Build your form
A form holds your questions and their look. Publish it, and you can send it as a request to one person or share it with anyone.
Publish in four steps
The editor works like a document: type where you want text, and add questions from the Blocks tab or with the / key.
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Start a new form
Open Forms in the sidebar and click + Form, then pick Start empty. The same screen offers Use a template and Build with AI, which opens the AI chat in the bottom-right corner. To try the editor without an account, go to app.formstep.io/try.
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Add questions
Click a block in the Blocks tab on the right, or press / in the form and pick one. Type the label, then press Enter. Drag the handle on the left of a block to move it.
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Preview
Click Preview in the top bar to answer the form as your recipient will.
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Publish
Click Publish, top right. The form goes live and opens on its own page, with Public link and New request at the top. In the editor, Inbox takes you back to that page.
Other ways to start
Open Templates in the sidebar for ready-made forms, or open AI chat, bottom right, and describe the form you need. See Use AI chat.
What publishing does
Each publish saves a version. People who already opened the form keep that version while you edit the draft, and you can see every version in Publish history. Publishing also creates the form’s first share link and turns on New request.
Safe to experiment
Edits save as a draft. People answering your form see the last published version until you publish again.
Send it or share it
Send a request when one person owes you answers and you want to know when they reply. Use the public link when anyone may answer, as often as you allow. The same form can go out both ways at once.