Comparison
ReqBrief vs Tally for Client Intake: Free Form or Finished Brief?
Tally is a lovely free form builder. But a free form is still a form, and a form is not a brief.
Tally has won a lot of fans by making a clean, Notion-style form builder that is genuinely free for most of what people need. For quick intake, it is a pleasant alternative to the bigger names.
It shares the same ceiling as every form, though: it asks a fixed set of questions, accepts whatever the client types, and leaves you to turn the responses into something you can scope. ReqBrief runs an adaptive interview instead and returns a structured brief.
ReqBrief vs Tally, side by side
| ReqBrief | Tally | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for 3 briefs, then from €12 | Generous free tier |
| Core format | Adaptive AI interview | Clean static form |
| Follow-up on vague answers | Automatic, in the moment | None: accepts what is typed |
| Output | Structured project brief | Raw responses to interpret |
| Client experience | Feels like a guided conversation | Clean, but still a form to fill |
| Reusing client context | Shared context across projects | None |
| Best at | Defining a project scope | Fast, tidy, free form building |
When Tally is the better choice
- You want a clean, free form up in minutes for simple intake.
- Your questions are fixed and your clients answer them clearly.
- You like the minimal, Notion-style editing experience.
Where ReqBrief wins
- Answers keep coming back vague and you are tired of following up.
- You want a brief written for you, not a response list to rework.
- You want questions that adapt per client instead of one fixed set.
- You want returning-client context to carry over automatically.
- You want the whole intake white-labelled under your own branding.
- You want the brief broken down into tasks with hour estimates, ready to plan and quote from.
The bottom line
Tally is a great free form builder. But if the goal is a client who walks away having actually defined the project, with the brief written for you, that is a different job, and the one ReqBrief is built for.
FAQ
Is ReqBrief free like Tally?
Not entirely. ReqBrief includes 3 free briefs per account, then charges €12 per single brief or €19/month for unlimited. Tally's free tier is more generous and covers most form-building needs outright. The question is not which is cheaper but what you get back: a form and its raw responses, or an adaptive interview and a finished brief.
Tally forms look great. Does design not matter?
Design matters for completion, and a clean form helps. But the deeper problem in intake is answer quality, not aesthetics. ReqBrief raises answer quality by following up on vague responses, then hands you the brief.
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