HeyForm vs Microsoft Forms
HeyForm and Microsoft Forms are both forms and surveys software. HeyForm is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.1k GitHub stars. Microsoft Forms is a commercial product from Microsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick HeyForm when
- You want Typeform-style forms without per-response pricing.
- Pick Microsoft Forms when
- Your organisation uses Microsoft 365 and needs internal surveys or quizzes with no extra tool.
Side by side
A conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and lead forms, with logic, integrations and analytics, self-hosted or hosted.
Simple forms, surveys and quizzes inside Microsoft 365, with responses flowing to Excel and Power Automate.
AGPL licensed, and some features are in the paid hosted plans.
Basic design and logic options; external-facing forms look plain.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service
TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
9.1k GitHub stars
1.2k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.0.6.
Not known
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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.