Formaloo vs Buttondown

Formaloo ships one large changelog roughly monthly, and 2026 has been a run of platform-level work: workspace Themes replacing per-form design, a Usage page with credit-based add-ons, Data Blocks rebuilt, workspace-wide timezones, Teams and access levels. July is the sharpest turn — Magic Logic generates a form's conditions, scoring and routing from a plain-English description, and Magic Voice lets respondents fill a form by speaking. Both sit alongside Magic Create, which builds a form from an uploaded PDF or photo, and Magic Design, which generates a theme from a sentence.

AI is being pushed into every step of the form lifecycle: create it from a document, design it by description, write its logic from a sentence, fill it by voice. The construction of Magic Logic is the interesting part — it reads the existing form, prints every rule it intends to create as one plain sentence per line, and applies nothing until you approve, which is the right shape for a system where a wrong rule silently misroutes respondents. The non-AI releases point the same way commercially: enterprise sidebar controls, portal domain restrictions, purchasable credits, timezone-correct audit trails.

Magic Logic explicitly refuses to create fields, pages or ending pages that do not already exist and reports them instead. Lifting that restriction — one description producing the form and its logic together — is the gap the release itself names.