Dovetail vs. Delighted by Qualtrics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dovetail
Score 8.3 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Dovetail, headquartered in Sydney, aims to enable the world to create better products and services through deep customer understanding. Dovetail states they empower 45,000+ people, from agencies to universities to Fortune 100 companies, to make sense of their customer research in one collaborative research platform.
$0
Delighted by Qualtrics
Score 8.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Delighted is a tool for gathering real time, actionable feedback from customers via email, web or SMS. Delighted uses the Net Promoter System to measure the customer journey, and takes care of aspects of the customer feedback process from collection and analysis, through notification and distribution. Delighted aims to be the single source to manage surveys for customers, partners, vendors and employees. This is to enable organizations of all sizes to create a customer-centric organization, …
$25
Pricing
DovetailDelighted by Qualtrics
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Professional
$15
per month
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Survey 100 people/month
$25
Survey 750 people/month
$49
Survey 2500 people/month
$99
Survey 5000 people/month
$149
Survey 10,000 people/month
$249
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DovetailDelighted by Qualtrics
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing on the Professional plan.10% discount with annual payment. Contact the vendor at hello@delighted.com for custom pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Dovetail
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Better usability but less powerful in terms of integration. EnjoyHQ felt better for quantitave data when i used it for the last time. But my knowledge is not up to date.
Chose Dovetail
Dovetail is 10X better. So much easier and truly meant for having one centralized workspace. Everything from the highlights and tags and videos and column customization when editing makes it easy to call them the winner in this field. I wouldn't want to go back to my other …
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Marvin's approach to AI has always been a core part of their platform, and so the integration of AI features (and the focus on building an AI product that works effectively for the kind of research we are doing) has always been at the forefront of their thinking and design. …
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Dovetail is the most stakeholder-friendly research tool we've used. Its visual insights, highlight reels, and intuitive interface make it easy for non-researchers to understand and act on customer feedback. Stakeholders can engage directly without needing deep training, making …
Chose Dovetail
Dovetail meets our needs the best with global codebooks, data retention rules, etc. Other platforms offered functionality we had in other tools or limited our ability to control data management and access controls. We would love even more in Dovetail, but like the direction …
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Haven't used EnjoyHQ in the last three years, so cannot compare the new capabilities like AI. We switched to Dovetail because it was easier to use at the time.
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I tried this product and must say I think the AI features are way better here and more accurate
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We chose Dovetail because it was more powerful and simple to use when we evaluated these tools.
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I work at Notion and we could also save our docs within Notion
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Dovetail outperforms in qualitative research analysis by offering advanced tagging transcription and centralized insights. I think notion is good for large or complex documentation but Dovetail is nice for qualitative documentation. Maze is better for usabilty testing , …
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Dovetail has some niche capabilities for market research that these alternative competitors do not like embedded transcription, insight clipping, sharing across a research team, etc. The others in my list have more features and are designed for knowledge management. For …
Delighted by Qualtrics
Chose Delighted by Qualtrics
Delighted is very intuitive and easy to setup. You won't need a ton of technical background to do so. True, that the customization in terms of themes could use more flexibility but if you're just starting with your CX journey, Delighted would be the perfect solution. The fact …
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I have been more impressed with the survey and follow-up responses within other platforms and demos we have had. In addition, the reporting capabilities and segmentation/customizations seem more robust in other platforms
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I have not used any other company like this from a business standpoint. I have, however, completed surveys that were provided through Qualtrics and I couldn't help but wish Delighted had those questions built in.
Chose Delighted by Qualtrics
I chose Delighted because it offered an affordable price point to get started, yet with plenty of room to grow. We started with 2,500 contacts per month, which is more generous than competitors offer at a similar price. I also saw that Delighted could integrate with Salesforce …
Chose Delighted by Qualtrics
Delighted is very easy to use, for both our organization and our customers. There was little, if any, learning curve to figure out how to use most of its features. On the customer end, it's as simple as opening your email and tapping a rating. This makes customers more likely …
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User Ratings
DovetailDelighted by Qualtrics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
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9.0
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Usability
6.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DovetailDelighted by Qualtrics
Likelihood to Recommend
See 1st question answer for my use case, I went into depth there for the specific use cases we have. For less appropriate (touched on this earlier) the final report is not great in dovetail. The formatting options are not great and does not look professional because of the lack of customization and layouts. For my customer we wouldn't be able to present that data as it's constructed. So we have to copy and paste all the quotes and insights to a word doc. That's ok but then it means if we want to use Dovetail as a repository of data we have to then re-import a pdf of the report into the project page.
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If you need a cheap solution and do not care too much about the data you are getting from your NPS program, then Delighted will do the trick. This does not seem to fit the needs of enterprise customers who want to go deep on data, segmentation, and quality feedback.
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Pros
  • The tagging, linking, and repository features make it simple to maintain a living library of knowledge, ensuring past work is never lost.
  • Dovetail enables our researchers and non-research partners to engage more directly with findings, fostering a stronger culture of evidence-based decision-making.
  • Dovetail makes it simple to track engagement metrics with research insights proving overall ROI.
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  • The user dashboard is exceptionally simple and easy to navigate.
  • The survey experience is sufficiently customizable but is mostly pre-configured and ready to use.
  • Customer support is remarkable. Very quick, thorough answers!
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Cons
  • Search can be challenging for a company with multiple products and many user types.
  • Charts generated from survey data could have settings to allow us to change how they are filtered / displayed.
  • Having a table of contents in insights / linkable headers would help direct people the right spot of an insight.
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  • There doesn't seem to be an app for Delighted (at least on iPhone), so you need to log in to the site from a web browser. A mobile app would save a step and could allow you to get push notifications, which would be helpful.
  • Setting up Delighted surveys through SMS has been difficult for us. It might just be our CRM or website, but we haven't been able to enable this yet.
  • The service seems a little pricey. You pay by the amount of surveys you want to send out per month. For such a simple survey and reporting system (and I mean that in a good way) I would think the price should be lower.
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Likelihood to Renew
Because we are really happy with the tool and it’s capabilities at the moment. The price increase is the main issue we can have but the features are getting better and better. It really saves a lot of time for our team and allow us to collaborate more efficiently with certain stakeholders that often did not réalise how much research we conduct. Now they can just have a look to it by themself!
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Usability
One of Dovetail’s key strengths is that it’s very easy to get started with — even for people without a research background. Uploading a transcript, tagging highlights, and generating a quick summary is intuitive and low-effort, which helped drive organic adoption at Dext.
However, mastering the more advanced features — like taxonomy management, insight reporting, or strategic tagging structures — does require more time and guidance. The learning curve becomes steeper as you try to scale insight operations or enforce consistency across teams.
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We run surveys every single day and have the responses fed directly into our Slack instance. Everyone in the organization (not just CX) can view and resolve any issues customers bring up without needing for them to reach out to our Customer Support team. Truly, Delighted has made the organization more customer centric by delivering the feedback right where everyone is (no PowerPoint presentations required).
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Reliability and Availability
I’ve never had any access issues with Dovetail, so I don’t see any problems in that area.
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Performance
Regarding performance, I would say it’s satisfactory. Adding data and transcriptions is really fast and efficient, and can be done in the background, so I’m never hindered by these aspects. However, all the new AI-generated features are still somewhat slow to run. It’s nothing major, but it should improve in the future.
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Support Rating
My customer success manager is very responsive and has always been able to answer my questions and resolve issues quickly. The collaboration is smooth, so I have no complaints in that regard.
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I have nothing but good things to say about Delighted's Concierge team. They have been quick to respond and have been able to make a lot of our customization requests a reality. They're also very open to product requests and suggestions and have been quick in churning out new features ever so often.
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Online Training
The training went very well, and we co-built it to really address our needs. I also think it was beneficial to have feedback coming from someone other than myself (since I manage the tool), as it helped reinforce the points I wanted to highlight. The team’s feedback on the training was very positive.
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Alternatives Considered
Dovetail is 10X better. So much easier and truly meant for having one centralized workspace. Everything from the highlights and tags and videos and column customization when editing makes it easy to call them the winner in this field. I wouldn't want to go back to my other tools I've used in the past due to the amount of time it takes and would choose Dovetail over Google Workspace, UserTesting, and Basecamp hands down
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Delighted is very intuitive and easy to setup. You won't need a ton of technical background to do so. True, that the customization in terms of themes could use more flexibility but if you're just starting with your CX journey, Delighted would be the perfect solution. The fact that they have most channels covered e.g. email, web, SDK, and even text really makes it easy to reach your customers (or any respondent in that matter) where they are.
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Scalability
Management is quite straightforward; it’s easy to change access if certain stakeholders need to use it. The repository features are accessible to all teams, making it a good entry point into the tool. The more people use it, the more powerful the tool becomes, so it seems truly scalable to me. The limits are more financial, in terms of accessing additional features.
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Return on Investment
  • Researchers and designers now spend less time digging through scattered notes or redoing similar studies. Centralizing everything in Dovetail has significantly reduced the time needed to prepare synthesis reports, align stakeholders, or onboard new teammates into past research.
  • With Dovetail, user insights are no longer abstract or anecdotal—they're traceable, searchable, and backed by real quotes. Product teams feel more confident making roadmap decisions based on what users actually need, not assumptions.
  • Dovetail has encouraged more non-designers to engage with user feedback directly. This democratization of insights helps align everyone around real user problems, which ultimately leads to better product-market fit and faster iteration loops.
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  • It has had a positive impact on our customer satisfaction overall. Once we receive a score that is 5 or below, we reach out to address their concerns and find areas to improve their experience with our product.
  • When we receive a favorable rating, it gives us the opportunity to touch base with those customers to see what they are enjoying most or doing effectively.
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ScreenShots

Dovetail Screenshots

Screenshot of the Contacts interface, used to find, schedule, and incentivize research participants.Screenshot of a visualization of customer feedback, used to identify patterns before they become problems. Using LLM and ML techniques, Channels continuously classifies and tracks themes in large data sets like support tickets, app reviews, and feedback.Screenshot of an example of a conversational insight, available in Slack. Here, users can quickly ask questions to access automatic podcast-style updates for all related data across Dovetail in Slack and Microsoft Teams.Screenshot of the navigation and project interface, designed to makes it easy for everyone to get started and find what they need in Dovetail.

Delighted by Qualtrics Screenshots

Screenshot of See customer feedback at a glance; responsive for mobileScreenshot of Customer trends and saved feedback from different customer segmentsScreenshot of Gather feedback online or via SMSScreenshot of Gather feedback with just one click in via email