How to Automate Any Online Form in Under 60 Seconds

The 15 fields you retype every single day

First name. Last name. Email. Phone number. Street address. City. State. Zip code. Country. Employer. Job title. Date of birth. LinkedIn URL. Company website. "How did you hear about us?"

That's 15 fields. And you type them from memory on every single form you touch.

According to Formstack research, the average person fills 50+ online forms per month. Job applications, account signups, contact forms, checkout pages, surveys, appointment bookings, newsletter subscriptions, event registrations. They add up faster than you'd think.

50 forms times 15 fields equals 750+ identical fields typed from memory every month. Your phone number doesn't change between forms. Neither does your zip code, your employer, or your email. But you type all of them, every time, like it's the first time you've ever been asked.

Over the course of a year, that's 9,000+ fields of repetitive typing. If each field takes 4 seconds on average (including tabbing, recalling the value, and typing it), that's 10 hours of your year spent typing things you already know by heart.

Every minute you spend retyping your phone number is a minute you don't get back. And it's not just time. It's the mental friction. The tiny annoyance that compounds across 50 forms into real fatigue. It's the reason you abandon forms halfway through, or skip signing up for things you actually want.

Why you're still doing this manually

It's not that you haven't tried to fix this. You have. Here's what happened.

Chrome autofill handles your name and email. Sometimes your address. But it chokes on dropdowns, textareas, and anything that isn't a standard HTML input. That custom "State" dropdown built in React? Chrome has no idea what to do with it. It just skips it and moves on, leaving you to click through 50 state options manually.

Password managers like 1Password and LastPass are great for login forms. Username, password, maybe a credit card number. But they weren't built for 34-field job applications or multi-step checkout wizards. Try using 1Password on a Greenhouse or Lever application and you'll see it fill exactly two fields: email and password. The other 32 fields? You're on your own.

Some people keep a Google Doc or Apple Note with all their info and copy-paste field by field. That works until you realize you're switching between tabs 15 times per form, scrolling through a messy doc, and you still have to find the right field, copy the right value, and paste it in the right place. One wrong paste and your phone number ends up in the email field.

So most people just accept the friction. They type their address for the 2,000th time and move on with their day. They don't realize there's a way to fix this because the solution isn't in the same category as browser settings or password vaults.

But there's a third category of tool that most people haven't heard of yet.

Three ways to automate form filling (ranked)

Here's a real breakdown of the three methods. Not marketing fluff. Just what each one actually handles when you point it at a real-world form.

Method 1: Browser autofill (Chrome, Safari, Firefox)

Free, built-in, handles the basics. Name, email, phone, address, credit card. That covers maybe 40% of the fields on a typical form. The other 60% (dropdowns, textareas, conditional fields, multi-step flows, radio buttons) are invisible to it. It also breaks constantly when sites update their form layouts, because it relies on field naming conventions that aren't standardized.

Method 2: Password manager (1Password, LastPass, Bitwarden)

Excellent for login forms and saved payment methods. Fills username + password in one click. Some of them also offer identity cards that can fill name and address on certain forms. But try using it on a job application with 30 fields, and you'll see it stops after the basic contact info. Dropdowns, textareas, checkboxes, conditional logic? Not its job. It was never designed for this.

Method 3: AI form filler (Filliny)

Scans the entire page. Identifies every field, including custom dropdowns, React components, multi-step wizards, and textareas asking open-ended questions. Matches each field to your saved profile data. Fills 95%+ of fields in seconds. For open-ended questions like "Why do you want this job?" it generates answers based on your profile and the context of the form. You review and edit before submitting.

Here's what each method actually covers:

• Name, email, phone - All 3 methods handle this
• Street address - Browser autofill and AI handle it well. Password managers: sometimes, depending on setup
• Custom dropdowns - Only AI. Browser autofill can't see them. Password managers ignore them entirely
• Textareas ("Tell us about yourself") - Only AI. No autofill tool writes paragraphs for you
• Multi-step wizard forms - Only AI. Autofill fills page 1 and gives up on pages 2 through 5
• Radio buttons and checkboxes - Only AI. "Are you authorized to work in the US?" requires clicking, not typing
• Login + password fields - Password managers win here. That's their core job and they do it well

The truth: you probably need Method 2 for logins and Method 3 for everything else. They're not competitors. They cover different ground entirely.

The 60-second setup (step by step)

I timed this on a stopwatch. Three separate attempts, averaged. Here's the actual breakdown.

1. Install the Chrome extension - Go to the extension page, click "Add to Chrome," confirm the permissions popup. Two clicks total. 15 seconds.
2. Create a profile called "Default" - The extension opens a profile editor. Give it a name. That's it for this step. 10 seconds.
3. Fill in your basics - Name, email, phone, address, maybe your job title and employer if you fill work-related forms often. You know all of this by heart. 25 seconds.
4. Navigate to any form and click the Filliny icon - The icon shows up in your Chrome toolbar. Navigate to any page with a form. One click on the icon. 10 seconds.

Total: 60 seconds. That includes installation.

After this one-time setup, every future form is just "click the icon and review." No setup, no configuration, no typing your address from memory for the 2,001st time. The profile lives in your account, synced across devices, ready whenever you need it.

You're 60 seconds away from never typing your address again.

What happens when you click "fill"

Here's the technical version, simplified. When you click the Filliny icon on a page with a form:

1. The AI scans every form field on the page - inputs, textareas, dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, date pickers, custom components built in React or Vue. Everything visible in the DOM.
2. It reads the context of each field - labels, placeholder text, surrounding copy, field names in the HTML, ARIA attributes, even nearby helper text. It's figuring out what each field is actually asking for, not just matching on the field name.
3. It matches fields to your profile data - "Email address" maps to your email. "Phone" maps to your phone. "What interests you about this role?" maps to your saved professional summary and generates a contextual answer.
4. It fills everything it can and highlights anything it's unsure about - Fields it couldn't confidently match get flagged so you can fill them manually. You review the entire form, tweak anything that needs adjusting, and submit.

The whole process takes 3 to 8 seconds depending on the form size. Simple contact forms are closer to 3. Complex job applications with 30+ fields are closer to 8.

I timed it on a 34-field Greenhouse job application. 6 seconds. That included the custom dropdown for "How did you hear about us?", the textarea asking why I wanted the role, and two radio buttons about work authorization. All filled correctly.

Compare that to the 4-7 minutes the same form takes manually. That's a 98% time reduction on a single form. Multiply across 10 job applications in a week and you're looking at 45 minutes saved from one feature.

The forms it handles that autofill can't

This is where things get interesting. Browser autofill was designed for simple HTML forms from 2010. The web has moved on. Most forms in 2026 are built with JavaScript frameworks, custom components, and dynamic rendering. Here's what's different now:

• Dynamic React, Vue, and Angular forms - Fields render on the fly based on your previous answers. Chrome's autofill can't see fields that don't exist in the initial HTML. AI scans the live DOM after each interaction.
• Multi-step wizard forms - Page 1: personal info. Page 2: work history. Page 3: preferences. Page 4: review. Autofill fills page 1 and then has no idea there's a page 2. You still have to click through and fill each step manually.
• Custom dropdown menus - Not native HTML <select> elements. Built with <div>s and JavaScript click handlers. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and most modern job boards use these. Autofill can't interact with them at all.
• Open-ended textareas - "Tell us about yourself." "Why are you interested in this position?" "Describe your experience with project management." No autofill tool writes paragraphs. AI does, drawing from your profile to generate relevant, personalized responses you can edit before submitting.
• Government portals with legacy HTML - Forms built in the early 2000s with non-standard field names, nested iframes, and no autocomplete attributes. The IRS, DMV, and state benefit portals are notorious for this. Chrome's autofill relies on field naming conventions these sites don't follow.
• Embedded forms inside iframes - Typeform, JotForm, and Google Forms embedded in other pages. Autofill usually can't reach across the iframe boundary. The form lives in a separate document, invisible to your browser's autofill engine.

Basically, the more annoying the form, the more useful AI form filling becomes. The easy forms are already handled by your browser. It's the hard, complex, multi-field ones that eat your time. And those are exactly the ones AI was built to handle.

What it costs (less than you think)

Let's talk numbers. Real ones.

• Free tier: 5 fills, 1 profile, 3 websites. No credit card required. You can test it on 5 real forms before deciding anything. That's enough to fill a job application, a checkout form, a government portal, and two signups.
• Pro plan: About $3 per month. That breaks down to roughly 3 cents per fill if you're filling 100 forms a month. A cup of coffee costs more than your entire month of form filling. A single Uber ride costs more than half a year of the subscription.

Think of it this way: the time you save on your very first form is worth more than the annual subscription. If a form takes 5 minutes manually and 10 seconds with AI, that one fill saved you 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Your annual cost is about $36. You just earned that back in under 5 minutes.

If you fill 50 forms a month and each one takes 5 minutes manually versus 10 seconds with AI, you're saving 4 hours every month. At a $40/hour rate, that's $160 worth of time. For $3.

And here's the part nobody warns you about: after 5 free fills, going back to typing feels weird. You'll hover over a name field and wait for it to fill itself. You'll get annoyed when a form doesn't auto-populate. That's the endowment effect in action. Once you've experienced automated form filling, manual typing feels broken.

Full pricing details are on the pricing page.

Start with your next form

You already know this is a problem. You've been typing the same 15 fields for years. The fix takes 60 seconds.

Don't overthink it. Install the extension. Fill one form. See if it clicks.

The worst case: you've spent 60 seconds and you don't like it. Uninstall and move on. The best case: you never type your phone number into a form again. Either way, you'll know in under a minute.

If you want a walkthrough of advanced features (multiple profiles for work vs personal, custom answers for specific questions, website-specific settings), the getting started guide has everything.

The best form automation tool isn't the one with the most features. It's the one that fills the form you're looking at right now.