Jotform vs Smartsheet
Jotform and Smartsheet are both workflow management software. Jotform is a commercial product from Jotform. Smartsheet is a commercial product from Smartsheet Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Jotform when
- A small business needs many operational forms, such as orders, bookings or HIPAA-friendly intake, with payments and PDFs.
- Pick Smartsheet when
- A project office or operations team that thinks in spreadsheets needs structured tracking and reporting across many projects.
Side by side
Form builder with thousands of templates, payment collection, PDF generation, approvals and simple apps and tables built from form data.
Spreadsheet-style work management with Gantt charts, forms, automations, dashboards and resource management.
Submission limits and Jotform branding on lower plans, and the interface is crowded.
Licensing changes after its take-private have raised costs for some customers.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Jotform
Closed source, sold by Smartsheet Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
316 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
860 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
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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.