The Free Zoho Forms Alternative With Unlimited Submissions

FormNX is the best free Zoho Forms alternative if you need more than 3 forms or 500 submissions a month. Its free plan includes unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, an e-signature field with a full audit trail, file uploads, calculation fields, quiz mode, Stripe payments, password protection and custom email SMTP, with no card and no expiry.

The best alternatives to Zoho Forms are FormNX, Jotform, Google Forms, Typeform, Cognito Forms, Microsoft Forms and Wufoo. FormNX is the one to pick if you want to stop counting submissions: it is free with unlimited forms and submissions, and Pro seats 5 users per workspace from around $15 a month. Jotform has a big template library but caps submissions by tier. Google Forms is free but has no payments or signatures of its own. Typeform is built for one-question-at-a-time surveys, and Cognito Forms caps entries at 100 a month on its free plan.

For most people leaving Zoho Forms, yes. FormNX never counts submissions, while Zoho Forms caps them on every plan and closes the form at the cap. FormNX Free adds quiz mode, password-protected forms, custom email SMTP and a native Mailchimp integration. FormNX Pro, from around $15 a month, seats 5 users per workspace and adds monthly PDF credits that renew, four payment gateways, a Products field with cart, order reference numbers and statuses, answer charts and a visitor report, and native Slack and Discord. Zoho Forms is the better fit if your business already runs on Zoho CRM or needs offline mobile data collection.

In a Zoho Forms vs Jotform comparison, both tools limit how much you can collect. Zoho Forms caps submissions at 500 a month on Free and 10,000 to 150,000 on paid plans. Jotform caps monthly submissions by tier - 100 on Free, 1,000 on Bronze, 2,500 on Silver and 10,000 on Gold - and caps active forms too. FormNX has no caps at all, with unlimited forms and submissions on every plan. See our Jotform alternative comparison.

In a Zoho Forms vs Google Forms comparison, Google Forms is free and unlimited but has no payments, e-signature or PDFs, while Zoho Forms adds those but caps submissions on every plan. FormNX combines the two: unlimited submissions on a free plan, like Google Forms, plus e-signature, calculations and Stripe payments on that free plan. See our Google Forms alternative page.

Zoho Forms' main competitors are Jotform, Typeform, Google Forms and Formstack; Zoho's own comparison page measures itself against Typeform, Jotform and Formstack. FormNX competes with all of them on one point Zoho Forms cannot match: unlimited submissions on every plan, including free.

Yes. Zoho Forms has a free-forever plan with 3 forms, 500 submissions a month, one user, 200 MB of storage, up to 10 payments a month and 50 PDFs in total, and a "Powered by Zoho" footer on your forms. Custom themes, OTP verification and translation need a paid plan. FormNX Free has unlimited forms and submissions, plus e-signature, file uploads, quiz mode, Stripe payments and custom email SMTP.

Zoho Forms has five plans. Free is $0. Basic is $10 a month billed annually or $12 month-to-month, with 10,000 submissions and one user. Standard is $25 or $30, with 25,000 submissions and 10 users. Professional is $50 or $60, with 75,000 submissions and 25 users. Premium is $90 or $110, with 150,000 submissions, 100 users, SMTP and HIPAA. Extra submissions cost $12 a month per 10,000. Check zoho.com/forms/pricing.html for current numbers.

Zoho emails you at 90% of the limit. When the limit is reached, Zoho's help center says "You will not be able to access the form when you have reached the submission limit." The count resets every month on your billing cycle, or you can buy 10,000 more submissions for $12 a month on a paid plan. FormNX has no submission limit on any plan.

As long as you like. Zoho says its free plan "is free forever", but it stays limited to 3 forms, 500 submissions a month and one user. FormNX is also free forever, with unlimited forms and submissions.

No. Zoho Forms does not add its own fee when you take payments through gateways such as Stripe or PayPal; you pay only the gateway's processing fee. The same is true of FormNX paid plans, and with FormNX Pro one form can offer Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay and Square together.

Zoho Forms can generate 50 PDFs on the free plan and 2,000 on any paid plan, as a total for the whole account. Zoho notes that "This limit is applicable for a single use and does not renew automatically." On paid plans, more PDFs are sold as a one-time add-on of 200 credits for $5. FormNX paid plans include PDF credits that renew every month.

Yes. Zoho Forms has a Signature field on every plan, where respondents sign with a mouse, touchpad or touchscreen. Legally binding document signing uses a separate Zoho Sign field, which needs a paid Zoho Forms plan plus a Zoho Sign subscription. FormNX puts an e-signature field with a full audit trail on every plan, and on paid plans the signature embeds into the PDFs your form produces.

Not with a quiz mode. Zoho Forms has no built-in quiz scoring or grading; you can add up numeric choice values with a Formula field, and Zoho's quiz scoring lives in Zoho Survey, a separate product. FormNX has a native quiz mode on the free plan with scoring, grading and answer feedback, and a form timer on Pro.

No. A public Zoho form cannot ask respondents for a password before they open it. Zoho offers private sharing to users added to your Zoho Forms account from the Standard plan, and OTP verification from Basic. FormNX lets you password-protect any form on the free plan.

Only on the Premium plan. Zoho says "The option to send email via your own SMTP servers is available only in our Premium and Zoho One plans", and Premium costs $90 to $110 a month. FormNX includes custom email SMTP on the free plan.

Google Sheets, yes: it is a native Zoho Forms integration. Slack is not native; it connects through Zoho Flow or Zapier, and Zoho's own chat options are Zoho Cliq and Microsoft Teams. FormNX has a native Mailchimp integration on every plan, and native Google Sheets, Slack, Discord and Telegram integrations on paid plans, and its webhook reaches 1,000+ more apps through Zapier, Pabbly and Make.

Not per question. Zoho Forms analytics show form views, submissions, error score and conversion rate, and charts of the answers themselves need the Zoho Analytics integration on a paid plan. FormNX Pro shows a chart for each choice, rating and scale question, and a visitor report with referring domains plus unique and total visits, so you can see how many people opened the form without submitting.

Zoho Forms is an online form builder used for lead capture, registrations, order and payment forms, surveys and internal requests, with close links to Zoho CRM and other Zoho apps and an offline mobile app. FormNX covers the same jobs with unlimited submissions on every plan. Quiz mode and password-protected forms are free, and a form timer and a product catalog with cart come with Pro.

Yes. Zoho Forms is real software from Zoho Corporation, a privately held company founded in 1996, and Zoho Forms launched in 2015. Because anyone can make a free form on it, scammers sometimes use forms hosted on forms.zohopublic.com for fake rental applications or phishing. The form tool is not the problem; be careful with any unexpected form that asks for money, card details or bank details, and check who sent it.

Zoho is an Indian company. Zoho Corporation is headquartered in Chennai, India; it began in 1996 as AdventNet and now has offices in many countries. FormNX is an independent form builder with unlimited submissions on every plan.

The main disadvantages are its limits. The free plan stops at 3 forms and 500 submissions a month, every paid plan caps monthly submissions and closes the form at the cap, PDFs are a one-time allowance of 2,000 on paid plans, Basic is a single user, and custom SMTP needs the $90 to $110 Premium plan. Capterra reviewers also say "the design options are basic compared to other specialized form builders" and that "add-ons cost extra".

Yes. FormNX uses the same drag-and-drop way of building, and adds an AI form builder that creates a form from a plain-English description. You can also start from 1,000+ templates. Signatures, payments, file uploads and calculations are fields and settings inside the builder.

No. Your entries stay in your Zoho Forms account, and you can export them as CSV before you close it. Zoho says downgrading "will not affect the data and forms stored in your Zoho Forms account". New responses then arrive in FormNX, where submissions are unlimited on every plan.

To migrate from Zoho Forms, export each form's entries as CSV and save any uploaded files you need. Rebuild the form in FormNX with the drag-and-drop builder, the AI builder or one of 1,000+ templates. Then replace the Zoho embed code or WordPress plugin block with the FormNX embed or the official FormNX WordPress plugin, and disable the old form before your next renewal. There is no automatic importer, but our team will rebuild your forms for free when you upgrade to a paid plan - send us the public link and most are live within 24 hours.