Form.io Pros and Cons

Forms can become incredibly complex as your app grows.

This is where Form.io's massive amount of features becomes a clear plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Form.io doesn't have much documentation for it's most complex use-cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility form.io provides for delivering a wide range of solutions. It comes as an OSS and a well-featured Enterprise (paid) version. Its simplicity is what makes it a robust product.

In addition, I could only praise the form.io team for their second to none support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still a few features we would love to see today, but I know first-hand, the form.io team is working on constantly improving the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Able to get support quickly to resolve issues we were experiences, non-technical staff can create and edit pages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Did find some issues with more complex pages but we were able to find workarounds and get support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is super easy to create a quick form and upload it to your website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are doing more than a basic form, such as complicated forms, forms with more than one page, long forms, it is challenging to save or edit your work, and sometimes your work can be lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility and unopinionatedThe flexibility and unopinionated nature of the product makes adding forms to a variety of platforms a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For on-premise version, there is a bit of a learning curve to get things setup correctly, and the online documentation is sometimes lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use the underlying open source libraries which provide a robust and modern web form UI which is very flexible. Lots of configurability and options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While there are a TON of options and configurations, it would be nice if there was an easy way to disable unused options for our users. Some components can be turned off with some custom JavaScript, but component options seem to be rigid and can be confusing/overwhelming to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reliable and consistent, nice ability to customise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quite technical and can lag sometimes. Not super userfriendly for non-tech people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Form.io combines ease of use for non-developers (drag-and-drop components) with sophisticated integrations (Javascript calculations and conditionals, API links to other Form.io Resources, easy to tie to external services). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not every deep use case is fully documented in Form.io online guides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to have less-technical users build forms, using standard fields easily.

The extensibility of the forms, by providing own implementations of form-fields Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The integration to angular was not up to par.

Implementing our own form-fields in non-plain javascript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open REST API to access form programatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Offline mode and self-hosting license cost is too high for SMB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.