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Zoho Forms review

Form builder in the Zoho suite with approval workflows, mobile apps, and a 500-submission free plan.

Facts checked July 2026

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Zoho Forms at a glance

Free plan
Yes
Free plan score
51/100Limited
Starting price
$10/month
Based in
India
Company
Zoho Corporation
Founded
1996

Our take

Zoho Forms offers one of the higher free submission caps in the category plus approval workflows, but the 3-form limit and Zoho-centric integrations narrow its appeal outside the Zoho suite.

It comes with Zoho, and it shows in both directions

Zoho Forms is Zoho's form builder, covering surveys, registrations, order forms, and field data collection. It stands out for approval workflows (route a submission to a manager before it counts), offline mobile data collection, and native hooks into Zoho CRM, Desk, and Sheet.

Zoho customers, field teams and approval workflows

  • Teams already paying for Zoho One or Zoho CRM
  • Field teams collecting data offline on iOS and Android
  • Processes that need an approval step between submission and action

500 submissions free, and $10 is the price of a fourth form

Zoho Forms is freemium. The free plan includes 3 forms and 500 submissions per month with 200 MB storage (as of July 2026). Basic ($10/mo billed annually, $12 monthly) unlocks unlimited forms and 10,000 monthly submissions. Higher tiers mainly add users and volume, up to 100 users on Premium ($90/mo billed annually).

3 forms is the limit you hit, not 500 submissions

  • The free plan caps you at 3 forms, one of the tightest form caps here
  • The interface feels utilitarian next to Tally or Typeform
  • Integrations favor the Zoho suite; third-party options lean on Zapier
  • Zoho displays prices in local currency, so your rate may differ from the USD figures above

Worth it inside Zoho One, hard to justify outside it

If your CRM, helpdesk and spreadsheets are already Zoho, this is the obvious choice, and the approval step between submission and action is genuinely uncommon at this price. Offline collection on iOS and Android is the other thing few competitors attempt at all. Judged on its own merits the free plan is narrower than it looks, because three forms runs out long before 500 monthly submissions does, and the editor is functional rather than pleasant. Outside the Zoho suite we would start with our best free form builders instead.

What Zoho Forms offers

  • Conditional logic
  • Payment collection
  • App integrations
  • Analytics
  • File uploads

Not included

  • Unlimited free tier
  • E-signatures
  • Custom branding
  • Scheduling
  • Quizzes & scoring

Zoho Forms plans and pricing

3 forms, 500 submissions per month, 1 user, 200 MB storage, up to 10 payments

Prices are per month billed annually and appear in local currency on Zoho's site. Add-ons cover extra submissions, storage, and users

Free

Free

Single-user plan with core fields and up to 10 payments

3 forms, 500 submissions/month, 200 MB storage

Basic

$10/mo

Unlimited forms for 1 user with all payment gateways; $12 when billed monthly

10,000 submissions/month, 500 MB storage

Standard

$25/mo

10 users; $30 when billed monthly

25,000 submissions/month, 2 GB storage

Professional

$50/mo

25 users; $60 when billed monthly

75,000 submissions/month, 5 GB storage

Premium

$90/mo

100 users; $110 when billed monthly

150,000 submissions/month, 10 GB storage

As of July 2026. Check current pricing on the Zoho Forms pricing page.

Zoho Forms's free plan score

How good Zoho Forms's free plan really is, judged on four things and weighted into one number.

51/100

Limited

500 submissions a month is generous, three forms is not.

Free plan generosity

48/100

Feature depth for the category

52/100

Freedom and honesty

52/100

What free users report

52/100

Scored July 2026. How we calculate the free plan score.

Frequently asked questions about Zoho Forms

Do I need a Zoho subscription to use Zoho Forms?

No. The free plan stands on its own: 3 forms, 500 submissions a month, 200 MB of storage and one user (as of July 2026). It is still built Zoho-first, so native integrations point at Zoho CRM, Desk and Sheet, and most third-party connections lean on Zapier.

Are approval workflows and offline collection included free?

We cannot confirm it. Routing a submission to a manager before it counts, and collecting data offline on iOS and Android, are the two strongest reasons to choose Zoho Forms, but our data records the free tier only as core fields plus up to 10 payments (as of July 2026). Read them as reasons to look at Basic rather than reasons to start free.

Is 500 submissions a month generous?

For this category, yes. It is five times Jotform's free allowance, and 200 MB of storage is twenty times what forms.app gives you (as of July 2026). The catch is the shape of it, because those submissions are spread across 3 forms, the tightest form cap we have recorded here.

Why do Zoho's prices look different from the ones listed here?

Zoho displays prices in your local currency, so the dollar figures we publish are the US list rather than a quote (as of July 2026). The step that matters is Basic at $10 a month billed annually, $12 monthly, which makes forms unlimited and raises you to 10,000 submissions a month.

Latest Zoho Forms news

Changes that affect what you get for free: pricing, free plan limits, ownership, and whether the project is still maintained. Not every release.

We checked Zoho Forms's own blog, changelog and release notes in July 2026 and found nothing that changes the picture above.

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