Comparison
Enform vs Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms is free inside Microsoft 365, simple to share across an org, and flows straight into Excel and Teams — hard to argue with if everyone already lives in that ecosystem. Enform takes the part Forms hands back to you: turning a research goal into the right questions, then reading every response and drafting the slides.
Enform or Microsoft Forms: which should you pick?
If your team is already on M365 and you just need responses sitting in Excel, Microsoft Forms covers that at no extra cost. If the hard part is writing questions that get honest answers and then reading the responses to find the story, that is the gap Enform was built for — and it does not tie you to the Microsoft stack.
Side by side
| Enform | Microsoft Forms | |
|---|---|---|
| Writes the questions for you | Yes — from a one-line research goal, method-backed | No — you write every question |
| Analyzes open-ended responses | Yes — themes, sentiment, quote extraction | No — answers land in Excel, you read them yourself |
| Drafts an editable deck | Yes — headlines, quotes, recommendations, PPTX/PDF | No — summary charts and an Excel export |
| Conversational, one-at-a-time UX | Yes | No — all questions on a single page |
| Microsoft 365 / Teams / Excel integration | Export responses; no native M365 sync | Yes — native Excel, Teams, and SharePoint |
| Branching logic | Yes | Yes — section branching |
| Cost | Real free tier; Pro for unlimited forms and PPTX export | Free and included with most M365 business plans |
See the difference yourself
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Try Enform freeFAQ
- Is Microsoft Forms cheaper than Enform?
- If you already pay for Microsoft 365, Forms is effectively free, which is hard to beat for collection. Enform has a real free tier too; you pay when you want the question-writing, analysis, and deck on top of the responses rather than reading them in Excel yourself.
- Do I have to be on Microsoft 365 to use Enform?
- No. Microsoft Forms is built for orgs already inside the M365 ecosystem. Enform works on its own, so it is a better fit if you are not standardized on Microsoft or want the research workflow independent of it.
- Can Microsoft Forms analyze open-ended answers?
- It gives you summary charts for choice questions and drops everything into Excel. Open-ended text is left for you to read. Enform clusters those answers into themes, pulls representative quotes, and drafts slides from them.