Zoho Forms vs forms.app
Two of the top three form builders, compared rule by rule on published facts.
In short
- Zoho Forms has 94 points and forms.app 85, 9 apart on our form builder software rules.
- Zoho Forms earns more on building forms, privacy and compliance and price; forms.app earns more on free plan.
- Cheapest paid plan: Zoho Forms $10/mo, forms.app $19/mo.
- Only Zoho Forms meets: calculated fields and HIPAA support.
- Only forms.app meets: GDPR data processing agreement.
Zoho Forms94/100 #1 of 11
Best for: Small businesses that want many integrations and a $10 first paid plan.
Points by group
| Group | Zoho Forms | forms.app |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan of 12 | 10 | 12 |
| Building forms of 29 | 29 | 25 |
| Payments and data of 21 | 21 | 21 |
| Privacy and compliance of 20 | 16 | 12 |
| Price of 18 | 18 | 15 |
| Total | 94 | 85 |
Rule by rule
What each vendor publishes, and the points it earns. Sources are on each product page.
| Rule (points) | Zoho Forms | forms.app |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan (6) | Yes 6 | Yes 6 |
| Submissions on the free plan (6) | 500 4 | 1000000 6 |
| Conditional logic (8) | Yes 8 | Yes 8 |
| Calculated fields (4) | Yes 4 | Not published 0 |
| File upload field (5) | Yes 5 | Yes 5 |
| Multi-page forms (3) | Yes 3 | Yes 3 |
| Save and resume later (4) | Yes 4 | Yes 4 |
| Signature field (5) | Yes 5 | Yes 5 |
| Online payments (5) | Yes 5 | Yes 5 |
| Payment processors (6) | Stripe, PayPal, Square 6 | Stripe, PayPal, Square 6 |
| Answers as PDF (4) | Yes 4 | Yes 4 |
| Built-in connections (6) | Google Sheets, Zapier, Webhooks 6 | Google Sheets, Zapier, Webhooks 6 |
| HIPAA support (8) | Yes 8 | Not published 0 |
| SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 (5) | Yes 5 | Yes 5 |
| GDPR data processing agreement (4) | Not published 0 | Yes 4 |
| EU data storage (3) | Yes 3 | Yes 3 |
| Submissions on cheapest paid plan (6) | 10000 6 | 1000000 6 |
| Cheapest paid plan (12) | $10/mo 12 | $19/mo 9 |
Zoho Forms
Zoho Forms suits small businesses that want a free plan of 500 submissions and a $10 first paid plan. Basic at $10 a month billed yearly adds 10,000 submissions and up to 2,000 PDFs. The catch: HIPAA support needs Premium, the free plan caps payments at 10, and Zoho publishes its data processing agreement only on request.
forms.app
forms.app suits people who want a free plan with unlimited responses, payments and EU hosting. Basic starts at $19 a month billed annually. The catch: its pages do not mention HIPAA, SOC 2 or calculated fields, and it will not sign customer DPAs.
Both products are scored by the same rules: how we score form builders.