Many associations, schools and small teams need to collect information online: membership sign-ups, event registrations, parent permissions, feedback surveys. The question is often whether a "free" form tool is really free, or whether limits appear after a few responses. With AwesomeFor.ms, the Free plan includes unlimited forms and unlimited responses, with no time limit and no ads. Your data is hosted in France, and respondents never need to create an account.
What "unlimited" means in practice
On the Free plan, you can create as many forms as you want and receive as many responses as you want. There is no monthly cap and no expiration date. Each form gets its own public link and a QR code you can print. You can publish and unpublish a form at any time; when unpublished, it simply stops accepting new answers.
Forms and responses are hosted in France with OVHcloud. AwesomeFor.ms does not display ads and does not resell data.
Respondents open the link on a computer or phone and fill in the form without installing anything or creating an account. The form appears in the language you chose when building it, French or English.
Building a complete form on the Free plan
The visual editor lets you add fields from a palette and reorder them by dragging and dropping, with a live preview. You can start from a blank form or choose from 44 ready-made templates covering memberships, event registrations, surveys, leave requests, school permissions and more.
You can split a long form into steps so respondents move forward and back easily. For families or teams, repeatable pages let one page repeat up to 10 times: for example, one page per child in a family, or per player in a team, with a minimum, maximum and default count.
Conditional logic shows or hides questions based on earlier answers. For example, show the "dietary requirements" field only if the respondent checks "I will attend the meal". You can combine conditions with AND or OR, using comparisons like equals, contains, is empty, greater than.
Field types available on every plan include text, email, number, long text, dropdown lists, checkboxes, radio buttons, phone, URL, and heading or text blocks for instructions. Every field can be required and can have a label, placeholder and help text. Text fields accept minimum and maximum lengths; number fields accept minimum, maximum, step, prefix, suffix or a slider. Dropdowns, checkboxes and radio buttons can include an "Other" option with free text, a searchable list, and a minimum or maximum number of selections.
Email fields reject malformed addresses and can optionally block disposable addresses. Phone fields include a country selector. URL fields accept only http and https addresses. A required consent checkbox records agreement with your privacy policy alongside the response.
For publishing, you can choose a light, dark or automatic theme, a main colour, rounded or square corners and one of 7 fonts. After submission, respondents see your own confirmation message or are redirected to a page of your choice.
Getting notified and reading responses
You receive an email alert for every new response. On the Free plan, the first 5 alerts of each day arrive instantly; the rest are grouped into one daily digest email. If you prefer, you can send these alerts through your own email server instead: on every plan, including Free, that removes the daily limit, so every alert arrives instantly with no cap.
You can also send every new response to Discord, Slack, Telegram or ntfy (a notification service you can also host yourself). These messages have no daily limit on any plan, including Free. You can set up to 10 channels per account, and choose to include the first 3 answers directly in the message.
In the response list, you can search across all answers and choose which columns to display and in what order. You can open any single response and download it as a PDF, or export all responses to CSV. Responses are kept until you delete the form or your account; individual responses cannot be deleted one by one.
On every plan, including Free, you can let an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT create and manage your forms for you.
What the Free plan does not include
The Free plan does not include file uploads. Respondents cannot attach images, PDFs or documents; that feature starts with the Starter plan. Starter also adds AI form generation (describe your form in a sentence and the AI writes the questions), confirmation emails to respondents, 500 notification emails per month, removal of the "Made with AwesomeFor.ms" mention, email support, and 500 MB of file storage.
AwesomeFor.ms does not collect payments and does not compute totals or prices from answers. If you need to charge a fee, use your usual payment tool alongside the form. If you need calculations, export the responses to CSV or, from the Pro plan, sync them to Google Sheets and compute there.
From the Pro plan, you can embed the form directly in a page of your website, send every new response automatically to your own system, sync responses to Google Sheets, place your logo on the form, and choose a daily summary email instead of one email per response. Pro also raises notification emails to 2,000 per month and file storage to 2 GB.
How it compares to other free form tools
If you are looking for a free alternative to Google Forms, the main differences are hosting and limits. With AwesomeFor.ms, your data stays in France, respondents do not need a Google account, and the Free plan has no response limit. For comparison, Typeform's free tier caps at 10 responses per month, and Google Forms requires a Google account for file uploads. AwesomeFor.ms also offers repeatable pages, which Google Forms does not have natively. You can read the full comparison with Google Forms.
When to stay on Free, and when to upgrade
Stay on the Free plan if you need sign-ups, surveys, registrations or permission slips without attachments. The Free plan has no time limit, so associations, schools and small teams can keep using it indefinitely. It includes 5 instant email alerts per day plus a daily digest; if you need more alerts, you can route them through your own email server on the Free plan as well, with no daily limit.
Move to a paid plan when you need respondents to attach files, when you want to send confirmation emails to respondents, when you want to embed the form on your website or sync it automatically to Google Sheets, when you want your logo on the form, or when you want AI to draft your forms. Starter costs €9 per month (€84 per year), Pro €19 (€180 per year) and Business €49 (€468 per year), with unlimited forms and responses on every tier.