12 Top Online Form Builders, Compared


Form builders are handy tools for engaging users and collecting info, such as contact submissions, surveys, quizzes, polls, and more. Forms can also capture payment details, notify stakeholders, build automated workflows, and more.

Online Form Builders

Google Forms is the default choice for creating basic forms. Build surveys or quizzes in your mobile or web browser. Analyze responses in real time and summarize results at a glance with charts and graphs. Add custom logic that shows questions based on answers. Open the raw data with Google Sheets for deeper analysis or automation. Free with a Google account.

Paperform is a form builder for creating and maintaining automated forms, e-signatures, surveys, bookings, payments, and more — in more than 700 templates. Customize with built-in Unsplash and GIPHY libraries. Use Paperform’s “products” section to include fields for SKU, price, and minimum and maximum quantities. Use the “calculations” function to compute shipping rates and discounts based on real-time user input. Paperform integrates with Stripe, Braintree, PayPal Business, and Square. Automate your schedule and bookings by connecting your calendar. Access native analytics and connect with Google and Facebook. Premium plans start at $24 per month.

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Paperform

WPForms is a popular form builder plugin for WordPress by Awesome Motive. WPForms features over 2,000 templates, smart conditional logic, secure payments, electronic signatures, and advanced security tools. Users can describe what they want in an AI chatbot and receive a working form with customizable contact fields, surveys, registration data, and feedback. The AI form builder can translate entire forms into multiple languages, automatically set up conditional logic on form fields, and tweak or adjust forms afterward. Premium plans start at $49.50 per year.

Typeform is a builder for conversational forms, mirroring real dialog by asking questions one at a time. Call for participants by name and ask follow-up questions in real-time based on their answers. Get a detailed analysis of the results for each form question. To build a form, choose from 28 editable question types and access more than 3,000 templates. Free plan available. Premium plans start at $25 per month.

Formstack lets you quickly build online forms via a no-code builder and AI. Capture leads, collect payments, administer surveys, and more. Formstack is a good option for businesses with strict data procedures, including compliance with GDPR or HIPAA. Formstack offers roughly 40 templates and a dozen customizable themes. Connect with CRMs, backend systems, and more. Formstack also provides an add-on conversion kit to run A/B tests and integrate analytics platforms. It also evaluates a form for accessibility. Premium plans start at $83 per month.

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Formstack

Microsoft Forms, part of Office 365, facilitates custom surveys, polls, quizzes, and more. Export data to Excel for in-depth analysis and view live using the Present feature. Add or customize questions quickly with the visual editor. Click the Style button for AI-powered theme suggestions. Visualize data with real-time charts and automatically generated reports.  Free with an Office 365 subscription.

JotForm is an easy-to-use online form builder with more than 10,000 templates to cover seemingly any niche. Use the drag-and-drop editor to customize or the advanced editor to go deeper. Automatically send form submissions to CRMs, email marketing services, project management boards, and more with more than 150 integrations. Plus, get paid directly through your form. Free plan offers five forms. Premium plans start at $34 per month.

Wufoo, from SurveyMonkey, is a no-code form builder that collects data, files, and payments. Create registrations, applications, surveys, contact-us, payment forms, and more. Process payments through PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.Net. Create forms from more than 400 templates. Automate workflows with hundreds of integrations and transfer data to a CRM, marketing automation system, and more. Get notified via text or email when someone completes a form. Collect all types of files through your form and access them directly from your account. Free up to five forms. Premium plans start at $14.08 per month.

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Wufoo

Zoho Forms, part of the Zoho Office Suite, is a free no-code app to create forms with customizable themes, situation-specific templates, and more than 30 field types — queries, feedback, orders, and more. Sort and view form entries, export them to spreadsheets, or send the data to your preferred apps. Trigger conditional email or SMS notifications whenever a new record is submitted or updated. Zoho Forms is free.

Feathery is a form builder with advanced logic capabilities for creating automated workflows between applications as users interact with the forms. Define custom logic in a natural language and conditionally show elements and steps of a form based on previous field responses. Pull data from APIs and write to in-house systems. Feathery supports 100-plus integrations to CRMs, email, analytics, payments, and project management tools. Free plan for up to five live forms. Contact for pricing on premium plans.

Ninja Forms is another popular form builder for WordPress. Use the drag-and-drop editor to create multi-page forms easily. Add-ons include Advanced Datepicker, Conditional Logic, File Uploads, Multi-Step Forms, and more. Send or export submissions as PDFs, Excel files, and Google Sheets. Send emails from any form to people who need it. Accept PayPal and credit card payments from any form, as single payments or subscriptions. Basic plan is free. Premium plans start at $59.40 per year.

HubSpot Form Builder is part of the popular marketing platform. Quickly create pop-up or embedded forms using the drag-and-drop form builder. Access templates ranging from registrations to ebook downloads and support queries. Choose from 1,000 form fields and a dozen field types. Follow up with automated emails and notifications. Enroll your contacts in lead nurturing campaigns. Automatically add form submitters to your HubSpot database. HubSpot Form Builder is free.

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HubSpot Form Builder



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