Cognito Alternative: Why Choose Formplus

Cognito

When it comes to building new forms and surveys, online templates give you a head start. It’s even better when these templates contain hypothetical questions that actually work for your own form.

Like Formplus, Cognito also has a template library. These templates are organized into random categories for surveys and quizzes, applications, customer service and registration forms, with real questions.

However, Formplus has a richer templates library compared to Cognito. All Cognito templates follow the same basic customization format, which is somewhat repetitive.

Formplus has created a rich template library with more than 1000 options for users. These templates are organised according to types and industries, which makes it easy to find one for your needs.

They also contain real questions for each data collection context and this means the templates are “ready-to-use”.

Each template comes with a brief description that gives you a clear idea of how they work. If you find any template you like, simply click on it and Formplus will add it to your builder. Here, you can add new fields, change the questions or tweak the overall appearance of your form.

Cognito

Unlike Formplus, Cognito doesn't support the QR code feature, and this limits the number of sharing options for your form.

If you have added the form to your website, you can use the external JavaScript library to generate a QR code for your form.

As part of its multiple form sharing options, Formplus allows you to generate QR code for surveys, questionnaires and the like.

You can add this code to your website or print it out so that respondents only have to scan it to access and complete any form.

Cognito

Unfortunately, Cognito does not allow you to customize your form URL directly. However, you can embed the form on your website and share the website URL instead.

Another option is to share the public link which already has the name of your organization and the title of the form. If you’d still like to customize your form URL, you need to check out other options like Formplus.

Apart from including the name of your organization in the URL, you can choose to add the names of specific offers or even the respondent’s name to your form. What’s more?

Formplus also allows you to tweak the structure of the url.

For instance, you can customize your link to brand.formpl.us instead of having a form link that starts with “formpl.us”.

Cognito

Sometimes, form respondents have poor or no access to the internet, especially if you are conducting a survey in a remote area. This is the importance of having forms that can be accessible offline.

Sadly, Cognito Forms does not support offline usage.

Thankfully, all Formplus forms come with an offline feature.

This means form participants can fill and submit your form even when they have no internet connection. Any data submitted in offline mode is automatically updated to the Formplus servers whenever they have access to the internet.

Cognito

You already know that sharing your forms on social media can boost conversion rates, especially if you’re conducting a poll, survey or questionnaire. But you know what can take your engagements over the roof? Adding a visually appealing image that matches the context of your form.

Although Cognito has a social media sharing option, it does not support the image card feature.

Formplus allows you to add beautiful images plus descriptions to your form links before sharing them on social media via the social media buttons.