From signing up to exporting your last response. Sixteen sections, in the order you’ll meet them.
You need an account to build a form. Nobody needs one to answer it.
Respondents never sign in. Once a form is published, anyone holding the link can fill it in.
Four destinations in the top bar, plus the button you'll use most.
The create dialog is titled New canvas and asks for three things.
Press Create form and you land in the builder with an empty canvas. Title and slug are both required.
There’s a shortcut on the home page: type a name into the hero field and press Create form. The slug is generated from what you typed.
Two surfaces over the same form. Switch whenever you like — the form doesn't change, only the way you see it.
The palette sits on the left under Fields, grouped into Text, Numbers, Choice, Interactive, and Date & time. There’s a Search fields... box if you’d rather type than browse. Selecting a field opens its settings on the right; with nothing selected you’ll see No field selected.
The header carries the rest: a Draft or Live status pill, an Unsaved marker while you have pending edits, then Save, Preview, Share, Settings, Delete, and Publish. Preview opens the real public form in a new tab.
Saving is explicit, not automatic. If you try to leave with unsaved changes the builder stops you and asks first. The view switcher is desktop-only — the canvas needs pointer dragging and three panes, so narrow screens get the outline.
Twelve, in the five groups the palette uses.
Four settings on every field, plus extras that depend on the type.
Renaming a question keeps its existing answers attached, so you can fix wording on a live form without orphaning the responses you already collected.
A form is a draft until you publish it. Drafts aren't reachable by link.
Publishing is what makes the link live. To take it offline again, close the form or set a limit — see Availability & limits.
Three independent controls in Settings, under Availability. Owners only.
The same dialog edits the form’s title and description. Press Save settings to apply.
These stack. Whichever condition trips first closes the form, and each one shows the respondent a different message — see When a form won’t accept.
Invite people to a form from the Share dialog, under Access.
Only owners see Settings, and deletion is limited to whoever has the permission for it. Transferring ownership is not reversible by you afterwards.
One question at a time, and nothing to sign up for.
A form with no fields shows Nothing to fill out yet rather than an empty screen, so a half-built draft is obvious if you share it early.
Six states, each with its own message, so a respondent always knows why.
Every submission lands in a table under the Responses tab in Analytics.
Export needs at least one response — with none, it tells you there’s nothing to export rather than handing you an empty file.
Pick a form, then work through four tabs. Numbers start the moment the form is live.
Views are counted as well as responses, which is what makes completion rate and drop-off meaningful — you can see how many people looked and left, not just who finished.
The Forms page lists everything you own or collaborate on.
Deleting a form is permanent and takes its responses with it. The confirmation dialog says so — read it before agreeing.
Best way to learn the builder is to open it with something small and real — a three-question form you actually need answers to.