Google Forms vs Quillforms
Google Forms and Quillforms are both forms and surveys software. Google Forms is a commercial product from Google. Quillforms is open source under LGPL-3.0, with 622 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 Quillforms when
- Your site runs on WordPress and you want Typeform-like forms without a Typeform subscription.
Side by side
Free form and quiz builder that collects responses into Google Sheets.
A Typeform-style conversational form builder, shipped mainly as a WordPress plugin, showing one question at a time with logic and quizzes.
Limited branding, logic and payments; not suited to polished customer-facing forms.
Many integrations and features are in the paid Pro add-ons.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
TypeScript, React, PHP and WordPress
Closed source, sold by Google
Open source, LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
10k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
622 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 6 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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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.