Free Online Form Builder

Yes. Building a form in the editor at the top of this page costs nothing, and you can publish it and start collecting answers by entering an email address on the Publish tab. Free accounts have a monthly response allowance, so a very high volume form will eventually need more room, but nothing has to be decided before you get a form live today.

Not to build one. You can add questions, pick a theme and change settings on this page without signing in to anything. You enter an email and password at the point where you publish, because that is what your form link and your responses get attached to. Without it there would be nowhere for the answers to go.

An online form in almost every case. A fillable PDF or Word form assumes the person has the right app installed and knows how to save and return it, which rules out most people filling it in on a phone. It also means that fixing a typo or adding a question involves sending everyone a new file.

An online form opens in any browser, works on phones and tablets without anything installed, can be corrected after you have shared it, and gives you completion data instead of a folder of attachments to open one by one.

Yes. Add an Upload a Photo, Upload Documents or Upload Files question and whatever people attach arrives with their response, so you never have to match a stray email to a submission. It is the usual way to collect CVs on a job application form, photographs on a damage report, or receipts on an expense claim.

Yes. Add a Take Payment question and people can pay inside the form itself rather than being sent off to a separate checkout. That covers order forms, event tickets, course fees, deposits and donations.

Build the form above, then:

• Open the Publish tab and choose Embed.
• Set the width and height you want the form to occupy on your page.
• Copy the embed code.
• Paste it into your page in WordPress, Drupal, Squarespace or whichever editor you use, and publish.
• Fill the form in once yourself to check the experience and confirm the response reaches your dashboard.

A QR code is the quickest way to collect responses in a physical space, on a table card, a poster, a receipt or a slide at the end of a talk. Add your questions above, open the Publish tab, and sign in with an email and password if you have not already. The option to download and print your QR code appears there once you are signed in.

You see the answers to the questions you asked, and that is all. Identifying details such as IP addresses and device signatures are not exposed to you, because modern browsers and GDPR rules in Europe restrict them.

So making a form anonymous is mostly about what you choose to ask. Leave out name, email and any question specific enough to identify one person, then say plainly at the top of the form that no identifying information is collected. People answer far more honestly when they can see for themselves that nothing is being recorded about them.

Fewer than you think. The Nielsen Norman Group guidance is to cut every field that is not genuinely needed and to keep optional fields down to one or two, and their testing found that forms following the full set of guidelines were submitted successfully first time 78 percent of the time, against 42 percent for forms that did not (Web Form Design: Top 10 Recommendations).

A practical rule: every question should have a decision attached to it. If nobody can say what they would do differently based on the answer, cut it. When you genuinely need a long form, use Questions per Page and a progress bar so that it never looks long on screen.

An AI form creator writes the first draft for you from a plain English description, instead of you picking through templates or staring at an empty editor. The box under the builder above is the one on this site.

It earns its keep when your situation is specific. A generic restaurant template is written to fit every restaurant. Type something like we are a high end restaurant in Tokyo and want feedback on all six courses, with a focus on ambiance, the staff and the dessert selection and you get questions written for that, in the language you asked for. Treat it as a strong starting point rather than a finished form, and edit it the same way you would edit a template.

Two ways. Paste the questions straight into the editor above using Import Questions, or, for a form you already own, open your Dashboard, click the ellipsis next to the form and choose copy. The second keeps your theme and settings as well as the questions, which is what you want when you run the same form every quarter.

Yes. Add your questions, open the Publish tab, follow the link to your live form and print it from the browser. Background styling is stripped out so it comes out printer friendly. Useful when part of your audience genuinely cannot use a screen, though you lose the completion data and have to key the answers back in.

Yes, and it is mostly copy and paste. Copy your existing question list, use Import Questions to bring the whole set in at once, then correct any field that should be a date, an upload, a rating or a payment rather than plain text. Rebuild the behaviour on the Settings tab, copy the new embed code from the Publish tab, and swap it for the old snippet on your site. Your previous responses stay wherever they are now.