Google Forms
Google Forms is a web tool for creating forms and surveys to gather information and gain insights.
What Google Forms is
Google Forms is a web tool for creating forms and surveys to gather information and gain insights. Users can build a form with different question types using a drag-and-drop interface, or begin with premade survey and questionnaire templates. Forms can be shared by email or social media, or embedded on a website; multiple embed options are available. Conditional flows can show questions based on earlier answers, and forms can also be used to make quizzes. Colors, images, and fonts can be adjusted to reflect an organization’s branding. As responses arrive, Forms creates charts in real time and can export raw data to Google Sheets. Users can share forms with collaborators to work on them and analyze results together. When someone fills out a form while signed in to a Google Account, their progress is saved as a draft for 30 days. Google says files created in Forms or uploaded to Drive are encrypted in transit and at rest.
Good
- Several question types with drag-and-drop design
- Templates for surveys and questionnaires
- Supports conditional flows and quizzes
- Charts responses in real time
- Exports raw data to Google Sheets
Watch out
- Available on web only
- No separate Forms-specific trial is stated
Who it suits
Google Forms suits people who need to collect survey or form responses online, including teams that want to collaborate on analysis. It can also serve quiz makers who need conditional questions or response charts.
Verdict
Google Forms covers form creation, distribution, response summaries, and collaboration in one web-based tool. Its templates, quiz options, and Sheets export may be useful for varied data-collection needs.
Plans and prices
From Google Forms's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Business Starter | $7 a month | 1-300 users · 30 GB pooled storage per user · Annual commitment |
| Business Standard | $14 a month | 1-300 users · 2 TB pooled storage per user · Annual commitment |
| Business Plus | $22 a month | 1-300 users · 5 TB pooled storage per user · Annual commitment |
| Business Starter | Priced on request | 1-300 users · 30 GB pooled storage per user |
| Business Standard | Priced on request | 1-300 users · 2 TB pooled storage per user |
| Business Plus | Priced on request | 1-300 users · 5 TB pooled storage per user |
The facts
Each one read from Google Forms's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Google describes the Forms API as a RESTful interface for creating and modifying forms and quizzes, retrieving responses and quiz grades, and receiving push notifications.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Branding
- Users can customize forms with colors, images, and fonts to match organizational branding.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Users can share Forms with others to collaborate and analyze results.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Google says Forms regularly undergoes independent verification of its security, privacy, and compliance controls.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Conditional flows and quizzes
- Forms can show questions based on previous answers and can be used to create quizzes.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Draft saving
- When a user fills in a Google Form while signed in to a Google Account, progress is saved as a draft for 30 days.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Embed options
- multiplechecked 20 Sep 2026
- File uploads
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Google's Apps Script page describes integrating Forms with Sheets, Docs, and Gmail to automate event session sign-ups and itineraries.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Native integrations
- 5checked 20 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Google Forms lets users create forms and surveys to gather data and gain insights.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Question design
- Forms offers multiple question types and a drag-and-drop interface, and forms can be shared by email, social media, or embedded on a website.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Quiz support
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Response analysis
- Forms displays automated charts from responses in real time and can export raw data to Google Sheets.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Google says files created in Forms or uploaded to Google Drive are encrypted in transit and at rest.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Templates
- Users can start from premade survey, questionnaire, and other templates.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- Google says it was officially born as Google Inc. in August 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.checked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Workspace trial
- Google Workspace offers a 14-day trial; the page does not state that this trial applies specifically to Google Forms.checked 4 Oct 2026
