Free alternatives to HeyForm

forms.app gives you HeyForm's conversational format without HeyForm's two catches. Its step view asks one question at a time, it is fully hosted, and the free plan covers unlimited responses, unlimited views and unlimited team members across 5 forms, plus free payments and e-signatures (as of July 2026). Where HeyForm's cloud is trial-only and its free version means running Docker, forms.app is free and needs no infrastructure. You give up open source and self-hosting to get it.

• Free plan, paid from $19/month (as of July 2026)
• Estonia

Best for:

Teams that want HeyForm's conversational forms hosted for free, without Docker

The catch:

It is closed source and cloud-only, so there is no self-hosting, and the free plan stops at 5 forms and 10 MB of storage.

Youform is the most direct hosted replacement for the HeyForm format: one question at a time, progress bar, logic jumps, and a free plan with unlimited forms and unlimited responses (as of July 2026). Unlike HeyForm's cloud, the free plan is permanent, not a 7-day trial, and there is no server to maintain. It is a young product, so treat the integration and template lists as thinner than you might want.

• Free plan, paid from $20/month (as of July 2026)

Best for:

Solo makers who want HeyForm's format hosted and free

The catch:

The free plan is single-user and shows Youform branding, and payments need Pro at $20/month.

Tally is not one-question-at-a-time by default, but for high-volume collection it is hard to beat: unlimited forms and responses free under fair usage (as of July 2026), with Stripe payments, e-signatures and logic all included. It is hosted, so there is no Docker step, and the Notion-style editor is quick to learn. Pick it if the conversational layout matters less than never touching a server or a response cap.

• Free plan, paid from $24/month (as of July 2026)
• Belgium

Best for:

Anyone who wants unlimited hosted forms without self-hosting HeyForm

The catch:

Forms scroll down a page rather than showing one question at a time, and the free plan is single-user.

If you chose HeyForm for the open-source, self-hostable story, Formbricks keeps it: an AGPL-3.0 codebase you run with Docker, free and uncapped when self-hosted. The difference that matters is the cloud. Where HeyForm's hosted plan is trial-only, Formbricks offers a permanent free cloud tier of 250 responses a month (as of July 2026), so you can start hosted and move to self-host later. It leans survey-first, so it fits feedback and NPS better than order forms.

• Free plan, paid from $74/month (as of July 2026)
• Germany
• Open source (AGPL-3.0)

Best for:

Teams that want to stay open source but keep a free hosted option

The catch:

It is survey-first with no payments or e-signatures, and its link surveys are plainer than HeyForm's conversational forms.

Fillout trades conversational purity for reach: it is fully hosted, free for unlimited forms and unlimited seats with 1,000 responses a month (as of July 2026), and it syncs two-way with Airtable, Notion and Google Sheets. It does offer a conversational mode, though it is one layout among many rather than the whole product. Choose it when getting data into your existing tools matters more than the one-question format.

• Free plan, paid from $15/month (as of July 2026)
• United States

Best for:

Teams whose forms feed Airtable, Notion or Sheets and who want free seats

The catch:

The free plan caps responses at 1,000 a month, and it is cloud-only with no self-hosting.

Google Forms is the no-friction fallback: free forever with a Google account, unlimited forms and responses, and automatic export to Google Sheets. It looks nothing like HeyForm's conversational forms, which is why it sits last, but for internal surveys and quizzes it collects data today with zero setup.

• Completely free (as of July 2026)
• United States

Best for:

Quick surveys and quizzes where conversational design does not matter

The catch:

No one-question-at-a-time layout, minimal branding, and no native payments.