Professional Research Tools. Free for Students.
NousKit is the all-in-one psychology research platform. Design studies, recruit participants, and analyze results in one place. No coding. No per-participant fees. No paywalls.
How it started
Built because a psych student couldn't afford the tools she needed
It started with a phone call. My sister, a psychology student, asked if I could build a study for her class. The professional tools were either too expensive or too complicated, and she'd already spent a week trying to make free tiers work together.
So I built it. She loved it. But the conversation stuck with me.
Why should the best research tools only be available to labs with funding? Why are students, the people doing the most research, the ones with the fewest resources?
NousKit is the answer to that question.
Sound familiar?
You're spending more time fighting your tools than doing research
Psychology research already has enough obstacles. Your software shouldn't be one of them.
The tools that actually work cost more than your textbooks
The modern, intuitive platforms charge per participant or require expensive institutional licenses. You can build experiments for free, but the moment you want to actually collect data, there’s a paywall.
The free tools expect you to write code
The tools that don’t charge money still expect you to learn a scripting language or work in a text-based interface that feels like it was built two decades ago. You came here to study psychology, not to debug code.
You’re stitching together 4+ tools that weren’t designed to work together
One for surveys, one for experiments, a spreadsheet for cleaning, a stats package for analysis. Each one has its own learning curve, its own file format, and every handoff is a chance for something to break.
You spend your first semester learning software, not doing research
Some of these tools have interfaces that haven’t been updated since you were in middle school. You need a tutorial just to learn how to navigate the tutorial. “Getting started” takes weeks, not minutes.
You won’t know your design has a problem until it’s too late
There’s no real-time feedback. You collect data for weeks, and then discover the flaw in your branching logic while staring at rows of unusable responses.
What we're building
Get back to the research that matters
Finally, a research platform that's free, easy to use, and does everything in one place. No more stitching together tools that weren't designed to work together.
Visual Flow Designer
No more scripting branching logic at 2am.
Design your experiment flows with drag-and-drop. Branching, randomization, conditional paths. All visual, all point-and-click. While other tools expect you to write scripts or learn a domain-specific language, this just works.
Study Builder
Learn it in minutes, not weeks. We mean that literally.
Surveys, reaction-time tasks, Likert scales, image and video stimuli. Start from validated templates or build from scratch. The interface makes sense the first time you open it. No training sessions, no certification courses, no weekend watching tutorials.
Participant Recruiting
Stop being your own project manager.
SONA integration, direct links, built-in participant panels. Automated scheduling and credit granting. No separate recruitment platform, no per-participant charges, no manual tracking spreadsheets.
Real-Time Analytics
Catch problems before you’ve wasted a week of data collection.
Watch responses come in live. Built-in descriptive stats, visualizations, and export to CSV, SPSS, or R. No more waiting until collection is done to discover your design has a flaw.
Templates & Compliance
IRB-ready from the start, not bolted on after.
Peer-reviewed paradigm templates. Consent flows, data anonymization, and audit trails baked into the platform. No scrambling to add compliance features the night before your deadline.
One-Click Publishing
No app installs. No lab visits. No hosting fees. Just a link.
Publish your study to a shareable URL. Participants complete it on any device, anywhere. No separate hosting platform, no per-participant fees.
Simple workflow
From hypothesis to results in three steps
Design Your Study
Use the visual flow designer to lay out your experiment. Drag in blocks, set logic, configure stimuli. If you can use Canva, you can use this. No scripting. No programming language to learn.
Recruit & Launch
Connect your participant pool or share a link. Set quotas, screening criteria, and scheduling. Hit publish. No separate hosting, no per-participant charges.
Analyze & Export
Data flows in real-time. Run built-in stats, generate figures, and export publication-ready results. No switching to a different tool for analysis.
Pricing
Free for students and unfunded researchers.
If you're not making money from your research, you shouldn't have to pay for your tools.
- No trials. No per-participant fees. No paywalls. Generous limits that cover virtually every student project and thesis study. Everything you need to design, run, and analyze your studies.
- Your data is always yours. Export anytime, in any format. Your research belongs to you, not to a platform.
- Paid plans for labs, departments, and institutions that need higher capacity, team management, and dedicated support. They have budgets for this. You shouldn't need one.
Help us build the platform you wish existed
We're building NousKit in the open and we want feedback from real researchers, not focus groups. Join the waitlist, and you'll be among the first to try it and shape what it becomes.
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