Papias vs Tally
Papias as a Tally alternative
Tally is a good form builder and it is free for most people. If you are happy with it, this page will not talk you out of it. It exists because some people want three things Tally does not offer: a form drafted from a description, a company in Ireland with nothing of its own watching the form, and a plain promise that answers are never used to train an AI model. If none of those matter to you, stay with Tally.
Stay with Tally if
- You need Notion or Airtable connected directly, or Google Sheets on a free plan. Tally has all three free; Papias writes to a Google Sheet on Pro and reaches the rest through Zapier, Make or n8n, or a signed webhook to your own system.
- You need forms in fifty languages with right-to-left text. Papias translates the words around your questions into seven.
- You want partial submissions captured, custom CSS or a custom email domain. Those are Tally Pro features and Papias does not have them.
- You want payments on the free plan. Tally lists “Collect payments” on Free (its help pages describe a commission there); on Papias a Payment question is part of Pro, with no cut.
Side by side
Tally’s figures are as published on its own site, read on 27 October 2026; check them there before you decide. Papias’s are its pricing page. Prices before VAT where it applies.
| Tally | Papias | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Unlimited forms and submissions, within a fair-use policy. | Free: unlimited forms and responses, never counted. One person, 10 AI credits a month, 100 MB of uploaded files, a small “Made with Papias” badge on the form. |
| Paid plans | Pro €20 a month, Business €65 a month; yearly billing gives two months off. | Pro €19 a month (€15 a month paid yearly): 200 AI credits a month, 5 people, 10 GB, no badge, your own domain. Business €49 (€39 yearly). Prices before VAT. |
| Draft a form from a description | No. | Yes, on every plan: describe the form, get the draft, then change it in words. |
| Question types | A full set, including payments, signatures and file upload. | Text, email, phone with a country picker, number, amount, date, time, choice, checkboxes, dropdown, picture choice, rating, scale, NPS, ranking, grid, file upload, signature, address, consent, hidden fields, repeating groups, calculations, headings and pictures between questions. |
| Logic | Conditional logic, calculations, answer piping. | Show a question only if earlier answers call for it (one condition, or several with and/or), calculations, prices per option with a live total, answers piped into later text, repeating groups, a different ending per answer, redirect after sending. |
| Layout | A Notion-style document that becomes the form. | Classic or one question at a time, per form. Your colours, cover, logo, fonts and a full-page background. |
| Responses | A submissions view; drop-off and visit analytics on Pro. | Summary charts, a table with filters, star and done marks, notes, correcting an answer, a print view, where people stop, Excel and CSV. |
| Integrations | Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Make, webhooks. | Each response to Slack, Microsoft Teams or Discord, to Zapier, Make or n8n, to your own system as signed JSON, or by email; a row in a Google Sheet on Pro. |
| Branding removal | Pro. | The badge is on Free and off on Pro. |
| Your own domain | Pro. | Your own domain for form links, on Pro. |
| Version history | Pro, 30 days back; Business, 90 days. | Every change is kept; restore on Pro. |
| Languages | 50+ for the default messages shown to respondents. | Seven for the words around your questions: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese. |
| Company and hosting | Tally BV, Belgium; made and hosted in the EU. | GestureLoop Limited, Ireland. Servers and backups in the EU (Finland), on every plan. |
| Trackers on your form | Google Analytics and Meta Pixel are Pro integrations. | None from Papias: no analytics, no pixel, fonts served from our own server. On Pro an organiser can add their own Google Analytics or Meta Pixel tag, which is told the form was opened and sent, never the answers. |
| AI and your data | See Tally’s AI information page. | Drafting sends your description and the form’s questions to an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude, through Yohanun). Respondents’ answers go to it only on a form its organiser sets to a conversation, and they’re told first; nothing is used to train models. |
Where Papias is different
- You describe the form and it is built.
Type “a registration form for a weekend workshop with two ticket types, dietary needs and a photo consent” and the form appears with the right kinds of question, the conditions and the prices. Then say “make the consent optional and add a phone number” and it changes. Tally gives you blocks to arrange; Papias gives you the first draft.
- An Irish company, EU-only, nothing of ours watching your respondents.
Both companies are European. The difference is what runs on the form: Papias loads no analytics, no pixel and no external fonts, so the only thing your respondent’s browser talks to is the form. Answers are stored in the EU and backed up in the EU.
- Answers are never training data.
The organiser’s description goes to an AI model to draft the form. The answers people give you go nowhere but your account.
Switching
Export your Tally submissions as CSV and keep them; Papias does not import them. Rebuilding the form is the fast part: paste your Tally form’s questions into “Draft with AI” as the description. Update the embed snippet or the link, and set a close date on the old form so nothing arrives in two places.
Twenty-four templates are there to start from, each one a real form you can try first.
Questions
Is Papias free like Tally?
Yes. Both have a free plan with unlimited forms and responses. On Papias, Free has one person, 10 AI credits a month, 100 MB of files and a small badge; Pro is €19 a month.
Does Papias have Tally’s integrations?
Google Sheets, on Pro. For Notion, Airtable and thousands of other services, Zapier, Make and n8n take each response there, and a signed webhook delivers it to your own system.
Where is my data?
On servers in the EU (Finland), with backups in the EU, controlled by GestureLoop Limited in Ireland.
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