forms.app vs Formsite
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedforms.app compared with Formsite
Formsite caps stored results per form and stops the form when a table fills, which is exactly the failure forms.app is designed to make impossible. Formsite answers with Save and Return partial capture on a $399-a-year plan, formatted PDF result documents, calculations, and approval workflows, none of which forms.app has. Take Formsite for long, resumable, document-producing applications; take forms.app for anything customer-facing and high-volume.
Formsite compared with forms.app
forms.app charges nothing for submissions on any plan and gives you AI form generation, quizzes with auto-scoring, and drop-off analysis. Formsite gives you calculations, save-and-return, result documents, and approval workflows that forms.app does not have, and it has been running since 1998. For a modern-looking, high-volume, low-complexity form, take forms.app; for a four-page application that has to produce a signed PDF, take Formsite.
Choose forms.app if
Small businesses, creators, and marketing teams with unpredictable or high submission volume who refuse to be metered per response, teams that need unlimited users on a cheap plan, and anyone building quizzes, scored assessments, or lead-qualification forms where auto-scoring and multiple endings do real work.
Choose Formsite if
Small businesses and departments running long, procedural, document-producing forms (applications, orders, inspections, registrations) across many separate forms rather than one high-volume one, who need save-and-return, calculations, and a PDF at the end.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | forms.app | Formsite |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $16 per month on the annual plan (Basic) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $21 per month or $249.95 per year (Personal) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium with four tiers, metered on form count, file storage, and a small set of gated features; submissions, users, and form views are unlimited on every plan including free. | Six service levels priced on forms, stored results per form, file space, and sub-users; billed monthly or annually, with paid add-ons for storage, sub-users, and result documents. |
| Free plan | Free covers 5 forms, unlimited submissions, unlimited users, unlimited form views, all 30-plus field types, conditional logic, auto-scoring, e-signatures, and unlimited payments, with 10MB of storage and forms.app branding. | Free allows 5 forms, 10 stored results per form, and 50MB of file space, with export included. It is a demonstration allowance, not a usable production tier. |
| Free trial | No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path and there is a 90-day refund guarantee on paid plans | A 14-day trial that automatically downgrades to the Free service level rather than expiring |
| Best for | Small businesses, creators, and marketing teams with unpredictable or high submission volume who refuse to be metered per response, teams that need unlimited users on a cheap plan, and anyone building quizzes, scored assessments, or lead-qualification forms where auto-scoring and multiple endings do real work. | Small businesses and departments running long, procedural, document-producing forms (applications, orders, inspections, registrations) across many separate forms rather than one high-volume one, who need save-and-return, calculations, and a PDF at the end. |
| Setup time | Fifteen minutes to a published, working form, or five if you let the AI generator draft it and then edit. Connecting a payment provider and a custom domain adds another half hour. | A simple form takes an hour. A real multi-page application with logic, calculations, save-and-return, and a result document template is a day or two of work, and the document template is the slowest part. |
| Learning curve | Low. The builder is conventional and modern, and the concepts (fields, logic, scoring, endings) are the ones anyone who has used a form tool already knows. | Moderate. The builder is dense and the terminology is its own (items, service levels, results, server post), so the first form is slower than it should be. Once the vocabulary lands it is straightforward. |
| Platforms | Web application, Hosted form pages, Inline, popup, and full-page embeds, Custom subdomain on Pro and custom domain on Premium, Mobile-responsive rendered forms | Web application, Hosted form pages, Iframe and JavaScript embeds, QR code publishing, Mobile-responsive rendered forms |
| Compliance | ISO/IEC 27001 certified, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, OWASP practices, No published HIPAA business associate agreement, No published WCAG or Section 508 conformance statement | Secure submission handling and encryption in transit, reCAPTCHA spam protection, No published HIPAA business associate agreement, No published WCAG or Section 508 conformance statement |
| Founded | 2018 | 1998 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom, with the development and marketing team in Estonia | Chicago area, Illinois, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held; funding and ownership structure not disclosed | Owned by Formstack since December 2023 |
Strengths and limitations
forms.app
Strengths
- Unlimited submissions on every plan including free, so no response caps, no overage bills, no paused forms, and no lost responses during a traffic spike.
- Unlimited users on every plan including free, which removes the per-seat maths that makes most competitors expensive for small teams.
- Conditional logic, auto-scoring, e-signatures, and unlimited payment collection are all on the free tier rather than held back as upsells.
- A real quiz and assessment product with auto-scoring and multiple endings, rather than a token quiz template.
Limitations
- Partial response capture is gated to the $49-a-month Premium plan, which is a long climb for a feature that directly recovers lost leads.
- The free plan's 10MB total storage makes file uploads effectively unusable without paying, so the unlimited-submissions headline has a real asterisk on it.
- No HIPAA business associate agreement and no published WCAG or Section 508 accessibility conformance, closing off healthcare and public-sector work entirely.
- No approval or review workflow, so submissions that need routing and sign-off belong somewhere else.
Formsite
Strengths
- Save and Return is genuine partial capture with a resume link, which almost nothing else in this price band offers and which transforms completion rates on long forms.
- PDF and Word result documents turn each submission into a filed artefact that can be routed, attached, and stored, which is the whole point for application and order workflows.
- A calculation engine plus over fifty item types makes it capable of order forms and scored assessments that simpler builders cannot express.
- Unlimited approval workflows from the $59 Business tier, which is a Formstack-class feature at a small-business price.
Limitations
- The per-form results ceiling is the wrong shape for most modern use cases, and hitting it stops the form and shows visitors an error rather than billing you for overage.
- The rendered forms and the builder both look dated, which matters when the form is the first thing a customer sees.
- Sub-users are excluded from the two cheapest plans and cost $10 a month each thereafter, so team use is more expensive than the headline price suggests.
- No published HIPAA business associate agreement, no WCAG or Section 508 conformance commitment, and no stated EU or UK data residency option.
Pricing compared
forms.app
Freemium with four tiers, metered on form count, file storage, and a small set of gated features; submissions, users, and form views are unlimited on every plan including free.
- Free$0
- Basic$16
- Pro$24
- Premium$49
Model it at 500 submissions a month and forms.app is free, with logic, scoring, payments, signatures, and unlimited users included. Model it at 5,000 a month and it is still free, or $192 a year on Basic if you want the branding off. There is no volume at which the price changes, which makes forms.app the cheapest option in this category for anything high-traffic and the only one where a campaign cannot generate a surprise invoice. Set against that, partial responses cost $588 a year on Premium, which is a lot for a feature Tally hands over much cheaper, and there is no HIPAA or accessibility posture at any price. As pure capability per dollar for ordinary commercial forms, it is close to the front of the category.
Formsite
Six service levels priced on forms, stored results per form, file space, and sub-users; billed monthly or annually, with paid add-ons for storage, sub-users, and result documents.
- Free$0
- Personal$21
- Professional$34
- Business$59
- Business+$84
- Enterprise$209
Model it at 500 submissions a month against one form and Formsite looks bad: Personal at $249.95 a year fills its 500-result table in month one and then stops, so you are really on Professional at $399.95 and deleting results every month. Model the same 500 spread across ten forms and it looks fine. At 5,000 a month on a single form you need Business+ at $999.95 a year, where Zoho Forms would charge $120 and forms.app nothing. The honest read is that Formsite is priced for accounts with many low-volume procedural forms and is expensive for anything with concentrated traffic. What you are buying at the top of that range is save-and-return, result documents, and approval workflows, which very few competitors under $1,000 a year offer at all.
Editorial verdict on each
forms.app
forms.app is the cleanest answer in this category to the question everyone actually cares about, which is what happens when a form gets busy. The answer is nothing: submissions are unlimited on every plan, users are unlimited on every plan, and no campaign can generate a surprise bill or a paused form. Add conditional logic, auto-scoring, e-signatures, and unlimited payments on the free tier, a real quiz product, and ISO 27001 certification, and it is very hard to beat for ordinary commercial forms. The reasons not to buy are specific and firm: no HIPAA agreement, no accessibility statement, no approval workflows, partial response capture stranded on a $588-a-year plan, and a twenty-one-person company behind it. If none of those apply to you, put it at the top of the shortlist alongside Tally and Zoho Forms.
Read the full forms.app profileFormsite
Formsite is a specialist wearing a generalist's label. For long procedural forms that must be resumable, calculate a total, produce a PDF, and pass through an approval, it does at $699.95 a year what Formstack charges considerably more for, and save-and-return alone justifies the look of the thing. Buy it for applications, orders, inspections, and registrations spread across many separate forms. Do not buy it for a single high-traffic form, because the per-form stored-results ceiling will fill and your visitors will start seeing an error page instead of a confirmation, and there is no overage option to save you. Also weigh the ownership question honestly: Formstack now owns a direct competitor to its own product, and while nothing suggests Formsite is going away, nothing suggests it is the future either. Export regularly, which you will be doing anyway.
Read the full Formsite profileforms.app profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Formsite last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.