Works with Google Forms™
Made from your own Google Doc or Word file, with your logo and letterhead, saved in your Drive folder, and emailed to the person who answered, a few seconds after they press Send.
20 PDFs a month free, no card needed. Then $19 once, with no subscription.
Fill in the form and press Send. This is what happens on your real form.
The form a parent fills in
Trip slips › {{Class}} › {{Student name}}.pdf
I give permission for {{Student name}} of {{Class}} to go on the class trip on Friday, March 6.
Lakeside Elementary · office@lakeside.example · Keep this copy
PDFThe parent's inbox
Inbox
No spreadsheet in the middle and nothing to install on your computer. It works from the form itself.
Press "Make a starter template from my questions" and a Google Doc appears with a placeholder for every question. Or pick a Google Doc or Word file you already use. Your logo, letterhead, tables, headers and footers stay as you made them.
Pick a Drive folder, or let it make one. Name each file from the answers, and sort PDFs into subfolders by an answer such as the class.
"Make a test PDF from the latest response" shows exactly what people will get. Then press Save and turn on.
FORM TO PDF
Form to PDF On
SetupLogAccount
Step 2 of 3
Trip slips Open
File name{{Student name}} – {{Timestamp}}[Student name] – 2026-03-02 09:14.pdf
Put each PDF in a subfolder named byClass
List checkbox answers as• Bullets
NextUse the Google Doc or Word file you already send out. Your logo, fonts, colors, tables, headers and footers come through as you made them. No watermark, on the free plan too.
Thank you! 14 Mill Street
Show this PDF at check-in
Confidential · page 1 of 2
FORM TO PDF
Form to PDF On
SetupLogAccount
Older tools fail quietly: a trigger stops, and nobody notices until a parent asks where their copy is.
The best-known PDF add-ons ask Google for every file in your Drive. Form to PDF asks only for the files it makes and the ones you pick. Here is the line you agree to on Google's screen.
Autocrat, Form Publisher and Document Studio, as listed on the Marketplace in November 2026.
The same job, with Google's narrowest Drive permission.
Answers, files and emails stay in your Google account. Our server only learns your own email address, to check whether you have paid. Privacy policy
Moving from Autocrat or Form Publisher? Templates written with <<Question>> work as they are.
| Feature | Form to PDF | Autocrat | Form Publisher | Document Studio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 20 a month free, then $19 once | Free | 20 a month free, then $99 a year | 25 a month free, then $49.95 to $99.95 a year |
| Drive access asked for | Only files it makes or you pick | All your Drive files | All your Drive files | All your Drive files, and Gmail settings |
| Where it runs | From the form, on each response | From the response Sheet | From the form | From the form or the Sheet |
| When something fails | A log with the reason, Retry, and one email to you | A status column in the Sheet | An email about failed submissions | Status columns in the Sheet |
| Templates | Google Docs and Word files | Docs and Sheets | Docs, Sheets and Slides | Docs, Sheets and Slides |
| Output | PDF, and the filled Doc if you want it | PDF or Doc | PDF, Google and Office files | PDF, Word and Google files |
From each add-on's Marketplace listing, pricing page and help pages, checked November 15, 2026. Prices change; check theirs before you decide.
Trips, term reports and event sign-ups come a few times a year. A yearly bill makes no sense for that.
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Google limits how many emails any account can send in a day: about 100 for a personal account, more for a school or work account. The add-on shows how many you have left, and emails over the limit go out the next day.
Better you read it here than find out on a busy morning.
Copy one into your Drive, add your logo, and pick it in the add-on. Or start from your own Doc or Word file.
No. Form to PDF reads each response from the form itself. If you already link a Sheet, that keeps working as before.
Usually within a minute of the response. If Google is slow or returns an error, it tries again after 1, 5 and 15 minutes, and an hourly check catches anything left.
Any question title in double braces, such as {{Student name}}, anywhere in the Doc, including tables, headers and footers. Also {{Timestamp}}, {{Today}}, {{Response number}}, {{Respondent email}}, {{Edit link}}, {{Score}} for quizzes and {{All answers}}. A grid row is {{Question [Row]}}. See all placeholders.
Yes. Put the .docx in your Drive and pick it. The add-on copies it into a Google Doc and uses the copy, because placeholders can only be filled in a Google Doc. Your Word file is not changed. Most Word layouts come through well; make a test PDF to check yours.
Yes, if the placeholders use the question titles: <<Question>> works the same as {{Question}}. Autocrat tags named after Sheet columns need renaming to the question titles. More on moving from Autocrat.
From your own Google account, so replies come back to you. You write the subject and message, and can use placeholders in both.
Yes. You can pick a template or folder on a shared drive. On a school or work account, your administrator has to allow add-ons from the Google Workspace Marketplace.
New responses wait, and you get one email saying so. They are made on the 1st of the next month, or at once if you unlock for $19. Nothing is lost.
20 PDFs a month free, no card needed. Then $19 once.