Tally, a free Jotform alternative

Jotform can provide you with many form templates, but to fully customize them with dependable features and functionality, you need Tally.

✔️ Unlimited forms & responses for free ✔️ Laser-fast customer support ✔️ Create forms and surveys in seconds

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At Tally, we're focused on making form-building seamless. Though Jotform has numerous templates and integrations, Tally's community-driven development, intuitive builder, and dedicated support empower anyone to create customized forms easily.

Everything you need to know about Tally Is Tally’s free plan unlimited?Can I customize the design of my Tally forms?Can beginners use Tally?Pros and cons of using Tally How is Tally rated?Everything you need to know about Jotform What are the limitations of Jotform?Is Jotform worth it?Is there an affordable alternative to Jotform?Does Jotform charge a fee?Does Jotform export submissions?Pros and Cons of using Jotform How is Jotform rated?Tally vs Jotform Tally vs Jotform — Price comparison Our summary Independent and driven by the community

Everything you need to know about Tally

With Tally, intuitive form building comes without the paywall. Our no-code builder lets you start typing on a blank form to add various input fields, layout options, and embed blocks — easily creating everything from simple contact forms to complex surveys with conditional logic, file uploads, and payments. Just drag and drop to design fully-customized forms tailored to your goals and needs.

Is Tally’s free plan unlimited?

Our forever-free plan gives you unlimited forms, submissions, and questions — so you'll never have to worry about hitting limits. Most key features include drag-and-drop form building, custom design, conditional logic, and file uploads, among others. For businesses needing additional capabilities like workspaces, custom domains, and advanced analytics, our Tally Pro plan provides all that for just $29/month or $290/year.

Does Tally provide customer support?

If you ever get stuck, you can report a bug, request a feature you’d like to see, share your feedback, or ask for customer support help. Supporting you is our priority — we’re here to assist you.

Can I customize the design of my Tally forms?

With Tally, you can customize the design and layout of your forms to match your branding or style. Format text, add a cover and a logo, and insert content like images, videos, and online embeds such as audio, video, maps, calendars, and more. We also support over 20 languages and right-to-left text formatting so that you can create forms tailored for any audience.

Can beginners use Tally?

Building forms in Tally is as easy as typing on a blank page. Just drag and drop different blocks to create your form: input blocks like short answer, multiple choice and more; layout blocks to format and design; embeds to add online content; and advanced logic blocks. If you want to learn more about the different blocks, shortcuts, or advanced features, take a look at our guide.

Pros and cons of using Tally

Tally forms offer unlimited forms, questions, and response storage on a free plan. This means you can build, customize, and publish a form without a paywall. Our forms are also highly customizable to fit any use case or industry — and if you need any help, we have a responsive email customer support and documentation.

If you want to add a custom domain, team collaboration, and remove a 5% Tally commission on your incoming payments, you will have to upgrade to our Tally Pro plan. However, at $29/month or $290/year per user, we offer only one subscription to keep things simple.

How is Tally rated?

With an average rating of 4.5/5 on G2, Tally users praise the platform's simplicity, customization options, branding capabilities, and smart form features like conditional logic. We actively listen to user feedback and maintain a public roadmap, so you can view upcoming features or submit requests for anything you'd like to see added in the future.

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Everything you need to know about Jotform

Jotform has been in business for over 15 years and is trusted by customers worldwide. It provides access to over 100 responsive form templates, 250+ apps and integrations, and advanced form options. However, Jotform's free plan has strict usage limits on forms, submissions, and questions. In contrast, Tally offers an unlimited free plan and intuitive form builder.

What are the limitations of Jotform?

Even Jotform's paid plans come with strict limitations — capping the number of forms you can create and monthly submissions you can receive. This forces growing organizations into more expensive tiers just to maintain the same features. And despite access to numerous templates, Jotform lacks robust customization options to tailor forms to your brand.

Is Jotform worth it?

Yes, but as your organization or business grows, you'll need to upgrade just to maintain the same features and form count. If you want to use a custom domain, you will have to contact the sales support to upgrade to the Enterprise tier.

Is there an affordable alternative to Jotform?

Yes, Tally offers a more budget-friendly option than upgrading Jotform's plans. Once you hit Jotform's free tier limits, their cheapest paid plan starts at $39/month. Tally's Pro plan includes all advanced features for just $29/month with no limits. And Tally's forever-free plan already provides capabilities that require Jotform upgrades like unlimited forms, questions, and response storage.

Does Jotform charge a fee?

Jotform offers a free plan, but paid tiers start at $39/month. The higher pricing simply increases form, submission, and field count limits and removes Jotform branding — the features stay largely the same. With Tally's forever-free plan, you get uncapped forms, submissions, and fields with no hidden fees.

Does Jotform export submissions?

You can export your Jotform submissions as CSV, Excel, and PDF. Same as Tally, you can connect Zapier to set up automated workflows to streamline exporting your form submission.

Pros and Cons of using Jotform

As an established brand, Jotform offers a wide selection of templates and integrations to automate workflows. However, the free plan's strict caps of just 5 forms, 100 submissions, and 10 payments can limit the growth of your organization. Jotform's complex interface may also have a steep learning curve.

How is Jotform rated?

Jotform has an average of 4.7/5 rating on G2. Users credit their positive feedback to Jotform’s ability to create simple forms as well as more complex ones that process payments and orders. However, some users point out the less responsive customer support and general software bugs or platform downtime that have led to errors or data loss.

Jotform offers great plugins and integrations, but Tally can help you create advanced forms at a much lower price. Create your first form for free

Tally vs Jotform

While Jotform’s free account offers plenty of different features and integrations, you’re limited to only five forms per month before needing to upgrade to a paid plan. On the other hand, Tally's forever-free plan gives unlimited forms, submissions, and questions.

Let's compare Jotform and Tally's features, integrations, and pricing to help you choose the best form builder for you.

Features	Tally Free	Jotform Free
Unlimited forms	✅	❌ (5/month)
Unlimited submissions	✅	❌ (100/month)
Unlimited submission storage	✅	❌ (500 submissions)
Unlimited form views	✅	❌ (1000 monthly views)
Unlimited questions	✅	❌ (100 fields/form)
One question per page	✅	✅ (Jotform Cards)
All questions on a single page	✅	✅
Self email notification	✅	✅
Respondent email notification	✅	✅
Accept payments	✅ (5% commission)	✅ (10 submissions/month)
Available space	10 MB/file	100 MB
Conditional logic	✅	✅
Answer piping	✅	✅
Calculator	✅	✅
Hidden fields	✅	✅
Redirect on completion	✅	✅
Custom thank you pages	✅	✅
Form embed	✅	✅
Embed content	✅	✅
reCAPTCHA	✅	✅
RTL (right-to-left) support	✅	✅ (requires adding custom CSS)

Integrations	Tally Free	Jotform (5 forms/month)
Airtable	✅	✅
Google Sheets	✅	✅
Notion	✅	✅
Zapier	✅	✅
Integromat	✅	✅
Webhooks	✅	✅
Slack	✅	✅

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Tally vs Jotform — Price comparison

Tally Pro is $29/month or $290/year for advanced features. An all-inclusive plan makes things easy for creators and teams so that you can forget about countless paywalls. See how Tally Pro features compare to Jotform.

Let's have a look at Tally's Pro subscription and what’s included in comparison to Jotform's plans.

Features	Tally Pro	Jotform
Removal of branding	$29/mo	$39/mo
Custom domains	$29/mo	Jotform Enterprise
Unlimited file uploads	$29/mo	$129/mo (100 GB)
No commission on payments	$29/mo	Free (10 payments/mo)
Customizable Email notifications	$29/mo	$39/mo
Team collaboration	$29/mo (unlimited)	Jotform Enterprise
Workspaces	$29/mo	Jotform Enterprise
Partial submissions	$29/mo	❌
Google Analytics integration	$29/mo	Free
Facebook Pixel integration	$29/mo	Free
Custom CSS	$29/mo	Free

→ Learn more about Tally Pro

Our summary

While Jotform offers a wide range of form templates and integrations, it lacks in-depth customization capabilities. Jotform also has limiting price plans, especially for users on a budget. On the other hand, Tally enables easy creation of professional-looking forms and provides responsive customer service — all for free.

Tally's free plan also includes advanced features that fit creators, freelancers, students, and businesses of different sizes. Jotform's pricing tiers may be better suited for larger organizations and enterprises.

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Independent and driven by the community

Tally is an independent company, founded by a bootstrapped team of 2. By using Tally you support us as makers and lots of other small businesses that use Tally. We have a public roadmap, driven by the community, which means our users decide what we will be building next. We're shipping new features every week and share our progress on our changelog.

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