forms.app's free plan runs out in forms, not responses

forms.app lands in our Strong band, close enough to Tally that the gap between the two is not worth arguing over, and we have left it where it fell rather than tidying it, because the two tools win on different things. Tally is the more generous with volume. forms.app is the deeper product on free, taking our feature depth pillar comfortably above Tally's, because it hands over the whole field type catalogue at zero.

forms.app still holds rank 1 on our form builder category page, and that is not a contradiction to explain away. Rank weighs the entire product; this score asks the narrower question of how far zero dollars gets you, and on that question a 5-form cap costs you points that a well-built editor cannot win back. The pillar that pulls hardest downward is freedom, at 66, where the branding requirement and the storage figure both count against an otherwise unmetered plan.

Two numbers do all the limiting here, and neither of them is a response count.

• 5 forms. Enough for a business running a contact form, a signup and a survey. Not enough if you build per client or launch a form per campaign, because you will be deleting old work to make room for new work.
• 10 MB of file storage in total (as of July 2026), not per form and not per month. One form collecting CVs or photos fills it in an afternoon. Basic at $19 a month is the first plan that moves it, to 10 GB.
• Drop-off analysis, multilingual forms and save as draft are Pro, at $29 a month. All three read like standard equipment and none of them are included free.
• Partial responses are Premium, at $59 a month, the most expensive self-serve tier. If seeing what someone typed before abandoning a form is why you are here, that is the price.
• forms.app branding stays on every form until you reach Basic.

One thing to check before you compare our numbers against anyone else's. forms.app's own llms.txt file, and a large number of third-party roundups that appear to have read it, still describe the free plan as 100 responses a month. That figure is stale, and the cap it describes is no cap at all. Prices are the other thing worth checking twice, because forms.app bills in your local currency: the dollar figures on this page match its own dollar price list, and an EU reader will see 16, 24 and 49 EUR for the same three plans.

The ladder is billed annually and each rung mostly buys forms and storage. Basic is the branding rung: it takes the forms.app name off your forms and lifts you to 25 forms and 10 GB. Pro is the analytics rung, and for most people it is the one they were actually reaching for, because drop-off analysis lives there alongside multilingual forms and save as draft.

So the honest upgrade path is $29 a month rather than $19, unless branding removal on its own is the reason you are paying. Premium at $59 is a narrower proposition: custom domains, partial responses and 1 TB of storage. Worth it if your forms are long and your abandonment rate is expensive, hard to justify otherwise.

Two things this pricing page does better than most in the category. It shows the monthly rate beside the annual one instead of hiding the difference ($29 against $19, $39 against $29, $79 against $59), and it publishes a 50% discount for nonprofits and educational organizations on yearly plans plus a 90-day refund guarantee. One thing to watch: forms.app quotes in your billing currency, so the euro list runs 16, 24 and 49 for the same three plans and is not a straight conversion of the dollar one.

You can run forms.app for years without paying, provided you never need a sixth form and nothing you collect is a file. That sounds like a heavy caveat, and it is a real one, but it is narrower than what most of this category asks of you, because the thing that normally runs out (responses) never does here.

Who lives on it comfortably: a small business with a contact form, an order form and a feedback survey; a team of any size, since unlimited free team members is the rarest thing forms.app does and almost nobody else in this category offers it; anyone selling through a form, because payments and the product basket field cost nothing.

Who ends up paying: agencies and freelancers building per client, anyone whose forms take uploads, and anyone who needs to see where people drop out, since that is a Pro feature. If the form cap is your problem rather than the price, Tally's free plan has no form limit at all and includes payments too. If it is the storage, compare the field in our best free form builders or look at the near matches on free forms.app alternatives.