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PulseFormCreator changelog

Last updated: 20 September 2026

Changes to the product, newest first. Internal refactors are left out.

2026-09-20: A quieter edge on every answer

  • Options, text boxes, rating pads and every other answer surface now share one edge: a hairline drawn from your own theme's text colour, instead of the heavier fixed border they each carried. Picking an option shows a clean accent ring and a light wash rather than a coloured shadow. Forms look the same in the editor as they do to the people filling them in.
  • Dark and tinted themes get the right edge automatically: a light hairline on a dark form, a warm one on a cream form.
  • Polls now use the same styling as forms, so both look like one product.
  • Adding a question opens the block picker straight away, and an "AI draft" button in that picker opens the prompt without taking space from the list.
  • Arriving from a template still tells you which template you started from, and links back to the draft you had before.
  • Accessibility: better contrast on keyboard hints, a visible focus ring on option rows, and dialogs now respect "reduce motion" properly.

2026-09-19: Logic moves into the canvas

  • The Logic tab is gone. Rules and endings are now cards in the canvas: a rule sits under the question it runs after, rules with no question sit in an "After the last question" group, and endings sit in an "Endings" group at the bottom. Click a card to edit it where it is.
  • One Add button in the sidebar and on the phone dock now covers everything you can put in a form: the question types, plus Rule, Ending and "Only show a question when…".
  • The flow map is now a read-only dialog, opened with a Flow button in the top bar. The button appears once your form has a rule, more than one ending, or a question that only shows some of the time. Clicking a block in the map selects it in the canvas.
  • Scoring moved onto the question it scores, in that question's settings. Calculated values moved to Settings, under Advanced.
  • The tabs are now Questions, Design, Settings, Connect and Share. Forms you already built keep working and nothing about a published form changed.

2026-09-18: Sharing, attribution and upgrade prompts

  • Site tidy-up: ten marketing pages were retired. Their addresses now redirect to the homepage or to the matching template. In the help centre, the Tally importer article is now part of the Tally switching guide, and the Pro and Business articles are part of "Plans and billing". The old help addresses redirect.
  • A "Made with PulseFormCreator" badge now appears on every page of a survey, on thank-you screens, on closed and password screens, inside embeds and pop-ups, and on polls. It used to appear on the first page only. It opens in a new tab, so clicking it from inside an embed no longer replaces the page someone was on.
  • Default thank-you screens carry a "Create your own survey" card. If you wrote your own ending, your wording stays and only the small badge is added.
  • Removing the badge is the same paid feature everywhere now, including polls, where the switch used to be free.
  • Link previews: pasting a survey link into Slack, WhatsApp or LinkedIn now shows a preview card with your survey's own title and description. The Share tab shows what that card looks like before you send it.
  • Notification and confirmation emails carry a small "Made with PulseFormCreator" line. It disappears with the badge on paid plans, along with the "via PulseFormCreator" sender name on respondent emails.
  • Owner notification emails now include your survey's share link, so it is one copy away when you want to send it again.
  • A thank-you link for a survey that doesn't exist now returns a "not available" page. It used to show a blank thank-you.
  • We remember how you first found PulseFormCreator in a first-party cookie for 90 days, so we know which channels send people to us. It holds the referring site's name and campaign tags. It does not hold your identity, and there are no third-party trackers. We don't set it at all if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, or if you're in the EU, EEA or UK.
  • After your first publish we ask once how you found us. You can skip the question.
  • Upgrade prompts are now based on counts: the drop-off prompt only appears when at least five people started and didn't finish in the last week, it uses visit counts (we never keep answers from unfinished responses on Free), and every prompt can be dismissed permanently.

2026-09-17: Logic, integrations, plans and privacy

  • New question types: number, phone number, website link, time, signature, consent checkbox, picture choice and address. The builder now has 22 question types, including matrix (Likert), ranking, slider and file upload.
  • New layout blocks: image, video (YouTube, Vimeo or Loom) and embed, making 8 layout blocks in total.
  • Single choice, multiple choice and dropdown questions can offer an "Other" option with a text box and shuffle the option order for each respondent. Multiple choice can also show as a searchable dropdown. Address questions show a state list and check the postcode for Australian addresses.
  • Logic v2: show or hide any block based on answers, hidden fields or calculated values. Conditions can use all or any, nested groups, and new operators such as "is any of", "is every of", "starts with" and "greater than". The new Logic tab has a flow map and rules that jump ahead, end the survey or calculate a value.
  • Calculated values, scoring and endings: give points to options and answers, weight questions, and send people to different ending screens or redirects based on their answers or score. The server re-checks the path, scores and ending for every response.
  • Hidden fields and prefill: capture values such as UTM tags from the survey link, prefill answers from link parameters or default answers, and build prefill links in the Share tab. Hidden-field values can be passed on to redirect URLs.
  • Answer piping: type @ to mention an earlier answer, a hidden field or a calculated value in question text, endings and emails, with an optional fallback.
  • Embeds: a new loader script (/embed.js) with eight styles: standard, full page, popup, slider, popover, side tab, chatbot and feedback. Popups can open on click, on page load, after a delay, on exit intent or on scroll. Embeds resize to fit and pass the host page's link parameters to the survey. A plain iframe and an email button are also available.
  • Connect tab: email notifications to you, confirmation emails to respondents, signed webhooks with automatic retries and a delivery log, Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make and n8n presets, and data sync to Notion, Airtable and Google Sheets (through a private CSV feed). Notion and Airtable can also sync responses you already have.
  • Access and integrity: password protection (passwords are stored hashed), open and close dates with a time zone, response limits, duplicate prevention (once per browser, once per browser or network, or once per answer), spam protection (a hidden honeypot field and an optional minimum completion time) and custom messages for closed surveys.
  • Results: the results page now has Summary, Insights, Responses and Partial tabs. Insights shows views, starts, completions, median completion time and traffic sources. You can search and filter responses and export the ones you select.
  • Partial responses (Pro) keep answers from people who don't finish. "Save and continue later" is on by default and keeps a respondent's progress on their own device.
  • Keyboard editing: undo and redo (Ctrl+Z or ⌘Z), a shortcuts list (press ?), shortcuts to insert, duplicate, move and delete blocks or mark a question as required, "Turn into" to change a block's type in place, markdown shortcuts for headings and dividers, and pasting a list to create options. Deleting a block shows an Undo button.
  • Plans: Free (US$0), Pro (US$21 a month or US$217 a year) and Business (US$66 a month or US$667 a year). Free includes unlimited surveys and responses (subject to fair use), every question type, logic, integrations, CSV and Excel export, anonymous mode, and file uploads up to 10 MB each.
  • Pro adds: removing PulseFormCreator branding, partial responses, drop-off insights, full insights history (Free shows the last 7 days), respondent confirmation emails, custom notification emails, link previews and SEO settings, custom CSS, tracking pixels, 30 days of version history and uploads up to 5 GB each. Business adds: respondent email verification with one-time codes, limiting answers to your email domains, data retention controls, 90 days of version history and priority support.
  • If you stop paying, paid settings stay saved but switch off, and they come back when you upgrade. Owners who already used custom link previews keep them. Billing runs through Stripe in test mode, so no live payments are taken.
  • Anonymous mode (every plan): turn on Anonymous responses in Settings › Privacy and PulseFormCreator stops storing IP address hashes, browser and device details, location, referring site and UTM tags. Visits are no longer linked to responses. Respondents see a notice explaining what is and isn't collected. Tracking pixels don't load, and exports leave out the ip_hash and user_agent columns.
  • The Privacy panel lists what is kept, flags questions and settings that could still identify someone, and can remove device data from responses you've already collected.
  • Custom CSS (Pro): your CSS is cleaned and applied only to your survey and its thank-you page.
  • Tracking (Pro): Google Analytics 4 and Meta Pixel. Answers are never sent to either.
  • Version history: versions are saved as you edit (at most every five minutes), when you publish and when you save one yourself. You can compare and restore them. History is kept for 7 days on Free, 30 on Pro and 90 on Business.
  • Data retention (Business): responses, partial answers and uploaded files are deleted automatically after the period you choose.
  • Larger uploads (Pro): files up to 5 GB each upload straight to storage. Uploaded files open only for the survey owner or through short-lived signed links.
  • Security: our server now saves survey responses only after access rules and answer checks pass, and database permissions were tightened to match. CSV, Excel and Google Sheets exports now stop cells from running as spreadsheet formulas. File uploads accept only approved file types (SVG is no longer accepted), are rate limited and only work while the survey is open.
  • More security fixes: stored IP hashes now use a secret key, rate-limit records no longer contain IP addresses, AI drafting has shared rate limits, and signed-in pages and the API send extra security headers.

2026-05-27: Launch

  • Survey builder at / with 10 question types and 5 layout blocks.
  • AI drafting: describe the survey, get a draft, then edit it.
  • Build before signup; drafts kept in local browser storage until you save with a magic link.
  • Anonymous mode: skip respondent email collection. Stored IP and user-agent are SHA-256 hashed.
  • Public survey runner at /s/[slug] with custom thank-you page and optional redirect.
  • Response dashboard at /dashboard/[id]/responses with NPS scoring for NPS questions.
  • CSV and XLSX export at /api/surveys/[id]/export, owner-only.
  • 10 build-time validated templates: CSAT, NPS, Engagement, Event, Product, Market Research, Course, Brand, Lead, Post-Purchase.
  • Magic-link sign-in via SendGrid; single-use, one-hour expiry.
  • Marketing pages: home, AI survey maker, no-signup, unlimited, anonymous, SurveyMonkey alternative, Typeform alternative, customer feedback, employee pulse, NPS.
  • Trust pages: about, contact, privacy, terms, security, AI data policy, accessibility, status, changelog, delete data.

Not in the product

This page lists only what has shipped. PulseFormCreator does not have payments inside a form, custom domains, team workspaces, a public API, PDF export of responses, multi-language forms or notification email from your own domain. If you depend on one of these, tell us so we know it matters to you.