Top 5 Best Microsoft Forms Alternatives in 2026

Microsoft Forms is a staple for many businesses and professionals, and rightly so. They allow you to easily create beautiful forms and embed them on your website within seconds. However, we noticed a few limitations when using Microsoft Forms:

• You can't collect payments
• You can't collect e-signatures
• You can't put the form on your own domain or remove Microsoft branding
• The conditional logic rules are limited to simple branching
• You can't build multi-page forms with a visual builder

These factors were a significant reason we created FormBuilder. We saw that many tools, including Microsoft Forms and Google Forms, suffered from limitations that forced users to buy and connect with third-party applications. So, we decided to build an application that solved these problems and that users could access at an affordable price.

Below, we'll show you how our application, FormBuilder, solves these limitations. However, we tried to be as objective as possible, so we also reviewed features that our competitors offer that we really like; Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, WPForms, and EmailMeForm.

Note: Although FormBuilder is our tool, we wrote this review as objectively as we could. The best form builder for you will heavily depend on your needs and industry and FormBuilder might not always be the best option. That said, we designed FormBuilder with a drag-and-drop builder, an AI form generator, Stripe payments, signature and calculation fields, conditional logic and a native Google Sheets connection, all on a free plan that needs no credit card. So, if you’d like to give FormBuilder a shot, you can start free here.

1. Best overall Microsoft Forms alternative: FormBuilder

Pricing: Free plan with 5 active forms and 100 responses per month. Pro is $39 per month (14-day free trial) with 100 active forms, 10,000 responses per month, no FormBuilder badge, custom branding and custom domains. A HIPAA plan is $99 per month on request. Prices checked September 2026.

You can collect payments via Stripe

The main problem we encountered when using Microsoft Forms was that we couldn’t collect payments from users unless we connected to a third-party application or pasted a link to our checkout page.

This is why we designed FormBuilder with an easy-to-use Stripe payment field. It ensures you can securely collect payments without having to buy another tool.

To collect payments inside your form, all you have to do is open the builder, find the Stripe payment field in the field list, drag it onto your form, connect your Stripe account, and set a fixed price or let the customer choose the amount. Then embed your form on your website or share the link. Once you've done this, you'll be able to collect payments from users.

You can collect e-signatures using our signature field

Another problem we encountered when using Microsoft Forms was that it didn't have an e-signature functionality. We couldn't collect e-signatures from users without paying for and connecting our Microsoft account to a third-party e-signature application like Adobe or Signeasy. Or, we had to ask users to sign a piece of paper, take a picture of it, and upload the picture to our form.

This added extra steps to the process, ultimately lowering form completion rates.

This is why we designed FormBuilder with a signature field. You’ll find it in the field list in the builder, and just like adding the payment field, you can add it to your form by dragging and dropping it with your cursor. From here, users can draw their signature with a mouse or finger.

The same goes for documents: FormBuilder's file upload field works for anyone, while Microsoft Forms only accepts uploads from people signed in to your own organization.

You can publish on your own domain

With Microsoft Forms, every form lives on a Microsoft URL and carries Microsoft branding, so it is hard to make the form feel like part of your business.

With FormBuilder Pro, you can remove the FormBuilder badge, apply your own branding, and publish forms on a custom domain. You can also embed any form on WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow or plain HTML with a snippet.

You can create advanced conditional logic rules and multi-page forms

The final limitation of Microsoft Forms we want to discuss is its conditional logic rules. Microsoft Forms has basic branching, where you can send users to a later question depending on what they answered. However, it doesn't let you show or hide individual fields, and you can only branch forward.

This is fine if you're creating short and simple forms, but if your forms are longer and contain various potential questions you can ask the user depending on what they answer, things can get complicated.

This is why FormBuilder gives you field-level conditional logic: show or hide any field based on earlier answers, and combine it with multi-page forms so long forms feel short. If you'd rather not build the form by hand, describe it to the AI form generator and edit the draft, or import an existing form from a PDF, a URL, Jotform or Typeform.

2. Best free Microsoft Forms alternative: Google Forms

If you're looking for a free online form builder that still offers basic features, Google Forms may be a good option. It might not have as many template designs as Microsoft Forms, but you can easily create a form, access basic branching (“Go to section based on answer”) and various question types, and connect your form with external applications like Google Sheets or Zapier.

For example, if you're creating a job application form, you can connect it with Google Sheets and all your applicants' information will be neatly logged into a spreadsheet where you can sort through it and choose the best applicant. This type of flexibility is why Google Forms is a staple for many business owners and professionals.

However, it's important to note that Google Forms has the same limitations as Microsoft Forms. You can't collect payments, the conditional logic features are basic, and design options are limited. If these are deal breakers for you, you might want to stick with FormBuilder. See our FormBuilder vs Google Forms comparison for the details.

3. Best Microsoft Forms alternative for surveys: SurveyMonkey

If you're mainly creating surveys and you're looking for a form builder that specializes in this, then SurveyMonkey is a good option.

Compared to more generalist form builders, SurveyMonkey has many more survey templates. Specifically, SurveyMonkey offers over 400 survey templates built around different verticals. For example, there are templates for employee surveys, customer research surveys, and census surveys. These surveys also contain very specific questions relevant to your vertical.

Once you've collected responses, you can generate different types of pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, and scatter plots to help you understand the survey results and communicate these results to managers and stakeholders.

Pricing: the free plan is limited to 10 questions per survey. Individual paid plans start at $39 per month billed annually (Advantage, 15,000 responses per year) or $129 month-to-month (Standard, 1,000 responses per month). Team plans start at $30 per user per month with a three-user minimum.

4. Best Microsoft Forms alternative for WordPress users: WPForms

WPForms is another good option, especially if you own a WordPress website and mainly publish your forms on it.

WPForms allows you to create various types of forms including contact forms, job application forms, payment forms, and newsletter forms, all from within your WordPress dashboard. Embedding is super easy and only takes a couple of seconds because you aren't using a third-party application.

We also like that WPForms has built-in spam protection such as reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile. You can even create your own custom CAPTCHA using a math question.

Pricing: there is a free Lite version on WordPress.org (payments carry a 3% platform fee). Paid licenses start at $39.60 for the first year (Basic, one site) and go up to $239.60 for the first year (Elite, unlimited sites), renewing at full price.

5. Best Microsoft Forms alternative for collecting sensitive information: EmailMeForm

The last option we want to cover is EmailMeForm, which is a good choice for anyone who collects sensitive information. Maybe you're working in a hospital collecting patient information and have to comply with HIPAA regulations. Or, you're part of the finance industry and need to protect client financial records with an extra layer of security.

EmailMeForm uses a couple of different features to accomplish this:

• MFA login: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides your account with extra security by requiring a strong password plus a code from an authenticator app.
• PCI-certified vault: EmailMeForm positions itself as a PCI certified form builder, with a vault for securely storing payment card details.
• Audit trails: If you need to time-stamp and submit all your employees’ activities to a third-party agency, you can do so with EmailMeForm’s audit trail feature.

Pricing: plans start at $30 per month (Beginner), with HIPAA support and BAA agreements from the $50 per month Experienced plan up.

FormBuilder also offers a HIPAA plan at $99 per month on request, plus GDPR tooling on every plan.

Next steps

If you’re looking for a Microsoft Forms alternative and you like all the features we discussed above, consider starting a free FormBuilder account. The free plan gives you 5 active forms and 100 responses per month, and the 14-day Pro trial unlocks everything else. The best part is that you don’t have to enter your credit card details to start. You can also read our FormBuilder vs Microsoft Forms comparison.