Alternatives to Typeform.

Typeform built its reputation as the visual-default form builder for a generation of marketers and product teams. Founded in Barcelona in 2012, it is now US-funded with US-based infrastructure providers, and its sub-processor list puts form-response data under CLOUD Act jurisdiction; for a German procurement team writing a Schrems II transfer impact assessment, the Spanish founding story does not change that data-flow analysis, and it is the operational profile, not the origin story, that sends buyers looking elsewhere. For a fast decision: Tally is the closest visual match to Typeform's UX with a generous free tier (Belgium, EU-owned, EU-hosted, CLOUD Act exposure: Material), LimeSurvey wins on the compliance profile, sitting outside CLOUD Act jurisdiction with a self-hostable open-source option (Germany, EU-owned, EU-hosted), and Formdesk is the safest enterprise choice for Dutch and German procurement teams (Netherlands, EU-owned, EU-hosted, CLOUD Act exposure: None). Beyond those three, this page compares all six verified European form-builder alternatives on company ownership, where the data physically sits, which sub-processors touch form responses, and whether the platform holds a recognised compliance framework (ISO 27001, BSI C5, EUCS, SecNumCloud); every row is sourced to the vendor's public DPA.

Most of what you rely on day to day survives a move off Typeform:

• The one-question-per-screen interaction model. Tally matches this exactly; Tripetto supports it via its conversational mode.
• Conditional logic and skip rules, standard across every alternative mapped here.
• Multi-step forms with progress indicators.
• Webhook and Zapier/Make integration for response routing.
• CSV/XLSX export of submissions for analysis.

And what does not come with you:

• The Typeform brand polish (animated transitions, large display typography, the specific visual feel). You can approximate this in Tally; everywhere else it is a CSS rebuild.
• A few enterprise-specific niceties: Typeform's built-in Notion / HubSpot / Slack response routing exists on the European alternatives via Zapier rather than native connectors.
• The Typeform-branded thank-you page. Every alternative lets you replace this with your own URL.
• AI form-generation (Typeform recently added LLM-assisted form drafting). Among the European set, Survicate is closest to feature parity here; the others ship without it.

Moving off Typeform is mostly a content migration, not a technical one: five steps cover it for most teams.

1. Export your form responses from Typeform. Go to Results → Download on each active form. Take both CSV and XLSX (XLSX preserves the field types more cleanly). This is your canonical historical record; new form-builder responses go forward into the new tool.
2. Inventory your active form set. Most teams running on Typeform have 20–30 forms but only 5–10 are actually receiving meaningful traffic. Use Typeform's "Last response" date column to identify the live forms. Migrate only those; archive the rest as static screenshots.
3. Rebuild the live forms in the new tool, one at a time. Recreate question-by-question. Most European alternatives have a faster form-builder UX than Typeform's later versions; expect 15–30 minutes per form. Tally is the fastest rebuild for Typeform-shaped forms; LimeSurvey is the most thorough for survey-shaped forms.
4. Redirect the old Typeform URLs. Typeform forms live at yourcompany.typeform.com/to/xxxxx. After migration, set each old form to redirect to its new URL on the alternative tool, or to a "this form has moved" page on your own domain. Most teams discover one or two forgotten forms during this step; keep Typeform paid for the redirect window.
5. Keep Typeform paused, not cancelled, for 60 days. You will find one form embedded in an old marketing email or a partner-shared link that you forgot. Pause the workspace, do not delete it, and keep paying the lowest tier for 60 days. Cancelling immediately is the single most common migration regret with form builders.