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Jotform

Create forms and surveys easily with Jotform

Jotform is commercial forms and surveys software made by Jotform. Jotform was founded in 2006, and it is based in U.S.. Its English Wikipedia article has about 316 readers a month on phones.

Made by
Jotform
Since
2006
Wikipedia readers on phones
316 a month
Source code
Closed

Website Wikipedia

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
Form builder with thousands of templates, payment collection, PDF generation, approvals and simple apps and tables built from form data.
Adopt it when
A small business needs many operational forms, such as orders, bookings or HIPAA-friendly intake, with payments and PDFs.
Watch out
Submission limits and Jotform branding on lower plans, and the interface is crowded.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Cloud service and mobile app
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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Under it

Every program, Jotform included, runs on a microchip.

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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.