JotForm vs Formisoft: Stop Overpaying for Healthcare Intake
February 3, 2026 · Formisoft Team
From the team at Formisoft, the HIPAA-ready platform for patient intake, scheduling, and payments. Learn more →
JotForm is one of the most popular form builders in the world, and for good reason. It's versatile, has thousands of templates, and handles almost any use case.
But "almost any use case" is the problem. When you need HIPAA-compliant patient intake, JotForm locks compliance behind their most expensive plan, gives you generic fields that you have to manually configure for healthcare, and charges you based on submission volume. There's a better way.
The Quick Comparison
| Feature | JotForm | Formisoft |
|---|---|---|
| HIPAA Compliance | ❌ Requires Enterprise plan, starts at $99/mo minimum, often much more |
✅ HIPAA-ready at base price: AES-256, TLS 1.3, US-hosted, BAA included at $79.99/mo |
| Healthcare Fields | ❌ Generic fields, must be manually configured for healthcare use |
✅ 25+ purpose-built fields: insurance, medications, allergies, conditions, consent, e-signatures, photo upload |
| AI Form Builder | ❌ Basic AI that generates generic templates |
✅ Healthcare-aware AI. Describe your specialty and get a complete clinical intake form |
| Form Builder UX | ✅ Drag-and-drop builder with many options |
✅ Modern canvas with drag-and-drop, slash commands, and inline editing |
| Conditional Logic | ✅ Conditional logic available |
✅ Advanced show/hide, custom regex validation, multi-page branching with auto-save |
| Patient Management | ❌ Form submissions only, no patient concept |
✅ Submissions linked to patient records, complete visit history tracking |
| Appointment Scheduling | ❌ Requires third-party integration or separate JotForm product |
✅ Built-in availability calendar, magic-link intake emails, iCal sync |
| Payments | ✅ Multiple payment integrations |
✅ Stripe-powered copay and deposit collection, built directly into forms |
| Analytics | ❌ Basic submission analytics |
✅ Full funnel: views, starts, completions, drop-offs, devices, geography |
| Integrations | ✅ 100+ integrations via marketplace |
✅ HMAC-verified webhooks that work with any system, no marketplace needed |
| Branding | ✅ Custom branding on paid plans |
✅ Full white-label: logo, colors, fonts, remove all Formisoft branding |
| Pricing | ❌ HIPAA plan starts $99+/mo, submission limits, per-form limits on lower tiers |
✅ $79.99/mo flat. All features, no submission limits, no per-form fees |
The JotForm Tax on Healthcare
HIPAA compliance costs double (or more)
JotForm's free and starter plans aren't HIPAA compliant. To collect patient data legally, you need their Enterprise tier, which starts at $99/month and goes up from there. With Formisoft, HIPAA compliance is included at $79.99/month. That's not a discount. It's a fundamentally different approach.
You're building healthcare forms with generic tools
JotForm has thousands of templates, but none of them understand healthcare workflows. Need a structured medications list with drug name, dosage, and frequency? You'll piece it together from generic text fields. Need allergy severity levels? Manual setup. Formisoft's healthcare fields are pre-built, validated, and clinically structured.
Submission limits punish your growth
JotForm caps submissions on most plans. The more patients you see, the more you pay. Formisoft has no submission limits. Your hundredth patient costs the same as your first.
No patient management
JotForm collects form responses. Formisoft builds patient records. Every submission links to a patient profile, creating a longitudinal record your staff can reference across visits.
Why Practices Switch to Formisoft
Half the price, twice the capability
$79.99/month gets you everything JotForm reserves for enterprise: HIPAA compliance, audit logging, team roles, custom branding, and advanced analytics. Plus AI form generation, patient management, and appointment scheduling that JotForm doesn't offer at any price.
Forms that understand your specialty
Tell the AI "Create a mental health intake form with PHQ-9, medication history, insurance, and consent" and you'll have a clinically accurate, multi-page form in 30 seconds. Not a generic template you spend an hour customizing.
The complete pre-visit workflow
Formisoft handles the full journey: schedule the appointment, send a magic-link email with the intake form, patient completes it on their phone with auto-save, submission links to their record, staff reviews before the visit. One tool. Zero manual steps.
Analytics that improve completion rates
See where patients abandon your forms. Which pages take the longest. Whether mobile or desktop performs better. Then optimize, because every incomplete form is a delayed appointment or a frustrated patient.
The Bottom Line
JotForm is a great general-purpose form builder that happens to offer healthcare compliance, at a premium. Formisoft is a healthcare intake platform that happens to have an incredible form builder.
If you're paying $99+/month for JotForm's HIPAA plan and still building healthcare forms from generic fields, you're overpaying for less. Formisoft gives you more for $79.99/month, and it was built for exactly what you're trying to do.
Get started free → and see what purpose-built healthcare intake looks like.
