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Best Jotform Alternatives in 2026

Jotform builds online forms with payments and widgets. Its free Starter plan allows 5 active forms and 100 submissions a month, with Jotform branding. If you hit those limits, want a simpler form, or need what people send to land in an app of your own, here are five alternatives and what each one does.

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Key takeaways

  • Jotform is free for 5 forms and 100 submissions a month with its branding; Bronze is $39 a month billed monthly.
  • Tally has unlimited free forms and submissions within fair use.
  • Fillout takes 1,000 free responses a month, with unlimited seats on every plan.
  • Google Forms suits quick surveys and graded quizzes with answers in a Google Sheet.
  • Fabricate builds the form and the app behind it, so each answer lands in a list you work through. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.

Why Are People Looking for Jotform Alternatives?

  • Low Free Limits

    Starter, the free plan, allows 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month, 100 MB of uploads and 10 payment submissions, and keeps Jotform branding.

  • Priced by Form and Submission

    Bronze is $39 a month billed monthly for 25 forms and 1,000 submissions, Silver $49 for 50 forms and 2,500, and Gold $129 for 100 forms and 10,000.

  • No Cap on Free Forms Elsewhere

    Tally's free plan has unlimited forms and submissions within fair use.

    Fits: Tally

  • Answers That Become Work

    When each submission is a job, a booking or an order, an app keeps them in a list you work through, behind your own sign-in.

    Fits: Fabricate

Compare at a glance

Fabricate beside Jotform, feature by feature.

  • Builds From a Description
    Fabricate
    Yes
    Jotform
    A form editor and templates
  • Free Plan
    Fabricate
    Build and preview
    Jotform
    5 forms and 100 submissions a month
  • What Happens to Answers
    Fabricate
    A list in your own app, behind your sign-in
    Jotform
    Kept in your Jotform account
  • Card Payments
    Fabricate
    Stripe Checkout into your own account, on Pro and Max
    Jotform
    10 payment submissions on the free plan
  • Paid Plans From
    Fabricate
    $25 a month
    Jotform
    $39 a month
Number 1

Fabricate

We make this

Best for: Forms whose answers become work

Builds the form and the app behind it from your description: a request, booking or order form anyone can fill in without an account, and a list behind your own sign-in where you work through what comes in. Once published, every submission is kept under Responses in Fabricate and emailed to you, up to a daily limit. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.

Checks before you publish

Fabricate's security check on an app: one problem to fix and two quality warnings, each with a Fix in chat button
Each finding comes with a Fix in chat button. A real Fabricate screen, shown with sample data.

What it does well

  • Answers land in your own app
  • Card payments on Pro and Max
  • A list to work through, behind your sign-in
Paid plans from
$25 a month
350 credits a month on Pro
Free plan
60 credits
A month, to build and preview
A live app
Pro and Max
Publishing is on paid plans

See the plans

How to Move from Jotform to Fabricate

  1. 1

    List the questions

    Write down each question on your Jotform form, which ones are required and what happens after someone sends it.

  2. 2

    Describe the form and what you do with it

    Tell Fabricate the questions and what you do with each answer, such as giving it a price or a status.

  3. 3

    Bring past answers over

    Save past answers as a CSV file and ask for an import page that adds them to the app's own database.

  4. 4

    Send a test

    Fill in the form yourself in the preview and check the answer reaches your list.

  5. 5

    Put it online

    On Pro, one press of Publish gives it its own address to share, after the same browser check.

Chat

Fabricate's chat on a phone: the owner asks for opening hours and a note about cardamom buns, and Fabricate says what it changed and that it used 5 credits

Your app

The same bakery app in Fabricate's Your app view on a phone, now showing Open today 7am - 3pm above its menu
Asking for a change in chat, then trying the app. Real Fabricate screens on a phone, shown with sample data.

The other Jotform alternatives

What each one does well, and the kind of project it suits best.

  1. Number 2

    Tally

    Best for: Free forms without caps

    A form builder whose free plan has unlimited forms and submissions within fair use, with file uploads up to 10 MB. Pro removes Tally branding and adds custom domains.

    • Unlimited free forms
    • Unlimited free submissions, within fair use
    • Custom domains on Pro

    Where Tally beats Fabricate

    If you need a form and nothing else, Tally's free plan has no cap on forms or submissions within fair use.

    Source: tally.so/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked

  2. Number 3

    Fillout

    Best for: Teams sharing many forms

    A form builder priced per account, with unlimited seats on every plan. Free takes 1,000 responses a month; Starter is $19 a month billed monthly, or $15 billed yearly, for 2,000.

    • 1,000 free responses a month
    • Unlimited seats
    • Branding removed on Pro

    Where Fillout beats Fabricate

    If a team shares the forms, Fillout charges one price for unlimited seats, and its free plan takes 1,000 responses a month.

    From $19 a month

    Source: fillout.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked

  3. Number 4

    Typeform

    Best for: Branded surveys

    Forms and surveys, with plans capped by responses a month. The free plan takes a limited number of responses, Basic takes 100 a month for 1 seat, and removing Typeform branding starts on Plus.

    • Forms and surveys
    • A free plan to start
    • Branding removed from Plus

    Where Typeform beats Fabricate

    If the form is a survey for your brand and you want it ready without building anything, Typeform is made for that.

    Typeform alternatives

    Source: typeform.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked

  4. Number 5

    Google Forms

    Best for: Quick surveys and quizzes

    Google's form builder for surveys, quizzes and forms. A form is saved in Google Drive, responses can go to a Google Sheet, and collaborators can edit the form with you.

    • Quizzes with grading
    • Responses in Google Sheets
    • Collaborators edit with you

    Where Google Forms beats Fabricate

    For a quick survey or a graded quiz with the answers in a Google Sheet, Google Forms is already in your Google account.

    Source: Google Docs Editors Help: create a form (opens in a new tab), checked

Jotform and its alternatives: limits, branding and what happens after someone sends a form

Jotform is a full form builder: templates, widgets, payments and many field types, ready in minutes. Its plans are priced by how many forms you run and how many submissions they take.

The free plan is small: 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month and 10 payment submissions, with Jotform branding. Bronze, at $39 a month billed monthly, takes 25 forms and 1,000 submissions, and the larger plans raise both.

Tally and Fillout have far larger free plans: Tally has no cap on forms or submissions within fair use, and Fillout takes 1,000 responses a month with unlimited seats. Google Forms suits a quick survey or a quiz, with the answers in a Google Sheet.

A form built with Fabricate comes with the app behind it. Customers fill it in without an account, and each answer lands in a list behind your own sign-in, where you give it a price, a status or a reply. Once published, you get an email for each one, up to a daily limit, and on Pro and Max you can turn on a confirmation email to whoever sent it. On Pro and Max, the app can take card payments through Stripe Checkout, paid into your own Stripe account, which you connect under More > Payments.

Frequently asked questions

Is Jotform free?
Yes, on Starter: 5 active forms, 100 submissions a month, 100 MB of uploads and 10 payment submissions, with Jotform branding. Bronze, at $39 a month billed monthly or $34 billed yearly, raises that to 25 forms and 1,000 submissions.
What is the best free Jotform alternative?
For unlimited forms, Tally, whose free plan has no cap on forms or submissions within fair use. For more responses with a team, Fillout, free for 1,000 responses a month with unlimited seats. For quizzes with the answers in a Google Sheet, Google Forms.
Can I build a form that does more than collect answers?
Yes. Fabricate builds the form and the app behind it: describe what people send and what you do with it, such as pricing a job or confirming an order, and you get a list behind your own sign-in to work through. On Pro and Max, each new request sent through the app's forms, such as a booking or an enquiry, can also go to Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook, under More > Connectors.
Can a form built with Fabricate take payments?
On Pro and Max, the app can take card payments through Stripe Checkout, paid into your own Stripe account, which you connect under More > Payments. Fabricate takes no share of what you are paid; Stripe charges its own card fees.
Does the person who filled in the form get an email?
On Pro and Max, yes: once the app is published, you can turn on a confirmation email to them, up to a daily limit. You get an email for each submission too, again up to a daily limit, and every submission is kept under Responses in Fabricate.
Can I bring my Jotform submissions over?
Yes, as a CSV file: save your past submissions as CSV and ask for an import page that adds them to the app's own database. Syncing with Jotform is not built in.

Sources

The pages this guide quotes, each with the day it was read.

  1. jotform.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  2. tally.so/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  3. fillout.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  4. typeform.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  5. Google Docs Editors Help: create a form (opens in a new tab), checked
  6. fabricate.build/pricing, from our live plans

About this guide

Written by the Fabricate team. Fabricate is our product, so it is first on this page and marked "We make this". Where a reason to switch fits another tool better, the reason says which.

Each tool's card lists the pages we read about it and the day we read them. We compared the tools from their own pricing pages and documentation, not by signing up for them. Spotted something out of date? Write to info@fabricate.build.

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