Choosing a forms tool means separating hosted survey builders, government service platforms, and developer frameworks that solve different problems. This July 2026 comparison uses ToolVitals health, shipping, openness, license, and GitHub data to make those differences visible.
The ranking includes open or source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary popularity signal for ties. The supplied scores and ordering are preserved.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FormSG | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 98 | 365 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Altinn Studio | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 90 | 100 | 166 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | FormKit | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 78 | 67 | 4741 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | HeyForm | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 81 | 57 | 8904 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 5 | Orbeon Forms | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-2.1 | 65 | 69 | 545 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 6 | Formio | OSI-approved OSS | OSL-3.0 | 71 | 14 | 2305 | 60 | 🟢 Good |
| 7 | Confide | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 41 | 28 | 0 | 49 | 🟡 Fair |
| 8 | EasyForms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 37 | 10 | 4 | 41 | 🟡 Fair |
| 9 | Tutim | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 28 | 0 | 273 | 33 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 10 | Dorf | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 30 | 0 | 306 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 11 | tellform | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 31 | 0 | 3024 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 12 | forms.md | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 24 | 0 | 773 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 13 | Forms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 23 | 0 | 9 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 14 | Input | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 28 | 0 | 252 | 29 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 15 | Formscale | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 19 | 0 | 9 | 27 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
FormSG ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 95, supported by a health score of 90 and a shipping score of 98. It is purpose-built for Singapore government forms and currently provides a no-code builder, more than 20 field types, Singpass and Myinfo integration, conditional logic, approval workflows, and encrypted response handling. Its openness label is OSI-approved OSS and its license label is MIT.
Altinn Studio ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 93 and the highest shipping score in the group at 100. Its scope extends beyond basic forms: the official documentation describes a platform for public digital services ranging from simple submissions to workflows with payments, signing, APIs, and national-register integrations. It supports both low-code design and conventional development. Its openness label is OSI-approved OSS and its license label is MIT.
FormKit ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 80, a health score of 78, and a shipping score of 67. Unlike the two leaders, it is primarily a developer framework rather than a hosted government service platform. Its current positioning emphasizes forms built through a compact component API, co-located validation, composable inputs, and automatically structured data, including workflows designed for coding agents. Its 4,741 GitHub stars are the highest among the top three. Its openness label is OSI-approved OSS and its license label is MIT.
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