How FormHoney works
Four steps: lay the form out, share the link, watch the answers arrive, take the data away in whatever format you need.
1. Design it on a page, not in a list
Most form builders give you a vertical stack of fields and a preview that looks nothing like the result. FormHoney gives you an A4 sheet with rulers down the side. Drag a control onto it and it stays where you put it — two fields side by side, a heading spanning the width, a signature box in the corner. Everything snaps to a grid, so it lines up without fiddling.
There are 21 controls: text, headings, small print, labels, images, video and groups for the content; text boxes, email, website, number, date, slider, signature and file upload for entry; and yes/no, checkbox, drop-down, radio buttons, multi-select lists and checkbox groups for choices. New accounts get a working example of every one of them, so there is something to pull apart on day one.
Because the layout is measured in millimetres on a real paper size, the thing you designed is the thing that appears on screen, the thing that prints, and the thing that lands in a PDF. There is no second layout to keep in step.
2. Decide who can open it
Every form gets an unguessable link. That is often enough — but you can also ask for the respondent's email address before the form opens, and add a passcode on top. Get the passcode wrong too many times and the form closes for half an hour.
You choose the wording people see when they open the link, and a form can be scheduled to open and close on given dates.
3. Let the form do the thinking
Questions can appear, disappear, enable, disable or become required depending on earlier answers. Ask whether someone drives, and the licence questions appear only if they say yes. The rules run in the browser so the form feels responsive, and again on the server when it is submitted — so an answer belonging to a question that was hidden never reaches your data, however the form was filled in.
Formats are checked as someone moves through the form rather than saved up for the end. Addresses, postcodes, phone numbers and reference codes are tidied where the intent is obvious — sw1a1aa becomes SW1A 1AA — and anything genuinely missing is listed in one dialogue at the point of submitting.
4. Take the answers away
Every response is stored as structured data, and each one keeps a snapshot of the question labels as they were at the time — so results stay readable after you redesign the form. Export to CSV, Excel or Word, or print the completed form to PDF exactly as designed.
A copy can be emailed to you, to a different address, or to nobody at all. That is your choice per form, and it is an addition to the stored record, never a replacement for it.
What it costs
There is a free plan that is meant to be used rather than outgrown in an afternoon: 50 responses a month across 3 forms. Free forms carry adverts and a small FormHoney mark, which is what pays for a free tier that size. Paid plans remove both and raise the limits; you can pay monthly, annually for two months less, or take a single month with no commitment.
If a paid plan lapses, nothing is deleted. Your forms keep collecting under the free limits until you pick things up again.
Your data
Responses belong to whoever made the form. Everything is scoped to its owner on every request, uploads are checked by content rather than trusted by filename, and files attached to responses are stored outside the web root and served only after an ownership check. Signing in needs a password, a quick human check and a code from an authenticator app.