About
Made in Co. Clare, for the person running the thing.
Papias is a form builder from GestureLoop, a small Irish software company. This page says who we are and what we're trying to do.
Where it came from
Papias began as formsage, in work with insurance companies. Their forms came back filled in, and then someone had to read every one to check whether the information that mattered was actually in the box: the right detail, in the right field, in a form a person could act on. That is slow, dull work, and the form was the cause of it. So we started on smarter ways of making forms work for both sides at once: the person asking for the information, and the person giving it.
The first part of the product to go live was a club's Last Man Standing competition: a few hundred people on their phones, a committee of volunteers, and a spreadsheet that had to be right. That story is true too, and it is why the product works the way it does on a phone. Every formsage link from those first weeks still works.
What we're trying to do
Most of the forms in the world are made by someone with a job to do and no time for the form: the club secretary, the teacher, the person who runs the shop, the claims handler, the one who said they'd organise the dinner. We want the form to take the least of their time and give them answers they can act on, and we want the person answering to be told, there and then, what the form needs. You'll find every feature of the other form and survey builders here, and a load of extras, built and on the way, meant to surprise and delight.
- Type the question, get the right kind of answer. "How many guests?" is a number before you say so. Every answer is checked before it reaches you, so you aren't chasing a phone number typed wrong.
- Free means free. Forms and responses are never counted, on any plan. Pro and Business add room and the extras that cost us money to run, and the prices are on the pricing page.
- Calm for the people answering. No account, no CAPTCHA, no ads, no tracking by us. Their answers are yours, held for you, never used for anything else.
- Honest. The pictures on this site are the real product. There are no invented customers or numbers, and when something isn't built yet we say so.
Who
GESTURELOOP LIMITED, company no. 792165, 44 Cluain Droichead, Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare, V95 HD62, Ireland. GestureLoop also makes Polycarp and Yohanun. Papias's servers are in the EU and the company is Irish, so Irish and EU law apply to everything we hold; the privacy statement and the data processing agreement spell it out.
Talk to us
We're a small team, which has one advantage: if you have a great idea or a big need, we just might build it. Questions, a feature you need, something that doesn't work: get in touch. On Business, support is answered first, by the people who wrote the code. What we've shipped and when is on the changelog.