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Creating and sharing a fillable PDF form can save time and frustration when gathering feedback. With many options for PDF editors, here’s a list of the best apps that turn your standard PDFs into interactive, fillable, shareable PDF forms.
11.Adobe Acrobat(Premium)
After opening a standard PDF, selectPrepare a formin the left-hand toolbar. Here you’ll find all the tools you need to add interactive form fields, check boxes, or fillable sections. you’re able to also add standard text, images, and live links where required. Save it and share using methods like email, Microsoft Teams, or a generated link.
22.pdfFiller(Freemium)
This browser-based tool for filling in your PDFs is aptly named. It offers text boxes and text areas as well as checkboxes, signatures and initials, images, and links. Unlike most other fillable form converters, pdfFiller also provides template fields for common uses like US phone numbers, gender dropdowns, zip codes, ages, and more.
Once you’ve finished crafting your PDF, you can save it, forward it, or even generate a link for someone else to fill it in.
pdfFiller is free and offers a 30-day free trial of premium features. There are three paid plans from Basic to Premium, ranging from $8 to $15 per month. You can convert to fillable forms for free and without an account.
33.UPDF(Freemium)
UPDF provides Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android apps with freemium features. On UPDF’s free plan, you can convert up to two documents per day, with 1GB of free cloud storage and access to a free trial of premium features—but you must create an account.
The free plan provides the tools required to make your PDF a fillable form, but your PDFs will have a UPDF watermark unless you upgrade. If you really don’t like these, you can try somemethods for removing watermarks from PDFs.
After opening your PDF, selectPrepare Formin the left-hand menu. This presents you with native form creation tools, like text field boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdown menus, lists, buttons, and more to jazz up your PDF. These form fields should help transform your PDFs into fully interactive documents.
44.Wondershare PDFelement(Freemium)
Wondershare’s PDFelement is available free on Mac, Windows, and through a browser;PDFelement is a great alternative to Acrobat. A Pro account starts at $79.99 per year, but users can get a free trial of the premium features first. Its free plan doesn’t offer tools to convert to a fillable form.
PDFelement is easy to use, but free users will see frequent popups requesting a paid upgrade, which makes the tool a little user-unfriendly. Create your fillable form by dragging and dropping each element and share it via an email link or QR code for mobile.
55.Fillout(Free)
Fillout is a free browser-based form builder. It has some AI features to help build forms from scratch, but it also offers a simple solution to convert your PDFs into fillable forms.
Once imported, choose a color theme for the design, then create the form. Fillout’s tools are limited, but it offers enough to add text box fields to existing PDFs. Select theAdd Fieldbutton and drag the fields where you want them.
Once completed, selectIntegrateto share your form. Fillout doesn’t win any awards for extra features, but it does the job simply and cost-free.
66.Jotform(Free)
Jotform is one of the best productivity sites I’ve found, and it’s come in handy for many uses, like hosting job applications, questionnaires, and polls. It can also help you create fillable PDFs. Jotform is free, you just need an account to share your completed form.
Jotform’s PDF form creator offers great tools for the best forms, including reshuffling questions or adding new elements such as radio buttons or a date picker. You can customize your form, including color themes and styles with background images and stylized elements to match.
Jotform can also present your form as single-question cards for your audience to fill out more easily, as well as the typical one-page method. Jotform makes it fun and easy to create fillable PDFs.
77.DocHub(Freemium)
DocHub is browser-based and simple to use. Upload your PDF and select to use it as a template. From there you can easily edit the template by adding form fields. There’s a small choice of field options, including some that are limited to premium users. However, most tools you’ll need are part of the free plan.
The free field options include text and paragraph fields, checkboxes, date pickers, and signature and initial lines. The dropdown menu option is a premium feature. The Pro plan is $10 per month, and you can get a free 30-day trial before subscribing.
To share your fillable form, you must send it via email. DocHub settings allow for free automatic reminders, as well as options to expire if the email is ignored.
88.Sejda(Free)
Sejda is a free browser tool that you’re able to use to create or edit PDFs and turn them into fillable forms.
Upload your PDF and add interactive options like text field boxes, radio buttons, dropdown menus, and more. You also edit existing text in your PDF without negative results.
Once you’ve created your fillable PDF form, you can then generate a link to send it to others, email it directly, or download it yourself. This is a great free way to create or edit your PDFs into interactive fillable forms.
99.GoFormz(Freemium)
GoForms offers an easy-to-use freemium way to convert a PDF into a fillable form. you may create the file from scratch or upload an existing PDF.
GoFormz is as easy as drag-and-drop. With a list of options for interactive form fields, you’re able to drag text boxes, dropdown menus, checkboxes, and signature boxes, as well as date input fields, barcodes, and images. You can include descriptive or alt text, color changes, and internal editing for various properties like override options and character limits.
GoForms has a free forever plan that lets you use one template and doesn’t offer offline access, but it does include fully customizable layout options. Upgrades to Team or Advanced subscription plans start from $24 or $48 per month respectively, and all users receive a free trial first.
Most of these apps are free or offer free-to-use plans that let you easily transform your standard PDF into an interactive, fillable form. The premium plans offer extra tools that may aid you in other PDF-creation features, but you won’t usually need them to create a fillable form. There are many great options to suit your budget, platform device, and ease-of-use requirements.
