instead of filling in fields, people answer by voice or share their screen and talk you through it, and an AI can ask a follow-up after any answer. Your own AI agent can build the study and read everything people said. Tally has no way for people to record their voice or screen, and it does not generate AI follow-up questions.
Tally is a strong free form builder, and a good fit for basic surveys and forms: sign-ups, waitlists, orders, applications and quick polls. What a typed form cannot give you is detail: why someone signed up, what almost stopped them, what they do instead. For that, people need to talk, show you and answer a follow-up, and that is what Feedbaq is built for. This page compares the two for startups, product teams and marketing teams, with Tally’s features and prices taken from Tally’s own site on 30 September 2026.
Key takeaways
- Use Tally for basic surveys and forms. Use Feedbaq when you need detail: the reasons, stories and screens behind each answer.
- Tally collects typed answers and uploaded files. Feedbaq records spoken answers and narrated screen shares, and transcribes every word.
- Feedbaq’s AI writes a follow-up for the answer it just heard. Tally’s logic can only show questions you wrote in advance.
- Both work with Claude and ChatGPT. Tally’s MCP server builds forms and fetches typed submissions; Feedbaq’s also gives your agent every spoken transcript.
- People said about three times as many words when they spoke as when they typed, in a 2024 study with 1,001 people.
- Tally is free, with Pro at $29 a month. Feedbaq is $49 a month with every feature included, and free to build.
Feedbaq vs Tally at a glance
Tally is built for basic surveys and forms. Feedbaq is built for getting detail from people, with voice, screen share and AI follow-ups in every study.
| Feedbaq | Tally | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Getting detail from people: feedback, research, concept and product tests | Basic surveys and forms: sign-ups, waitlists, payments, quick polls |
| Voice answers | Record up to 10 minutes per answer, transcribed word by word | No recording. People can upload an audio file they recorded elsewhere |
| Screen share | People share their screen and talk you through it | No |
| Form building | Not a form builder: no conditional logic or payments | Conditional logic and payments, free |
| AI follow-up questions | After any answer type, on the questions you choose, guided by your instructions | No. Conditional logic shows questions you wrote in advance |
| AI help building | Your own agent builds studies from your data, plus 8 templates | Tally AI builds forms from a prompt, a screenshot or a PDF, free |
| Your AI agent (MCP) | Builds, publishes and reads every full response with transcripts | Builds and edits forms and fetches submissions (beta) |
| Analysis | Automatic labels on every open answer, the most insightful answers first | Charts, plus NPS and CSAT scores |
| Price | $49 a month with every feature included; free to build | Free; Pro $29 a month; Business $89 a month |
What a typed answer misses
People type the short version, and a short answer hides the part you need: the reason, the moment and what they did instead. Speaking is easier than typing, so people say more. In a 2024 experiment with 1,001 people, reported in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, spoken answers averaged 43.8 words against 14.2 typed. And a single follow-up question makes answers more detailed and informative, according to a 2026 NORC experiment with 1,800 people.
Memory is the other gap. People describe what they think they do, which often differs from what they actually do: a meta-analysis of 106 comparisons in Nature Human Behaviour found that self-reported technology use correlated at only 0.38 with logged use. A screen share shows the real thing.
What were you using before you found us?
Typed into a form
1 word. No way to ask what they meant.
Spoken in Feedbaq
A Google Sheet, basically. One tab per customer, and I’d paste in notes after every call. It worked until we had about thirty customers, and then nobody could find anything, and two of us were keeping separate sheets without knowing it.
AI follow-up
What happened when you realised there were two sheets?
We’d both promised the same customer different things for the next release. That was the week we started looking for a tool.
63 words, and the reason behind them.
“Spreadsheets” tells you the competition. The spoken answer tells you the moment the pain became urgent, which is the moment to reach people and the story your landing page should tell.
What Feedbaq adds to a form
Feedbaq keeps the parts of a form you still want, like multiple choice and short text, and adds three ways to get the rest.
Voice answers, with a keyboard as backup
People tap record and talk for as long as they need, up to 10 minutes. Every answer is transcribed word by word, and clicking a word plays that moment. If someone would rather type, a voice question can accept a typed answer too, so nobody drops out because they are on a train. In Tally, people can only upload an audio or video file they recorded somewhere else, up to 10 MB on the free plan.
Screen share, narrated
Ask people to open your product, your landing page or their current tool, share their screen and talk as they go. You get the recording and the transcript, synced. On phones and tablets, where screen sharing is not possible, you choose whether people answer by voice instead, skip the question, or are asked to switch to a computer.
A follow-up written for the answer
On the questions you choose, Feedbaq’s AI reads the answer and asks a neutral follow-up about what actually happened, steered by a line of guidance you write. It works after voice, screen share, text and multiple choice. It is the question you would have asked in an interview, asked for you at the moment the answer is fresh. Tally’s conditional logic can also show a different next question, but only one you wrote in advance.
Your agent runs the research
Connect Feedbaq to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok or any MCP client, and your agent can plan a study, build it, publish it and tell you what people said. It reads each full response, including the transcript of every spoken answer with a link to each word, so its summaries quote real people and you can check every quote at the second it was said.
Tally has an agent connection too: its MCP server, in beta and free on every plan, can create and edit forms and fetch submissions. The difference is what the agent gets to read. From Tally, it reads what people typed. From Feedbaq, it reads what they said out loud, what they did on screen in their own words, and their answers to the follow-ups.
Your agent, with Feedbaq connected
You: Here are my notes from six sales calls. Set up a discovery study for people like them, without mentioning our product.
Agent: The calls keep coming back to month-end reporting. I’ll ask about the last time they did it, what was hardest, and have them show me the spreadsheet.
feedbaq · create_study“How you do month-end reporting”feedbaq · upsert_question6 questions: 4 voice, 1 screen share, 1 choice
Agent: Draft ready in the builder. Check the wording, then tell me to publish.
The next week
You: Summarise what we heard, and quote people.
feedbaq · list_responses17 responsesfeedbaq · get_response17 full responses with transcripts
The pain is reconciling, not reporting
11 of 17 described the same step: matching two exports by hand. P-0006: “That’s the whole of Tuesday, every month.”
Several have already tried another tool
7 of 17 tried a tool and went back to the spreadsheet because it didn’t handle their second bank.
Free forms or answers you can act on
Tally is free for unlimited forms and submissions, and Feedbaq costs $49 a month with every feature included. Tally’s free plan is generous because a typed form is cheap to run. Feedbaq’s price covers what a form doesn’t do: recording, transcribing every word and writing follow-ups for what people said.
| Plan | Monthly | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Tally Free | $0 | Unlimited forms and submissions, within fair use |
| Tally Pro | $29 | No Tally branding, custom domains, team members, drop-off analytics |
| Tally Business | $89 | Data retention control, email verification, longer version history |
| Feedbaq | $49 | Every feature: voice, screen share, AI follow-ups, transcripts, labels and MCP |
Building a study in Feedbaq is free, and you pay only when you publish it. If one round of answers saves you from building the wrong feature, it has paid for itself many times over.
Use Tally and Feedbaq together
Keep Tally for basic surveys and forms, and use Feedbaq when you need detail from the people behind them. Tally is a strong choice for sign-up forms, waitlists, payments and applications. The two fit together: collect the email in Tally, then send the people who signed up a Feedbaq study to hear why they came and what they hope to do.
Start this week
- Pick the question you most need answered. Why people sign up, why they stall, or what they use today. The customer discovery and product-market fit guides have the questions.
- Start from a template, or ask your agent. The customer discovery template is set up with voice, a screen share and follow-ups.
- Send the link to people who already raised their hand. Your Tally sign-ups and waitlist are the best place to start.
- Read what they said. Or ask your agent to read it for you, and check the quotes it gives you.
Set up a study for free, answer it yourself by voice, and see the follow-up you get. You subscribe only when you publish it.
Free template
The customer discovery template
Ask about the last time the problem happened, what it cost and what people do about it today, before you build anything.
Use this template, free- 1What is your role, and what are you responsible for?Text
- 2Tell us about the last time you [did the task]. What happened?Voice
- 3What was the hardest part of that?Voice
- 4What do you do about it today?Voice
- 5Show us how you handle it today.Screen share
- and 2 more questions
Questions people ask
Is there a Tally alternative with voice answers?
Yes. In Feedbaq, people can answer any open question by speaking, for up to 10 minutes, and every answer is transcribed word by word. Feedbaq also records narrated screen shares, and its AI can ask a follow-up after any answer.
Can Tally record audio or video answers?
No. Tally has no answer type that records audio, video or the screen. People can upload an audio or video file they recorded elsewhere through its file upload block, up to 10 MB per file on the free plan.
Does Tally have AI follow-up questions?
No. Tally AI helps you build, edit and translate forms, and Tally’s conditional logic can show a different next question, but only one you wrote in advance. Feedbaq’s AI writes a new follow-up for the answer, on the questions you choose, guided by instructions you write for each question.
Does Tally work with Claude and ChatGPT?
Yes. Tally has an MCP server, in beta and free on all plans, that can create and edit forms and fetch submissions. Feedbaq’s MCP server also lets your agent publish studies and read every full response, including transcripts of spoken answers.
How much does Feedbaq cost compared with Tally?
Tally is free for unlimited forms and submissions, with Pro at $29 a month and Business at $89 a month. Feedbaq costs $49 a month with every feature included, and building a study is free.
Can I use Tally and Feedbaq together?
Yes. Use Tally for basic surveys and forms, such as sign-ups, waitlists or orders, then send those people a Feedbaq study when you need detail: why they came and what they need. Participants need no account to answer.
Keep reading
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Read the guideSources
- Tally, pricing Plans and features, checked 30 September 2026.
- Tally Help Center, “Tally Pro” US dollar price for Pro.
- Tally Help Center, “Tally Business” US dollar price for Business.
- Tally Help Center, “Input blocks” The full list of answer types.
- Tally Help Center, “File uploads”
- Tally Help Center, “Conditional logic”
- Tally Help Center, “Free AI form builder”
- Tally Help Center, “Tally MCP”
- Tally changelog MCP launch, submission access and the Claude and ChatGPT connectors.
- Lenzner, Höhne and Gavras, spoken versus typed answers to open-ended probes Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2024.
- Barari and colleagues, AI-generated follow-up probes in web surveys Survey Research Methods, 2026.
- Parry and colleagues, “A systematic review and meta-analysis of discrepancies between logged and self-reported digital media use” Nature Human Behaviour, 2021.