Formstack Forms vs. Google Forms

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Formstack Forms	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Formstack is an online form building solution. Its drag-and-drop web form creator gives digital marketers a tool for online data collection and engagement. Users can collect payments and pass form data to popular marketing apps through third-party integrations. With Formstack, users can capture responses, store the information and share it with their teams.	$50 per month
Google Forms	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Google Forms is an app for creating forms and surveys, and is part of Google Apps for Work. The product focuses on ease of use; the interface is similar to a document editor, with drop down lists of options and drag and drop question re-ordering. Users can embed images and video into surveys. Users can also program the question flow with custom logic. Google sends users basic summaries of the survey results automatically, or users can export the raw survey results data and analyze it via…	N/A

Plans start at $50/month (billed annually), including: 20 Digital Forms 1,000 Submissions Per Form 14,400 API Calls Per Day Drag-and-Drop Form Builder Custom Themes Payment Integrations Salesforce Integration SSO User Management Form Prefill

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Key User Insights
	Formstack Forms	Google Forms
Considered Both Products	Formstack Verified User Chose Formstack Forms I feel like Formstack is Google Forms on steroids. They both serve the same purpose and I have more experience using Google Forms but feel like I have more resources at my disposal with Formstack. Honestly, these are 2 only products I would use in this category, with Formstack … Incentivized Helpful? Laurance J. Specht Manager of Personalized Learning and Dean of Instruction in Information Technology at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (Primary/Secondary, 51-200 employees) Chose Formstack Forms Flexibility, tools and ROI are the reasons we chose Formstack. Data being exportable to other tools and systems we use also helped to make this determination. The level of complexity and conditional logic it has even at its most basic levels gives it an edge over most … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Stephens Director Of Communications at The Suzuki School (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Formstack Forms Formstack just had more versatility. We had to start in a rush and they gave us what we needed to hit the ground running. They didn't delay or bog us down with complicated sales pitches, and didn't leave us in the dark on what to do. We didn't need to google how to use the … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Roe Project Manager, Web Services in Information Technology at Butler University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Formstack Forms Formstack proved to be more robust, easier to use and friendlier to work with when questions/issues emerged. Incentivized Helpful? Mitchel Laman Consultant in Information Technology at Remington Industries (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Formstack Forms For run of the mill data collection, I have used Google Forms, Office 365 Excel Forms, and SharePoint lists. And in WordPress I have used Gravity Forms. Google Forms and Office 365 are nice tools with not nearly the same feature-set available from Formstack. While they are … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Verified User Chose Google Forms Google Forms are better than JotForm but not nearly as powerful as FormAssembly or Formstack. If you need integrations or more complex logic, then you will want to go with a more built-out form solution. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Formstack Forms

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Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 7.2 63 Ratings	Google Forms 7.9 110 Ratings
Survey templates	7.555 Ratings	8.7102 Ratings
Themes	4.556 Ratings	7.0102 Ratings
Custom logo/branding	9.560 Ratings	8.088 Ratings

Comparison of Survey Content features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 7.5 60 Ratings	Google Forms 9.4 108 Ratings
Changes to live survey	5.655 Ratings	10.0102 Ratings
Question design help	8.01 Ratings	9.089 Ratings
Multiple question types	9.060 Ratings	9.2107 Ratings

Comparison of Survey Logic features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 6.6 60 Ratings	Google Forms 8.6 98 Ratings
Survey logic flexibility	6.660 Ratings	8.698 Ratings

Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 8.3 61 Ratings	Google Forms 9.1 109 Ratings
Response tracking	10.01 Ratings	8.9107 Ratings
Data export	10.061 Ratings	9.0103 Ratings
Standard reports	5.758 Ratings	8.8102 Ratings
Custom reports	5.750 Ratings	9.579 Ratings
Analytics	10.01 Ratings	9.384 Ratings

Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 10.0 59 Ratings	Google Forms 9.9 103 Ratings
Access controls	10.057 Ratings	9.8101 Ratings
Compliance	10.051 Ratings	10.080 Ratings

Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Formstack Forms and Google Forms
Feature	Formstack Forms 8.0 1 Ratings	Google Forms 9.1 77 Ratings
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing	8.01 Ratings	9.037 Ratings
Respondent restrictions	8.01 Ratings	9.375 Ratings

User Ratings
	Formstack Forms	Google Forms
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (76 ratings)	10.0 (114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (12 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (8 ratings)	9.8 (54 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	4.1 (7 ratings)	8.0 (48 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (1 ratings)

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