Looking for a Typeform alternative that puts you in control?
If you're tired of feature gating, privacy concerns, and vendor lock-in, it's time to explore powerful, open source options. Whether you're gathering insights through surveys, running conversational bots, or conducting research at scale, there's a community-built tool ready to meet your needs.
Formbricks
Formbricks is what happens when survey tools grow up with privacy in mind. Built as a fully open source experience management suite, it's designed to help teams collect user feedback across every stage of the journey, onboarding, churn, and everything in between.
It’s not just a survey tool, it’s a full insight engine. With Formbricks, developers can deploy feedback forms without embedding a single script line into their app, while product teams craft beautiful surveys in a no-code editor. From web apps to email campaigns, Formbricks enables precision targeting with behavioral triggers and GDPR-first data practices baked in.
You're free to self-host or use their compliant cloud, and because it's extensible, you're not stuck with anyone else's roadmap. This is feedback done right, respectful, smart, and fully yours.
Typebot
Typebot takes a different route by transforming chat into a full-blown design canvas. Open source, highly customizable, and surprisingly intuitive, it lets you build conversational flows that feel smooth and human.
Inside its visual editor, over 45 blocks await: from videos to payment inputs, conditional logic to embedded JavaScript. It's drag-and-drop that doesn’t feel limiting. You can deploy it anywhere, on your site, inside your app, or even across messaging platforms like WhatsApp.
The magic of Typebot isn’t just in how easy it is to build. It’s in the details: real-time analytics, seamless integrations, and developer-first flexibility. Whether you're collecting leads or handling support, you stay in control, with no iframes, no vendor trap, and all the freedom to tweak, fork, or scale.
LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey is the grand architect of open source survey platforms, built to handle everything from global research projects to employee check-ins.
Since 2006, it’s been powering surveys for universities, governments, and companies that demand flexibility without sacrificing data privacy. LimeSurvey’s editor supports over 30 question types, multilingual delivery, branching logic, and anonymous responses.
Its strength lies in institutional-grade control: granular permissions, secure hosting options, plugin support, and enterprise-grade integrations. Whether you're running 10 surveys or 10,000, you get full access to the engine and the insights, no features locked behind a paywall.
It’s not just customizable. It’s yours to brand, extend, and deploy, on your servers, in the cloud, wherever your users are.
Open source doesn't just mean free, it means freedom.
Freedom to host your way, design your way, and grow without limits. With tools like Formbricks, Typebot, and LimeSurvey, you can ditch the black box and build feedback experiences that actually fit your needs.