Local-first · End-to-end encrypted

Your own forms. Your own database.
Your own computer.

Data Maker is a form builder, but much more. Design a form, collect records into a searchable database, and publish it anywhere. Everything lives on your machine, not on someone else's cloud.

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A form builder, and then some

Not just forms: a database you own

Most form tools send every answer straight to a company's servers. Data Maker doesn't. You build the form, and every submission becomes a row in a database that sits on your own computer, ready to search, edit, chart, and export.

  • Drag-and-drop form builder, no code
  • A real database underneath, not just a list of replies
  • Publish to the web, embed on your site, or hand out a PDF
  • Bring your data in from spreadsheets and existing PDFs
  • An AI assistant that drafts forms from a plain-language description
Data Maker: the Home dashboard with forms and live charts

People filling out your form in minutes

No servers to set up, no developers to call. The moment your form is ready, publish it: as a hosted web page anyone can open, or a fillable PDF you hand out. Both go live straight from the app.

Hosted form
your-form.hosted-forms.com
Fillable PDF
download & hand out
WordPress
embed with the plugin
Live in minutes: share the link or hand out the PDF, and answers flow straight back to you.

Local-first doesn't mean offline

Your forms live on the internet so anyone can fill them. The answers only become readable on your computer

On the internet

Anyone fills your form

Publish it as a hosted web page, embed it on your site, or hand out a PDF. Anyone with the link can open and submit it. No app, no account.

In transit

Sealed across the internet

Each answer is locked to your key the instant it's sent. It crosses the web, and passes through our servers, as ciphertext we can't open.

On your computer

Opens in your database

It lands as a new row in the database on your own machine, decrypted with the key only you hold. That's where your data lives.

We relay every submission sealed. We couldn't read it if we wanted to.

Everything you can do

From a single question to a full data workflow

Build any form

Text, numbers, dates, choices, ratings, signatures, calculated fields, and more. Arrange them across pages or multi-step wizards, add validation, and style everything to match your brand.

Collect & manage records

Every answer becomes a row you can search, filter, edit, and page through, in a spreadsheet-style grid or a single-record card view. It's a database that fills itself in.

Charts & calculations

Summarise your data with built-in charts, and let formula fields compute totals, scores, and derived values automatically as records come in.

Publish anywhere

Share a hosted link, embed the form on your own website, export a fillable PDF, or drop it into WordPress. One form, every channel.

Import what you have

Bring records in from a spreadsheet, or map an existing fillable PDF onto a Data Maker form, and keep working without starting from scratch.

AI assistant

Describe the form you want in plain words and the assistant drafts it for you, then helps you refine fields, layout, and wording, right inside the app.

Send data onward

Connect outbound integrations to push new records to the tools you already use, on a schedule or as they arrive, on your terms.

Yours to recover

A single recovery code unlocks your data and restores it to a new machine. No password resets through us, because we can't see inside.

Works in your language

The app and your published forms are available in multiple languages, so you and the people filling them in feel at home.

No data with Big Tech. Ever.

Your forms and records live on your own computer, not in our cloud, not in anyone else's. We don't host your database, mine it, or sell it. There's nothing for us to leak, because we never have it.

When you turn on cloud backup, your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your machine, locked behind a recovery code that only you hold. And when someone fills in one of your published forms, that submission is encrypted end-to-end on its way to your database. We relay it sealed. We couldn't read it if we wanted to.

How your data stays yours

Privacy isn't a setting you switch on. It's how Data Maker is built

Stored locally

Your database is a file on your own machine, encrypted at rest. Use the app fully offline, no account required to build forms and collect records.

Encrypted backups

Optional cloud backups are sealed with your recovery code before they upload. Lose your computer and you can restore everything: we only ever see ciphertext.

Sealed submissions

Forms you publish encrypt each answer to your key. Submissions travel sealed and only open on your device. Our servers move them along blind.

Buy once. Own it forever.

€49 / $49 one-time for the desktop app on Windows and Mac, including a full year of cloud backup, form submissions, the AI assistant, and uploads. Keep cloud running after that for €7 / $7 a month, or just keep using the app offline at no extra cost.

No subscription required to use the app. Your data is always yours.

Get Data Maker: €49 / $49

Want to see how it works first?

Step-by-step guides for every screen: building forms, collecting records, publishing, and settings

Open the Help section

Desktop app

Built for the major desktop operating systems

macOS
Windows
Linux