From idea to rigorous experiment.
- Consent
- Intake
- Survey
- Audio
- Multimedia
- Rating
- Certificate
- One browser, most experiments
- Data stored securely in Canada
Try a task — right now, in your browser
No sign-up, no install. Click one and it starts immediately. When you finish, download your data as a CSV or have it emailed to you. This is the kind of experiment we build.
Stroop
Name the ink colour, ignore the word.
Start →Flanker
Respond to the centre arrow, ignore its neighbours.
Start →Simon
Respond to the shape, ignore where it appears.
Start →2-Back
Is this letter the same as two ago?
Start →Lexical Decision
Real word or non-word? Decide fast.
Start →Stop-Signal
Go — but withhold your response when the signal appears.
Start →Go / No-Go
Press for green, hold for red.
Start →Task-Switching
Switch rules on the fly: odd/even vs low/high.
Start →Memory Search
Was this letter in the set you just saw?
Start →Spatial Cueing
A box flashes, then a target — press its side.
Start →Visual Search
Find the T hidden among the Ls.
Start →Eye tracking
Uses your webcam to estimate where you look on a face.
Start →Free tools for researchers
No account, no ads, no usage caps — small utilities that make running a lab easier. Anyone can use these.
when2meet
Find a time that works for everyone. Mark your available slots, send each invitee a personal link, lock in the winner.
Create a poll →Trial Builder beta
Build a keyboard reaction-time task visually — drag events onto a trial timeline, define a conditions table, run it. Or just describe it and let AI assemble it.
Open the builder →More coming
Stay tunedWhy BrowserPsyLab
From the researcher's perspective — what we aim to deliver, all in one place.
| BrowserPsyLab | Qualtrics | PsychoPy / Pavlovia | jsPsych | Gorilla | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browser-only (no install) | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-stage protocols | ✓ | limited | ✓ | via plugins | ✓ |
| Voice / audio recording tasks | ✓ | — | ✓ | via plugins | ✓ |
| Email-based participant invitations | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Real-time progress dashboard | ✓ | partial | — | — | ✓ |
| Per-lab participant pool | ✓ | — | — | — | partial |
| REB / IRB reviewer read-only access | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Signed PDF certificates (QR-verified) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Multi-language UI (EN / FR / 中文) | ✓ | ✓ | partial | build it yourself | ✓ |
| Self-hostable (own server, own data) | ✓ | — | partial | ✓ | — |
| Free for academic use | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | limited tier |
"Partial" / "limited" reflects features that exist but with significant caveats — e.g., PsychoPy ships a desktop Builder app and a separate web runtime (Pavlovia); Qualtrics treats multi-stage flows as conditional survey logic rather than longitudinal protocols. Corrections welcome at [email].
Acknowledgement
