# Survey overview


# Survey overview

imatic Survey is a single place to build forms and surveys, share them, collect responses on any device, and see what people said. You write the questions (or let AI draft them), publish a link, and the answers flow into charts and tables you can export — with a public live-results page for polls that updates in real time. No code, no spreadsheets to wrangle.

Here's what you can build and where each feature lives — so you can jump straight to the page you need.

![The Survey forms home, showing a grid of form cards with response counts and status badges](/img/screenshots/survey/forms-list.png)
*Your forms home: every form as a card with its field count, response count, and Draft or Published badge.*

## What you can do

- **Build visually.** Drag fields onto a canvas in the [form builder](./form-builder) and edit each one in the Inspector. 26 field types cover everything from short text to ratings, matrices, image choice, file uploads, and signatures.
- **Start with AI or a template.** Describe your form in plain language and let [Create with AI](./ai-generation) draft the questions, or pick from dozens of ready-made [templates](./templates).
- **Add logic.** Show or hide questions based on earlier answers, route people down different paths, pipe answers into later questions, and score quizzes — all in [Logic & scoring](./logic-scoring).
- **Publish and share.** [Publish](./publishing-sharing) a form to get a share link, QR code, or embed code, and prefill fields from the URL.
- **Collect responses anywhere.** Your [public form](./public-form) works on phones, tablets, and desktops, with inline validation, a progress bar, and spam protection.
- **Analyze your results.** Read a [response summary](./responses) with charts and metrics, dig into individual answers, export to CSV or Excel, or open the deeper [analytics](./analytics) with distributions and cross-tabs.

## How a form comes together

1. **Create** a form from scratch, a template, or an AI prompt.
2. **Build** it in the three-column builder — add fields, set options, add logic.
3. **Preview** it as your respondents will see it, in classic or conversational layout.
4. **Publish** it to lock in a version and get your share link.
5. **Share** the link, QR code, or embed wherever your audience is.
6. **Watch responses** arrive and analyze them as they come in.

:::tip[New here?]

Start by [creating your account](./sign-up), then try [Create with AI](./ai-generation) or a [template](./templates) to get a working form in under a minute.

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## Key terms

A few words you'll see throughout these docs:

- **Form / Survey** — the set of questions you build.
- **Draft / Published** — a form is a Draft until you Publish it; publishing creates an immutable **Form Version**.
- **Field** — a single question or content block on the canvas.
- **Inspector** — the right-hand panel where you edit the selected field.
- **Respondent** — a person filling out your form. Their submission is a **Response**.
- **Score band** — a labeled range (like "Pass" or "High") for scored forms and quizzes.

## Next steps

- [Sign up and find your forms home](./sign-up)
- [Build your first form](./form-builder)
- [Generate a form with AI](./ai-generation)
- [Browse templates](./templates)