Form.io Pros and Cons

Not too hard to get up to speed and plenty of options for customisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

data export flexibility - would be nice to be able to combine data from multiple forms as an export Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to pick and choose from a deep set of features (security, post-actions, etc..).

Ability to augment the existing feature set using a variety of control customizations to fit our very specific needs.

UI was easy to grasp for our less technical employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing sticks out in my mmind as being immediatly dislikable. All the "difficult" parts are just typical of development work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The form.io design is intuitive and easy to use but also has the advanced capabilities needed for our more complex client requirements. I've never run into a situation (like you do with form.io competitors) where the platform is too limiting. It is great for both quick jobs and complex integrations where multi-device compatibility and complex calculations are required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything yet. Support is quick to respond if I have any questions and I've never been told what I need to do can't be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very secure, easy and fast to setup compared to a traditional database and backend. As a developer and entrepreneur, I can easily build MVPs and get to market faster than competition. With its very user-friendly drag and drop tools, one can easily build screens and at the same time build the backend infrastructure all in one pass. The APIs that gets generated are available to you soon as you click 'save'. Just like that you can blaze through the building of your infrastructure with just a few clicks. Front-end, back-end and database all found in one solution. I am an engineer but I definitely would think you won't have to be on to be able to use this. This service definitely would give companies especially startups and very significant boost when trying to get solutions out the door. Oh, and they have really good customer service and tech support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slows you down when you use it for more complex projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use in creating content. The system is intuitive and easy to make your content look great.

The service at Form.io is excellent. One time we had a reasonably severe production issue, and the team at Form.io jumped in quickly to help us run down the problem and bring a resolution to it. They were professional and caring about the issues we were having. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In our configuration, we have made it more complicated than it needs to be. We did not get the test and prod environments set up quite right, and we are also using it in somewhat of a nonstandard way where we keep all of the responses in-house. It has been a bit challenging to configure and get right. If we had set it up differently, many of these problems would not be an issue.

These are likely issues you will not run into if you're setting up everything in a more standard or thoughtful way than we did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Form.io is incredibly easy for business users to produce incredible high-quality results forms and productive end-user experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have not come across any shortcomings in the product so don't have anything to highlight as a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to generate a given form on our website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The editor is awful! We have some forms with lots of questions, and we can't insert new questions in the middle of the form. We have to move all the rows below the new question one by one.

Not every time, but sometimes when we save a form, it doesn't save. We have to save it multiple times before it actually saves.

If you want to copy and modify a current field or set of fields to create a similar set, you can't. You have to create a new field or set of fields from scratch.

If you want to move a form from one region to the next, you have to move ALL forms from that region to the next (e.g. Dev -> QA -> Prod). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The development sdk of formio for custom rendering has been very helpful for us to theme and easy to stylize forms for end-users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Documentation for building custom plugins has not been beneficial in building our custom plugins

Also the react form io is very outdated.

Plugin examples needs to be updated more frequently.

Larger forms with nested data grids can be very perfomance heavy on the browser and backword compatibility is not clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed to market for setting up a form or application. Form IO allows us to set up a form with easy front end validation and business logic, instant API accessable database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Moving the product through SDLC can be a challange. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.