HeyForm vs Quillforms
HeyForm and Quillforms are both forms and surveys software. HeyForm is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.1k GitHub stars. Quillforms is open source under LGPL-3.0, with 622 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick HeyForm when
- You want Typeform-style forms without per-response pricing.
- Pick Quillforms when
- Your site runs on WordPress and you want Typeform-like forms without a Typeform subscription.
Side by side
A conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and lead forms, with logic, integrations and analytics, self-hosted or hosted.
A Typeform-style conversational form builder, shipped mainly as a WordPress plugin, showing one question at a time with logic and quizzes.
AGPL licensed, and some features are in the paid hosted plans.
Many integrations and features are in the paid Pro add-ons.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
TypeScript, Node.js, React and MongoDB
TypeScript, React, PHP and WordPress
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
9.1k GitHub stars
622 GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v3.0.6.
Established: started 6 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.