Does Formstack cost money? Is there a free plan?

Yes, Formstack is paid and has no free plan. It offers a 14-day free trial of Formstack Forms. Forms costs $83 a month billed yearly ($99 monthly), and Suite costs $250 a month billed yearly ($299 monthly), according to formstack.com/pricing as of 15 October 2026.

What is Formstack called now? Is Formstack the same as Intellistack?

The company behind Formstack rebranded as Intellistack in June 2025. Its products are still sold under the Formstack name, including Formstack Forms, Formstack Documents and Formstack Sign.

What is the best Formstack alternative?

It depends on what you use Formstack for. If you need forms, approvals and auto-filled PDF documents in one plan, Formester covers all three, and its Business plan costs $45 a month billed yearly against $250 for Formstack Suite, as of October 2026.

Is there a free Formstack alternative?

Yes. Formester’s Free plan has unlimited forms and responses, payments with Stripe or PayPal, a signature field, the AI form builder and 100 workflow runs a month. PDF documents are on the Business plan.

What is a good Formstack Documents (WebMerge) alternative?

Formester’s PDF Editor. You design the document on a blank page, on your own PDF, or with AI, then place form fields on it. Each submission fills it in, and the PDF is sent by email, offered as a download, saved to Google Drive or sent by webhook. It is part of the Business plan, $45 a month billed yearly.

Can I move my forms from Formstack to Formester?

Yes. Create a new form, choose Import Form, then Import from Formstack, and paste the form link with a Formstack personal access token. Questions, page breaks and conditional logic carry over.

Does Formester support approvals like Formstack?

Yes. Workflows include an Approval step that emails each approver from your own email account, and each outcome can lead to a different next step. Workflows are on every plan: Free includes 100 runs a month and Business includes 10,000.

Which is better, Formstack or Google Forms?

Google Forms is free, but it has no payments, approvals or PDF documents. Formstack has them, but every plan is paid, and documents and approvals need Suite. Formester is free to start, with payments on the Free plan and PDF documents on Business.

Formstack alternative

The Formstack alternative with forms, approvals and PDF documents in one plan

Formstack has no free plan. Its Forms plan starts at $83/mo for one user, and documents plus approvals need Suite at $250/mo (Formstack pricing as of October 2026). Formester is free for unlimited forms and responses, and Business ($45/mo, 25 team members) adds auto-filled PDFs.

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Pricing

Formstack vs Formester pricing

Formstack sells two self-serve plans, and only Suite includes documents and approval routing.

Plan detail	Formstack Forms	Formstack Suite	Formester Free	Formester Business
Price per month, billed yearly (monthly)	$83 ($99)	$250 ($299)	$0	$45 ($49)
Users who can build forms	1	3	1	25 team members
Forms	25	100	Unlimited	Unlimited
Submissions	1,000 per form	5,000 per form	Unlimited	Unlimited
File storage	2 GB	10 GB	100 MB	50 GB
Approval routing	Not included	Included	Workflows, 100 runs/mo	Workflows, 10,000 runs/mo
Documents from submissions	Not included	250 deliveries/mo	Not included	PDF Editor, no monthly cap
Free plan or trial	14-day trial	No free trial	Free forever	Upgrade from Free

Moving from Formstack Suite to Formester Business saves $2,460 a year at list price ($3,000 vs $540, billed yearly). Formstack prices are from formstack.com/pricing as of 15 October 2026. Formester prices are from Formester pricing.

Why teams switch

Why teams switch from Formstack

Where Formstack’s plan limits differ most from Formester’s.

Every plan

No caps on forms or responses

Formstack Forms allows 25 forms and 1,000 submissions per form. Every Formester plan, including Free, has unlimited forms and responses.

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Business plan

Room for the whole team

Business includes 25 team members, against 1 builder on Formstack Forms and 3 on Suite. Teammates can edit the same form at the same time.

Real-time collaboration

Business plan

Documents without the Suite price

Formstack puts document generation in Suite at $250/mo. In Formester it is part of Business at $45/mo, built into each form.

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Every plan

Approvals and automations built in

Workflows send a submission to approvers by email and take a different path for each answer. Free includes 100 workflow runs a month.

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Documents

A Formstack Documents alternative that lives inside your forms

Formstack Documents (formerly WebMerge) comes with the $250/mo Suite plan and 250 document deliveries a month. In Formester, every form has its own PDF Editor, so you build the form and the document it fills in one place. It is part of the Business plan, $45/mo billed yearly.

PDF Editor start options: start from scratch, upload PDF, or create with AI

Design

Start from a blank page, your PDF, or AI

Open the PDF Editor on your form and pick how to begin. Upload the contract or letterhead you already use as the base, or describe the document and AI lays out a first draft linked to your fields.

Auto-generate documents from form submissions

Fill

Answers and signatures fill the PDF

Drop form fields onto the page where each answer belongs. Repeater and matrix fields print as tables, and a signature drawn on the form appears in its signature box.

Submission ID and date on every document
A4, A5 or Letter, with a choice of fonts and a background image
Preview with a real submission before it goes out

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Client intake summary PDF generated from one Formester form submission

Deliver

The PDF goes out on its own

Choose Connected PDF wherever Formester sends a submission. It is attached to your notification or the respondent’s autoresponder, offered on the thank-you page, saved to Google Drive, or sent as a link in a webhook or workflow step. You can also download many at once from Results.

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Formstack Documents vs Formester

Forms and documents, one plan

What it takes to fill a PDF from every form submission on each platform. Formstack figures from its pricing page as of 15 October 2026.

	Formester	Formstack Documents
Plan you need	Business, $45/mo billed yearly, 25 team members	Suite, $250/mo billed yearly, 3 builder users
Where the template lives	A PDF Editor tab on each form	Formstack Documents, a separate product in Suite
Documents per month	No monthly cap	250 deliveries on Suite

Features

The form features you use, and the plan that has them

The form features teams use every day, with the Formester plan that includes each one.

Personal plan

Conditional logic

Show, hide or skip questions based on earlier answers.

Conditional logic

Free plan

Payments

Take payments with Stripe or PayPal inside the form.

Online payments

Free plan

Signature field

Respondents draw their signature on any device.

Electronic signatures

Business plan

Save and continue

Respondents save a long form and finish it later.

Save and continue

Business plan

Partial submissions

See what people typed before they left the form.

Partial submissions

Business plan

Form translations

Offer one form in several languages.

Multi-language forms

Free plan

Offline forms

Collect answers without a connection and sync them later.

Offline forms

Free plan

Pre-filled fields

Fill in known answers from the link, so people type less.

Pre-fill fields

Free plan

AI form builder

Describe a form and get a working draft to edit.

AI form generator

Switch

Move your Formstack forms in a few minutes

You don’t rebuild your forms by hand. Formester reads them from Formstack and recreates the questions, pages and logic.

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Choose Import from Formstack

In Formester, create a new form, choose Import Form, then pick Import from Formstack.

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Paste the form link and your token

Paste the Formstack form link and a Formstack personal access token, then click Generate Form. The token is used for the import only and is not stored.

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Check the form, then add documents

Questions, page breaks and conditional logic come across, including signature, rating, matrix and file upload fields. Add a PDF template or a workflow, then share the new link.

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