forms.app vs Wufoo
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 Wufoo
Wufoo meters entries and charges five cents each over the cap; forms.app does not meter them at all. forms.app also gives unlimited users where Wufoo caps at five on its $399-a-year plan, and its builder is a generation newer. Wufoo's counterarguments are twenty years of continuous operation under SurveyMonkey and a REST API with published quotas. For anyone choosing fresh, forms.app is the more rational purchase; Wufoo wins only on institutional trust.
Wufoo compared with forms.app
forms.app removes the meter entirely: submissions are unlimited on every plan including free, and it ships AI form generation, quizzes with auto-scoring, and drop-off analysis that Wufoo lacks. Wufoo answers with twenty years of operating history, a five-user Professional plan, and an entry table that has never lost anyone's data. For a new buyer in 2026 forms.app is the more rational purchase; Wufoo wins on institutional trust and nothing else.
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 Wufoo if
Small businesses and non-profits that want a plain, reliable, well-supported form builder with a five-user Professional plan under $400 a year, that value an overage bill over a paused form, and that do not need AI generation, partial-response capture, or deep survey analytics.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | forms.app | Wufoo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Forms | Forms |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $16 per month on the annual plan (Basic) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $16.25 per month billed annually (Starter) (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. | Five tiers priced on a monthly entry allowance, with forms, users, storage, and API requests scaling alongside; paid accounts pay per-entry overage rather than being paused. |
| 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. | Five forms, 100 entries per month, one user, unlimited reports, email support, and 100 API requests. Wufoo branding stays on the form. |
| Free trial | No separate trial; the free plan is the evaluation path and there is a 90-day refund guarantee on paid plans | No fixed trial; the free 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. | Small businesses and non-profits that want a plain, reliable, well-supported form builder with a five-user Professional plan under $400 a year, that value an overage bill over a paused form, and that do not need AI generation, partial-response capture, or deep survey analytics. |
| 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. | Under an hour for a working, branded, embedded form. The builder needs no training and the theme designer is the only part that rewards patience. |
| 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. | Low. The interface is dated but conventional, and anyone who has filled in a web form can build one. Rules are the only concept that needs a few minutes of explanation. |
| 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, JavaScript and iframe embeds, 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 | SOC 2 Type II audited data center, PCI scanning on a quarterly cycle, No published HIPAA business associate agreement |
| Founded | 2018 | 2006 |
| Headquarters | United Kingdom, with the development and marketing team in Estonia | San Mateo, California, United States (as part of SurveyMonkey) |
| Ownership | Privately held; funding and ownership structure not disclosed | Owned by SurveyMonkey since 2011 |
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.
Wufoo
Strengths
- The overage model is the right one: paid forms keep accepting entries past the cap and bill five cents each instead of pausing and losing submissions the way Typeform does.
- Nearly twenty years in production under a large parent company, which is about as low as continuity risk gets in this category.
- Complete CSV and Excel export on every plan including free, with no export paywall and no cap, so leaving is genuinely easy.
- Professional at $399 a year includes five users and payment collection, which several competitors price as separate seats or a higher tier.
Limitations
- The editor and the rendered forms look their age, and there is no AI generation, conversational mode, or document-style builder of the kind every newer competitor ships.
- No partial submission capture at all, so abandoned forms leave no trace and you cannot diagnose where people quit.
- No published HIPAA business associate agreement and no WCAG or Section 508 conformance commitment for the rendered form, both of which Jotform and Cognito Forms do publish.
- US-only hosting with no regional data residency option, which is a live problem for EU and UK buyers.
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.
Wufoo
Five tiers priced on a monthly entry allowance, with forms, users, storage, and API requests scaling alongside; paid accounts pay per-entry overage rather than being paused.
- Free$0
- Starter$16.25
- Professional$33.25
- Advanced$83.25
- Ultimate$210.25
Modelled at 500 submissions a month, Wufoo costs $195 a year on Starter, which is competitive but buys you an ageing builder with no logic-free extras. Modelled at 5,000 a month you are exactly at the Professional ceiling for $399 a year with five users and payment collection, and that is a reasonable price for what it does. The problem is what sits either side: below it, Tally and forms.app give you unlimited submissions free, and above it, the jump from Professional to Advanced more than doubles the bill. Wufoo is fair value in a narrow band and poor value outside it. You are paying for two decades of uptime and a parent company, not for capability per dollar.
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 profileWufoo
Wufoo is the safe, boring choice, and in 2026 that is both its argument and its problem. It has run continuously for nearly twenty years, it exports everything on every plan, and its overage policy of five cents an entry means a form that goes viral sends you a bill instead of quietly failing, which is more than Typeform can say. Against that, the builder looks its age, there is no partial capture, no calculations, no HIPAA agreement, no accessibility commitment, and no data residency choice, and Zoho Forms sells ten times the submission allowance for less money. Buy Wufoo if continuity and predictable behaviour matter more to you than capability, or if you have been on it for years and the case for moving is weaker than the cost. If you are choosing fresh, look at Zoho Forms or forms.app first and come back to Wufoo only if neither fits.
Read the full Wufoo profileforms.app profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Wufoo last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.