forms.app vs Typebot
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Both sides assessedforms.app compared with Typebot
Both are modern and both are cheap for what they do, but they meter opposite things. Typebot counts chats, so abandoned conversations consume allowance, and it is fair-source and self-hostable if you want to run it yourself. forms.app counts nothing and is cloud only. Use Typebot for conversational lead-qualification flows or when self-hosting is a requirement; use forms.app when the form is a page and unlimited volume is the point.
Typebot compared with forms.app
Opposite meters. forms.app counts nothing and gives unlimited submissions and users on every plan including free, but it is a static page form. Typebot counts chats including abandoned ones, costs $39 to get past 200 a month, and in exchange gives conversational flows, mid-conversation API calls, A/B testing, AI blocks, WhatsApp, and self-hosting. If the form is a page, take forms.app; if the form is a conversation or you need to run it yourself, take Typebot.
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 Typebot if
Marketing and growth teams running lead-qualification and onboarding flows where conversation beats a page of fields, developers who want a form tool they can self-host under a permissive-enough licence, and anyone who needs an AI model or an API call to run inside the conversation rather than after it.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | forms.app | Typebot |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $16 per month on the annual plan (Basic) | $0 (Personal), then $39 per month (Starter) |
| 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. | Freemium with three published tiers metered on monthly chats (conversation sessions, completed or not) plus seats, with per-chat overage billing and no annual discount; self-hosting is available at no licence cost. |
| 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. | Personal is free and covers 200 chats a month, unlimited typebots, native integrations, webhooks, custom JavaScript and CSS, and community support, for a single user. |
| Free trial | No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path and there is a 90-day refund guarantee on paid plans | No separate trial; the free Personal plan is the evaluation path |
| 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. | Marketing and growth teams running lead-qualification and onboarding flows where conversation beats a page of fields, developers who want a form tool they can self-host under a permissive-enough licence, and anyone who needs an AI model or an API call to run inside the conversation rather than after it. |
| 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 first working flow takes under an hour on the hosted service. Self-hosting is a half-day for someone comfortable with Docker and Postgres, and an ongoing commitment thereafter. |
| 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, and higher than a form builder. Groups, blocks, and variables are quick to learn, but designing a conversation that does not annoy people is a skill, and the canvas rewards planning the flow before building it. |
| 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, Standalone hosted flow pages, Inline, popup, and bubble embeds, WhatsApp on the Pro plan, Self-hosted via Docker, Vercel, manual deployment, or Alibaba Cloud |
| 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 | ISO 27001 assurance offered on the Enterprise tier, No published HIPAA business associate agreement on standard plans, No published WCAG or Section 508 conformance statement |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom, with the development and marketing team in Estonia | France |
| Ownership | Privately held; funding and ownership structure not disclosed | Independently owned by its founder; no outside funding disclosed |
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.
Typebot
Strengths
- Answers are recorded as they are given, so abandoned conversations still yield partial data without paying for a partial-capture feature the way forms.app and Formsite make you.
- The flow canvas expresses loops, jumps, waits, and chained flows that no conditional-logic panel in a static form builder can represent.
- Native A/B testing as a standard logic block, which almost nothing else in this category ships at any price.
- Integration blocks fire mid-conversation, so a Google Sheets lookup or an HTTP request to your own API can change the next question rather than only running after submit.
Limitations
- Chats are counted whether or not the respondent finishes, so bounced visitors consume paid allowance and the effective cost per usable lead is higher than the headline rate.
- No annual billing discount at any tier, so there is no way to reduce the price by committing.
- The conversational format is wrong for long structured data collection; nobody wants to fill in a twenty-field application one message at a time.
- No published HIPAA business associate agreement and no WCAG or Section 508 conformance statement, and a chat interface is intrinsically harder to make accessible than a labelled form.
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.
Typebot
Freemium with three published tiers metered on monthly chats (conversation sessions, completed or not) plus seats, with per-chat overage billing and no annual discount; self-hosting is available at no licence cost.
- Personal$0
- Starter$39
- Pro$89
- EnterpriseCustom quote
Model it at 500 chats a month and Typebot costs $39 a month, or $468 a year, because the free plan stops at 200. Model it at 5,000 chats a month and Starter plus overage comes to $99 while Pro costs $89, so Pro is the answer and the effective rate falls under two cents. Judged as a form builder that is expensive: forms.app charges nothing for unlimited submissions and Zoho charges $120 a year for 10,000 a month. Judged as a conversational funnel builder with native A/B testing, mid-flow API calls, AI model blocks, WhatsApp, and a self-hosting escape hatch, $89 a month is reasonable and considerably cheaper than Typeform at comparable volume. The self-hosted option is the real value story: unlimited chats for the price of a small server.
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 profileTypebot
Typebot is the right answer to a narrow question and the wrong answer to a broad one. If your form is really a funnel, one that should branch, loop, call your API between questions, run an A/B test on its opening line, drop an AI model into the middle of the conversation, or live on WhatsApp, then nothing else in this category at $89 a month comes close, and the self-hosting route removes the chat meter entirely for the price of a server. If your form is a form, a page of fields somebody fills in, then paying two cents per conversation including the ones that bounce is a bad deal against forms.app charging nothing or Zoho charging a tenth as much. Buy it for conversational lead capture, in-product onboarding, or a self-hosting requirement. Do not buy it as a general-purpose form builder, and do not buy it if HIPAA or accessibility conformance is on your checklist, because it publishes neither.
Read the full Typebot profileforms.app profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Typebot last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between forms.app and Typebot?
Both are modern and both are cheap for what they do, but they meter opposite things. Typebot counts chats, so abandoned conversations consume allowance, and it is fair-source and self-hostable if you want to run it yourself. forms.app counts nothing and is cloud only. Use Typebot for conversational lead-qualification flows or when self-hosting is a requirement; use forms.app when the form is a page and unlimited volume is the point.
Is forms.app or Typebot cheaper?
forms.app starts at $0 (Free), then $16 per month on the annual plan (Basic). Typebot starts at $0 (Personal), then $39 per month (Starter). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. forms.app 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. Typebot pricing model: Freemium with three published tiers metered on monthly chats (conversation sessions, completed or not) plus seats, with per-chat overage billing and no annual discount; self-hosting is available at no licence cost.
Does forms.app or Typebot have a free plan?
forms.app has a 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. Trial terms: No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path and there is a 90-day refund guarantee on paid plans. Typebot has a free plan. Personal is free and covers 200 chats a month, unlimited typebots, native integrations, webhooks, custom JavaScript and CSS, and community support, for a single user. Trial terms: No separate trial; the free Personal plan is the evaluation path.
Who should choose forms.app?
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.
Who should choose Typebot?
Marketing and growth teams running lead-qualification and onboarding flows where conversation beats a page of fields, developers who want a form tool they can self-host under a permissive-enough licence, and anyone who needs an AI model or an API call to run inside the conversation rather than after it.
What are the best alternatives to forms.app and Typebot?
SaaSTracker profiles 23 products in Forms & Surveys. The Summer 2026 awards in the category went to Typeform (Category Leader), Tally (Best Value), Fillout (Momentum). Every profile is compiled from primary sources, so a shortlist can be built from pricing, limitations, and fit rather than from star ratings.
