Formbricks vs Tally

Formbricks is an open-source survey and experience management platform from a Germany-based team, positioned as a privacy-friendly alternative to Qualtrics and Typeform for product feedback. Its focus is in-app and website surveys that appear to the right users at the right moment, plus classic link surveys, available either as a managed cloud or self-hosted on your own infrastructure.

Developers install a JavaScript, React Native or mobile SDK, then product teams define who sees a survey using user attributes, actions and page events, with controls for display frequency and recontact. Question types cover NPS, CSAT, ratings, open text, multiple choice, matrices and file uploads, with logic and hidden fields. Responses flow to a dashboard with filters and summaries and can be sent to Slack, Notion, Airtable, webhooks or Zapier. The community edition is free to self-host; cloud plans add response volume, team features and enterprise options such as SSO.

Formbricks fits product and UX teams that need targeted in-app feedback and care about data residency, including European companies working under GDPR. It is younger than its commercial rivals, the template library and analytics are lighter, and self-hosting means maintaining updates and a database. Typeform is stronger for polished marketing forms and quizzes, Sprig and Hotjar Surveys offer hosted in-app research, and Qualtrics remains the enterprise standard for large experience programs.

Tally is a form builder from a small, bootstrapped company in Belgium founded by Marie Martens and Filip Minev. It became popular with indie makers, startups and Notion users because building a form feels like writing a document.

You type questions directly on the page and use slash commands to insert blocks for text, multiple choice, dropdowns, ratings, file uploads, signatures, payments and more. Conditional logic shows or hides questions, calculated fields support quizzes and price quotes, hidden fields and URL parameters pass in data, and partial submissions capture answers from people who drop off. Forms can be embedded, shared as links or shown as pop-ups. Native integrations send responses to Notion, Airtable, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks, Zapier and Make, and Stripe handles payments. The free plan is unusually generous, with unlimited forms and submissions and almost every feature; Pro removes Tally branding and adds custom domains, custom CSS, team collaboration and partial submissions, while Business adds more team members and verified domains.

Tally fits startups, creators, small teams and anyone who needs good-looking forms without paying per response. Typeform offers a more polished one-question-at-a-time experience at a much higher price, Jotform has a larger set of templates and enterprise features, Google Forms is simpler and free inside Workspace, and Fillout is a close alternative with deeper integrations. Tally's limits are enterprise controls and advanced analytics.