A free form builder you can try before signing up

Try one first, without an account

Every template on this site has a live example: a real form, drawn by the same renderer that draws a customer's, that you can fill in as your respondent would. Conditional questions branch, multi-step forms page, validation rejects what it should. Nothing you type is stored - it's a demo, and the page says so.

That's the honest version of a free trial. You see the actual product working before you hand over an email address.

What the free plan actually includes

One published form and ten responses. Every question type: short and long text, email, phone, URL, number, date, dropdown, multiple choice, multi-select, single checkbox, star rating, opinion scale, drag-to-rank, file upload, statements and page breaks. Conditional logic. Prefilled links. Embedding. CSV export. Email notifications.

What's held back: more than one form, more than ten responses, and the AI builder. Everything else works on the free plan, because a free tier that can't show you the product isn't a free tier.

One request, and nothing to download

Open a published ava42 form and watch the network tab: one HTML document, and that is the whole page. The CSS is inline, the SVG icon is inline, there is no JavaScript bundle, no web font, no analytics beacon and no third-party call. The form is rendered once when you publish it and stored as a complete file, so serving it doesn't touch a database or run a template.

Most hosted form builders ship an application: a script that boots, fetches your form's definition, and then draws it. That works well on a laptop on office wifi. On a phone with two bars - which is where a great many forms are actually filled in - it is the difference between a form and a spinner.

When ten responses runs out

The form closes rather than silently discarding answers, and the closed page tells the respondent so before they fill it in. You see why on your dashboard. That's a deliberate choice: a form that accepts responses into a void is worse than one that admits it's full.

Pro is $10 a month for unlimited forms and responses, and upgrading immediately reopens anything that closed on the limit.

No trackers, so no cookie banner

A published form sets no cookies, loads no third-party script, and we don't log IP addresses or user agents against responses. Our own traffic counting is a per-route tally flushed once a minute - it records that a form was viewed, never which one or by whom.

That has two consequences worth having. Your respondents don't meet a consent dialog before they can answer a question, which is one fewer reason to leave. And if someone asks what you're doing with their data, the answer is short enough to say out loud.