The best Typeform alternatives

Why people look for a Typeform alternative

Typeform made the one-question-at-a-time form popular, and it's still a polished product. People usually start looking elsewhere for one of two reasons. The first is the response meter: when we checked, Typeform's free plan allowed a handful of responses a month, and every paid plan included a set monthly number, so a form that takes off pushes you up the plans. The second is seats: each plan included a fixed number of people.

This list covers the alternatives worth trying, starting with our own. We're a Typeform alternative ourselves, so read our entry with that in mind. Every price and limit in the table above comes from each product's own pricing page, with the date we checked it, and each product links to a full side-by-side comparison with a cost calculator.

How we compared

We looked at four things, in this order:

1. What the free plan really allows. Responses, forms, people and file uploads, and whether logic is included.
2. What it costs as you grow. The cheapest plan that removes the badge, and what happens when your responses or your team double.
3. How the form feels to fill in. One question at a time like Typeform, a document-style page, or classic pages of fields.
4. What it does that the others don't. Payments, integrations, encryption, AI.

1. hootform: best for unlimited responses, one question at a time

hootform works the way Typeform does, one question per screen with keyboard shortcuts, logic and answer recall, but it doesn't meter responses on any plan. The free plan has unlimited forms and responses, all 24 question types, logic, file uploads up to 10 MB, signatures, Google Sheets, webhooks and email notifications, for up to 3 people. Premium is $19 a month for the whole organization, not per seat, and adds AI follow-up questions, AI insights, detailed Insights, partial responses and your own branding.

Two things set it apart. Every answer is saved as it's given, so you see exactly where people drop off, and respondents can come back and finish. And identifying answers and files are encrypted at rest with a key for each form, on by default.

Worth knowing: hootform doesn't take payments yet, its one built-in integration so far is Google Sheets (everything else connects through webhooks), and there's no importer from Typeform. See hootform vs Typeform.

2. Youform: best for a Typeform-style form with a big template gallery

Youform is the closest to Typeform in spirit: conversational, one question at a time, with a free plan that doesn't meter responses and includes logic and file uploads. When we checked, its paid plans included a set number of team members, three on Pro and five on Business, with extra seats charged on Business. It has a large template gallery to start from.

Worth knowing: the free plan is for one person. See hootform vs Youform.

3. Tally: best for building a form like a document

Tally takes a different approach: you type questions straight onto a page, as you would in a document, and respondents usually see several at once. Its free plan is generous. When we checked, it had unlimited forms and submissions, logic, calculations, payments and native integrations with tools like Notion, Airtable and Google Sheets. Removing the badge takes Pro, which also includes unlimited team members.

Worth knowing: forms feel less like a conversation than Typeform's. See hootform vs Tally.

4. Fillout: best for extras on the free plan

Fillout packs a lot into its free plan: logic, file uploads, payments, scheduling, PDF generation, scoring, and unlimited seats on every plan. Forms can show one question at a time or several per page. The catch is the meter. When we checked, each plan included a set number of responses a month, and removing the branding took the Pro plan.

Worth knowing: a busy form moves you up the plans. See hootform vs Fillout.

5. Jotform: best for long, complex forms

Jotform can build almost anything, with a huge library of templates and widgets, and conditional logic on every plan. It can show forms as classic pages or one question at a time. When we checked, its free plan allowed a few active forms and a hundred submissions a month, and its self-serve plans were for a single user, with team seats starting at Enterprise.

Worth knowing: limits on forms and submissions arrive quickly. See hootform vs Jotform.

6. Paperform: best for forms that take payment

Paperform builds forms like pages, with text and pictures around the questions, and it's strong on payments, bookings and calculations. Every plan includes unlimited users. When we checked, its free plan allowed a small number of submissions a month, and unlimited submissions started with Pro.

Worth knowing: the free plan suits trying it rather than running a real form. See hootform vs Paperform.

7. Google Forms: best for free internal forms

If the form is going to colleagues who all use Google, Google Forms is free, familiar and sends answers straight to Sheets. It isn't conversational, the look is Google's rather than yours, and when we checked, branching ("go to section based on answer") only worked on multiple choice and dropdown questions. File uploads need respondents to sign in to Google.

Worth knowing: fine inside a company, less so for customers. See hootform vs Google Forms.

8. Zoho Forms: best if you already use Zoho

Zoho Forms plugs into Zoho CRM and the rest of the Zoho suite. When we checked, its free plan allowed a few forms and a set number of submissions a month for one user, with cheap paid plans that remove the branding and add users as you go up.

Worth knowing: metered on forms and submissions. See hootform vs Zoho Forms.

How to choose

• If you want Typeform's style without a response meter, try hootform or Youform.
• If you'd rather write forms like documents, and want payments and native integrations, try Tally.
• If your forms take payment, look at Fillout, Tally or Paperform.
• If everyone answering is inside your company, Google Forms is hard to beat on price.

Whatever you pick, build the same short form in two of them and send it to a few people. The one they finish is usually the answer.

Before you switch: a checklist

Moving forms is easy to underestimate. Before you pick, check these against the product you're moving to:

• Your busiest form's monthly responses. Put that number into the calculator on each comparison page, so you know what next year costs, not just this month.
• Who builds forms. Count everyone who needs to edit, not just who builds today. Seat-based pricing is where bills quietly grow.
• What you connect to. List every integration your Typeform forms use. Alternatives differ a lot here: hootform has Google Sheets built in and connects to everything else through webhooks, which work with automation tools but take a little setup.
• Hidden fields and links. If your links carry campaign or customer ids, make sure the new tool reads them the same way. hootform, Youform, Tally and Fillout all support hidden fields.
• Old responses. Export them to CSV before you close the old account. None of these tools import another's responses.
• The respondent's view. Fill in your own form on a phone. One question at a time and several per page feel very different, and your completion rate will show it.

Rebuild one real form first, send it to a small group, and compare its completion rate with the old one. That tells you more than any feature list.

Every price and limit above was read from each product's own pages. The newest check for each product is on its comparison page, and we re-check them at least every four months.

• Youform pricing
• Tally pricing
• Tally Help: plans and pricing
• Fillout pricing
• Jotform pricing
• Jotform: conditional logic on every plan
• Paperform pricing
• Google Workspace plans
• Google Forms Help: sections and branching
• Google Forms Help: file upload questions
• Zoho Forms pricing
• Zoho Forms price list (the data the pricing page loads)