Free form builder

A free form builder that does not cap your responses.

Build a contact, registration, enquiry, quote or order form in minutes. 22 question types, conditional logic, file uploads, and an address block that asks for a state and a postcode because it was built in Australia. Start before you make an account.

Free · No credit card · Unlimited responses, subject to fair use

What you are building

A real form, not a mock-up.

Pulseware is an online form builder, so the thing you make is a working web form rather than a document: your questions, your wording, your colours, a link you can share and a snippet you can embed. This is one of them, published.

Get in touch

We reply within one business day.

Your nameAriana Whitcombe

Emailariana@example.com.au

What is it about?Help with an order or account

Order or account number shown by logicAU-40318

Your messageThe second box in my order arrived open. Happy to send a photo.

Add a file (optional)box.jpg

Send message

The contact form template, unedited. Example data. The “Order or account number” question is hidden until someone picks that topic.

Form types

Six forms most small businesses need.

Each one is already built as a template. Open it, change the words, publish it. There are 27 in total, and every one is a working form rather than a picture of one.

Browse every form template
  • contact form template

    Name, email, a topic dropdown, the message and an optional attachment. Embed it on your contact page.

  • registration form template

    Contact details, the program, an emergency contact and consent boxes, with guardian questions for under-18s.

  • enquiry form template

    For a service business taking enquiries — what they need, when they need it and how to reach them.

  • quote request form template

    Scope, site, budget range and timing, so the quote you send back is close to right first time.

  • job application form template

    Work history, right-to-work questions and a CV upload, with the questions that do not apply hidden.

  • food order form template

    Items, quantities, pickup or delivery and a running total calculated as they choose.

Building a contact form or taking registrations? Those two have pages of their own: the contact form builder and the registration form builder.

Question types

22 question types, all on the free plan.

22 ways to ask and 8 layout blocks to break a long form into pages. The three that usually sit behind a paywall elsewhere — file upload, signature and a proper address block — are here for nothing.

  • Contact details. Name, email, phone, link and a full address block.
  • File uploads. Images, PDFs, audio and video. Free: 10 MB per file
  • Signatures. Drawn with a finger, a pen or a mouse.
  • Ratings and scales. Stars, NPS, sliders, matrix grids and ranking.
  • Dates, times and numbers. Checked as people type, before they submit.
  • Picture choice. Image options, with an “Other” answer when you want one.

The address block defaults to Australia and asks for a postcode, with the state, postcode and country parts each switchable. Phone numbers default to +61. Small things, but they are the difference between a form that feels local and one that asks an Australian for a ZIP code.

Logic and calculations

Ask only what this person needs to answer.

Conditional logic, calculations, hidden fields, piping and multiple endings are all free, and all set up in the editor rather than in a formula language.

How logic and scoring work
  • Show and hide. A question appears only when an earlier answer calls for it.
  • Calculations. Add a total, a score or a price band as people answer.
  • Hidden fields. Pass a campaign, a program or a customer id in through the link.
  • Answer piping. Use an earlier answer in a later question or on the thank-you screen.
  • Different endings. Send people to the right thank-you screen, or redirect them.
  • Randomised order. Shuffle the options so the first one is not always first.

Sharing

A link, a QR code, or 8 ways to embed it.

Every published form gets a short link and a QR code. To put it on your own site, copy one of the embed snippets — inline, full page, pop-up, slider, popover, side tab, chat bubble or a feedback button.

How to embed a form on your website

You can also set an opening and closing date, cap the number of responses, put a password on the form, or stop the same person responding twice. Forms are hosted on a pulseware.com.au link — hosting them on your own domain is coming soon.

What costs what

Nearly all of it is free. Here is the part that is not.

These badges are generated from the same file the billing system reads, so this list cannot quietly disagree with your invoice.

See the full pricing page
  • Unlimited forms and surveys Available on Free

    Create as many forms, surveys and quizzes as you like.

  • Unlimited responses Free: unlimited (fair use)

    No monthly response cap, subject to fair use.

  • Every question type Available on Free

    Choice, rating, NPS, matrix, date, address, picture choice and more.

  • File uploads Free: 10 MB per file

    Let respondents upload images, PDFs, audio and video.

  • Signatures Available on Free

    Collect a drawn signature.

  • Conditional logic Available on Free

    Show, hide and skip questions based on answers.

  • Calculations and scoring Available on Free

    Add up scores and calculate values as people answer.

  • Embeds and pop-ups Available on Free

    Eight embed styles: inline, full page, pop-up, slider, side tab, chat bubble and more.

  • QR codes Available on Free

    Download a PNG or SVG QR code for your form link.

  • Spam protection Available on Free

    Honeypot and bot checks on every form.

  • Duplicate prevention Available on Free

    Stop the same person responding twice.

  • Scheduling and response limits Available on Free

    Open and close on a date, or after a number of responses.

  • Password protection Available on Free

    Only people with the password can respond.

  • Email notifications to you Available on Free

    Get an email for every new response.

  • Webhooks, Slack and Discord Available on Free

    Send responses anywhere in real time.

  • CSV and Excel export Available on Free

    Download every response, any time.

  • Anonymous responses Available on Free

    Collect answers without recording who responded.

  • Respondent confirmation emails Available on Pro

    Send respondents a copy of their answers.

  • Remove Pulseware branding Available on Pro

    Hide the "Made with Pulseware" badge on forms, polls and emails.

What we do not do

Four things other form builders have and we do not.

Every one of these is genuinely useful, and if one of them is load-bearing for you then a different tool is the right answer today. We would rather tell you here than after you have rebuilt your form.

  • Payments Coming soon

    There is no payment question type, so a form cannot charge a card, hold a deposit or issue a ticket.

  • Custom domains Coming soon

    Forms are hosted on a pulseware.com.au link, not on a domain of your own.

  • Team collaboration Coming soon

    An account is one person. There are no shared workspaces, folders or seats yet.

  • API access Coming soon

    There is no public API for reading or managing forms and responses from your own code.

Two more worth naming: a form is written in one language, with no built-in translation or language switcher; and Pulseware will not turn an existing PDF form into an online one. If payments are the sticking point, put bank-transfer details or a link to your own payment page on the thank-you screen — you write that screen, so it can say whatever you need.

Not only forms

Surveys, NPS and pulse checks too.

The same editor, the same question types, a different job. If what you actually need is to ask a group of people what they think, start from one of these instead.

Common questions

What people ask before they build their first form here — including the things we cannot do.

Is the form builder really free?
Yes. Building forms, publishing them and collecting answers costs nothing on the Free plan, and there is no monthly response cap — unlimited responses, subject to the published fair use thresholds. Pro and Business exist for a short list of extras, and the pricing page shows exactly which.
Do I need an account to build a form?
No. Open the form editor and start typing. The draft lives in your browser until you publish it, and publishing is the point where we ask for an email address — because that is where the responses go. The whole flow is explained on the no-sign-up page.
Can I take payments on a form?
Not yet. There is no payment question type, so Pulseware cannot charge a card, take a deposit or sell a ticket. Payments are coming soon. Until they land, most people put bank-transfer details or a link to their own payment or ticketing page on the thank-you screen, which you can write and style yourself.
How many question types are there?
22 question types and 8 layout blocks, all on the free plan. That includes the ones most builders charge for: file upload, signature, address, matrix, ranking, picture choice and NPS. The feature list names every one with the plan it needs.
Does the address field work for Australian addresses?
Yes — that is the default. The address block asks for a state and a postcode, not a state and a ZIP code, and the country defaults to Australia. You can switch the state, postcode and country parts off individually if you only need a street address.
Can I embed the form on my own website?
Yes. There are 8 embed styles — inline, full page, pop-up, slider, popover, side tab, chat bubble and a feedback button — and each one gives you a snippet to paste. How to embed a form walks through it. Forms are hosted on a pulseware.com.au link; hosting them on your own domain is coming soon.
Where do the answers go?
Into your dashboard, with a summary and a chart per question, and out as CSV or Excel whenever you want. You can also have every response emailed to you, posted to Slack or Discord, sent to a webhook, or synced to Notion, Airtable or Google Sheets. All of that is on the free plan.
Can several people work on the same forms?
Not yet. An account is one person today — team workspaces and shared folders are coming soon. If you need more than one person editing the same forms right now, this is the honest reason to look elsewhere, and our Tally comparison says so on the page.
Can I use it for surveys as well as forms?
Yes, and plenty of people do. The same editor builds an anonymous survey, an NPS survey or a scored quiz. Forms and surveys share the question types, the logic and the results screen; only the intent differs.
What happens if a form gets a lot of traffic?
It keeps collecting. There is no per-form or per-month response ceiling on any plan. Fair use is published as a number, not a mood: 50,000 submissions a month is the threshold at which we would start a conversation about a custom plan, and we would never silently cut a form off. The numbers are all on the fair use page.

Keep going

The builder-type pages, the template gallery and the help articles that go with them.

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The editor opens on a blank form, or on any of the 27 templates. Nothing is published, and nobody can answer it, until you say so.

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