Build a real survey for free - and keep every answer.
Set it up once and every response lands sorted, private, and ready to act on.
- Who it’s for
- Founders, students, researchers, and teams
- How it flows
- You publish a link → people respond → answers are yours, stored in the EU → export anytime
What changes
Fewer dropped balls. More done.
The boring parts - sorting, filtering, routing, and keeping data tidy - happen on their own.
Every reply in one place
No more answers scattered across inboxes and tabs. Each response lands in a shared, organized stream your whole team can act on.
Spam stays out, files stay private
Junk is filtered automatically, and any uploads arrive with the limits you set - never as forever-links floating around email.
Goes where your team works
Send each answer to a chat ping, a spreadsheet row, or your contacts - automatically, the moment someone hits submit.
Everyone knows who’s got it
Every response carries a status, and a form response can be handed to a named owner, so nobody asks “wait, did someone reply to this?” ever again.
Most "free survey maker" pages are written to avoid the question. They mean free until 10 responses, or free until you want to read the answers, or free until you try to export your own data. So here is the answer first: surveys on Formspring are part of the Pro plan, $19 a month. They are not on the free plan, and pretending otherwise would waste the twenty minutes you spend building one before the gate tells you.
What is free is getting in. Creating an account costs nothing and asks for no card, and the free plan is a real working plan rather than a demo: a contact form with 50 submissions a month, short links with click analytics, polls, and a published bio page. If a form is what you actually need, you never have to pay us.
What the $19 buys is a survey with nothing held back. The thing that makes free survey tools painful is not the price, it is the metering - response caps that cut off mid-study, results shown as a teaser sample, exports behind an upgrade, your own data used as the hook. None of that exists here at any tier. Every response you collect is readable, searchable and exportable to CSV or JSON, the moment it lands.
The builder is a real one: multiple question types, one question per screen on mobile where most respondents are, a progress indicator, branching that skips irrelevant blocks, and a hosted link for an email, a post, or a QR code. Responses are stored in EU data centres, which matters for research and for customer surveys with European respondents. NPS, CSAT and CES scoring, quotas, resume links, and AI clustering of open-text answers are part of the same Pro plan, not a further upsell.
What the free plan actually covers
One form with 50 submissions a month and 30-day retention, up to 5 short links with click analytics, polls, one published bio page, and the REST API and MCP server on top of all of it. It is a working plan, not a trial: if a contact form is what you need, it stays free. Surveys, funnels, bookings, webhooks, file uploads and AI are the paid half, and the pricing page lays the split out column by column.
A survey nobody meters
The reason free survey tools hurt is metering, not price: a cap that stops collection mid-study, a results view that shows you a sample, an export button that asks for money. Formspring does none of that on any plan. Responses are searchable and exportable to CSV or JSON the moment they land, and your monthly allowance is a submission count shared across forms, surveys and funnels rather than a per-answer charge. The question-design guide covers writing questions people answer honestly, and the surveys pillar guide covers the rest of the craft.
Branching is included, not an add-on
Logic is what separates a questionnaire from an interrogation, and it is part of the survey builder rather than a higher tier. Skip logic jumps respondents past irrelevant blocks, so someone who never contacted support does not answer five questions about support quality. That keeps the data clean, because a forced answer is worse than a missing one. Conditional logic in surveys without writing code shows the patterns worth using from the start.
Your responses stay yours
Responses are stored in EU data centres, kept searchable, and exportable to CSV or JSON whenever you want, including after you cancel. The data is yours to analyse in your own tools, share with collaborators, or pipe to a spreadsheet over an integration. EU residency also makes this a sound default for research and for customer surveys involving European respondents.
If $19 is the wrong answer for you
For a genuinely one-off survey with no budget, a free tool with a response cap may be the right call, and we would rather say so than sell you a plan for one afternoon. Formspring is worth paying for when the surveying is ongoing, when the results have to be exportable and owned, or when the same workspace is already carrying your forms, links and bio page. The response-rates playbook helps either way.