Paperform is an online form builder that allows you to design, integrate, share, and analyze all in one place. Create branded forms in a jiffy and unleash your creativity with the built-in Unsplash and GIPHY libraries. We love how it caters to all business needs - from creating forms and performing complex calculations to accepting payments and selling products. 

You can customize the fonts, pictures, and videos based on your brand needs. The direct integration even allows importing data from Adobe, and the built-in analytics aids in turning insight into action and improving performance with the help of custom reports. If that’s not enough, you can integrate from over 3,000+ third-party apps for added functionality.  

Paperform: Plans and pricing

Paperform allows you to switch between the monthly and yearly payment models. Three different plans cater to specific needs:

The Essentials plan begins at $24/month or is billed at $240 for the yearly package. It’s meant for individuals and small-sized teams that are new to Paperform. Although the Paperform branding is not removable with this plan, the number of forms you can create remains unlimited - the latter actually remains a highlight throughout.

The Pro plan will cost you $49/month or $480 annually. It’s built for small businesses who want to get their hands on everything Paperform has to offer. With this plan, businesses can access features unavailable in the Essentials plan, like custom analytics, advanced designs, themes, and more.

The Agency plan is explicitly for organizations and businesses that need to onboard multiple users and have higher storage needs. It costs $159/month or $1620/yearly. If you’re looking for custom HTML and priority support, this is the package for you. It includes five users and demands $5 per extra user (monthly) if more.  

Paperform: Features

A simple, enjoyable, and easy-to-use form builder, Paperform has exciting features. It’s capable of creating forms that appear like landing pages and looks great on both desktops and mobiles. Big names like Zapier and eCoach benefit immensely from Paperform. 

It’s disappointing that Paperform has no free plans, especially when its competitors like Cognito and JotForm do. However, you can use the 14-day risk-free trial to see if it's the right deal for your business. Does it incorporate all the features you need? Let’s find out below.

Question types

You can create unlimited forms on all Paperform plans and use the available 27+ question types or form fields. Some of the different question types available are:

• Scales allow you to ask customers if they’ll go ahead and recommend you to others.
• The Product field lets you sell and market your products without a full-fledged eCommerce store.
• Matrix offers multiple questions in a grid pattern related to performance assessments, feedback, and brand comparisons.
• The Subscription field can be used to collect email addresses for sending newsletters, coupons, and other offers.

Conditional logic

You can customize your form experience with conditional logic based on the recorded response without writing a single line of code. It enables showing or hiding questions or entire sections based on the defined logic to improve user experience. Also known as “question visibility logic,” it’s available on the Configure popup for each question. 

Question visibility logic ensures that the second question is shown only if the respondent answers the first one with a “YES.” For instance, if the answer to - “ Are You A Student?” is “YES,” only then will the next question - “Provide Your Student ID,” will be displayed. Your customers won’t have to answer irrelevant questions once you set up certain conditions for displaying the questions. 

Customizable templates

Paperform offers 650+ templates, which sets it apart from other online form builders. Categories include booking, application, lead generation, membership, enrollment forms, payment, and more. Each form has its own URL and a fully mobile responsive design, plus the customizability really stands out. You can include or reduce fields, edit text, and play around with the form's appearance before first reviewing it and then saving it.

Profession or creative, there’s a template for everyone - Paperform also offers several just-for-fun or personal templates like wedding invitations and personality quizzes.

Integrations

You can integrate Zapier, Webhooks, and whatnot to streamline your operations with all Paperform plans. The best part is that you don’t need to pay anything extra for direct integrations.  

Direct integrations let you bridge your Paperform account to third-party software and applications like Google Sheets, Asana, ConvertKit, and more, to experience automated functions upon form submission. For instance, you can establish a direct integration with Google Sheets to display a new row on the customer’s spreadsheet as soon as a form is submitted.

Payments and subscriptions

Several form builders offer payment integrations, but Paperform is just that little bit better, as it provides subscription packages in numerous currencies - you can also accept donations. This means that you can use the payment integration feature to accept donations via Paperform. You can add needed donation fields like - “Donation Amount” and “Donor Information” and customize further as needed. 

Paperform backs payment gateways such as PayPal Business, Stripe, Square, Braintree, and Authorize.net. You can set up smart ecommerce forms with Paperform with the help of features like adding taxes, custom pricing rules, automating receipts, and accepting coupons. 

Paperform: Interface and in use

Paperform is one of the easiest platforms to use. Like its competitor JotForm, you’ll not have much trouble building your first form. However, experienced users may find Paperform a lot simpler. 

Its interactive walkthrough is the perfect way to welcome new users. A popup box will welcome you when you set out to build your first form. It’ll typically contain brief descriptions, tooltips, or step-by-step guidelines to help you navigate the platform easily. While you can skip it, I do not recommend that for beginners.

Paperform’s editing interface appears similar to WordPress’s latest Gutenberg editor and simplifies typing. For instance, the drag-down menu on the right side enables you to change question types with minimal effort. You can also click and start creating a new question in a jiffy, and the drop-down menu on the right lets you change the question when needed. 

The configuration screen or the settings area is straightforward and has many toggle switches. This is where you can set up payment and form behavior and links it to Google Analytics. You can redirect to a URL after form submission or customize general form settings like the question field. What’s more, you can also use the toggle slider to turn a setting on or off for quick action. Paperform is incredibly simple to use, without complicated navigation menus and no searching for settings. 

Paperform: Support

Paperform’s support is fairly quick. It’s based in Sydney, Australia, and mentions on its website that live chat and email support is available between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., but it doesn’t mention the time zone that’s applicable, so we can only assume that it means Australian time.

The good thing is there’s a bot to tackle your questions in the absence of Paperform support staff, which should be enough for basic queries. But it doesn’t quite make up for the absence of phone or Zoom support. Apart from that, Paperform also maintains a comprehensive help center on its website, including articles, tutorials, and guides. You can browse through them to find solutions to common concerns. 

You’ll receive automated messages when using Paperform’s live chat outside office hours. Nevertheless, Paperform intends to answer within 24 hours of a query raised.

Paperform: The competition

Popular competitors for Paperform include Typeform, Google Forms, JotForm, Formstack, and Wufoo.

Typeform, too, has a user-friendly interface and offers integration provisions like Paperform. While Typeform also offers visually appealing designs, Paperform gives more options regarding fonts, colors, images, and the like, giving greater control. You can also automate sending out emails after a form submission with Paperform - can’t do the same with Typeform without the help of an extra tool like MailChimp or ConvertKit.

Formstack enables third-party integrations and caters to both small businesses and enterprise-level organizational needs. It places more emphasis on advanced features like document generation and workflow automation. On the other hand, Papeform excels at simplicity and makes a great choice for user-friendly forms. 

Paperform: Final verdict

Paperform is an easy-to-use form builder with tons of templates and customization options. While it doesn’t offer the greatest value-for-money proposition, you do get conditional logic, using which you can create dynamic forms that adapt based on user responses.

There’s ample help material in the form of YouTube videos and blogs to provide necessary assistance to a new user. Live chat and email support staff are friendly and prompt, so the lack of phone support doesn’t hurt too much. There’s a 14-day free trial, so try the tool risk-free to find out whether it’s your cup of tea.

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The Miofive Dual Dash Cam is a two-camera system, upgrading the single-camera version that gained a 5-star award in our full Miofive 4K Dash Cam review; it's one of the best dash cams available. 

Video quality from the front camera, which uses the same Sony IMX 415 sensor to record 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) as the 4K Dash Cam, is a known quantity, capturing sharp detail in daylight. It's also a strong performer at night-time, using "Sony Starvis Night Vision" to brighten up the image. 

A tiny 1.27oz / 36g rear camera is a new addition here, featuring a decent 2K QHD (2560 x 1440) sensor, with both cameras recording at 30 frames per second onto the 128GB of internal eMMC storage in the front camera. That’s twice the capacity of the previous Miofive 4K – plus, there’s no need for a potentially less reliable additional micro SD memory card as is the case with many other dash cam alternatives. 

Both lenses provide a wide 140-degree field of view in horizontal and vertical viewing angles. This covers the view of your front and rear windscreens, but not the periphery in the same way that a 165-degree offering from the likes of Garmin does. 

The field of view might not be wide enough for some, but the camera is better at picking out details such as number plates, which would otherwise appear smaller in a 165-degree or 180-degree camera. 

Design is largely the same in both the 4K and Dual model; the front camera is slim, modern and slick, and sits flush behind your rear view mirror. I couldn’t place the dash cam fully out of view behind the rear view mirror because of the design of my windscreen, which blocks the camera view. Nevertheless, the position I went with was still sufficiently out of view. 

The camera uses a sticky adhesive to attach firmly to the windscreen. Many other cameras use a suction cup, which is overall a quicker and potentially less messy option; but the method of installation is a minor sticking point. 

You’ll need a little time to fiddle with the power and connection cables, running them into the gaps around the edges of your windscreen using the small plastic crowbar tool provided. However, it's a simple enough task for anyone to do. 

The dash cam's 12W of power is supplied via USB, and if your car doesn’t have a USB connection then you can use the supplied cigarette charger with USB instead. The second, and longer, cable for the rear camera – which attaches to the main camera – is awkwardly thicker and takes a little longer to install. Depending on the design of your car, you may have to get a little more creative to ensure that the cable is tucked neatly away. It would have been great if the rear camera’s cable was the same diameter as the one for the front camera. 

I installed the Miofive app onto a Google Pixel Android phone via the Play Store, connecting the phone to the dash cam via 5GHz Wi-Fi. You don’t need a user account to access the app, although you're encouraged to create one in the app at every given opportunity.

Once the process of connecting your phone to the camera has been conquered, you can view the camera feed on your phone. Changing the camera's settings is far quicker through the app, rather than on the camera itself – which has three touch buttons to select, scroll or return through the various options.

If, like me, you find the voice notifications annoying, they can be silenced, and you can also mute the microphone if you’d rather not have the audio from your recordings. You might not like the idea of the dash cam recording you singing along to the radio, but audio can be an important part of video evidence, depending on the incident.

The app looks slick just as the camera does, with an option to select your Miofive device, the album where videos and photos are stored, plus a parking locator. With the device selected, you can Live view the video feed and scroll through the video and photo album created by the camera. 

For the most part, you’ll likely keep the Miofive Dual Dash Cam in its Loop Video mode, which is continually recording one-minute clips. There are other video types including Emergency Video, Parking Guard and Time-Lapse. 

Time and location data is synced using built-in GPS, which is active by default. It’s a feature-rich camera overall; built-in GPS, internal storage and the more expensive super capacitor power type – these are costly features in what is effectively a good-value dash cam. 

During setup of the camera, you're encouraged to position the camera view correctly to align evenly and be level with the horizon, which allows the AI-powered features of the camera to work most effectively. 

These AI features include driver assistance tools such as collision warnings, and a G-shock sensor that detects imminent collisions to activate recordings. 

Record modes are super simple: 4K at 30fps for the front camera, and 2K 30fps for the rear camera. You can switch to Full HD at 30fps, too, but there’s no option for a faster frame at any resolution. 

Overall, setup is super easy and the camera simply gets on with recording high-resolution video on loop. There’s minimal user involvement required. 

Video quality is excellent for what is a tiny dash cam. The bright f/1.8 lens and 4K resolution deliver sharp images for key details such as road signs and vehicle registration plates, all of which are easy to identify. There’s a decent level of shock absorption – videos, even from bumpy rural roads, look smooth. 

The camera auto exposes for shadows, which means videos are bright, with details such as white clouds in the sky blown out. However, we’re not looking for broadcast-level aesthetic quality from a dash cam; rather that key details such as number plates are easily seen, and in this regard the Miofive Dual Dash Cam delivers.

Each one-minute 4K video clip is around 220MB, and so the 128GB of internal memory will fill up after about 8 hours of record time when doing 4K loop recording. Switching to Full HD will provide much more record time, but at inferior video quality. 

If the idea of trawling through hundreds of one-minute video clips sounds ominous, fear not – the Miofive Dual Dash Cam can store any collisions into a separate Emergency folder. Otherwise, the files are stored chronologically and labeled with the time, so it isn't too difficult to find what you’re looking for. 

There’s an optional hard-wiring kit available, which I didn’t have for this test. With the it installed – a job for a professional, really – the camera has a continual power source, even when the car isn’t on. That G sensor can sense collisions to trigger recording even while the car is parked. 

All in all, the Miofive Dual Dash Cam is a powerful device, easy to install and use; it simply gets on with doing what a dash cam should do – recording high-quality video that gives you the piece of mind should the worst happen to you and your vehicle. 

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How I tested the Miofive Dual Dash Cam

• One-week of continual use
• Driving at various times of the day and night
• Long record times

I installed the Miofive Dual Dash Cam myself, without using an optional hardwiring kit. The camera was powered by its 12V cable, and operated via both the unit itself and through the mobile app to compare the two experiences. 

I’ve recorded videos on all manner of roads, including high-speed motorways / highways and bumpy rural roads. The camera has also seen most times of day, including bright summer days and well into the night. 

To test the reliability of the internal storage and heat dissipation of the Dual Dash Cam, I’ve also made 4K video recordings lasting several hours. I can't report about the camera’s performance in a collision because, thankfully, I didn’t experience any such events. 

• First reviewed June 2023