Forms are essential for gathering data. While Google Forms is a popular go-to option, it doesn’t always offer everything you need. If you’re looking for better collaboration features or more advanced options, it might be time to explore other tools. I tested some of the best Google Forms alternatives, and here’s what I found.

1Microsoft Forms

I have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft apps. While I like Word and To-Do, I find some apps—like Outlook—clunky. My love for Google’s apps goes across the board, so I was curious to see how Microsoft Forms performed compared to Google Forms. To my pleasant surprise, I quite liked it.

Microsoft Forms is the best app on this list for templates. You’ll find employee and customer satisfaction surveys, along with sick leave/vacation forms, feedback surveys, and much more. When using Microsoft Forms, you may also make invitations for birthdays, weddings, and other special events.

Creating a Summer Party Invitation in Microsoft Forms

Even when making a form from scratch, I found the app very user-friendly. Another thing I liked was that you can get question suggestions, which you may find particularly helpful when creating a survey. The tool is easy to use, and with a fewMicrosoft Forms tips and tricks, you’ll be navigating it like a pro in no time.

Since you’ll want the data you collect to be as accurate as possible, knowinghow to prevent duplicate responses in Microsoft Formsis also a good idea.

Create a Survey With AI on SurveyMonkey

2SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey has long been a favorite for data collection—I remember using it back in school and college (and that was a while ago). Putting nostalgia aside, I revisited SurveyMonkey to see how it compares to today’s alternatives.

While Microsoft Forms remains my preferred choice, SurveyMonkey still offers a solid experience with some unique perks. One interesting feature is the ability to generate a form using an AI prompt, potentially speeding up the process of survey creation. I tested it by providing a prompt related to website analytics, and the results were surprisingly good. The generated survey needed only minor tweaks before it was ready to go live.

Creating a form with AI in the Featherly app

If you’d rather not use AI, SurveyMonkey, of course, also lets you build forms from scratch, with templates for customer satisfaction and net promoter scores. However, Microsoft Forms offers more variety in templates. If you miss Google Surveys, SurveyMonkey is one of the many viableGoogle Surveys alternatives.

Feathery has one of the best free plans when looking at Google Forms alternatives. You get up to 500 monthly submissions, and you can also integrate with Zapier, Notion, Stripe, and several other apps. When I tested its AI feature, I liked how it prompted me to choose the number of pages for the form, although the 256-character limit felt restrictive. The AI response was quite basic, as you can see below:

Creating and Editing a Form in Feathery

Despite this limitation, manual form creation on Feathery was a good experience. It offers niche templates, like SaaS onboarding, loan applications, and waitlist forms. While building forms from scratch requires a bit more technical expertise, Feathery is ideal if you want more control over the look and structure of your forms. To add new text or elements, you’ll need to hover over an existing element and click the blue “+” button—an intuitive approach once you get used to it.

4forms.app

forms.app’s free plan lets you gather 100 monthly responses, store up to 10MB of file storage, and use as many as five forms simultaneously. Like SurveyMonkey, you’re able to use AI to generate your form; you’ll get a few prompts when you select this option, along with a text box to add your own.

While forms.app’s AI tool worked for the pre-designed prompts, it didn’t when I tried entering my own ones. So, I would say that SurveyMonkey was vastly superior in this respect. But despite that, forms.app is a great option if you want to manually create forms and surveys.

Creating a survey in forms.app

I found several templates in forms.app, such as job applications, event registration forms, and feedback forms. Compared to SurveyMonkey and WPForms, forms.app is a great choice if you want to use survey-specific templates.

One thing I liked about forms.app was that its templates had a bit more personality than many of the other Google Forms alternatives I’ve discussed so far. Because they felt more lively, I had more fun using the app. You can also create your own surveys and forms from scratch and choose whether you want a list or step view; its dropdown elements are particularly helpful.

WPForms is a must-have if you’re setting up a WordPress site, especially when paired with otheressential WordPress extensions.