Google Forms vs HeyForm
Google Forms and HeyForm are both forms and surveys software. Google Forms is a commercial product from Google. HeyForm is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.1k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Google Forms when
- You need a quick survey, sign-up or quiz at no cost and are happy with plain design.
- Pick HeyForm when
- You want Typeform-style forms without per-response pricing.
Side by side
Free form and quiz builder that collects responses into Google Sheets.
A conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and lead forms, with logic, integrations and analytics, self-hosted or hosted.
Limited branding, logic and payments; not suited to polished customer-facing forms.
AGPL licensed, and some features are in the paid hosted plans.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB
Closed source, sold by Google
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
10k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
9.1k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.0.6.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.