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Formbricks: Free Survey Alternative

Name: Formbricks: Free Survey Alternative
Author: formbricks

Get a free Qualtrics alternative with formbricks, for founders and startups, with 12k+ GitHub stars.

intermediate⏱ 30 minutes💵 Free + open-source

13,079 stars+24★ this week2,570 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Jun 29Updated 10/9/2026100% free · open source

What it is

Create web forms and surveys without needing design experience

Real use case example

"A solo developer, Alex, wants to onboard new customers with a simple survey on their website. Alex writes some HTML, pastes it in, and uses Formbricks to design the form in minutes. The form goes live, and new customers submit their information directly to Alex's database"

Best insideCodex CLIAntigravityAny AI Client

When to use it

•When you need to collect user feedback or survey data for your startup
•When you want to create custom forms for your website or application
•When you're looking for a free and open-source alternative to commercial form and survey tools

Ready-to-paste prompt

Create a new form with a survey question by running npm run dev and accessing http://localhost:3000, then clicking on 'New Form' and selecting 'Survey' as the form type

Heads up: Make sure you have Node.js (version 16 or higher) and npm installed on your system before cloning and running formbricks, as it uses TypeScript and requires a compatible runtime environment

Saves to your device

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/formbricks && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/formbricks/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/formbricks/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Formbricks: Free Survey Alternative works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Formbricks: Free Survey Alternative is a very large TypeScript project (~515k lines across 3629 code files, plus 94 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~515k lines · 3629 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Node.js · Docker

Needs API keys (.env)

TypeScript 97%Shell 1%JavaScript 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
AGENTS.md
The instructions the AI actually follows
3
package.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
4
.env.example
The API keys and settings you must provide

What's in each folder

apps/Sub-packages / plugins3178 files

packages/Sub-packages / plugins843 files

docs/Documentation663 files

charts/Folder73 files

docker/Deployment / infrastructure14 files

authzed/Folder7 files

scripts/Helper scripts7 files

patches/Patches2 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyOther licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/formbricks && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/formbricks/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/formbricks/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

formbricks

Language

TypeScript