A Useberry alternative for testing before a study

Useberry is built for running usability studies on designs, with real people and real metrics. Before a study, many teams want a quicker read: is the flow understandable at all, which of two directions is weaker, what will people object to? Others want feedback on things a prototype test does not cover, such as an ad, an email or a marketing page.

• Useberry: real participants on prototypes and live sites, with recordings and task metrics.
• Mimiq: simulated people, with reasons in their own words, in minutes.
• Useberry: a free plan with 10 responses a month; Growth at 83 euros a month billed yearly.
• Mimiq: first test free, then a $9 Starter (120 credits that never expire) or monthly plans from $49.

Useberry describes itself as a remote UX research platform for moderated and unmoderated testing of websites, designs and prototypes. Its site lists prototype testing with imports from design tools such as Figma and ProtoPie, first click and five second tests, preference tests, card sorting, tree testing, surveys, A/B tests and live interviews.

For live websites, you link a staging or live site or embed its snippet. It records sessions with face, voice and screen, tracks clicks, maps the paths people take, and measures completion, time on task and drop-offs.

Participants are your own users, invited with a link, or people from its global participant pool, filtered by interests, demographics, device and location and paid for with credits. Its pricing page lists a Free plan with 10 responses a month, 1 seat and 1 project, Growth at 83 euros a month billed yearly with 300 responses a month, Business at 659 euros a month billed yearly, and Enterprise on request.

Mimiq shows your work to simulated people who match your audience: a live page, ad or post images, a video of up to 3 minutes, an email, copy or a question. A 25-person test takes about 90 seconds, with nobody to recruit.

In a flow, each simulated person opens your live site in their own real browser and tries a task for up to 40 steps. The report shows how far each one got, and where and why they stopped, step by step, with pictures of their screen.

Mimiq does not test clickable prototypes, and it records no one: nobody in it is real. Screenshots of up to four screens can be reviewed together as one flow, but nobody clicks through them.

Useberry's evidence is observed: real people clicking through your prototype, with completion rates and recordings you can show a team. For interaction design decisions, that is the standard.

Mimiq's evidence is simulated, and its strengths are speed and reasons. You learn in minutes what people are likely to misread or object to, and you can ask them why. It says which version to take forward, not how big the real lift will be. A flow shows where people can get stuck, not how many real users will finish.

A practical split: screen designs and copy with simulated people, fix the obvious problems, then run the study with real participants on a stronger version.

Choose Useberry when you are testing an unreleased prototype from Figma or ProtoPie, when you need task metrics such as completion and time on task from real people, or when you want recordings of real participants for stakeholders.

It is also the better fit for questions about navigation and labels, through card sorting and tree testing, and for moderated interviews.

Choose Mimiq before a study, when you want to know quickly whether a design or a page is understandable, when you want to compare two directions on the same simulated people, or when the thing to test is marketing: a landing page, an ad, a video, an email.

Pricing is public: the first test is free with a free account (Google sign-in, no card), then a $9 Starter (120 credits that never expire) or monthly plans from $49. One credit is one simulated person, a flow uses 5 a person, and there is no per-seat pricing.