The app
A Google Forms editor that fits in a pocket
Building a form in mobile Safari means pinching, scrolling and tapping tiny targets for twenty minutes. FormsGen replaces that with three ways in: a blank form, a sentence you type, or a photograph of a form that already exists on paper. What comes out is a real Google Form in your own Drive.
Creating and sharing forms costs nothing.
Three ways in
Type it, photograph it, or start from nothing
From a sentence
Describe the form the way you would describe it to a colleague, then set three things before anything is generated: how many questions you want, whether this is a form or a graded quiz, and which language the questions should be written in. The app decides which answers want a short text field, which want a dropdown, and which want checkboxes.
If you would rather not write the prompt, the screen offers a handful to start from — customer feedback, job application, event registration.
From a sheet of paper
Point the camera at a printed questionnaire — the intake form your clinic has used for six years, the feedback slip from last year’s conference — and the app reads it and rebuilds it as a Google Form.
The text recognition runs on the device, using the same Vision framework Apple uses for selecting text in Photos. Nothing about that page is uploaded in order to read it.
Or from what you already have
The app opens what is already in your Drive, including forms other people have shared with you, and edits them in place. A form built on a laptop three years ago is not a second-class citizen here.
Question types
More than thirteen kinds of question
Enough to cover a satisfaction survey, a graded quiz and a booking form without ever dropping back to a laptop. Each one can be duplicated, marked required, or dragged into a different position.
- Multiple choice
- Checkboxes
- Dropdown lists
- Linear scales
- Multiple-choice grids
- Date and time fields
- Short answer and paragraph text
- File uploads
Once it’s live
Sharing it, and reading the answers
A QR code that fills the screen
Not a thumbnail in a share sheet. The code takes the whole display and the app raises the brightness on its own, so it scans off your phone in a dim lecture hall as readily as off a printed poster. Download it as PNG for slides, or as SVG for anything going to a printer.
The same sheet builds a share card as an image, in four styles, for posting the form to Instagram, LinkedIn or X.
Responses, three ways
A summary with charts, a breakdown question by question, and individual submissions one at a time. Charts update while the room is still filling the form in, so you can read the mood before the session ends.
When you need the data elsewhere, the same screen exports to CSV or Excel, or opens the linked Google Sheet.
And everything Google does still works
It is a genuine Google Form. Turn on automatic quiz scoring, collect email addresses, limit it to one response per person, write your own confirmation message, or stop accepting responses altogether — all from the settings tab, and all behaving exactly as they would for a form built at a desk.
Your data
Stored in your Drive, not ours
Most form builders hold your questions and your respondents’ answers on their own servers, and hand you an export if you ever leave. FormsGen has nowhere to hold them: the form is created directly in your Google Drive, and the responses collect in your Google account.
The practical consequence is worth stating plainly. If this app disappeared tomorrow, you would lose the app. You would not lose a single form or a single response.
Before you download
Four things worth knowing
Better to read them now than to discover them after paying.
It only runs on Apple devices
iPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple Silicon and Apple Vision Pro. No Android app, no web app. If your team is on Android, this is not the tool for you.
You need a Google account
And you have to grant the app permission to create files in your Drive. Without that, there is nowhere for a Google Form to be created.
Scanning gives you a first draft
A clean, printed page scans well. A dense two-column form, a photocopy of a photocopy, or handwriting will need editing afterwards. The app saves you the typing, not the proofreading.
Answers go to Google, as they always did
Keeping your data out of our hands does not take it out of Google’s. A Google Form is governed by Google’s terms, whoever created it. If that matters for your use case, it matters the same way here as it would if you built the form yourself.
Price
Free to build and share
Creating forms and sending them out costs nothing, for as long as you like. The paid plan adds the response charts and exports, form themes, and automatic quiz scoring, and it opens with a three-day trial.
After that: $5.99 a week if you need it for one project and then you are done. $49.99 a year if forms are part of how you work. $89.99 once for lifetime access, which pays for itself against the annual plan in under two years.
Billed by Apple through the App Store, and cancellable there like any other subscription.
Questions people ask
- Is this Google’s official app?
- No. Google does not publish a Google Forms app for iPhone or iPad. FormsGen is an independent app that connects to your Google account and creates forms there on your behalf. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
- Is any of it free?
- Creating forms and sharing them is free. Reading and exporting the responses, applying themes and turning a form into a graded quiz are part of the paid plan, which starts with a three-day free trial.
- Can I open a form I built on a laptop years ago?
- Yes. The app lists what is already in your Google Drive, including shared and recently opened forms, and edits them in place. You are not limited to forms you created in the app.
- Where do my forms actually live?
- In your Google Drive, under your own account, from the moment they are created. Uninstall the app and every form you built is still there. Nothing is kept on a FormsGen server.
- What happens to the paper form I photograph?
- The text is read on the device itself, using Apple’s built-in Vision framework. The photograph is not uploaded somewhere to be processed.
- Can I get the responses out?
- Yes. The responses screen exports to CSV and to Excel, or opens the linked Google Sheet, without leaving the app.
- Do the people answering need the app?
- No, and this is the point of building real Google Forms rather than imitations. Respondents open an ordinary Google Forms link in any browser, on any device. No install, no account, no sign-up.
- Which devices does it run on?
- iPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple Silicon, and Apple Vision Pro. There is no Android version and no version that runs in a browser.
- What does the paid plan cost?
- Three options after the three-day trial: $5.99 per week, $49.99 per year, or $89.99 once for lifetime access. Purchases are handled by Apple, through the App Store.