What people are saying about Gorilla
Gorilla beats every other tool I used (and I have used a lot!)
Dr. Shane Lindsay
University of Hull
Dr. Shane Lindsay
University of Hull
Dr Suzanna Forwood
Dr Suzanna Forwood — Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University
Dr Suzanna Forwood — Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University
I love Gorilla as experiment builder software so much that we’re transitioning our in-lab studies to this too (leaving behind E‑Prime, SuperLab, and PsychoPy).
Dr Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
Dr Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
I am massively impressed with Gorilla. Logged on for the first time yesterday at lunchtime. Had a demo experiment ready for students to adapt by 6pm the very same day.
Dr. Jenni Rodd — Senior Lecturer
University College London
Dr. Jenni Rodd — Senior Lecturer
University College London
Building up your experiment together with the support team! Whenever you have a doubt, they propose the best solution for your unique experimental design in a matter of hours. They listen to what exactly you need, and summarize how to implement it! Thank you for such a fruitful collaboration. You speed up our science!
Sadiye Cankurtaran
PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University
Sadiye Cankurtaran
PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University
My Director and I think that your Gorilla platform is excellent. It took me only two days (with no prior experience) to set up the Experiment from start to finish, with a somewhat complex structure for a list experiment. We will definitely do our online experiments on your platform going forward.
Alain Vandormael
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Alain Vandormael
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Wow, I love Gorilla… Was just messing around trying to see if it could do what we needed for a project, ended up creating an entire demo version complete with all counterbalancing ready for the real stimuli to be added later. It’s so intuitive and clear. Well done Gorilla!
Priya Silverstein
University of Surrey
Priya Silverstein
University of Surrey
Never thought data collection online could be so easy! Thanks to Gorilla for creating a quick and easy solution to online data collection!
Jason Geller
University of Iowa
Jason Geller
University of Iowa
From an experimental design/coding perspective, this was one of our most challenging Covid studies. Grateful for Gorilla which enabled us to turn a complex design on paper into a workable experiment over the course of a (long) lockdown weekend in 2020.
Cameron Haffenden-Belton
ESRI Dublin
Cameron Haffenden-Belton
ESRI Dublin
The data output is really good and easy to work with. Far better than Qualtrics!
Dr. Jason Chan
Iowa State University
Dr. Jason Chan
Iowa State University
There are few things in academia that I recommend so wholeheartedly. You managed to create a platform different than anything else that’s available. It’s so intuitive and yet versatile and powerful. Well done and thank you for your great work!
Albertyna Paciorek
Warszawski Uni
Albertyna Paciorek
Warszawski Uni
We have our first paper currently under review, which just wouldn’t have been feasible without Gorilla. Thanks for everything you do!
Jim Grange
Head of School, Keele University
Jim Grange
Head of School, Keele University
The suffering free version of running experiments.
Nadia Brown
Harvard
Nadia Brown
Harvard
Gorilla has quite literally saved my PhD! Everyone I’ve shown it to has been astonished by how easy it is to set up an experiment.
Emily Breese
Open University
Emily Breese
Open University
On another note, thank you for the GIFT that is Gorilla — It’s saving us during lockdown!
Lucy Cheke
University of Cambridge
Lucy Cheke
University of Cambridge
In our local [Berlin] zoo a real Gorilla, Bibi, has just had babies. With Gorilla support I feel just as safe and welcome as these tiny sweeties do in Bibi’s arms.
Katharina Kühne
Potsdam University
Katharina Kühne
Potsdam University
I used Gorilla to build my MRes experiments which involve participants having their attention trained whilst I measure their reaction times. The program is flexible, easy to use, and the Gorilla support team are fantastic!
Thea House
Macquarie University
Thea House
Macquarie University
Open Materials is so powerful and helpful. I cloned three tasks and adapted another. So that removed half the work I needed to do. It saved me so much time. Special thanks to Eva Poort!
Dr Vivienne Rogers
Senior Lecturer, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University
Dr Vivienne Rogers
Senior Lecturer, Applied Linguistics, Swansea University
I finally had some time to sit through the experiment again yesterday and it looks absolutely amazing! And I’m even more amazed that it took me less than two weeks to set it all up. Thanks for making this possible!
Eva Poort
UCL
Eva Poort
UCL
Gorilla lets me take my experiments online quickly and efficiently. The clear and straightforward interface allows me to map out the logic of my experimental designs, whilst its modular nature helps me to build and test components as I go. Taking my research online will dramatically increase my sample size, and help me to reach groups under-represented in my field.
Alexandra Hendry
Kings College London
Alexandra Hendry
Kings College London
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Joseph Devlin
UCL
Joseph Devlin
UCL
Joe Devlin
Joe Devlin
UCL
Joe Devlin
UCL
Kamila Naeem
Kamila Naeem
City University of London
Kamila Naeem
City University of London
The interface for building experiments is very clean and easy to use, even for really complex designs (e.g., counterbalancing, different components, branching based on performance in a given task, redirecting back to Prolific). I can’t say enough good things about their support documentation for researchers; it’s quite lovely.
Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
I was a first year PhD student. I needed to create a task which was going to be a real headache. I had to contact the researchers at MIT who had designed it, ask them for their super specific stimuli (which required highly specialised recording equipment to produce), and then design the task exactly as it was written out in their publication. This was my first experiment and I was so stressed out. The surprise? Someone had already built the exact task in Gorilla and shared it on Open Materials. I cloned it and texted my supervisor, ‘Done! What next?
Amira Korkor
Queen Mary University of London
Amira Korkor
Queen Mary University of London
Gorilla allows us to efficiently collect large, diverse samples of participants that are often unfeasible to obtain in the lab. The task builder makes it possible to build pilot experiments within a short space of time, while also allowing the flexibility to implement more sophisticated psychophysical designs.
Max Rollwage — The MetaLab, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
UCL
Max Rollwage — The MetaLab, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
UCL
As a Behavioural Economics MSc student studying an intensive one year course alongside full-time work, Gorilla has been invaluable. I have no idea how I would have setup my experiment without the platform and its amazing team! It’s really great to use whatever level your coding skills are. If you know a little bit of css/html, you can use this in the main Task Editor to customise existing templates. If you’re more advanced, the Code Editor interface gives you great flexibility in using html/javascript etc. so you can really push your experimental design forward.
Aimee Wilde
University of Middlesex
Aimee Wilde
University of Middlesex
Gorilla is designed for psychologists, so it has all the relevant options. I’ve found it really easy to use and very flexible.
Hannah Betts
UCL
Hannah Betts
UCL
In the last auditory study I ran online with Gorilla and Prolific, of the 1020 tested participants, we only had to exclude 60 participants (5.9%) due to poor data quality, which included failure to meet our a priori inclusion criteria for accuracy, headphone use, and completed trials. The data quality — once you’ve honed your protocol — is excellent.
Dr Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
Dr Rachel Theodore
University of Connecticut
Gorilla rescued my dissertation! They have the best support team in the world. My experiment required too many customized functions, which is quite time-consuming. However, Gorilla helped me to achieve everything! In order to have a clear understanding of my demand, they arranged a Skype meeting with me and coached me step by step. They reviewed my codes and answered my questions with great patience. Honestly, they are like my second-supervisor. I deeply appreciate this wonderful platform and amazing team!
Muhang Li
UCL
Muhang Li
UCL
The traditional ways for higher education students to memorize and recall materials in the visual domains (e.g. in Design & Architecture) can be boring and ineffective. We seek to assist students to learn and engage with visual materials more effectively by utilizing Perceptual Learning (PL). PL refers to experience-induced changes in the extraction of information (Eleanor Gibson, 1969) and it forms the basis of expert pattern recognition ability. Gorilla is a SaaS platform that lets me focus on designing and implementing learning experiments for PL without worrying about the back-end system. It provides a ground for rapid prototyping of various time-sensitive learning activities for PL. A unique advantage of Gorilla is that it provides reliable time indictors to measure participants’ performances effortlessly. Gorilla is a great product with a reasonable learning curve and providing great value to researchers conducting online experiments. Thanks for the great support service, too.
Wing Lau
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Wing Lau
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Katharina Kühne
Katharina Kühne
Social Robotics and Language
University of Potsdam
Katharina Kühne
Social Robotics and Language
University of Potsdam
Thanks for your quick response! It helped us! … We have made an experiment with help or your excellent program Gorilla. We generated data earlier, it worked perfectly.
Jeroen Kusters
University of Utrecht
Jeroen Kusters
University of Utrecht
I’ve had so many problems sending participants to Qualtrics to Pavlovia to Qualtrics and it always goes wrong. It’s so error prone. I’m glad we never have that problem with Gorilla
Gorilla Office Hours Attendee
Gorilla Office Hours Attendee
I don’t have the words to express how impressed I am with the kindness and speediness of you & your team. Thanks a million. I’m a very happy and loyal customer already and will make sure to recommend Gorilla at my upcoming conference later this month.
Albertyna Paciorek
Pedagogical University of Krakow
Albertyna Paciorek
Pedagogical University of Krakow
Gorilla is a great tool if you want to run experiments online, because it possesses such a great flexibility; you can design your experiment by simply using the graphical user interface, code the entire experiment in javascript or use a combination of both. This makes it really easy and fast to use — for a wide audience! Furthermore, the support I have experienced is great: quick, clear and supportive.
Anne-Lene Sax — Wellcome Trust PhD Neural Dynamics
University of Bristol
Anne-Lene Sax — Wellcome Trust PhD Neural Dynamics
University of Bristol
Really, thank you so much for your help. I’m extremely impressed with everything about Gorilla including your flexibility in finding an option that might work for my circumstances.
Barbara Hewitt
University of Glasgow
Barbara Hewitt
University of Glasgow
I’m using Gorilla for a variety of auditory task where participants hear and respond to speech and other sounds. Gorilla is a great platform. Experiments run in web browsers so they can be done anywhere, e.g. an internet-connected computer in the lab or on another continent — no need to compile code or check out expensive licenses from a server. Gorilla streamlines collaboration. Collaborators can log into their own Gorilla accounts to share and view tasks, make edits to the tasks, check experiment progress and download data. The built-in version control ensures we always know exactly which version of a task was run. Support for the platform is phenomenal — Cauldron staff respond quickly to questions and have even created custom features and written bespoke code in order to get things running smoothly.
Kyle Jasmin
Birkbeck College
Kyle Jasmin
Birkbeck College
Karsten Babin
Karsten Babin
University of Western Ontario
Karsten Babin
University of Western Ontario
Max Mawby
Max Mawby
Thinks Applied Behavioural Science
Max Mawby
Thinks Applied Behavioural Science
I am used to coding my own tasks and was expecting to have to code a bit on Gorilla for flexibility, but I was able to construct a full experiment in about a week with no issues at all – I was delighted
Camilla Nord — MRC CBU
University of Cambridge
Camilla Nord — MRC CBU
University of Cambridge
Dr Anita Deak
Dr Anita Deak
Affective Psychology
Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Hungary
Dr Anita Deak
Affective Psychology
Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Hungary
Guangtong Wang
Guangtong Wang
Face Recognition Researcher
University of Exeter
Guangtong Wang
Face Recognition Researcher
University of Exeter
Menna Mostafa
Menna Mostafa
Digital Marketing
Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology
Menna Mostafa
Digital Marketing
Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology
Professor Paul Burgess
Professor Paul W. Burgess
UCL
Professor Paul W. Burgess
UCL
Ferenc Igali
Ferenc Igali
Ex Chair, Association of Technical Staff in Psychology
Ferenc Igali
Ex Chair, Association of Technical Staff in Psychology