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Everything you need to know to create, share and manage your forms with Meliform.

Discover Meliform

Meliform is an online form-building platform. It lets you design any kind of form survey, exam, quiz, certification, administrative form… from the simplest to the most complex, with the help of AI and many customization options.

Surveys, exams and certifications, quizzes and games, registration forms, administrative or medical forms, and many more. The platform suits simple uses as well as the most demanding business needs.

No. You build forms through a visual interface, without a single line of code. AI can even generate a complete first version of your form.

Create an account for free, browse public forms for inspiration, then launch your first form with AI or by hand in a few minutes.

The interface is available in French, English, German, Italian and Spanish: everything switches to the language you choose, via the language selector. The taxonomy, styling themes and journeys (parcours) are translated too.

Yes, for now. Meliform has just launched: every feature is free, with no credit card and no account limits - AI generation being subject to reasonable use. Full details on the Pricing page.

Yes, eventually, for heavy usage and for organizations. Accounts created during the launch phase will be notified in advance and will get preferential terms.

No. No payment method is requested today, and nothing can be charged to you without an explicit subscription on your part.

Create a form

A form is organized around three steps: Introduction (terms, rules, resources, timer), Questions (the main and only required step), and Conclusion (thanks, tips, closing widgets).

In its simplest form, all you do is choose a category and a domain: the AI produces your form in minutes. For a more precise result, you can set the number of questions per page, an objective (a short prompt), and vary the themes, specifying for each the number of questions and the difficulty. The generated version remains fully editable.

You can create your own categories, domains and themes to classify your forms according to your sector.

They are blocks (image + text + buttons) that appear on the final page under specific conditions for example a congratulations message at 100% correct answers, with a button to another form.

A document (text, image, PDF, audio or video) that supports a form or a question: a course text to analyze, an audio clip for a language certification, and so on. More details in the “Resources” section.

Yes, when its owner allows it. A form can be copied to obtain an independent, fully editable version. The copy faithfully reproduces the entire structure - pages, questions, choices, groups, display conditions, scoring and styling - but becomes a form in its own right, without ever altering the original. Ideal for adapting a proven template to your context.

Yes. Several fields - the form's description, the messages of a page or a question - provide a formatting editor: bold, italic, lists, links… A free-answer question can even offer that same editor to the respondent, for a formatted answer. Entered content is automatically sanitized to stay clean and safe.

When uploading an image (illustration, choice, background, avatar…), you can choose between your computer and the Meliform image library: a ready-to-use catalogue organised by category (education, emotions, pictograms, shapes, patterns, backgrounds and gradients, avatars…) with keyword search. Handy for illustrating multiple-choice options (a number, an opinion smiley…) or dressing up a form, without hunting for your own visuals.

Questions

Three families: multiple choice (with variants: checkboxes, dropdown, interactive image, grid, ranking), True / False, and free answer (text, number, date, email, phone…).

Yes. You assign points to correct answers, the score is calculated automatically, and you can attach an explanation shown during review. A ranking of participants is also possible.

A question can appear only if certain conditions are met (a previous answer, a score reached…). A choice can also send the user to another question, to build tailored paths.

A repeatable block of questions (for example “add a beneficiary”). A group benefits from shared validation: you can, for instance, check that the sum of a field across all repetitions equals a global amount a common need in investment forms.

On a free-text question, pick the criterion “The AI indicates it correctly answers the question”. The AI reads the question and the participant’s answer, decides whether it answers correctly, and writes a short justification the participant sees. It ignores spelling, accepts a rewording, but rejects an off-topic answer or one that adds a mistake. No setting is required: on a common topic it manages on its own. Marking happens in the background - the participant can carry on, and the result appears as soon as it is ready.

They are two optional settings, there to steer the AI when the expected answer is specific to you - your course, an internal procedure, a house convention.

Reference texts are marking keys. Each must be a complete acceptable answer, never a list of keywords. They are alternatives: the participant’s answer only has to match one of them, and the least demanding one sets the bar. Never write a wrong answer there: everything listed is treated as correct.

The answer explanation is your marking guidance, and it overrides everything else. That is where - and only where - you require more.

Example, on “What is condensation in the water cycle?”: three references such as “Water passing from gas to liquid”, “Water vapour cools and turns into fine droplets” and “… which form clouds” accept both the short and the full answer, while still rejecting evaporation and rain. If you want to require clouds to be mentioned, do not add yet another reference: write it in the answer explanation.

Resources

A resource is supporting material: course notes, a set of rules, a series of images, a PDF, audio, video. It is made of items you add one by one, and feeds your forms - either as a document to read, or as the material a generated set of questions is based on.

A resource typed into a form belongs to it alone: it is born with it and disappears with it. A standalone resource, created from My resources, exists in its own right: attach it to as many forms as you like, correct it in one place, and the correction propagates everywhere.

In the builder, the Resource tab offers a "Library resource" section: pick your material there. The creation fields just below are then greyed out - the two paths exclude each other, you either attach existing material or write one specific to this form. A question can carry its own resource too.

Yes, and it is the most direct use: from the library or from the reading page, the Generate a form button opens creation with the material already attached. You fill in the title, the domain and the brief, and the AI works from the resource's content. What serves as material: the text you typed, and the text the AI read from your images and PDFs when you asked it to. Audio and video, on the other hand, provide no anchoring: they carry no text to read.

Visibility works as elsewhere. Public: reachable by anyone with the link, and indexed. Protected: limited to members of the organisation you attached it to. Private: you alone, plus the organisation's administrators. Note that this visibility governs the resource's own page, not its display inside a form - a public form will show its content to respondents.

Every standalone resource has its own page, at a stable address you can share. Content is displayed according to the chosen navigation mode: stacked, as tabs or as a carousel. In stacked mode a summary appears automatically as soon as your items carry a title.

Yes, from My resources then the translation icon. A standalone resource is translated once, where it lives: every form embedding it benefits, in all the site's languages. AI pre-fill is available; the result arrives as a draft, to review before publishing.

Deletion is refused, and the screen tells you how many items use it. Conversely, deleting a form never deletes a library resource: it belongs to the library, not to the form.

Yes. On an image or document source, tick “This source contains text the AI should read”: its text will be extracted and used to write the questions. You can then proofread and correct it - automatic reading sometimes gets it wrong, and a misread word would become a wrong question. From My resources, reading starts as soon as the resource is saved: the text is waiting for you when you open it again. For an image that carries no text (an artwork, a diagram), the Describe the image button produces a description of what it shows instead, which serves as material in the same way. Audio and video, however, cannot be read.

Taking & results

Yes. Progress is saved: you can pause and resume exactly where you left off, without losing your answers.

Yes, via a stopwatch (time elapsed) or a timer (time remaining), on the form as well as on the introduction step.

Statistics are available at several levels: overall (success rate, participation), per question, and per user. A review mode also lets you annotate a submission with correction comments.

To test your form without recording a result, but above all to style it. You can apply a predefined theme in one click or fine-tune the style (colors, fonts…), move elements around and upload your brand logo. Styling applies at several levels: the whole form, a step (introduction, questions, conclusion), a page, or even a specific question or group.

Journeys

A journey brings together several forms chained one after another: you finish a step and move on to the next. Three typical uses: lighten a form that is too long by splitting it into digestible steps; group a theme (a “Baccalauréat 2026” journey combining maths, geography and English); or chain game levels.

From My journeys, creation happens in two stages: you first set up the journey (name, visibility, flow), then add forms to it as steps, which you order freely. A single form can belong to several journeys, and a step can be added or removed at any time. Each step gets its own label (“Level 1”, “Written test”…) and can be marked optional.

Yes, and it's a use case in its own right. The journey's visibility does not change that of the forms it contains: a private form remains impossible to find in the catalog, but becomes playable again from the journey that hosts it. You can thus offer a form only within a journey, without publishing it elsewhere. However, you can only add forms you are allowed to share: this is what guarantees their owner's consent.

Yes. A step can enforce a waiting period before the next one opens: a countdown appears and access stays blocked until it elapses. A step can also be conditioned on the results of previous ones - having completed a step, reached a rate of correct answers or a number of points, or even given a specific answer to a question identified by its code. Conditions can be combined.

Your choice: the form's usual final page with its result, followed by a button to continue; or a direct transition to the next step, with no intermediate page. You also decide how the list of steps is shown: all visible (inaccessible ones appearing locked), only those that are accessible, or none - the journey then reduces to a “Start” button. At the end of the journey, a summary page gathers the results of all the steps.

Yes. A journey's ranking follows a simple rule: progress outranks score. Reaching the end beats a better result obtained on fewer steps. Participants are then separated by their rate of correct answers or their total points, as you choose. On the creator side, statistics take the form of a funnel: for each step, how many participants reach it, complete it, or stop there - enough to spot the step that loses people.

You can notify them when adding it - including, and especially, those who had already finished the journey: without this notification, they would never know a new level was released. Sending remains a choice, to be unchecked when you're composing several steps in a row.

A session is one respondent's run through a form. A journey brings together several forms: it therefore contains sessions. The number of allowed attempts is still defined by each form; the journey only decides whether that counter resets to zero on each new run of the journey.

Automation & integrations

Each question can be given a short, unique code (e.g. firstname, amount, email). This code acts as a variable: you insert it elsewhere, and it is automatically replaced by the answer given by the respondent. You can thus reuse an answer in an email, in a redirect URL, or even directly in the prompt, the title or the message of a question or a group interpolation then happens in real time during the run.

Yes. When a form ends, an email can be sent automatically. The recipient can be an address entered by the respondent (via a question) or a defined recipient set in the configuration (for example a manager to notify). The message body accepts variables (see question codes) to inject the answers for example a personalized summary. Sending can be conditioned and triggers only once, at final validation.

Yes. The button that ends the form can redirect to the URL of your choice, defined globally on the form or per share link (the link's setting taking priority). The URL accepts dynamic parameters via question codes: you thus pass certain answers to the destination platform. It's ideal for a partner integration: have the user start on one platform, take them through the form, then bring them back to their starting point. The label of the final button is also customizable.

Sharing & privacy

No. Each form has a visibility level that you choose: public (visible to all), protected (header visible, access on request/invitation) or private (reserved for you or your organization).

Via configurable share links (start/expiry date, usage quota, public or sign-in access, custom URL). You can also notify members or a group directly when sharing.

Yes, if you tick the “public link” option: that specific link makes the form accessible even if it is private or protected. You decide, link by link.

You (the creator) and the people to whom you grant specific rights (read, edit, delete, share), to a person or a group. Sharing can never bypass a private resource that you do not own.

Organizations & community

A shared space bringing together members (with administrator or member roles), user groups and the attached resources. By setting a default organization, your new forms are automatically attached to it.

On a public form open to contributions, a user can suggest a change. The creator (or an administrator) compares it, discusses via comments, then approves it, requests adjustments or rejects it.

You can follow a user or an organization to be notified of their public activity (new form, updates…). An organization's administrators can also send announcements to their members and followers.

For an exam or a game, you can display a ranking of participants by their score. The number of allowed attempts and anonymous participation are configurable. The ranking can also be filtered by share link: by creating a link per audience (a cohort, a team, a recruitment session…), you compare levels within a single group.

Yes, if the creator enables this option. Community members or members of the same organization can then share their opinion, ask questions and talk in a discussion thread (with replies) attached to the form. The comment space is enabled or disabled form by form.

Yes. Beyond the interface, which is available in five languages, every form has its own translation workspace: you enter your content in the languages you want, with AI assistance if you like, and you choose the languages the form appears in within the catalog.

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