Alternatives to Google Forms
Google's free online builder for forms, quizzes and surveys, with responses collected into Sheets. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Google Forms
Google's free online builder for forms, quizzes and surveys, with responses collected into Sheets.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Google Forms.
Typeform
An online form and survey builder that asks questions conversationally and adds AI automation for follow-ups.
Typeform replaces plain forms with conversational ones, custom branding and video or audio answers, but advanced features are tied to paid plans rather than being free.
Tally
An online form builder that works like a text document, with unlimited forms and submissions for free.
Tally offers unlimited free forms and submissions with a document-style editor, hosted in Europe without cookie tracking and usable without an account to start.
Jotform
A drag-and-drop online form builder with templates, payment collection and integrations with business apps.
Jotform adds a drag-and-drop builder, payment collection and over 150 integrations, but it is freemium rather than free and does not feed Google Sheets by default.
Cognito Forms
An online form builder with calculations, payments, e-signatures and approval workflows.
Cognito Forms adds calculations, payments, e-signatures and approval workflows, but it is more complex than a simple survey tool and some features are paid.
Formbricks
Self-hostable survey and in-app feedback platform.
Formbricks is open source and self-hostable, keeping responses on your own infrastructure and adding in-app targeting, though self-hosting needs Postgres and supporting services.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Google Forms as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Fillout
An online builder for forms, surveys and quizzes that sends responses to the tools you use.
Google Forms is free and sends responses into Google Sheets, but it needs a Google account and offers fewer design and logic options than Fillout.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Google Workspace
Google's online office suite with Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Drive and Meet in one account.
CryptPad
End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite.
Google Drive
Google's cloud storage and file sharing service with desktop sync and mobile apps.
Airtable
A hosted spreadsheet and database hybrid for organizing team work and building simple apps.
