Form Builder

What it is

Form Builder is a Google Workspace add-on that builds Google Forms and quizzes out of material you already have. Jivrus Technologies makes it, and the products page sums it up as "Build your Google Form quickly from your existing Google Form, Sheet, Doc & Slide." The home page puts the promise more bluntly: "Never create Google Forms manually." It is aimed at teachers, trainers, businesses, institutions and anyone who keeps questions, answer options or field lists in Google files and wants a working form without copying and pasting each item. Jivrus describes itself as a Google Cloud Partner and a Zoho Marketplace Partner, and the products page credits the Form Builder add-on with "9 M+ users."

What you build and how

You build Google Forms, including quizzes, and the form you end up with is an ordinary Google Form, so respondents see an interface they already know. The work happens in a sidebar inside Google's own apps. You pick a source, Form Builder lists every field or question it finds there, and you choose what to import and where in the form it lands.

Sources. The add-on reads from Google Forms, Sheets, Docs and Slides, and the home page adds Google Drive, Gmail and Calendar events. Quizzes can be imported from Google Forms and Google Sheets. The features menu also lists imports from ready-made templates, from SharingTree, and from JSON. The site's navigation goes further and lists PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, images and paper forms; the FAQ is more precise, saying Sheets, Docs, Slides and Forms are supported directly, while CSV, TSV, Excel, Word or PDF files are uploaded to Google Drive and converted into Sheets or Docs before import.

Building blocks. The features page names the pieces. You can build plain questions, questions with answers, or a quiz. Automatic Mapping reads sheet data into the field configuration and, in the home page's words, "detects and aligns data with the correct fields like questions, descriptions, and types." A field configuration screen lets you edit each item's properties before it goes in. You can import single or multiple selected fields and choose their exact position. Shuffle Questions and Answers reorders list-type questions each time the form is used, and Randomly Choose Question pulls a random number of questions from a list, which suits building varied tests from one question bank. A preview shows how the generated form will look before you commit.

Question banks and AI. Several features are aimed at assessment work. The Aiken Format support and the Form Builder Parser are both described as simplifying multiple-choice assessment, and Google Docs Table Parsing lets you configure and parse tables out of a document. Generate with AI creates questions and answers automatically. Export runs the other way: you can send form questions out to Google Sheets, Docs or Slides and bring them back later, so a question set can be edited in a document and re-imported.

Field types. The FAQ lists the supported types: short answer, paragraph, multiple choice, checkbox, drop-down, linear scale, multiple choice grid and checkbox grid (both supported from Google Forms and Sheets), date, time, image, section, and title and description.

Variants. Form Builder comes as several add-ons for different starting points: Form Builder as a Forms add-on, Form Builder for Sheets, Form Builder for Docs, Form Builder for Slides, a Google Chat version, and Form Builder Plus, the all-in-one edition that works across Forms, Sheets, Docs, Drive, Slides, Gmail and Calendar. The products page gives Form Builder for Sheets 244,000+ users, Form Builder for Docs "5M+ users" and Form Builder Plus "3 M+ users." The pricing page notes that a single license now covers all variants, so you are not buying one add-on per app. It also works with both consumer Gmail and Google Workspace accounts.

Automation and the wider product line. The workflow it automates is form creation itself: the home page pitches Form Builder as the way to "automate the process" when data is scattered across Docs, Sheets, Forms and Slides. What happens after submission belongs to other Jivrus products. Form Director routes submitted Google Form data to apps inside and outside Google Workspace, Form Presenter presents forms for quizzes and assessments, Evalix is the company's evaluation platform for delivering and grading assessments built with Form Builder, and AppiWorks is its application integration platform.

Plans, limits and support

The home page says you can "Start Free" with no credit card required and "Upgrade from $9 per month." Paid plans are quota-based: the FAQ explains that one import equals one item created in the form, every plan has a monthly quota, and gives the example that "the Pro plan has 10000 imports per month." Usage resets on the 1st of every month regardless of when you subscribed, and upgrading to a plan such as Business raises the quota straight away but does not reset the month's usage. You can check usage, remaining quota, plan and validity from the Account menu inside the add-on.

Yearly plans come with 2 months of free usage, and group plans get discounts by the number of members. Non-profits get a 50% discount for the first 2 years, plus training sessions and support, provided they are a recognized charity, non-profit, non-governmental or social change organization with their own domain. Payment runs through PayPal, Stripe or Razorpay, with UPI for Indian customers and invoices from the Jivrus customer portal. The company's pricing FAQ says subscriptions renew automatically until canceled, that you can choose a one-time payment for a monthly or yearly term instead, and that a team can share a group subscription with members added or removed.

Support is a strong theme of the testimonials. One customer says "the team is highly responsive and helpful," and Doug McCann writes that he is "creating 20 quizzes per hour using this," against 3 to 5 an hour by copy and paste. Steven Katz says the tool saved hours building tests for a drone pilot course. The site offers a support request form, a feature request form, sales contact and demos, and documentation with installation and setup guides for every variant, a use case section, a template gallery and how-to pages. The Jivrus site also links documents titled GDPR Compliances, HIPAA Compliance BAA and a Student Privacy Policy.

Who it suits and who it doesn't

It suits a teacher building quizzes from a Word or Docs question bank, a trainer who keeps test items in a spreadsheet, or an administrator who creates similar forms again and again from existing material. The shuffle and random-question features help anyone who needs several versions of the same test, and the export and re-import loop suits teams that edit questions in a document.

It is a narrow tool by design. It only produces Google Forms, so an organization outside Google's ecosystem gets nothing from it, and anything Google Forms cannot do, Form Builder cannot add. The FAQ also warns that the Google Forms API limits how many questions can be added in one batch, so very large imports can fail on Google's side.