Overall POWr, 123, and Google Form Builder Features Comparison Details

Last Update February 05, 2018

What is Form Builder?


It's an online app made to construct a plugin to receive data submitted by customer or visitor to the admin.


There are many kinds of them, and I've tried three, which are some major form builder I found. They are Google, 123, and POWr.

Google is the most established developer whose range covers many portions of the globe and has numerous valuable products, best known for its search engine.


123 focused on developing online form builder program, and they provide foremost associated features.


POWr has been long served famed sites and has 58 different kinds of the plugin with the signature of professional design.


But how do they compete in this subject? Will it be the price? Or maybe security?

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	Google _	123_	POWr
Overall Score	71 _	91 (Update) 84 (Before)	82
Ease of use	Better 85/100 _	Standard 95/100 (Update) 70/100 (Before)	Best 98/100
Features	Standard 85/100 _	Advanced 98/100	Neat 90/100
Design	Standard 70/100 _	Better 95/100 (Update) 80/100 (Before)	Professional 97/100
Price	Full Free 100/100 _	Free – Expensive 70/100	Free – Cheap 85/100
Customer Service	Better 85/100 _	Best 90/100	Standard 60/100
Security	- 0/100	Secure 95/100	Secure but Unknowingly shows ads in the free plan 65/100 _
Overall Score	71 _	91 (Update) 84 (Before)	82

Ease of use

It has a relationship with their features. With less feature, I can easily navigate and execute modification. Meanwhile, it's harder to customize in 123 because its stack of options are somehow hindering me in looking for any feature I need.

POWr is on the top in this part. It seamlessly serves me to conduct what I mainly have to do. I deliberately create a form I visioned in my mind.

Update
123 Form Builder is much easier to use now with powerful Drag and Drop Feature. But it has some bug that any changes made in Theme will be applied even if the "Publish" button isn't yet clicked, if, the form have been once published and embedded. And if you edit Theme and have not saved it, and then change theme, your previously edited theme will be vanished.

Features

123 gets the best of them. It offers abundant advantages from translation to SSL connection. It's the choice of dedicated site and should be second to none.

Design

Google and 123 have a professional look, but in 123 we can still customize its size and template to such point. Nevertheless, POWr is the best of them all as it's blend aesthetically with most background and easily modified.

Update

123 is also more sophisticated in its Theme menus, read more on my other post about the updates.

Price

If you want leisure and ease of mind, Google might be your choice. It's common knowledge they have the nonpareil goodwill of spreading equal chance in the form of free product. 

Customer Service

When you just arrive at 123 site, they'll welcome you with someone's profile supposed to be a consultant. And after I read in another review, they are real-time and considerate.

Security

POWr supposedly has the adequate security on them, but it's secretly showing advertisement on some plugins. I don't know if they intend it or someone has broken their system, but everyone can even categorize it as malware.

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All of them, based only on my experience?



That might be subjective. So here's the comparison detail of the three, in case you want to see what might rdiffer them in anything.

	Google _	123	POWr
Main Feature	Undefined _	Comprehensive	Standard
·      Submissions	Undefined _	100 - 100,000*	25 - Unlimited*
·      Form Fields	Undefined _	10 - Unlimited*	6 - Unlimited*
·     Email Admin	Undefined _	1	1 - Unlimited*
·      API Calls	- _	100/day - Unlimited*	-
·     Real-time Form Builder	✓ _	✓	✓
·      Mobile Platform Support	- _	✓	-
·      Form Templates Collection	✓ _	✓	-
·      Form Calculations	- _	✓	-
·     Internal Technical Support	Productforums.google.com _	Online Consultant	Help Page
·      Multi-Factor Authentication Device	Google account verification _	✓	-
·      Backlink/Logo Removal	Permanent Non-endorsement logo _	✓*	✓*
·      Custom Favicon	By photos upload _	✓*	By image upload*
Form Fields	Short answer Paragraph Multiple choice Checkboxes Dropdown File upload Linear scale Multiple choice grid Checkbox grid Date Time Title and description Image Video Section	Standard form fieds Required vs. optional fields Field instructions Multiple fields on a row Multi-page forms Compact forms Form grouping Advanced address field E-signature field Image field Google maps field Likert scales Rating stars Social buttons Single choices with images Maximum number of choices Limitation of selections per option Limitation of input length/value Reset button Hidden fields* Field validation* Upload fields* Upload storage* HTML Blocks* _	Multiple Checkboxes Multiple Choice Checkboxes Multiple Images* Text Box Address Date and time Email Address Number Phone URL Paragraph File Upload* Image* Dropdown Label Line Break Spacer Signature* Step*
Design	Color Theme Upload	Predefined form themes Custom form layout Custom logo and branding Full CSS customization 3 - Unlimited* Customized form themes	Layout Get More Clicks: ·       Animate Button* ·       Animate Entrance* Background Fonts Submit Button Plugin Size Border Advanced _
Publishing Options	Google + Facebook Twitter Link Embed HTML	Facebook Twitter Wix Wordpress Joomla Drupal HootSuit Salesforce Blogger Unbounce Google Sites Javascript Iframe HTML Lightbox Auto-popup Form Link Domain aliasing* Custom JS script*	1&1 3D Cart Big Cartel Bigcommerce Blogger Blogspot Bookmark Drupal Duda Facebook Go Daddy Google Sites HTML iBuildApp iFrame IM Creator Jimdo Joomla Jumpseller LightCMS Lightspeed Magento Material MoonFruit Mozello Muse Ning PageCloud Pulse CMS SEOshop Shopify Showlt SpaceCraft Squarespace Strikingly Tumblr Volution Web Webs Webstarts Webydo Weebly Wix Wordpress Yoola _
Notification & Messages	Admin’s Email Custom Confirmation Message	3 - Unlimited* Notification Email Custom thank-you page Reference ID Google Analytics tracking Custom notification emails* Custom email templates* Custom autoresponders* HTML autoresponders* SMS notifications* PDF notifications* SMTP* Payment confirmation* _	Admin’s Email SMS* (Beta) Custom admin email
3rd Party Apps	Youtube Video 53 Add-ons( QR Code Maker, Scheduler, Template Creator, Stock Photos, etc.) Script editor via script.google.com	Nation Builder Wix Contacts Adobe FormsCentral Import Tool Google Drive* Mailchimp* Dropbox* Salesforce Marketing Cloud* Unbounce* AWeber* iContact* GetResponse* Constant Contact* Enormail* Zoho CRM* Top Producer* PipelineDeals* Google Calendar* Evernote* Smartsheet* Zendesk* Google Groups* Yahoo Groups* Twitter tweet* Campaign Monitor* Wordpress Posts* Big Contact* Active Campaign* Desk.com* Salesforce* VerticalResponse* Marketo* WebHooks* LinkedIn* _	Google Sheets* Mailchimp*
Payment Integration	-	PayPal order forms * PayPal Payflow order forms* PayPal Pro order forms* Authorize.net order forms* Stripe order forms* Braintree order forms* PayFast order forms* Sisow order forms* Sage Pay order forms* PayU order forms* FreshBooks order forms* Square order forms* Advanced price calculations* Coupon codes* Recurring payments* Multiple payment gateways on form*	Paypal Type: ·       One time purchase ·       Donation ·       Subscription Currency: ·       US Dollar ·       Australian Dollar ·       Brazilian Real ·       Canadian Dollar ·       Czech Koruna ·       Danish Krone ·       Euro ·       Hong Kong Dollar ·       Hungary Forint ·       Israeli New Shegel ·       Japanese Yen ·       Malaysian Ringgit ·       Mexican Peso ·       Norwegian Krone ·       New Zealand Dollar ·       Philippine Peso ·       Polish Zloty ·       Pound Sterling ·       Russian Rubble ·       Singapore Dollar ·       Swedish Krona ·       Swiss Franc ·       Taiwan New Dollar ·       Thai Bhat ·       Turkish Lira Allow Buyer to choose price Address prompt: ·       Prompt but do not require one ·       Do not prompt ·       Prompt and require one Show quantity input Show price summary _
Branching & Conditional Logic	Sections Show Progress Bar Shuffle Question Order	Field Rules* Confirmation Rules* Form Rules* Advanced Form Branching* _	Multi-Step*
Translations & Multilanguage Forms	-	Multilanguage forms* Translation of fields and instruction Translation of system messages _	-
Form Security	-	Antispam protection Smart CAPTCHA Country filter IP limitation Custom field validation* Password protection* SSL encryption* _	Captchas
Submissions & Reports	Spreadsheet Spreadsheet relocation Collect email address Limit to 1 response Respondents can edit after submit Respondents can see summary charts and text responses Customer response receipts	Submissions archive Export to CSV/Excel Print Submissions Submissions Limitation 1 - Unlimited* Charts and Reports Report filters* Public charts and reports* Approval of submissions* Save and resume submissions* Preview submissions* User made submission edits* Owner made submission edits* _	Single submissions Clear the form and  allow another submission Redirect to another page Hide the form Publicly display from answers Only one submission per visitor Statistic report Printing*
Quizzes	Release grade: ·      Immediately ·      Later Respondent can see: ·      Missed question ·      Correct answer ·      Point values _	Countdown timer* Percentage calculations* Show results*	-

* Means upgrade plan needed.

"Undefined" supposedly means unlimited, but there's report that they actually have limit.

Google

Pros:

• Free
• Mostly unlimited

Cons:

• Design won't blend

123

Pros:

• Advanced features
• Secure
• Great customer service

Cons:

• Q̶u̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶i̶c̶a̶t̶e̶d̶  (Update)
• Expensive

POWr

Pros:

• User friendly
• Professional design

Cons:

• Scammy

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It seems they have a clear target of who should utilize them to their fullest; could be ordinary people, professionals, or designer. Despite everything, they have both merits and drawbacks.