Is HeyForm really free?

Yes. HeyForm is open source: the code is public and installing it costs nothing. At most you pay for hosting if you put it on a server, often a few euros a month. Typeform, on the other hand, costs €35 a month.

Do I need to code to install HeyForm?

No. The level is intermediate and the install takes about 20 minutes with the prompt from the page: Claude does the work, you answer its questions.

How is it different from Typeform?

HeyForm does most of what Typeform does, without a subscription, and your data stays with you. The point by point comparison is on the page.

Yes. With an open source tool installed on your side, your files stay on your machine or your server. Nobody can close your account or change the price.

Free alternative

Free alternative to Typeform

Typeform costs €35 a month. Here are the 2 open source tools that replace it for free, best one first.

Public entry price, taken from Typeform’s website (typeform.com). Over a year, that is €420 that stays in your pocket.

What replaces Typeform

The main alternative

HeyForm

🟡 Intermediate⏱️ ~20 min to installSave €35/mo

HeyForm is the Typeform-style form, one question at a time, but at your place. You build your surveys, quizzes, contact or order forms in a visual editor, with conditional logic, themes, custom CSS, Stripe payments, file uploads and signatures. Answers land in a results table with drop-off rates, export to CSV and flow to your other tools through webhooks, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Airtable or Slack. All of it runs on your server with Docker: the app, a MongoDB database and a Redis. The code is AGPL-3.0 licensed, the repo is closing in on 9,000 stars and it is maintained by a duo, who also sell a hosted version from €13 a month. The part that matters: the project went through a big wave of security advisories in 2026 and hardened its code in August. So you install the latest version, not another one.

Loucash’s verdict on HeyForm

7/10

If you pay for Typeform to get one-question-at-a-time forms, HeyForm gives you the same experience at home, with no response cap, with payments, files, signatures and real integrations. The editor is pleasant, and everything lives in your database. Now the catch, and it is a serious one. Between May and August 2026, the repo published 42 security advisories, 3 of them critical: a file upload open to anyone without an account, a CORS setting that let a third-party site read your data, and a script hidden in a question title. I read the code of version 3.0.2 and the project's hardening doc: the fixes are in, shipped from 3.0.1 on August 13, 2026. But the advisory pages on GitHub still show no patched version. My rule: you install 3.0.2 at least, you never expose an older version to the internet, you close sign-ups, you put an HTTPS proxy in front, and you follow the releases. What not to confuse it with. Tally is free and unlimited, hosted in Europe, but on their side: if you do not want to run a server, it is the right pick. OpnForm is the other self-hosted option, more classic in its look, with no published security advisory to date, which means unreported, not necessarily audited. HeyForm wins on the Typeform-style experience, as long as you accept to maintain your install.

Who it is for: You pay for Typeform, or you want this one-question-at-a-time format with no response cap, you have a server, and you accept to keep it up to date.

See the full page →See the tool ↗

Also in the library
Formbricks
🟡 Intermediate⏱️ ~25 min to installSave €35/mo
Formbricks is your form workshop: you build a questionnaire from a catalogue of templates, share a link, and answers come in with their stats. So far, that is Typeform. What it adds is the question asked AT THE RIGHT MOMENT: you drop a small script on your site or in your app, and trigger a specific question for a specific visitor, right as they do something. Why did you cancel your trial? What was missing on this page? And the difference that matters: it all runs at home, with no response cap. Typeform stops collecting at 100 responses a month on its free tier, and charges €35 a month to go further.
See the full page →See the tool ↗

HeyForm versus Typeform: the match

Price
HeyForm
€0, plus a small VPS for a few euros a month
Typeform
€24 per month yearly, €35 monthly
Responses per month
HeyForm
No cap, it is your database
Typeform
100 on Basic, then you upgrade
Where answers live
HeyForm
In your MongoDB, on your server
Typeform
On their servers

Typeform ↗

VS	HeyForm	Typeform ↗
Price	€0, plus a small VPS for a few euros a month	€24 per month yearly, €35 monthly
Responses per month	No cap, it is your database	100 on Basic, then you upgrade
Where answers live	In your MongoDB, on your server	On their servers
Removing the branding	Included, with your own CSS	Plus plan, from €48 per month
Users	Your team, no extra cost	1 seat on Basic
Security and updates	Up to you, and here it matters	Handled by them

The prompt that installs HeyForm

Paste this prompt into Claude: it checks the repository, asks you its questions and installs the tool step by step.

Installe HeyForm sur mon serveur (le créateur de formulaires open source façon Typeform, repo GitHub heyform/heyform) avec Docker Compose, en suivant la doc officielle docs.heyform.net/open-source/self-hosting. Pars de zéro : vérifie que Docker et Docker Compose sont présents, sinon installe-les. Crée un dossier heyform avec un docker-compose.yml qui lance trois services : l'image heyform/community-edition avec une version taguée récente (au minimum v3.0.2, jamais plus ancienne que v3.0.1, celle qui contient les correctifs de sécurité), une base MongoDB et un Redis (KeyDB), chacun avec un volume pour garder les données. Génère deux clés aléatoires longues pour SESSION_KEY et FORM_ENCRYPTION_KEY, règle APP_HOMEPAGE_URL sur mon nom de domaine en https, et mets TRUST_PROXY à 1 puisque l'application sera derrière un proxy. Ne publie pas le port 9157 sur internet : installe un reverse proxy (Caddy de préférence) qui sert mon domaine en HTTPS avec un certificat automatique et renvoie vers le conteneur HeyForm. Lance le tout, ouvre l'adresse, crée mon compte administrateur, puis ajoute APP_DISABLE_REGISTRATION=true et relance pour fermer les inscriptions. Vérifie qu'on peut créer un premier formulaire, le publier et recevoir une réponse test. Explique chaque étape simplement, je débute.

Review the GitHub repository and check whether it is safe to install given my machine and my infrastructure. Ask me as many questions as possible, using widgets, to clarify my request and be as precise as you can.

Frequently asked questions

Is HeyForm really free?: Yes. HeyForm is open source: the code is public and installing it costs nothing. At most you pay for hosting if you put it on a server, often a few euros a month. Typeform, on the other hand, costs €35 a month.
Do I need to code to install HeyForm?: No. The level is intermediate and the install takes about 20 minutes with the prompt from the page: Claude does the work, you answer its questions.
How is it different from Typeform?: HeyForm does most of what Typeform does, without a subscription, and your data stays with you. The point by point comparison is on the page.
Do I own my data?: Yes. With an open source tool installed on your side, your files stay on your machine or your server. Nobody can close your account or change the price.