Innerview vs User Interviews: Which is right for your team?

User Interviews helps you find the right participants. Innerview helps you turn those conversations into actionable insights. Recruiting is just the first step — analysis is where the real value lives.

End-to-End

Everything that happens after you hit record

User Interviews gets participants in the door, but what happens next? Innerview picks up where recruiting ends — automated transcription, AI-powered analysis, and an organized workspace that makes every interview count.

  • Automatic transcription with speaker identification
  • AI analysis that surfaces themes, pain points, and feature requests from each interview
  • Organized workspace so past research never gets lost
Highlights
Suggest
06:15

User struggles with navigation

It takes me like five clicks just to get to the actual workspace.

OnboardingNavigation
07:02

Integration setup lacks feedback

I spent probably 20 minutes trying to connect Slack and I still wasn't sure it worked.

IntegrationCritical
13:18

Competitor onboarding is superior

With [competitor], I was up and running in like two minutes.

Competitor intel
AI Insights

Stop summarizing interviews manually

After every interview, most teams spend hours writing up notes and tagging themes. Innerview does this automatically — generating summaries, extracting key quotes, and identifying patterns within each conversation.

  • Auto-generated summaries for every interview
  • Customizable analysis lenses — summaries, pain points, feature requests, and more
  • AI chat to ask follow-up questions and explore each transcript in depth
Artifacts
Executive Summary
Critical Incidents
Behavioral Laws
Executive Summary

The participant expressed significant frustration with the current onboarding flow, specifically around the initial setup wizard. Key pain points include unclear navigation and lack of contextual help.

They noted that competitor products offer guided walkthroughs that significantly reduce time-to-value...

Collaboration

Share findings, not just recordings

Research is only valuable when it reaches decision-makers. Innerview makes it easy to share timestamped highlights, AI-generated reports, and curated insights with stakeholders who do not have time to watch full recordings.

  • Shareable highlights with timestamps
  • AI-generated reports for stakeholders
  • Team workspace for collaborative analysis
Highlights3 across 3 interviews
Onboarding painPositive feedbackFeature request

"I click around for five minutes and if I can't figure it out, I leave"

Onboarding painInterview #12 · 12:38

"The dashboard is great once you know where things are"

Positive feedbackInterview #08 · 24:15

"I wish I could share this report with my manager directly"

Feature requestInterview #15 · 08:52
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Innerview vs User Interviews

Feature
Innerview
User Interviews
Participant recruiting
Automated transcription
40+ languages
AI-powered analysis
Research repository
AI research chat
Theme extraction
Automated
Stakeholder sharing
Limited
End-to-end research workflow
Analysis & repository
Recruiting only

Everything you need

Automated Tagging & Themes

Innerview automatically identifies and tags key themes, pain points, and feature requests within each interview — no manual coding needed.

Research Chat Assistant

Ask follow-up questions about any interview in natural language. Get sourced answers drawn directly from the transcript, with links to the exact moments.

40+ Language Support

Transcribe and analyze interviews in over 40 languages. Run global research programs from a single platform without third-party translation tools.

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