Everything the form does after you publish it.
CanvasFlow is a form builder with the reading half taken as seriously as the writing half. Thirteen field types, segments and branching for the forms that need them, and real numbers on your side the moment anybody answers.
A drawn edge beats a soft panel — structure, not decoration.
Square corners and hard shadows. An offset, never a blur.
Monospace for figures, so numbers line up down a column.
Texture belongs to the paper, not to the interface.
Reduced motion is honoured, not ignored.
Most builders stop at collected.
Getting answers is the easy half. Most tools hand you a spreadsheet and call it done, which leaves you stitching together the part you actually needed — how many people started, where they quit, and what it all adds up to. CanvasFlow treats reading the results as part of the product, not an export you deal with later.
Boring where it counts.
The interesting engineering is the kind you never notice: data that survives an edit, and concurrent changes that fail loudly instead of quietly.
- Durable data keys — Rename a question and its answers stay attached.
- Optimistic locking — Two people editing at once get a conflict, not a silent overwrite.
- Idempotent submits — A refresh or a double-click collapses into the one response it meant to be.
- Uploads off the hot path — A file is stored in the background and bound to the response at submit time.
- Ordered by design — Fields carry a real index, so reordering never scrambles a form.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t.
Eight systems. No fifty-tab settings panel.
Thirteen field types
Short text, long text, email, phone, URL, number, dropdown, checkboxes, rating, toggle, date, time, and file upload. Drag to reorder, mark required, add a placeholder and help text.
Canvas or outline
Lay the form out on a freeform canvas or work down an ordered list. Same form, two ways to read it — switch whenever you like.
Segments and branching
Split a form into named segments, then branch on the answers so far. Weigh several answers at once and send people to a question, to a segment, or straight to the end.
A layout you choose
One question at a time, one segment per page, or the whole form in a single scroll — or let it follow the form's own shape, which is the default.
File uploads that never stall a submit
A file starts uploading as soon as it's picked and is attached when the form is sent. You set how many files, how large, and which types you accept.
Access you control
Open to anyone with the link by default. Require sign-in, record the respondent's email, cap it at one response per person, or limit it to your organisation's email domains.
Answers you can read
Total responses, completion rate, and average time on the summary; every answer to one question at a time; or any single submission in full.
Share by link or QR
Publish and hand over a URL, or download a QR code. No account needed on the other end unless you asked for one, and a double-click never counts twice.
Your data, exportable
Every submission lands in a table you can page through, and the whole set downloads as CSV whenever you want it.
Built with your team
Invite collaborators as viewers or editors, change a role later, remove someone, or transfer the form outright to a new owner.
Live sessions with Menti
Run a presentation in the room — polls, word clouds, scales, and quizzes with a leaderboard — while the audience answers from their phones. Import an existing .pptx and carry on editing.
How it works.
Build it
Drop fields onto the canvas, group them into segments, branch where the answers diverge, and mark what's required. Sane defaults mean it's publishable straight away.
Share it
Publish, then pass along the link or the QR code. Open to anyone by default, or locked to signed-in accounts on your own domains.
Collect it
Answers land in whatever layout you chose, validated on the way in, with a half-finished form kept for anyone signed in.
Read it
Completion rate, average time, per-question summaries, and every individual submission — with CSV export when you want it elsewhere.
Six forms you could build this afternoon.
Surveys
Multi-question surveys with ratings and long-form answers, no login for respondents, and CSV out for analysis.
Lead capture
Short qualifying forms with format-checked email and URL fields, shared as a link or a QR code on print.
User feedback
Rating scales and open text, with branching that only asks the follow-up when the score deserves one.
RSVP & registration
Sign-ups with a closing date, so registration shuts itself when the deadline passes — and a QR code for the poster.
Job applications
Structured applications with a URL field for portfolios and a file upload for the CV, reviewed by teammates you've added as viewers.
Course check-ins
Quick recurring pulse forms restricted to your institution's email domain — or a live Menti quiz when you want the room answering together.
Start with one question.
Free and unlimited — as many forms and responses as you need, every field type, with CSV export included.