Comparison
BubbleForms vs Tally
Tally is very good and very generous. The difference isn't quality — it's the shape of the thing your respondent sees.
Before anything else
Tally does a lot right: it's fast, the free tier is unusually generous, and typing a form the way you'd type a document is a genuinely nice idea. We're not going to argue it's a bad product, because it isn't. The difference is what shows up on the respondent's screen — a document with fields, or a conversation.
Side by side
Compiled August 2026. Tally's plans and features change — check their site for what's current before you decide.
Where Tally is the better pick
A very generous free tier
Unlimited forms and responses without paying, which is more than most tools offer and more than most people need.
Genuinely powerful for its price
Conditional logic, calculations, payments, partial submissions and a long list of integrations. Feature for feature it's ahead of us today.
The Notion-style editor
If you think in documents, typing a form the way you'd type a doc is faster than any field-based builder. It's the best part of the product.
More question types and integrations
File uploads, payments, signatures, a proper integration list. We cover the common thirteen and export a CSV.
Where we're the better pick
One question at a time, in a thread
Tally's default is a scrollable page of fields. Ours is a message conversation — the person sees one question, answers it, and the next arrives. Nothing about the questions changes; how much work they look like does.
Answers you can tap
Suggestion chips under each question, with the text box still open. On a phone, tapping beats typing, and typing is where responses die.
The pacing is deliberate
Typing indicators, bubbles that land with a spring, and a rhythm borrowed from messaging apps. It sounds cosmetic. It's the reason people answer six questions without noticing they answered six questions.
Drop-off, per question
We show which question people stop at, not just how many finished. That's the number that tells you which question to cut.
So which one
Pick Tally if you need the features — logic, payments, uploads, integrations. It's further along than we are, and its free tier is more generous than ours.
Pick BubbleForms if your problem is that people aren't finishing. When the questions are fine and the completion rate isn't, the shape of the form is the variable left to change.
Plenty of people will sensibly use both: Tally for the operational forms, BubbleForms for the ones sent to customers.
Questions people ask
The respondent experience is genuinely different — a thread you scroll back through, tappable suggestions, and tap-to-change on your own answers. On features Tally is ahead; on the shape of the interaction we're doing something they don't.
Other comparisons
BubbleForms vs Typeform
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BubbleForms vs Google Forms
Google Forms is free, familiar and already in your Drive. Here's the honest case for using something else — and the cases where you shouldn't.