7 of the best Jotform alternatives for your website

If you're looking for something that feels reasonably close to Jotform in terms of its capabilities, Fillout is a good place to start.

It offers a visual form builder, conditional logic, multi-page forms, integrations and payment collection. Depending on the setup and plan, you can also use features such as electronic signatures and more advanced data collection.

One of its attractions is the way it connects with tools such as Airtable, Notion and Google Sheets. This makes it useful if your form is just the beginning of a larger business process.

What's good about it?

Fillout offers a broad range of features without making everything feel unnecessarily complicated. It's worth considering for customer enquiries, registration forms, applications and other forms that need to do more than simply collect a name and email address.

Anything to watch out for?

As with most form builders, some features and usage limits depend on your subscription. Check the available payment options, integrations and submission limits if you're planning to use it for business-critical forms.

Cognito Forms is particularly interesting if you need your forms to do some of the thinking for you.

It supports calculations, conditional logic, repeatable sections, electronic signatures and workflow features. That makes it useful for forms where the answers determine what happens next.

For example, imagine you're a tradesperson who needs to collect details about a customer's property before preparing a quotation. You could ask questions about the job, calculate an estimated price and collect the information you need to follow up.

You could also use it for applications, registrations and other processes where a straightforward contact form just won't cut the mustard.

What's good about it?

The calculations and workflow capabilities are a real attraction. It can handle more involved forms without requiring you to build an entire application from scratch.

There is a free plan, too, although you'll need to check its current submission limits and which features are included.

Anything to watch out for?

If all you need is a basic enquiry form, Cognito Forms may be more than you need. Spend a little time experimenting with the builder before committing.

Sometimes a form works perfectly well but looks a bit out of place on your website. Paperform aims to solve that problem by giving you more control over the presentation of your forms.

Its approach is closer to designing a page than simply dragging a collection of fields into a box. You can combine text, images and questions to create a more polished experience.

It also supports features such as conditional logic, calculations, payments and integrations.

What's good about it?

Paperform is worth considering if your forms are an important part of the customer journey. Think service enquiries, event registrations, orders or payment forms where you want everything to look professional and consistent with your branding.

Anything to watch out for?

It's a paid-first proposition, so check the current plans carefully. You may be paying for presentation and additional capabilities that you don't actually need.

Tally takes a refreshingly straightforward approach to form building. Its editor feels more like writing a document than wrestling with a complicated piece of software.

You can build forms using different question types, add conditional logic, collect files and perform calculations. Payment collection and some other capabilities are also available, subject to the current feature set and plan.

One of Tally's biggest attractions is its generous free offering.

What's good about it?

It's easy to get started, and you can create attractive forms without spending ages learning how everything works. It's particularly appealing if you want to keep your monthly software costs under control.

For contact forms, surveys, registrations and general data collection, it could be all you need.

Anything to watch out for?

Tally isn't necessarily a like-for-like replacement for every advanced Jotform feature. If you rely on specialist integrations, document generation or complex workflows, test those requirements before switching.

Formstack is aimed more squarely at businesses that want to connect forms with wider processes.

In addition to form building, its product offering includes tools for document generation, electronic signatures and workflow automation. Depending on the products and plans you choose, you can use it to move information between different stages of a business process.

For example, a customer might submit a form, trigger an internal approval and then receive a document generated from their answers.

What's good about it?

It makes sense when a form is only one part of what you're trying to achieve. Instead of collecting information and then manually dealing with it, you can look at automating more of the process.

Anything to watch out for?

This is a more business-focused option, and pricing can reflect that. It may be overkill for a small website that only needs a few enquiry forms.

Typeform is well known for its conversational approach to forms. Instead of presenting visitors with a long list of questions, it can show them one question at a time.

This can make a questionnaire feel more like a conversation and less like filling in paperwork.

It's particularly useful for customer surveys, feedback forms, lead generation and questionnaires where you want to encourage people to complete the whole thing.

It also offers branching logic, integrations and reporting features.

What's good about it?

The presentation is the big attraction. A carefully designed conversational form can be a more engaging experience, particularly when you're asking visitors to answer several questions.

Anything to watch out for?

Typeform isn't necessarily the best choice if you're trying to reproduce every feature of Jotform. Its strengths lie more in the user experience than in being an all-purpose business workflow platform. Check the response limits and pricing, too.

Gravity Forms deserves a mention, although it comes with one important qualification: it's designed for WordPress websites.

Rather than using a standalone hosted form service, you install it on your WordPress site and manage your forms there. Extensions and integrations allow you to add capabilities such as conditional logic, payments and connections to other services.

What's good about it?

If you're running a WordPress website, having your forms managed within the same system can be convenient. You have a great deal of flexibility, particularly if you want to build more specialised forms.

Anything to watch out for?

If you're using Google Sites, Gravity Forms isn't a direct replacement. You'd need a WordPress installation to run it, so it's probably not the sensible option for a Google Sites website.