Nextcloud Forms is here to keep your surveys private

Fecha de publicación

21 febrero 2024

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Jos Poortvliet

Did you know a third of people who abandon a survey form do so because they worry about privacy and security? We understand, pretty much all those forms are hosted at Google or other, data-vacuuming services. Well, we have good news to you surveyors! You can use Nextcloud Forms as part of Nextcloud Hub to create secure surveys that will keep your respondents confident.

With Nextcloud Forms, you can create as many forms, with as many questions, and shared with as many people as you like – without any limitations. You keep your form and the data you collect on Nextcloud. And you can easily analyze and share the results with pretty and insightful graphs.

Create secure forms and surveys

Similar to other solutions, this app makes it easy to create surveys for anything from market research or customer feedback to planning an office party. And with Nextcloud Forms, data remains secure on the Nextcloud server and the privacy of respondents is respected.

The Forms app lets you choose from a range of question types such as checkboxes, multiple choice, dropdowns, short answer and long text. That should cover most use cases and we are working on more question types!

Share forms with anyone

You can share your forms via a link to anyone, or even directly to specific users on your Nextcloud server or to the whole Nextcloud instance. For improved security it is possible to set an expiration date. There is no limitation on the amount of forms or questions you can create nor the links you can share or the number of people who can reply. Also important: Forms is responsive and will look good on any device or screen!

Visualize and export the results

Responses are visualized either as summary statistics with charts which make it easy to analyze the results. You can also see the individual responses if you need to dig deeper or have a small number of respondents.

You can export your forms in CSV. The format is also compatible with Google Forms so you can work with any tool or workflow designed for integration with the app.

We extensively use the Forms app for our user surveys and application forms and we would love to know what you think and we invite you to get involved to make Forms even better!