A fillable PDF creator that starts from the PDF you already have
Most form creators open an empty editor and ask you to rebuild your form question by question. Drop yours here instead and the questions are read straight off it.
The first document is free, with no account and no card.
How it works
You drop the document
A PDF, a Word or Excel file, or a photo of a sheet of paper. Flat or already fillable, typed or printed and scanned.
It reads the questions
The questions, their order and the kind of answer each one expects are taken off the document itself. There is no editor to learn and no field to position by hand.
You share a link
Anyone can open it on a phone or a laptop and fill it in. They install nothing and create no account.
What comes back
Responses collect in one place as they arrive. You can take them out as a spreadsheet when you want to count them, and as your original PDF with the answers written onto it when the document itself is what has to be filed, signed off or kept. Most tools in this category give you one of those two; the reason for both is that a form usually has an afterlife as paperwork.
Where a desktop editor is still the better answer
If you need a fillable PDF file to distribute — one people open in a PDF reader, type into offline and send back — that is what Acrobat and its equivalents are for, and this is not a substitute for them. What this replaces is the work of rebuilding a form you already have in order to collect answers to it.
The longer version of that judgement, including where each rival wins: how to choose fillable form software.
Try it on the real thing
Comparing tools by reading about them takes longer than testing one. Scroll up, drop the form you would have rebuilt, and see whether the questions came across.
Nothing to hand? Start from a free template or look at a finished form.