Tally is genuinely great. It is modern, it is fast, and its free plan is one of the most generous anywhere. If you want to build a form yourself for free, Tally is one of the best tools you can pick. But it is a general, do-it-yourself builder. When the form is a long, complex, client-facing legal intake, and you want it done for you, guided, read aloud, and fed into your case system, that is a different job. That is the job Superforms is built for.
Tally is one of the best free, general-purpose form builders. Superforms is a specialized, done-for-you tool for long, complex legal intake. Choose Tally if you want a free form you build yourself. Choose Superforms if you have a hard client intake and want it built for you, guided, and fed into the case system you already run.
Made for the ten to forty page legal intake, not general forms of every kind.
Helpful for older clients and for anyone filling out a long form on a phone. Tally does not do this.
Terms like executor or adjustment of status are explained in plain language, right where they come up.
Send us your PDF and we rebuild it as a guided form. In Tally you build it yourself.
The finished intake lands in Clio as a contact, a matter, and a note. Nobody retypes anything.
We build your forms for you to start. Tally is a build it yourself tool.
This is the core difference. Tally is a general-purpose builder that does a bit of everything, very well, for free. Superforms does one thing: the long, complex, client-facing intake. That focus is why it reads questions aloud, explains legal terms, and is built around real practice-area forms, none of which a general tool sets out to do.
Tally forms are clean and modern. Superforms goes further for a hard form. It reads every question out loud, explains unfamiliar terms in plain language, and moves through a long intake in short calm steps. On a stressful legal intake, that is what keeps a client from getting stuck.
Tally is a build it yourself tool, and it is a good one. Superforms is done for you to start. Send us the intake you already use, even a scanned PDF, and we rebuild it as a guided form. You do not open a form editor.
Tally is strong here and generous. Its free plan includes conditional logic, file uploads, and signatures. Superforms has conditional logic and document collection, and e signature is rolling out next. On these mechanics, Tally is ahead today, and honestly so. Where we pull ahead is the guided experience and the fit for legal intake.
Tally templates are general. Superforms is built around the forms in estate planning, immigration, family law, and bankruptcy, where the questions, the terms, and the stakes are specific.
Tally connects through integrations. Superforms sends the finished intake into Clio natively as a contact, a matter, and a note. For legal intake, that clean landing in your case system is the point.
Tally is free, and its free plan is genuinely generous. Superforms is not free, because it is specialized and done for you. The trade is a free DIY tool versus a purpose-built intake that you do not have to build.
| Feature | Superforms | Tally |
|---|---|---|
| The intake experience | ||
| Built for 10 to 40 page legal intake | Yes | General purpose |
| Reads every question out loud | Yes | No |
| Explains the hard words in plain language | Yes | No |
| Built around real practice-area forms | Legal | Generic |
| Logic, documents, signing | ||
| Conditional logic | Yes | Yes |
| Document collection | Yes | Yes |
| E signature | On the way | Yes |
| Setup and fit | ||
| Rebuild your existing PDF for you | Yes, done for you | Build it yourself |
| Native handoff to your case system | Clio | Integrations |
| Done for you setup | Yes | DIY |
| Price | ||
| Price | Small firm pricing | Free, then $29 to $89 / mo |
A fair read for the long, complex intake use case, based on what each product publicly documents. Tally is an excellent, generous free general builder, and on some mechanics it is ahead of us today. Superforms is built for the long, complex legal intake and does it for you. E signature is rolling out on Superforms next.
Not free. A specialized, done-for-you tool for a hard intake, with free setup for the first customers where we build your forms for you.
One of the most generous free plans anywhere, with paid tiers that add branding removal, team features, and advanced integrations.
Strengths. Excellent free plan, modern and fast, conditional logic, file uploads, signatures and payments even on free, great for general DIY forms.
Trade offs. General, not built for legal intake, no reading aloud or plain language, and you build and run it yourself.
Strengths. Built for long legal forms, reads aloud, plain language, rebuilds your existing PDF for you, feeds your case system, done for you.
Trade offs. Not free, narrower than a general builder, and e signature is still rolling out.
Choose Tally if you want a free, modern, general-purpose form builder and you are happy to build it yourself. For that, it is one of the best tools around.
Choose Superforms if your form is a long, complex legal intake, you want the client experience built around them with questions read aloud and terms explained, and you want it done for you and landing in the case system you already use.
A founder building a waitlist form or a feedback survey. Tally is perfect and free. Superforms is not the tool for that.
An immigration firm with a thirty page intake across several forms. Superforms rebuilds it as a guided form, reads it aloud, explains the terms, and lands the finished intake in Clio, without the firm building anything.
For general DIY forms, Tally is one of the best and it is free. For a long, complex legal intake you want done for you, Superforms is built for that, with reading aloud, plain language, a PDF rebuild, and a native handoff to your case system.
Tally is free for general forms. Superforms is a specialized, done-for-you tool for a hard job, so you pay for the guided experience, the PDF rebuild, and the native case-system handoff.
On some mechanics, yes, today. Tally includes signatures and more on its free plan. Superforms wins on the guided experience, reading aloud, plain language, the PDF rebuild, and the fit for legal intake.
Take a 60 second look at a guided estate planning intake. Read aloud, plain language, on any phone.