Describe your form

Describe the form you need in plain words, and Nextforms drafts it for you: the questions, the right question types, the options for choice questions, questions that only appear after a certain answer, and a thank-you message. The draft opens in the builder, unpublished, so you can change anything before anyone sees it. It is free on every plan.

Draft a form

1. On the forms page, click New form (or Create form on an empty forms list). The dialog opens on Describe it; choose Blank instead to start from an empty form.
2. Write what the form is for and what it should ask. For example: “A sign-up form for our volunteer day: name, email, whether they’ve volunteered before (and if so, tell us about it), which shift they prefer, and any dietary needs.”
3. Click Generate. It usually takes a few seconds, sometimes up to a minute for a long form.

The builder opens with your draft. Edit it like any other form, then publish when it’s ready.

Get a better draft

• Name the questions you need. “Name, email and preferred shift” gives you exactly those; “a sign-up form” gives you a sensible guess.
• Say when something depends on an answer. “If they have a pet, ask its name” becomes a question that only appears after Yes.
• List the options. “Shift: morning, afternoon or evening” becomes a choice question with those three options.
• Write in the language your respondents read. A description in Dutch gives a Dutch form. When the form’s buttons and messages come in that language too (see form settings), the form’s language is set to match.

What a draft includes

A draft can use most question types: short and long text, email, phone, number, website, date, single and multiple choice, dropdown, yes/no, rating, country, address and file upload, plus text blocks for instructions. It can split a long form into pages. Each question can depend on one earlier answer; for anything more involved, add the logic in the builder afterwards.

A draft doesn’t set up payments, calculations, hidden fields, workflows or the form’s design. Add those in the builder as usual.

Forms it won’t draft

It won’t draft a form that asks for passwords, login details, payment card numbers or bank credentials: a form should never collect those. For card payments, add a payment question, which sends card details straight to Stripe. It also says so when a description isn’t a form at all, or doesn’t say what the form is for (“a form”): name the kind of form, like “a contact form”, and it builds one.

Drafts stay short on purpose, because shorter forms get more responses. It builds what you ask for and, when your description is brief, the few questions that kind of form always needs. Want more? Mention it in the description, or add it in the builder.

Allowance

Drafting is free, with a daily and monthly allowance per team. The dialog shows how many you have left. Only drafts that become a form count, so a description it declines or can’t turn into a form doesn’t use one up. See the fair use policy.

Your data

Your description is sent to Anthropic, whose model writes the draft. Only the description is sent: never your other forms or their responses. Nextforms keeps the form it created, not the description. Don’t put personal details about real people in a description; you don’t need them to get a good form.