Crowdnewsroom/Callout

Crowdnewsroom and Callout compared. (November 2021)

Feature	Crowdnewsroom	Call Out
Create a survey	☑️	☑️
Design with header image and forms	☑️	☑️
Create different paths within a survey (depending on answers)	⛔	☑️
start and end date	?	☑️
Set a thank you message	☑️	☑️
Option for user to be contacted about results / leave email	?	☑️
Add tags to a survey	☑️	☑️
Collaborate on a survey in a team	☑️	☑️
Invite team members to manage a survey	☑️	⛔
role management	?	?
Create an embed link	☑️	☑️
Anonymous surveys	☑️	☑️
Track activity in a user profile	⛔	☑️
Save answers to a survey	☑️	☑️
Look through single answers in a survey	☑️	☑️
Assign single answers to different people in the team	☑️	⛔
Verify single submissions	☑️	⛔
Toss single submissions	☑️	⛔
Download summary with all data points	☑️	☑️
Upload documents	☑️	⛔
special form fields needed in investigations e.g. easy location picker, signature	☑️	⛔
Create survey over several pages	☑️	⛔
Easy way for journalist to sort through answers	⛔	⛔
User login available	⛔	☑️
User area - users cancheck themselves where they took part	⛔	☑️
Customise primary color	☑️	⛔
multi-client capable	⛔	☑️
Multi language - Translations possible	☑️	☑️
Design toolkit to build with
Separate content by newsroom
Security measurmentes	?	?
GDPR compliant	☑️	not fully checked yet
Working as stand-alone tool	☑️	☑️ other functionality can be invisible

Further Notes

• Both tools have some technical depth and ux dificits that need working on

• In beabee the form builder is not fully self-intuitive right now

• The Crowdnewsroom has more options in the form builder that have been developed based on the needs in investigations

• Crowdnewsroom has options to sort through answers (verify, toss)

• form.io used on beabee is more powerful as a form builder than the Crowdnewsroom form builder

• Python/Django is not scaling as well as typescript/note.js

• beabee has continuity in the team

• beabee has design toolkit that speeds up the development of new features