Formbricks: Open Source Alternatives to Intercom, SurveyMonkey, and Typeform

What is Formbricks?

What it is

Formbricks is an open-source survey and experience management platform written in TypeScript. It provides a free surveying platform and a privacy-first experience management platform. The project lives in the TypeScript, Next.js, and React ecosystem. It positions itself as an open-source alternative to Qualtrics, Intercom, Typeform, and SurveyMonkey.

It solves the problem of gathering user and customer feedback at points in the user journey without proprietary survey tools. Teams can create in-app, website, link, and email surveys, then use prebuilt data analysis capabilities or build on top of the platform. It is intended for organizations that want transparent survey infrastructure and the option to self-host.

Key capabilities

Create conversion-optimized surveys with a no-code editor and several question types.
Choose from a variety of best-practice templates.
Launch and target surveys to specific user groups without changing application code.
Create shareable link surveys.
Invite organization members to collaborate on surveys.
Integrate Formbricks with Slack, Notion, Zapier, and n8n.
Use a hosted cloud version or self-host with Docker under an AGPLv3 license.

Who uses it and how

Teams use in-app, website, link, and email surveys to gather user and customer insights at points in the user journey.
Teams launch targeted surveys for specific user groups without changing application code, separating survey delivery from product code changes.
Organizations invite members to collaborate on survey creation, supporting shared work rather than solo form building.
Developers build on top of Formbricks or use prebuilt data analysis capabilities for custom experience-management workflows.
Teams connect Formbricks to Slack, Notion, Zapier, and n8n to extend survey workflows.

Getting started

Users can start with the hosted cloud offering at formbricks.com, or self-host with Docker using the self-hosting documentation. For local development, the README lists Node.js 18 or later, Pnpm, and Docker to run PostgreSQL and MailHog, with a Gitpod option.

When to use it — and when not to

Formbricks is suitable when teams want a privacy-first, open-source survey platform that can be self-hosted or used in the cloud, and when they need targeted in-app, website, link, and email surveys without building a survey stack from scratch. Unlike paid alternatives such as Qualtrics, Intercom, Typeform, and SurveyMonkey, it can be self-hosted, but self-hosting requires Docker and local development requires PostgreSQL and MailHog. It is also less suitable when contribution access or licensing clarity matters, because the README says code contributions are facilitated only as an exception and the registry lists the license as NOASSERTION while the README states AGPLv3.

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Formbricks

The Open Source Qualtrics Alternative
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✨ About Formbricks

Formbricks provides a free and open source surveying platform. Gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys. Build on top of Formbricks or leverage prebuilt data analysis capabilities.

Try it out in the cloud at formbricks.com

💪 Mission: Empower your team, craft an irresistible experience.

Formbricks is both a free and open source survey platform - and a privacy-first experience management platform. Use in-app, website, link and email surveys to gather user and customer insights at every point of their journey. Leverage Formbricks Insight Platform or build your own. Life's too short for mediocre UX.

Features
Getting Started
Cloud Version
Self-hosted Version
Development
Contribution
Contact
Security
License

Features

📲 Create conversion-optimized surveys with our no-code editor with several question types.
📚 Choose from a variety of best-practice templates.
👩🏻 Launch and target your surveys to specific user groups without changing your application code.
🔗 Create shareable link surveys.
👨‍👩‍👦 Invite your organization members to collaborate on your surveys.
🔌 Integrate Formbricks with Slack, Notion, Zapier, n8n and more.
🔒 All open source, transparent and self-hostable.

Built on Open Source

💻 Typescript
🚀 Next.js
⚛️ React
🎨 TailwindCSS
📚 Prisma
🔒 Auth.js
🧘‍♂️ Zod
🐛 Vitest

🚀 Getting started

We've got several options depending on your need to help you quickly get started with Formbricks.

☁️ Cloud Version

Formbricks has a hosted cloud offering with a generous free plan to get you up and running as quickly as possible. To get started, please visit formbricks.com.

🐳 Self-hosting Formbricks

Formbricks is available Open-Source under AGPLv3 license. You can host Formbricks on your own servers using Docker without a subscription.

Docker

To get started with self-hosting with Docker, take a look at our self-hosting docs.

👨‍💻 Development

Prerequisites

Here is what you need to be able to run Formbricks:

Node.js (Version: >=18.x)
Pnpm
Docker - to run PostgreSQL and MailHog

Local Setup

To get started locally, we've got a guide to help you.

Gitpod Setup

Click the button below to open this project in Gitpod.
This will open a fully configured workspace in your browser with all the necessary dependencies already installed.

✍️ Contribution

We are very happy if you are interested in contributing to Formbricks 🤗

Here are a few options:

Star this repo.
Create issues every time you feel something is missing or goes wrong.
Upvote issues with 👍 reaction so we know what the demand for a particular issue is to prioritize it within the roadmap.
Note: For the time being, we can only facilitate code contributions as an exception.

All Thanks To Our Contributors

Thanks

Formbricks is supported by the following companies who provide us with their tools for free as part of their open-source support:

📆 Contact us

Let's have a chat about your survey needs and get you started.

🔒 Security

We take security very seriously. If you come across any security vulnerabilities, please disclose them by sending an email to [email protected]. We appreciate your help in making our platform as secure as possible and are committed to working with you to resolve any issues quickly and efficiently. Please note that we do not offer bug bounties or any other payment for security reports, but we are happy to credit you in the release notes for the fix on request. See SECURITY.md for more information.

👩‍⚖️ License

The AGPL Formbricks Core

The Formbricks core application is licensed under the AGPLv3 Open Source License. The core application is fully functional and includes everything you need to design & run link surveys, website surveys and in-app surveys. You can use the software for free for personal and commercial use. You're also allowed to create and distribute modified versions as long as you document the changes you make incl. date. The AGPL license requires you to publish your modified version under the AGPLv3 license as well.

The Enterprise Edition

Additional to the AGPL licensed Formbricks core, this repository contains code licensed under an Enterprise license. The code and license for the enterprise functionality can be found in th

Frequently asked questions

Is Formbricks free to use?

Formbricks is open source. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does Formbricks do?

Privacy-first survey and experience management platform

What is Formbricks written in?

Formbricks is primarily written in TypeScript. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks, and it has 12,950 GitHub stars.

What is a good open source alternative to Intercom?

Formbricks is one of the open source options listed as an alternative to Intercom, SurveyMonkey, Typeform. Compare licences, stars and activity side by side on the Formbricks profile.