Rating Component
Camila Escobar · June 17, 2026
The Rating component asks for a score on a fixed scale, in one tap.
Use it for satisfaction, quality and priority — anything where you want a number back and typing one would lose you answers.
Settings
Setting | Effect |
Label | The question shown above the icons |
Maximum rating | How many icons appear |
Default value | How many are filled before anyone touches it |
Required | The form will not submit while nothing is selected |
The value stored is the number, not the icon. A four-star answer on a five-icon scale is stored as 4, which is what makes it averageable in a dashboard.
Choosing the scale
Five is the default for a reason: people read it without thinking, and it maps onto the mental model they already have from every other rating they have ever given.
Go to ten only when you genuinely need the resolution and your respondents are used to it. A ten-point scale collects more precision in theory and, in practice, mostly collects sevens and eights.
The trap
A default value is an answer. If you set one, every submission where the person never touched the field arrives carrying that score, and it is indistinguishable from a deliberate one. Your average silently drifts toward the default.
Leave the default empty and mark the field required if the score matters. Set a default only when a neutral value is genuinely the right assumption for someone who skipped the question.
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