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Formbricks

US alternative: SurveyMonkey

Formbricks is a German open-source survey and experience management platform for collecting feedback across websites, apps, email, and shareable surveys.

Fully European

Overview

Formbricks provides survey and experience management workflows for product, marketing, and customer teams. The platform supports website surveys, in-app surveys, link surveys, email feedback, and centralized analysis. It can be used as a managed cloud product or self-hosted open-source software for organizations that need more data control. Its positioning overlaps with US survey and feedback platforms such as SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics while emphasizing open-source deployment and privacy controls.

Why it is listed

Replaces

SurveyMonkey

European signal

Reviewed as strongly European-aligned

Privacy and hosting notes

Formbricks positions itself as privacy-first, with German cloud hosting, GDPR and CCPA compliance, SOC 2 Type II compliance, encryption in transit and at rest, optional AI, and self-hosting for data sovereignty.

Funding and ownership

Formbricks states it raised funding from OSS Capital and is supported by individual investors including Tom Preston-Werner and Peer Richelsen. Public company metadata also points to a pre-seed round dated December 1, 2023 with OSS Capital as investor.