A long form arrives as a handful of short pages you swipe through. Each screen holds a few questions, a Back button, and a Next, so the person filling it always sees how far they’ve come and how much is left.
Say you’re collecting a job application: contact details on the first page, work history on the second, references on the third. Nobody scrolls through one endless wall or loses their place mid-answer. They move forward a step at a time, and step back whenever they need to fix an earlier answer.
Airtable’s forms put every question on a single page. Air Fill breaks that into pages that feel like a native app, so filling out even a detailed form stays calm and easy to follow.
The Airtable pain this solves
- A long form is one endless scroll on a phone A form with a lot of fields becomes one long scroll on a phone, with no sense of how far along you are.
- Airtable’s mobile app is painful Airtable’s own app is slow on a phone, and building anything real sends you back to the desktop.
- Every respondent sees every field Airtable forms show the same fields to everyone, whether they apply or not.