Google Forms
Use Google Forms to easily create forms and surveys to gather data and gain insights from anywhere, with Google Workspace.
Google Forms is commercial forms and surveys software made by Google. Its English Wikipedia article has about 10k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 10k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Free form and quiz builder that collects responses into Google Sheets.
- Adopt it when
- You need a quick survey, sign-up or quiz at no cost and are happy with plain design.
- Watch out
- Limited branding, logic and payments; not suited to polished customer-facing forms.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Every program, Google Forms included, runs on a microchip.
The description is the maker's own, quoted as written. Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.