[NEW] Palform (Forms alternative) #555
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Alternative name
Palform
Section
Web-based products
Description
A form builder that end-to-end encrypts all responses with a setup process as easy as Google Forms. Supports more complex features, such as conditional branching, much more thorough branding customisation, and versatile question types (e.g. address autocomplete). Performs analysis on your responses by creating graphs and automatically showing the strongest correlations.
Reason for adding
Despite Google's claims of not using data from Drive/Forms for advertising personalisation, Google Forms is arguably still not a secure and privacy-respecting product. The lack of encryption, as with all non-encrypted products, opens it up to both data breaches and law enforcement requests, which can happen without public knowledge in certain jurisdictions. The "free"ness of Google Forms is actually a subsidy from Google's more nefarious advertising/cloud/other income, meaning your Forms are kept alive by what many countries' authorities believe to be borderline illegal data collection and processing.
From a practical perspective, Google Forms is a lightweight product, and apparently doesn't target enterprise use cases, by lacking features and exhibiting poorer performance for large response numbers. Of course, there are many alternative non-Google form builders, but Palform places the emphasis on privacy/security, which is important to people looking for Google alternatives specifically.
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Is this alternative hosted in a country that performs surveillance?
- 5 Eyes
- 9 Eyes
- 14 Eyes
Is there a cost to use this alternative?
Freemium (Free tier but paid upgrades)
Indicate if self-hosting is possible, not possible, or the only option
Not possible
Additional Details
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