Fillout, the free Paperform alternative
Fillout is a powerful, free alternative to Paperform for making forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer.
Paperform vs Fillout
Hello! Looking for a new tool to create forms? If yes, you might want to know if Fillout is a suitable alternative - we made this guide to help you on your search.
Scroll down and you'll find an overview of Paperform vs Fillout compared. We'll also give you a straight-up comparison of features, customer experiences and pricing.
Comparing the free plans
Paperform doesn't have a free plan, so in this section we will compare the Fillout free plan to the paid Paperform offering. Here's what you can expect from these plans:
| Fillout free | Paperform $20/mo | |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited forms | ||
| Responses | 1000/month | 1000/month |
| Unlimited questions | ||
| Self email notifications | ||
| Hidden fields | ||
| Unlimited file uploads | 6 month storage | |
Manage form access | ||
| Conditional logic | ||
Calculations | ||
| Redirect on completion | $19/mo | Simple only |
| Answer piping | ||
| Webhooks | ||
Change form language | ||
| Accept payments | 0% fee | |
Thank you pages |
Because Paperform doesn't have a free plan, we compared their $20/month offering to Fillout's free tier. That said, Fillout's free plan stacks up quite well! The Fillout free plan offers a bunch of features that Paperform gates to even higher plans, like calculations, answer piping & webhooks. The free Fillout tier even includes a few features that Paperform doesn't offer on any plan, like better integrations with Airtable & Notion.
Fillout offers all the basics to build and scale your forms on the free plan. What's more, if you sign up you'll have lifetime access to the free plan features - no strings attached. Learn more about the Fillout free plan and pricing here.
Thousands of teams trust Fillout for building secure and powerful forms.
What's the overall summary?
Fillout brings the best of both worlds: a generous free tier and enterprise-grade security. We built Fillout from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use, like Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Salesforce and dozens more. The integrations are seriously powerful, you'll see what we mean when you try them out.
“I just launched our new quote form using Fillout - the product is terrific and by far the best solution for us out of all the other forms I've tried (typeform, jotform, etc.). I'm really thrilled about how much this will help our processes.”
Paperform's biggest differentiatior is its form editor, which works with a Notion-style "type what you want" interface. Fillout has a more traditional drag-n-drop form editor.
Ok, but what about advanced features?
The Fillout form builder makes it really easy to build modern forms quickly, while also supporting the most complex forms.
Fillout offers two primary paid tiers, a pro tier for $15/month and a business tier for $75/month (paid annually). More details on the Fillout pricing page.
Here's how some of the paid features stack up with Paperform:
| Fillout | Paperform | |
|---|---|---|
| Custom fonts | Pro | |
| Workspaces | Business | $20/mo |
Custom domains | Business | $135/mo |
Custom code | Pro | |
Partial submissions | Business | $40/mo |
| Meta pixel | Pro | $20/mo |
| Priority support | Business | $135/mo |
| Respondent email notifications | Business | $20/mo |
Collaborators | 5 on business | 5 for $135/mo |
| Calendly integration | Pro | Zapier only |
Address autocomplete | Enterprise | $135/mo |
| Collect signatures | Pro | $40/mo |
TL;DR: The short version
So, what's the deal? Fillout is the more modern form builder, with a generous free tier and better form styling capabilities. Paperform has a different type of form editor that doesn't rely on drag-n-drop.
Paperform may be a better choice when…
- You prefer to make your forms with a Notion-style editor, instead of a drag-n-drop editor.
Fillout is best if…
- You want a form tool that doesn't break the bank, but still lets you collect all the submissions you need.
- You need advanced features like address autocomplete, Calendly or custom fonts.
- You need forms with advanced validation and show/hide logic.
That's all for now! Hopefully this guide was useful to give you a general overview of Paperform compared to Fillout.
Ready to give Fillout a try? Sign up here, for free.
Still researching? Head back to the alternatives page.
Testimonials
Don't just take our word for it
Here's what people are saying about Fillout.
“The power of #nocode is real! Airtable forms just got way better with Fillout. Make your forms stand out while making it easier for you to automate your work. 🤩 #nocode”
“We've deployed Fillout to our teams in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Thailand with great success. It's proven to be more reliable than other tools, especially in remote areas.”
“I was looking for a somewhat advanced form tool to enroll my users on a registration platform in full integration with Airtable, with filters, conditional displays, pre-fills, url parameters with real-time data mapping from Airtable, error message customization, partial form submissions... I'm a bit demanding and I found all these features at Fillout, you can really develop a very very advanced tool and the customer service is responsive, efficient and nice! Thank you for all this and long life to Fillout!”
“If you want an actual form where people/yourself can add & edit records you should try fillout.com. I’ve been using it for a bit and it’s great.”
“Better customer support than my favorite restaurant in Nogales, Mexico.”
“It's exactly what I was looking for. I built a multi-page form for my business in no time.”
“Honestly I've used NotionForms, Tally, and Fillout. Fillout is bar the best in customiation, avalibility, flexibility, and, now, support.”
“Fillout as un super outil et une très bonne équipe, bon week-end from France !”
“One of my best finds in the Airtable community was a recommendation for fillout.com. Development/support team is super responsive to bug fixes and have created or accelerated some new features I was seeking. I particularly like the show/hide logic…seems way easier than JotForm. I'm probably only a month or two from dropping JF completely in favor of Fillout. 🙂”
“Fillout c'est devenu mon chouchou dés la première utilisation. Je l'utilise partout maintenant. En effet sur le champ multiple choices, tu as une option other mais pas sur le select. Le service client est ultra réactif, ca vaut le coup de le remonter.”
“Great product. Way better AND more affordable than Typeform.”
“Wow, just took this for a test drive and it's really good! Love the ability to update content in Airtable.”
“Really Impressed by @filloutcom. If you are using #Airtable and feeling restricted or disappointed with the forms, check them out!”
“Fillout UX is very smooth, support blazing fast, record picker and preview, webhook and conditional logic are available. I can only recommend to try it out!”
“I just launched our new quote form using Fillout w/ airtable - the product is terrific and by far the best solution for us out of all the other forms I've tried (typeform, jotform, etc.). I'm really thrilled about how much this will help our processes.”
“I really enjoy using Fillout, especially its integration with Notion. I really appreciate that I can use the file upload feature in the free tier. Excited to use more of Fillout in the future.”
“After trialling various form builders for Airtable, I came across Fillout and haven't looked back. The integration with Airtable is seamless, the pricing is incredibly reasonable, the user interface is incredible and last but far from least - the customer service is exceptional. I've had a few questions along the way and they've all been answered, via the chat box on their site, in a matter of minutes.”
“Airtable + Fillout + Softr is pretty banging combo for most SMB MVP's”
“I can't believe I haven't come across Fillout till this past week. They're solving a real need in the no-code space and doing things that other form tools just aren't doing.”
“Just want to say that I've been playing around for about an hour now and the level of sensible functionality Fillout offers is absolutely amazing. (Filtering on Airtable linked record field value, (which AT doesn't even offer themselves), creating records in a linked table, linking different forms to create multiple records in one table, etc.) Great job to the whole team over there, this is fantastic!”
“We're using a combination of Fillout -> Airtable -> Glideapp and it's been an absolute gamechanger for our non-profit organisation.”
“So far, amazing! I used this for both Airtable and Notion and I'm blown away by the customization capability for even the FREE version.”
“The best Notion integration with forms I have ever seen”
“I'm really getting to like Fillout... easy and clean interface and advanced feature set. What's also really nice is the ability to generate a unique link for each Airtable record that will allow editing only that individual record without access to the entire Base.”
“I'm obsessed. I'm sad I didn't find it earlier. I'll be moving forms over and recommending it to my clients. Well done on a fantastic product.”
“In love with your product!! I have been looking for this solution for airtable for 3 years.”
“I already shared my positive opinion about Fillout but I reaffirm they're doing a really good job, truely a saviour tool.”
“Fillout est à ce jour pour moi le meilleur form builder si vous utilisez déjà Airtable ou Notion. Le marché des apps NoCode évolue et cet outil sera en Top 1 pour les recommandations auprès de mes clients.”
“L’éditeur de logique conditionnelles, la fonctionnalité de remplissage de table liés, la facilité d’enchaînement de formulaires, design, login, webhook … j’adore.”
“Actually just general kudos for a great product to Fillout. I tried Typeform, Jotform, Airtable forms, and Google form before trying it: Fillout has everything the competitors lack =)”
“I haven't been this enthusiastic about a tool since Airtable 5 years ago 😀”
“Just wanted to say how happy I am with Fillout at the moment. I'm using Fillout with Notion, it all works so flawlessly. Very impressed with the setup!”
“Been using the app for a few weeks... VERY impressed. Have not found anything I want to do and can't - even on the free version. Customer support is always responsive and helpful. 👍”
“OMG!!!!! This is Godsend! Fillout eliminated about 10 work arounds for me as well as solved issues we couldn't solve. We are changing over today. It's almost to good to be true.”
“Hace un tiempo armé mi primera encuesta con @filloutcom y me encantó poder armarlas al estilo "Elige tu propia aventura", según las opciones que elegías, las preguntas que veías 🤯”
“Just started using @filloutcom and I'm already super excited about it. took me about three minutes to make a sign up form for my newsletter and hook up responses to post in a private Slack channel”
“Amazing. Definitely one of my favorite apps to use along with Airtable and Make.”
“Where was @filloutcom when I was stringing together dependent drop-downs with Jotform/On2Air?! Will be switching over.”
“I have been using Fillout forms for over 3 months and love the product. Their customer support is very very top.”
“J’adore l’integrer aux portails que je construis avec Softr pour pouvoir facilement sélectionner un contact parmis ceux que j’ai dans Airtable, dans mon formulaire 😍 Autre fonctionnalité super utile de Fillout : le champ « date range » pour sélectionner une plage de temps.”
