Dculus Forms is an open-source form builder your whole team can use: generate forms with AI, edit them by chat, extend them with plugins — and keep your data entirely yours.
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Why Dculus Forms
Generate a full form from a one-line prompt, then keep editing it by chatting with an AI agent that understands your form's structure.
Full source on GitHub under GPLv3 — no black-box SaaS, no vendor lock-in. Audit every line yourself.
Run it on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean — any cloud provider — or your own servers. Docker Compose for local dev included.
Organizations, role-based permissions, and per-form sharing come standard — not an enterprise-tier upsell. Teammates can even co-edit a form live.
A plugin architecture hooks into form submissions — ship new integrations without touching core code.
A lean, CDN-served form runtime built to handle real production traffic — forms load fast and submissions never queue.
AI-native
Not a bolted-on gimmick — the AI understands your form's structure, applies validation rules, and always asks before touching existing data.
One line of plain English becomes a full form — the right field types, sensible structure, an AI-written title and call-to-action. "Employee onboarding form" comes back with text, date, select, and file fields already in place; "Medical intake form" comes back multi-page.
What kind of form do you need?
Complexity
Pages
Multi-page forms, drag-and-drop reordering, and live validation on every field — built on a typed field-class model, so behavior stays consistent everywhere.
Plugins
Plugins are a first-class extension point, not a hack. Ship your own with a handler, a registry entry, and a config UI — no forking core code.
Push every submission to any endpoint in real time.
Auto-notify your team or respondents on submit.
Sync responses straight into a spreadsheet.
Same, for teams standardized on Microsoft 365.
Post new submissions into a channel instantly.
Score responses automatically against an answer key.
Auto-tag responses using AI against your tag definitions.
A handler, a registry entry, a config UI — that's it.
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Analyzable Fields
88%
Avg Response Rate
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Form Responses
Analytics
Field-level analytics — response distributions, common patterns, per-question stats.
View & submission analytics — device, browser, OS, geography, completion time.
Full edit history — per-field diffs on every response edit — who changed what, when.
Excel/CSV export — extensible by plugins, so integrations can add their own columns.
Deploy your way
Local / evaluation
Lightweight by design — Postgres and the full stack run comfortably on just 1 vCPU and 2 GB RAM. Two commands and you're live.
Production
Deploy on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare — any cloud provider. Infra-as-code blueprints ship in the repo, and we help teams get set up, from small businesses to enterprise.
Organization-based multi-tenancy with system, org, and per-form permission layers
Audit trail on every response edit
Your data and AI provider keys never leave your infrastructure
CI/CD with build + CodeQL security scanning included
Need hands-on help? Hire Dculus engineers from just$6/hour for setup, migration, and scaling.
Contact us| Typical closed SaaS | Dculus Forms | |
|---|---|---|
| Source code | Proprietary | Fully open (GPLv3) |
| Hosting | Vendor's servers only | Self-host anywhere, or managed cloud |
| AI form generation & chat editing | Add-on or absent | Core feature |
| Extensibility | Limited, paid integrations | Open plugin architecture |
| Data ownership | Vendor-controlled | Yours, entirely |
| Privacy | Data on third-party servers, subject to their policies | Private by default — data never leaves your infrastructure |
| Team collaboration | Higher-tier upsell | Standard, including live co-editing |
| Pricing model | Per-response / per-seat fees | Free to self-host, forever |
No per-response caps. No per-seat surprises. Pay only for managed hosting or enterprise controls.
Self-hosted. For solo builders, startups, and privacy-first teams.
Unlimited forms & responses
AI form creation & chat editing
All plugins & webhooks
Instance-wide SMTP
Docker Compose & Terraform blueprints
We run it for you. For SMBs, creators, and marketing teams.
Everything in Community
Zero-downtime automatic upgrades
Global edge routing
Custom domains & branding removal
Custom SMTP senders & priority support
Self-hosted with advanced controls. For regulated industries.
Everything in Community
OIDC / SAML single sign-on
Advanced role-based permissions
Granular system audit logs
Priority SLAs
Early pricing — cloud and enterprise tiers are being finalized. The Community edition is GPLv3 and free forever, including SMTP, webhooks, and unlimited responses.
Spin up the managed cloud for free, or self-host on your own infrastructure with two commands.
Licensed under GPLv3 · 100% auditable source code