Forms, surveys, and intake in one workspace
Cheapest Typeform alternative
Build beautiful forms for less.
hootform helps teams replace expensive form tools with polished one-question-at-a-time forms, simple sharing, AI follow-ups, and responses your team can review without another spreadsheet project.
Budget-friendlyAI follow-ups17 question typesTeam spaces
1question at a time
17field types
AIfollow-up paths
Designed for teams that need forms to look sharp, adapt to answers, and produce responses that are ready to review, export, and act on.
Product
Everything around the form stays focused.
BuildShape forms around the conversation.
Create focused, one-screen flows with welcome screens, logic-friendly question types, and a clean preview before anything goes live.
SharePublish links your audience can open anywhere.
Launch feedback, intake, research, and request forms without asking your team to configure another heavy workflow.
ActTurn responses into readable next steps.
Keep submissions connected to the right questions so your team can review, export, and follow up with less manual sorting.
Features
A serious form platform without the enterprise sprawl.
BuilderComplete form creation
- 17 question types
- Drag-and-drop reorder
- Required fields
- Draft, published, and closed states
DesignBrand-ready customization
- Color controls
- Google Fonts
- Text alignment
- Button radius and typography settings
ResponsesSubmission review
- Table and card views
- Partial vs. complete status
- Inline probe answers
- Individual PDF export
WorkspaceTeam operations
- Organizations and spaces
- Owner, admin, member roles
- Space invites
- Persistent org and space switching
AI probing systemAsk smarter follow-ups when an answer needs more context.
hootform can create and evaluate follow-up paths for ratings, choice answers, yes/no questions, and open text so forms feel more like a focused interview.
- Generate follow-up paths before publishing
- Trigger probes from sentiment, specificity, ranges, or selected options
- Classify runtime answers in one-page and single-page layouts
- Generate personalized thank-you messages with a static fallback
Use cases
Start faster with the workflows teams already recognize.
Onboarding templatesGenerate a useful first form from the use case you choose.
The onboarding flow supports testimonials, leads, feedback, events, and surveys, then creates starter screens so you can edit instead of staring at a blank page.
TestimonialsLeadsFeedbackEventsSurveysSupport intake
Workflow
From blank form to response review in minutes.
01Pick a use case or start blank
02Preview the respondent experience
03Publish, share, or close the form
04Review responses, probes, and PDFs
Ready when you are
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