Question types you can add

A survey can mix three question types, in any order and any combination.

Multiple choice

You write a list of options and each respondent picks exactly one. Add options with the + Add option button below the question; there's no cap on how many you add. This is the type to reach for when you want a clean count of who picked what.

Once a survey has any responses, you can add new options but can't remove or reword an existing one, since an already-submitted answer is stored as the option's exact text and would stop matching anything if that text changed.

Rating

A fixed 1 to 10 scale. Respondents tap a number; there's no way to change the range or label individual points. Use it for anything you'd otherwise phrase as "on a scale of 1 to 10."

Free text

An open box for a written answer. There's no length limit, and nothing stops a respondent from leaving it blank if the question is optional. Free text answers show up as a plain list on your results screen rather than a chart, since there's nothing numeric to count.

Required and optional questions

Every question requires an answer by default: a respondent can't submit without touching each one. Signed-in creators on the paid plan can mark individual questions optional, or make a question appear only when an earlier multiple choice answer matches a value they pick. That control sits under each question in the builder as Answer rules, and it only offers multiple choice questions that come before the one you're setting a rule on, since a question can't depend on something asked after it.

A conditional question can combine up to five conditions, matched with either "all of these match" or "any of these match." If you rename or remove a multiple choice option that a later question's rule depends on, the rule updates on its own to drop the missing option, so it never ends up silently pointing at text that no longer exists.

Picking a type for the question you actually have

Multiple choice is the easiest to read back later, since results arrive as counts you can compare at a glance. Rating works well for anything you want to track as a trend over several questions or several surveys. Free text is the one to use when you genuinely don't know the range of answers you'll get, but it's the slowest for an audience to fill in and the slowest for you to read back. A multiple choice list with an "other" option often gets you most of the same information faster.