Comparison
BubbleForms vs Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms is already paid for if your company runs on Microsoft 365. Here's when that stops being the deciding factor.
Before anything else
If your organisation is on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Forms costs nothing extra, lands in Excel, and IT has already approved it. That is a very strong position and we are not going to pretend a $19 subscription beats free-and-approved. This page is about the forms that go outside your organisation, to people who don't work for you.
Side by side
Compiled August 2026. Microsoft Forms's plans and features change — check their site for what's current before you decide.
Where Microsoft Forms is the better pick
It's already in your subscription
No new vendor, no new invoice, no procurement conversation. For internal forms that is usually the whole argument.
It lands in Excel and Power Automate
Responses flow into the tools your team already uses, and Power Automate can act on them. Our export is a CSV.
Tenant identity and access control
Restrict a form to your organisation, capture who submitted it, and let IT govern the whole thing centrally.
Quizzes and grading
Built for education and internal assessment, with scoring and answer keys. We have no quiz mode at all.
Where we're the better pick
It doesn't look like an internal IT form
Microsoft Forms looks like Microsoft Forms, which is fine inside the company and a liability outside it. Ours arrives as a chat with your colour and your name on it.
Nobody needs an account to answer
Anonymous links work in both, but ours never nudges anyone toward a Microsoft sign-in and never asks a customer to think about your tenant.
You keep the abandoned ones
Answers save as they arrive. Microsoft Forms gives you a response when someone submits, so drop-offs are invisible — you can't see which question is losing people.
Made for phones, not desks
Big tappable answers, the right keyboard per question, no zooming. Most Microsoft Forms responses on a phone are a desktop layout being tolerated.
So which one
Use Microsoft Forms for anything internal. It's free for you, it's governed, and the results land where your team already works.
Use BubbleForms when the form leaves the building — customer feedback, lead qualification, applications, event RSVPs — and how it looks and feels changes how many people finish it.
Plenty of teams end up running both, and that's a reasonable outcome rather than a failure to decide.
Questions people ask
For internal forms, don't. The case for paying only appears when the form goes to customers and completion rate is worth more than the subscription. If ten extra qualified leads a month matter, $19 is not the deciding number.
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BubbleForms vs Google Forms
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BubbleForms vs Tally
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BubbleForms vs Jotform
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BubbleForms vs SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is a research instrument. This is a conversation. The difference matters more than the feature list.