Formbricks vs Google Forms

Formbricks is an open survey and experience platform designed to be self-hosted: link surveys, in-app surveys triggered by user behaviour, and website surveys, with responses resting on your own infrastructure. That last point is the reason to choose it — for GDPR-sensitive work, form responses never leaving your servers turns a compliance conversation into a non-event. Around 12.7k stars, actively developed, with a paid cloud for teams who would rather not host. The licence is an open core with some enterprise features commercially licensed, so check which side of the line the feature you need falls on.

Google Forms collects responses into a spreadsheet, handles basic logic, and costs nothing. It is not conversational, the design options are thin, and it looks like what it is. Included because a significant share of Typeform subscriptions exist for forms that Google Forms would have handled perfectly — an internal survey, an event signup, a feedback box — and recommending an open alternative for a job that needs no tool at all would be padding this page rather than helping. If your form has fewer than ten questions and no brand requirement, start here.