Both hand a client a branded PDF by email — but one is a scheduled reporting pipeline fed by your data, and the other is the scored result of an assessment someone just completed.
ReportSkills and FormLM both end in a PDF someone receives, and that's where the similarity ends. ReportSkills is a delivery pipeline: you build a report from reusable widgets, bind it to CSV, pasted tables or form results, and it generates and emails every client's version on a schedule — with live web links and a log of who got and opened what. It is made for the same report going out month after month, where the numbers come from your own data. FormLM is an assessment engine: the report it produces is the scored result of a questionnaire the respondent just filled in, interpreted by AI against your dimensions and bands. If your job is "send every client their recurring numbers on time", ReportSkills is the sharper tool. If your job is "turn what this person answered into a report that explains them", FormLM is.
Ten dimensions that decide which tool matches how your report actually gets made.
| Feature | ReportSkills | FormLM |
|---|---|---|
| Where the numbers come from | ✅ External data you bind: CSV, pasted tables, form results | ✅ The respondent's own answers in the assessment |
| What triggers a report | ✅ A schedule — the same report on a recurring cadence | ✅ A submission — the moment an assessment is completed |
| Scoring engine | ❌ Not its job — it lays out data you feed it | ✅ Weighted multi-dimension scoring with custom bands |
| Per-recipient text | ✅ AI rewrites the commentary per recipient at send time under your rules | ✅ AI writes each respondent's interpretation from their result |
| The questionnaire itself | ❌ No form builder; it consumes form results as one input | ✅ Builds the multi-question form, logic and 360 input |
| Delivery log | ✅ Records who received and opened each report | ⚠️ Sends on submission; no open-tracked delivery log |
| Live web version + QR access | ✅ Yes — every report has a live link and QR | ⚠️ Respondents get an online retrieval link with the PDF |
| Missing-figure handling | ✅ Graceful placeholder so a report still ships on time | N/A (a submission is complete by definition) |
| Free tier recipients | ✅ Unlimited recipients on Basic (10 active templates, badge) | ✅ 10 applications + 100 starter AI credits |
| Paid entry | Plus $19/month — unlimited templates, badge off, automatic reminders | Plus $19/month — branded reports, unlimited applications, Excel export |
ReportSkills figures read from its public site and pricing page in October 2026 — plans change, so verify on the vendor's site. We don't use competitor logos; all product names belong to their respective owners.
Four things it is purpose-built for that an assessment engine isn't.
Set the cadence once and the same client report generates and emails itself every cycle — the month-end marketing or SEO report, the owner statement, the class progress sheet. FormLM's report rides on a submission, not a calendar.
It keeps a record of who received and who opened each report. When the question is "did the client actually see it", a pipeline built around delivery has the answer and FormLM doesn't track opens.
Reports are assembled from reusable widgets bound to your data, and a missing figure becomes an on-time placeholder instead of blocking the send. Built for shipping the same layout to many clients.
Every report has a live web link and a QR, not just an emailed PDF — a recipient can open the current version on any device. Unlimited recipients are available even on the free tier.
The side ReportSkills doesn't do: collecting the input and making it a scored result.
On ReportSkills you feed it a data table. On FormLM the figures are what a respondent just answered, scored across weighted dimensions and bands — the report explains that specific person, not their account's metrics.
Conditional logic, multi-rater (360) inputs and pre/post comparison live on the collection side. A reporting pipeline consumes a form's results; FormLM is the form, the scoring and the report together.
AI writes a personalised read-out per respondent, with baseline and growth comparison and cohort statistics in one document — the analysis layer a data-laying report tool has no reason to include.
Clone a live training-evaluation or diagnostic structure and edit it into your own framework. FormLM's starting point is an assessment you can bill a client for; ReportSkills' is a report layout.
Same ladder, different product on each rung.
| ReportSkills | FormLM | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Basic: 10 active templates, unlimited recipients, a small badge | 10 applications, generic reports, 100 starter AI credits, no credit card |
| Cheapest paid plan | Plus $19/month: unlimited templates, badge off, automatic reminders | Plus $19/month or $199/year: branded personalised reports, unlimited applications |
| What the paid tier buys | More templates, no badge, scheduled reminders — recipients and archive are never capped | Per-respondent branded PDF reports, Excel export, higher AI allowances |
| Team plan | Pro (team) listed as in the works | Pro adds contact management and higher AI allowances |
Both price the entry paid tier at $19/month; what you're buying is a different engine. Checked October 2026 — verify current plans on each site.
Both are worth a look before you decide — here is where each lives.
They share one output — a branded PDF emailed to people — but the two products are built around different things. ReportSkills is a reporting pipeline: you compose a template from widgets, bind it to CSV, pasted tables or form results, and it generates and emails every client's report on a schedule, with a delivery log. FormLM is an assessment engine: the report it sends is the scored result of a questionnaire the respondent just completed. The numbers come from different places and the delivery is triggered differently.
FormLM's report fires on a submission — an assessment is completed, the PDF is generated and emailed automatically. It is not a calendar-driven pipeline for a recurring report whose figures come from an external spreadsheet. If you need the same client report going out on the 1st of every month from your own data, with a record of who opened it, that is ReportSkills' shape of problem.
Recurring delivery on a schedule, a delivery log that records who received and opened each report, live web versions and QR access to a report, and graceful placeholders when a figure is missing so a report still ships on time. It also binds external data — pasted tables, CSV, form results — into the report body, and the free tier carries unlimited recipients.
The collection and scoring side. FormLM runs multi-question assessments with weighted dimensions and score bands, then writes a personalised interpretation for each respondent — so the figures in the report are that person's own answers, not a data feed. It adds baseline and pre/post comparison, group statistics and multi-rater (360) input. ReportSkills doesn't run the questionnaire.
Both start free with a $19/month plan above. ReportSkills Basic is free — 10 active templates, unlimited recipients, a small badge; Plus is $19/month for unlimited templates, badge off and automatic reminders; a team Pro is in the works. FormLM's free plan covers 10 applications and 100 starter AI credits, with Plus at $19/month for branded personalised reports. ReportSkills lives at reportskills.com; FormLM lives at formlm.me.
ReportSkills owns the scheduled, data-fed recurring report. When the deliverable is a personalised, scored PDF generated from what someone just answered, that's the job FormLM was built for — free to start.
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