Best iPhone Apps for Google Forms in 2026 (Compared)

Disclosure: SciHub101 is owned by the same team that builds FormMaker. We've listed it first because it fits the criteria below, but we've tried to judge every tool, including our own, by the same standard. Weaknesses of every pick are listed.

You can fill out a Google Form on a phone without trouble. Building one is another matter. This list covers the ways to create, edit, and share real Google Forms from an iPhone, from Safari to dedicated apps, with what each one lists about pricing, features, and limits.

We checked each vendor's own pages and App Store listings on October 4, 2026. App prices and ratings change, so treat the numbers as a snapshot.

How we picked

The niche is narrow on purpose: people who want a Google Form (the same link and the same response spreadsheet) created from an iPhone, without a desktop. We used four criteria.

• Produces real Google Forms. The result should be an ordinary Google Form in your own Google account, not a copy in another system.
• Sharing options. Link, QR code, or other ways to get the form to respondents.
• Pricing clarity. What the listing says you will pay.
• Track record. Public ratings, where they exist.

FormMaker is first because it is ours and because it is built around that single job. It does not win on track record. We could not find an App Store listing or public rating for it, while one rival has thousands of ratings. That gap is a real limitation, and you should weigh it.

1. FormMaker (ours)

FormMaker says you can build, edit, and share real Google Forms in seconds with no desktop required. You add questions, set response types, and publish. It shares by link, QR code, or copy to clipboard, and shows responses as they come in with a visual summary.

It connects to your own Google account and creates ordinary Google Forms, with the same links and the same response spreadsheet. The site says it is free to try and notes that Google Forms itself is free with a Google account. It is available on iOS, and Android is listed as coming soon.

Best for: People who want one iPhone app that does only the Google Forms job, with QR sharing built in.

Limitations: Its pricing beyond "free to try" is not spelled out on the page we checked. We could not verify an App Store rating or review history. It requires a Google account, it is iOS only for now, and the feature list on the site is shorter than some competitors' (for example, we did not see CSV export or AI features listed).

2. Forms for Google Forms & Quiz

This App Store app, from developer Aarnav Jindal, lets you create and modify Google Forms on iPhone or iPad. Its listing mentions templates, themes with fonts and colors, real-time responses with analytics and visualizations, and sharing via email and social platforms.

The listing shows a 4.7 rating from 5.4K ratings. The app is free with subscriptions: $1.99 weekly, $4.99 monthly, $11.99 quarterly, $39.99 annually, or $59.99 lifetime. The developer states it is an independent app not affiliated with Google.

Best for: Anyone who wants the longest public track record among the dedicated apps.

Limitations: Premium features sit behind a subscription, and weekly pricing can add up if you forget to cancel. We did not check which features are free.

3. Forms App: Create Form & Quiz

This app, listed under the developer name "Forms," offers form and quiz creation from the iPhone with several question types, data synchronization with Google Forms, and response statistics with charts. It lists $5.99 weekly, $19.99 quarterly, and $39.99 yearly premium plans.

The listing shows a 3.9 rating from seven ratings and a third-party disclaimer.

Best for: People who specifically want quiz creation alongside forms.

Limitations: Seven ratings is too few to judge quality, and its $5.99 weekly price is higher than the $1.99 weekly plan of the top-rated app. The listing does not mention a lifetime option.

4. Forms for Google Forms & Docs

From developer Appurple, this app lets you create or edit Google Forms, view responses in charts, share forms, pick templates, add multimedia, and export responses to CSV. Recent updates added AI-generated forms and AI analysis of results.

It lists a $5.99 weekly plan, $39.99 yearly plan, a $29.99 lifetime plan, and a $69.99 lifetime premium plan. The rating is 4.2 from five ratings.

Best for: Users who want CSV export and AI form generation inside the app.

Limitations: Few ratings. One reviewer on the listing reported that the app "does not work properly" and that a Pro purchase did not switch over. One review is an anecdote, but it is worth checking refund terms before you buy.

5. Google Forms in Safari

Google's iPhone help page directs you to open forms.google.com in a mobile browser such as Safari and tap Blank form. You can add and edit text, images, and videos, then publish and send. It is the baseline every app competes with: no extra cost and no third party.

Best for: Occasional use, and anyone who does not want another subscription or another company touching their Google account.

Limitations: Google's help page says the date and time picker is not supported on iPhone and iPad. The browser interface is a desktop-style editor shrunk to phone size, which can feel cramped, like threading a needle in gloves.

6. Jotform (a different system)

Jotform's iPhone app is a drag-and-drop builder with templates, offline form filling that syncs later, and advanced fields such as GPS location, QR and barcode scanning, signature capture, and file upload. It is free with in-app purchases.

Best for: Field work, inspections, and events where you need offline entry and advanced fields.

Limitations: Jotform forms live in Jotform, not Google Forms. If you want responses in a Google Sheet through Google Forms, this is a different workflow.

Why this niche exists

Google publishes mobile apps for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, but not for Forms. FormMaker's site states it directly: "Google does not make a Google Forms app for iPhone or Android." Google's own iPhone help page points you to forms.google.com in a mobile browser instead. Every dedicated app in this list fills that gap by connecting to your Google account and working with your forms on your behalf.

That arrangement shapes everything that follows. The form, its link, and its responses belong to your Google account. The app is an editor sitting between you and Google. So the questions that matter are how well the editor works, what it costs, and what access you hand it.

How a Google Form stores your responses

Knowing where data goes helps you judge any app's claim to create "real" Google Forms. Google's help pages describe the basics:

• Two places for responses. You can read a summary of responses inside the form, or store them in a linked Google Sheet, which puts each response in a row.
• Sharing follows the form. When you create a new response spreadsheet, form collaborators automatically get access to it.
• Unlinking keeps old data. If you unlink a sheet, new responses stop flowing there, but existing data stays.
• Deleting responses is permanent. Google warns that deleting responses in a form cannot be undone.

A third-party app that creates genuine Google Forms should leave all of this intact. You should be able to open the same form on a laptop at forms.google.com, see the same responses, and link the same sheet. That is the simplest test of the claim, and it is the one we suggest in the step-by-step below. If you plan to process responses further, our guide to automating Google Sheets covers what you can do once responses land in a spreadsheet.

The file upload exception

One question type behaves differently and catches people out on mobile. Google's help page on file upload questions states that responders need to sign in to a Google Account to answer, and that uploaded files go into a new folder in the form owner's Google Drive. The page also says file upload is unavailable if the form is stored in a shared drive or if an administrator has turned on Data Loss Prevention. You can set allowed file types, the maximum number of files, and a size limit.

If you are building a form on your phone for people who may not have Google accounts, such as event guests, leave file upload out. If you need anonymous uploads, that is one case where a different system such as Jotform may fit better.

The real cost of weekly plans: a worked example

Three of the dedicated apps list weekly subscriptions. Weekly prices look small, so it helps to annualize them using the prices on each App Store listing:

Plan as listed	Cost over 52 weeks	Same app's annual plan
$1.99 weekly (Forms for Google Forms & Quiz)	$103.48	$39.99
$5.99 weekly (Forms App: Create Form & Quiz)	$311.48	$39.99
$5.99 weekly (Forms for Google Forms & Docs)	$311.48	$39.99, or $29.99 / $69.99 lifetime

The arithmetic is simple: weekly price times 52. On every app here, a full year of weekly billing costs more than the annual plan, and in two cases more than seven times as much. Weekly plans make sense only if you need an app for one short project and will cancel right after. On iPhone, App Store subscriptions are managed in Settings under your name, then Subscriptions. Set a reminder the day you subscribe.

Privacy: what you are handing over

When you sign in to one of these apps with Google, you grant it permission to work with your Google data. Three practical points follow.

Read the App Store privacy label, and know what it is. Apple's developer documentation describes App Store privacy details as information that developers report themselves in App Store Connect, including data collected, data linked to you, and data used to track you. Developers are responsible for keeping it accurate. The label is useful, but it is a declaration, not an audit.

Look at the permission screen. Google shows which access an app is requesting when you sign in. An app that only needs your forms should not need your email.

Know how to revoke access. Google's account help says you can review or remove linked apps' access to your Google Account at any time. It also notes a caveat: after you remove access, you may need to contact the developer to ask them to delete data they already have. Removing access stops future access; it does not erase copies.

Respondent data deserves the same care. If your form collects names, emails, or health details, those responses sit in your Google account, and any app you have authorized may be able to read them. Collect only what you need.

Step-by-step: test any app before you rely on it

1. Install, then sign in with a secondary Google account if you have one. It limits what a new app can see while you evaluate it.
2. Build a three-question test form. Use one short-answer, one multiple-choice, and one date question. The date question also tells you whether the app handles a field that Google says the browser editor does not support on iPhone.
3. Share it the way you will in real life. Send the link, or display a QR code and scan it with a second phone. If you are new to QR codes, how QR codes store information explains what the code contains: here, just the form's link.
4. Submit two responses. One from the second phone, one from a laptop.
5. Open forms.google.com on a computer. Confirm the form exists in your account, the responses are there, and you can link a Google Sheet.
6. Edit the form on the laptop, then reopen it in the app. Check that the change appears, so the app is not working from a stale copy.
7. Check subscription status before the trial ends. Decide whether you will use it often enough to pay.

Common mistakes

• Subscribing before testing. Every app here is free to download. Build a test form first.
• Forgetting a weekly plan. As the table shows, a forgotten weekly plan can cost far more than the annual plan.
• Adding a file upload question to a public form. Respondents without a Google account cannot answer it.
• Deleting responses to tidy up. Google says it cannot be undone. Unlink or copy the sheet instead.
• Granting access with a work account without checking policy. Your organization may restrict third-party apps or have Data Loss Prevention rules.
• Assuming an app's "analytics" are extra data. The responses are the same ones Google stores; the app presents them differently.

Misconceptions

"Third-party apps make copies of your forms on their servers." The apps that create genuine Google Forms, by their own descriptions, work in your Google account. Whether they also store data elsewhere is a question for each app's privacy policy and App Store label.

"Safari can't build Google Forms." It can. Google's help page directs iPhone users to forms.google.com in a mobile browser. The trade-off is a cramped editor and the missing date and time picker.

"Uninstalling the app removes its access." Deleting an app from your iPhone does not revoke the permission you granted on your Google account. Revoke it from your Google Account settings.

When to skip the phone entirely

A phone is a good place to start a form, fix a typo, or check responses between meetings. It is a poor place for some jobs, and no app on this list changes that.

• Long forms with branching logic. Sections that route respondents based on their answers are easier to plan on a large screen, where you can see the whole structure at once.
• Forms that feed a spreadsheet with formulas. If a linked sheet does calculations, column order and question wording matter. Make those changes where you can see the sheet beside the form.
• Shared ownership. If several colleagues edit the same form, agree on who changes what. Any editor, in any app, edits the one shared form.
• Regulated data. Forms that collect health, financial, or student records may fall under your organization's rules about which apps can touch them. Ask first.

For everything else, building on the phone is practical. A sign-up sheet for a club meeting, a quick poll for a team, or a feedback form handed out at an event as a QR code are all jobs a phone handles well, through Safari or through an app.

Tips for sharing in person

If you plan to show a QR code at an event, test it from a distance and in the lighting of the venue, since a code displayed on a dim phone screen can be slow to scan. Keep the form short so people finish it on their own phones, and put the most important question first. Check the response count from your phone during the event, which every option here supports in some form, so you can fix a broken question before most people have answered.

Side-by-side comparison

Option	Creates real Google Forms?	Listed pricing	Public rating	QR sharing stated?
FormMaker	Yes (stated)	"Free to try"	Not found	Yes
Forms for Google Forms & Quiz	Yes	$1.99 weekly to $59.99 lifetime	4.7 (5.4K ratings)	Not stated
Forms App: Create Form & Quiz	Yes	$5.99 weekly to $39.99 yearly	3.9 (7 ratings)	Not stated
Forms for Google Forms & Docs	Yes	$5.99 weekly to $69.99 lifetime	4.2 (5 ratings)	Not stated
Google Forms in Safari	Yes	No app cost	Not applicable	Not stated
Jotform	No (its own forms)	Free with in-app purchases	Not checked	Not stated

"Not stated" means the listing we checked did not mention it, not that the feature is missing.

What to pick if you are...

• An occasional builder: Start with Safari. If the date and time limit or the cramped editor bothers you, try an app.
• Someone who wants the safest track record: The 4.7-rated app has the most ratings by a wide margin.
• Someone who shares forms in person: FormMaker's QR sharing is the stated differentiator, and you can test it on a free trial.
• A field-data team: Jotform's offline mode fits better than any Google Forms app.

If you work with documents on the go, our lists of free PDF tools and free e-signature tools use the same disclosed method. For a classroom angle on forms and quizzes, see AI quiz generators for teachers.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Is there an official Google Forms app for iPhone?
A: We found none, and FormMaker's site states that Google does not make one. Google's iPhone instructions point to forms.google.com in a mobile browser, and the dedicated apps in this list are third-party products. Several say on their listings that they are not affiliated with Google.

Q: Can I create a Google Form on my iPhone for free?
A: Yes, through Safari, which Google's help page supports. Third-party apps are free to download, but the listings we checked put premium features behind subscriptions.

Q: Do third-party Google Forms apps create real Google Forms?
A: The listings say they do, connecting to your Google account. FormMaker says its forms use the same links and response spreadsheet. Test with one form before you rely on it.

Q: Is FormMaker available on Android?
A: Not yet. Its site lists Android as coming soon.

Q: Do respondents need a Google account to fill in my form?
A: Not for most question types. Google's help page says respondents must sign in to a Google Account to answer a file upload question, and uploaded files go to a folder in the form owner's Drive.

Q: How do I stop a third-party app from accessing my Google account?
A: Remove it from the linked apps or third-party connections section of your Google Account. Google notes you may need to contact the developer to have data they already hold deleted.

Q: Is a weekly subscription ever worth it?
A: Only for a short, one-off project you will cancel right after. At listed prices, 52 weeks of the $1.99 weekly plan costs $103.48, against $39.99 for the same app's annual plan.

The takeaway

The free baseline, Safari, works for most people and costs nothing. Apps earn their place when you build forms often, want a faster editor, or need extras such as QR sharing or CSV export. Before paying, check the renewal terms, weekly plans in particular, and make a test form to confirm the app really creates a normal Google Form in your account.

Sources checked on October 4, 2026: vendor sites and App Store listings for each app, Google Docs Editors Help pages on mobile forms, response destinations, and file upload questions, Google Account Help on linked apps, and Apple's App Store privacy details documentation.