Jotform alternatives
The short answer: Tally and Fillout give you far more on free than Jotform's 5 forms and 100 submissions a month. Google Forms is the plain option. Formstack is the pick for regulated work that needs HIPAA. Enform only fits feedback and research forms where you need written answers read and counted. For payments, approvals and breadth, Jotform is hard to replace.
Jotform is a deep form builder with payments, a free AI form generator and an AI Data Assistant, which is why it can feel heavy for simple jobs. The free Starter plan allows 5 active forms and 100 submissions a month, and HIPAA features start on the Gold plan.
The options
Ordered by fit for people who find Jotform's free plan or editor limiting: bigger free plans and simpler editors first, then specialist needs like HIPAA or reading written answers.
Checked on against each tool's own pricing and help pages, linked under each tool. Enform is our product.
- TallyUnlimited forms and submissions on the free plan under fair use, in a simpler doc-style editor.Open-ended replies: Nothing inside Tally reads answers. Its MCP server lets an outside AI assistant read them, free on every plan.Watch out for: Removing Tally branding needs Pro ($24/month).Sources: Tally, Tally pricing, Tally fair use, Tally MCP server
- FilloutFree plan with unlimited forms, 1,000 responses a month, conditional logic and payments, plus integrations like Airtable, Notion and HubSpot.Open-ended replies: Fillout's pricing page lists no AI summary of answers.Watch out for: Free forms carry a Fillout badge.Sources: Fillout pricing
- Google FormsWorks with a Google account and can store responses in a Google Sheet. Enough when Jotform's widgets are more than you need.Open-ended replies: Gemini can summarize open-text answers once a question has 3 to 200 responses, but only on an eligible paid Google Workspace or Google AI plan.Watch out for: Limited branching: only from multiple-choice and dropdown questions.Sources: Google Forms responses in Sheets, Google Forms branching, Gemini in Google Forms
- FormstackForms for regulated work, with a HIPAA add-on on its Forms and Suite plans and approval routing on Suite. Forms is $83/month billed yearly or $99 monthly.Open-ended replies: We didn't find a feature on Formstack's pricing page that reads or summarizes written answers.Watch out for: No free plan, only a 14-day trial of Forms.Sources: Formstack pricing
- EnformDescribe what you want to ask and Enform writes the survey. It reads the replies, counts what people said and drafts slides. Best for feedback and research, not operational forms.Open-ended replies: This is the main job. Enform reads the replies and counts what people said, and every count opens the replies behind it. Free reads your latest 25 replies per form. Pro reads all of them.Watch out for: Enform is newer and connects to fewer apps than the older builders here. It has no payments inside forms, no HIPAA option and no paid panel of respondents, so you bring your own people. Free reads only your latest 25 replies per form and shows Enform branding. Pro is $10 a month.Sources: Enform plans
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