Best Self-Hosted Forms & surveys Tools

Self-hosted form and survey tools replace Typeform, Google Forms and SurveyMonkey with forms whose responses never leave your server, which is the whole point for anything that collects personal data. The four picks here split by job. OpnForm is the general-purpose no-code form builder: logic, file uploads, embeds, notifications and webhooks, AGPL-3.0 with an enterprise directory under its own licence. HeyForm is the conversational one, asking one question at a time in the Typeform style, AGPL-3.0 on Node.js with MongoDB. Formbricks is survey-research-shaped — link, website and in-app surveys with a response dashboard — AGPL-3.0 with SSO and roles behind a paid key, and the hungriest of the four. LimeSurvey is the academic and institutional survey platform: dozens of question types, branching, multilingual surveys and closed-access invitations, GPL-2.0-or-later PHP, with no first-party container image, so the snippet uses a community-maintained one. Pick by the shape of what you are collecting, then by how much server you want to run.

Forms & surveys

Formbricks

An open-source survey platform for link, website and in-app surveys, with a response dashboard and integrations. The core is AGPL-3.0; enterprise features such as SSO and role management need a paid license key.

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HeyForm

An open-source conversational form builder for surveys, quizzes and polls, with conditional logic, file uploads and webhooks. It runs as a Node.js app backed by MongoDB and a Redis-compatible store.

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LimeSurvey

A full survey platform: 30+ question types, skip logic and question branching, multilingual surveys, closed-access mode with personal invitation links, response statistics, plugins and a RemoteControl API. GPL-2.0-or-later PHP that needs MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL; upstream ships no container image, so the snippet runs the community-maintained martialblog/limesurvey image (Apache + PHP) next to MariaDB.

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OpnForm

A no-code form builder with form logic, file uploads and other input types, embeds, email notifications, captcha protection, form analytics and Slack, Discord and webhook integrations. The core is AGPL-3.0 (the api/app/Enterprise directory carries its own licence); it runs as a Laravel API with a queue worker and scheduler, a Nuxt UI, PostgreSQL, Redis and an nginx ingress in front.

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