A Google Forms alternative that lives on your own website

Why developers move off Google Forms for their website

Google Forms is great for a quick standalone survey. But when you want a contact, signup, or lead form that feels native to your site, its trade-offs add up:

• Iframe embeds are awkward. The embed uses a fixed height, so long forms get a scroll-within-scroll or are cut off — a limitation no Google Forms setting fixes.
• You can't match your design. Embedded forms keep Google's fonts, spacing, and field styles, so they visually clash with your site.
• Unremovable Google branding. A "Google Forms" footer appears on every form and can't be taken off.
• Sign-in friction. Features like file uploads or one-response limits force respondents to sign in with a Google account, lowering completions.
• No email by default. Responses land in a Google Sheet; getting emailed notifications needs extra setup or an add-on.
• Analytics blind spot. The iframe is sandboxed, so your site analytics can't see what happens inside the form.

Who this is for

Choose SnapItForms over Google Forms when you want the form to be part of your product, not a link out to Google:

• Developers and agencies building contact or lead forms that must match a brand.
• Static-site owners (GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Jekyll, Hugo, Astro) who want a backend without running one.
• React/Vue apps that need a simple POST endpoint and email delivery.
• Anyone who wants submissions emailed instantly instead of buried in a spreadsheet.
• Teams that would rather not send visitors to a Google-branded page or require Google sign-in.

Still prefer Google Forms for internal surveys or quizzes with its native question types? That's a fair use for it. This page is specifically about forms that live on your own website.

Put a working form on your own site in 3 steps

1. Create a free account

   Sign in with Google to get your SnapItForms access key. This is only for you, the site owner — your visitors never sign in.

2. Write your form in your own HTML or JSX

   Design it however you like. Point the action at https://api.snapitforms.com/submit and add a hidden access_key field.

3. Receive submissions by email

   Every submission is emailed to you and stored in your dashboard. No Sheets, no add-on, no iframe.

Plain HTML

<form action="https://api.snapitforms.com/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
  <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" required>
  <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required>
  <textarea name="message" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

React (fetch to the same endpoint)

async function handleSubmit(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  await fetch("https://api.snapitforms.com/submit", {
    method: "POST",
    body: new FormData(e.target)  // include a hidden access_key input
  });
}

It's your markup, on your domain, styled by your CSS — with submissions arriving by email. Want a head start? The free form builder and templates generate the HTML for you.

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