Forms and surveys

Cognito Forms alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey3,687licence unclearFull-featured, self-hostable survey and form platform with responses storage, exports, and admin UI.Open on GitHub heyform/heyform8,920AGPL-3.0Open-source web form builder that lets you create, manage, and collect form responses.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Drag-and-drop visual form builder and theme editor
Built-in document generation (Word/PDF) and electronic signatures
Client portals and guest access
Payments integrations and card-on-file flows
SSO, folder permissions, and HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA attestation/certifications at scale

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Cognito Forms, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.