Q1 2026 release notes

This page communicates the new features in Alida's January 2026 release. 

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Community and Surveys 

Open/Hybrid Card Sort 

You can now author two new types of Card Sort questions:

• Open Card Sort questions ask participants to sort cards into categories they create themselves.
• Hybrid Card Sort questions ask participants to sort cards into categories that the survey author has created, or categories that they create themselves. 

Note: Open and hybrid Card Sort questions are available at an additional cost. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Tree testing

You can now create a Tree Test question that asks participants to review a navigation tree structure and complete a task. Use tree testing to evaluate information architecture and navigational structures, and validate the mental models you've derived from Card Sort testing results. 

Note: Tree Test questions are available at an additional cost. If you are interested, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Mobile app 

Alida's usability testing solution now supports mobile participants. To use this feature, choose Desktop and Mobile or Mobile Only as your Supported Devices setting when you create a Recording action. 

Participants are prompted to download the Alida mobile app the first time they open a usability test intended for mobile participants. The Alida mobile app records their phone screens, cameras, and microphones as per the Recording action's settings.

Note: 

• The Alida mobile app supports usability testing on websites and Figma prototypes. It does not support testing mobile apps.
• The Alida mobile app including screen recording is currently in limited beta release to UX subscribers only.

Nested logic in surveys 

You can now build nested condition statements in the following places in survey authoring:

• Quotas
• Survey logic
• Masking
• Set Value actions

Service provider initiated SSO for member hubs 

Member hubs now support service provider initiated Single Sign-on. SP-initiated SSO provides improved security for you member hub and convenience to end-users who start the authentication process directly from the Alida app when required.

Prevent member email modification in hubs 

A new admin setting can be enabled to prevent members from changing the email addresses they use for hubs.

Unsubscribe option for hub emails

Each outgoing hub email now has a single-click “Unsubscribe” option at the top of the email.

Modern reporting enhancements

We've introduced these improvements to make modern reporting even better: 

• Analysis on Choice-Based Conjoint questions
  You can now analyze Choice-Based Conjoint data modern reports. The new and improved conjoint market simulator also supports up to 10 product profile simulations, whereas the old conjoint simulator in standard reporting only supports 3 product profiles at a time.
• Preview and download or export Image Upload question responses
• CSV export for response data now supports options to either export all survey responses or just the filtered responses
• Assign numeric value to Rating questions
• Customize how answers are displayed
  Merge, relabel, show or hide, and reorder answers.
• Sort charts and tables by the total column values.
• Edit tile names and descriptions
• The Group Answers recode now supports Multiple Choice questions and profile variables, and Multiple Choice Grid questions.

Updates since Q4 2025 release

These features were released between October 2025 and January 2026. 

Modern reporting enhancements

• Default charts in customizable brand colors 
  Customize default charts with preferred brand colors for better visualizations at both the parent and report level.
• Clickable Table of Contents
  Navigate faster to different questions within a specific report. Drag and drop questions easily in the Table of Contents when tiles are added, changed, or re-ordered.
• Duplicate modern reports in list view
  Quickly duplicate a listed modern report instead of manually re-creating filters, banners, and recode customizations.
• Exclude "Did not answer" responses at the report level
  Validate your findings and analysis instantly by viewing the total response count and breakdown directly in the grid heatmap report.