.xsn
InfoPath form templates
The template file from InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013, including browser-enabled forms published to SharePoint. Its views, schema and default values are read straight from the package.
InfoPath .xsn + .xml in · PDF and Excel out
Read your old InfoPath forms without InfoPath.
InfoPath Forms Services is gone from SharePoint Online, and your form libraries are now folders of XML nobody can open. FormArchive renders every submission with its original layout, exports them to searchable PDFs, and flattens every field to Excel, in bulk, on your own computer.
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Works with InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013 forms. Mac and Windows.
The forms are still there. The software that opened them is not.
- InfoPath Forms Services left SharePoint Online on 14 July 2026. Browser forms stopped rendering, and every library of submissions turned into raw XML files overnight.
- Microsoft offers no migration or archive tool. Power Apps rebuilds the form for the future; it does nothing for the ten years of submissions behind it.
- Fields that were never promoted to SharePoint columns exist only inside the XML. The list view shows you a title and a date. The answers are somewhere else.
- The existing archivers are enterprise software sold through a sales call, from $950 plus 20% a year for support. That is a lot for one library you need to keep readable.
- The InfoPath 2013 client is out of support and Windows-only. Keeping one old PC around to open forms one at a time is not a records policy.
How it works
Drop in a template and a folder. Get back PDFs and a spreadsheet.
1
Drop in the files
Download the form library from SharePoint (the .xml submissions) and the .xsn template it was built on. Drag both into FormArchive. No SharePoint connection, no admin consent, no server.
2
Check a few forms
Every submission renders with its original views, the way people filled it in. Flip between forms, search across all of them, and see which fields were never promoted to a column.
3
Export the archive
One click writes a PDF per form or one merged PDF, an Excel workbook with every field, and a folder of the attachments people uploaded. File it, hand it to records, or load it into whatever replaced InfoPath.
The original layout, kept
FormArchive applies the view stylesheets stored inside your .xsn, so the PDF looks like the form your staff filled in, with its labels, sections and tables. Pick which view to export when a template has several.
Every field in Excel
Each form becomes a row, with a column for every field in the schema, promoted or not. Repeating sections and tables go to their own sheets, linked back to the form they came from.
Attachments extracted
Files people attached inside a form are stored as base64 text in the XML. FormArchive decodes them back to the original files with their original names, in one folder per form.
No template? Still readable
Lost the .xsn? FormArchive reads the XML on its own and shows every field in a clean generic view, with group names as headings. Export to PDF and Excel works the same way.
Searchable PDFs
Text in every PDF is real text, not an image, so a records search, Windows search or Spotlight finds a form by a name, a number or a phrase someone typed into it.
Runs on your computer
Forms often hold HR, finance or student records. FormArchive processes them locally on Mac or Windows and works offline. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
Formats
What FormArchive opens
Built for the files a SharePoint InfoPath library leaves behind. Works with forms designed in InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013.
.xml
Saved form data
The submissions in a form library or saved to disk, one XML file per form. Thousands at a time, in nested folders.
.xsf
Form definition files
Already unpacked the template? Point FormArchive at the folder with manifest.xsf, the .xsd schema and the view .xsl files and it uses those directly.
base64
Embedded attachments
File-attachment fields inside the XML, decoded back to the original documents, photos and PDFs with their file names.
no template
Generic field view
Any InfoPath XML without its template, shown as labelled fields and tables so nothing in it is unreadable.
FormArchive vs. the alternatives
Archiving one form library shouldn't need a sales call
The existing options are built for enterprise migrations. FormArchive is for the admin who needs one library readable for the next seven years.
| Lightning Tools Form Migrator | Nutrient converter | An old InfoPath 2013 PC | FormArchive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-serve, no sales call | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk export of a whole library | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Every field to Excel, including unpromoted ones | Varies | Varies | — | ✓ |
| Works on Mac | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Setup | Sales-led project | Server or Power Automate flow | Find a PC that still has it | Drag in a folder |
| Support status | Vendor support | Vendor support | Out of support, Windows only | Supported |
| Price | From $950 + 20% support | Quote | — | From $79 one-off |
The enterprise tools are good at what they're for: moving whole InfoPath estates to a new platform. If what you need is to keep old submissions readable and searchable, a desktop app and a one-off price fit the job better.
Pricing
Pay once for the library you need to keep
Preview your own forms free before you pay. No subscription for a one-off archive.
Free
$0
See your forms rendered before you spend anything.
- Preview 10 forms with their original layout
- Generic view for forms without a template
- See every field, promoted or not
- Runs locally, nothing uploaded
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Works with InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013 forms. Mac and Windows.
Library
$79one-off
Archive one form library, up to 10,000 forms.
- Bulk PDF, one file per form or one merged file
- Excel / CSV with every field, repeating sections on their own sheets
- Embedded attachments extracted
- Re-export the same library as often as you like
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Works with InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013 forms. Mac and Windows.
Unlimited
$249/ year
For admins with a whole estate of InfoPath libraries.
- Any number of libraries and forms
- Everything in Library
- Valid for a full year
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Works with InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013 forms. Mac and Windows.
Prices in USD, excluding sales tax. A library is one set of submissions built on one form template.
Your forms never leave your computer
InfoPath was used for exactly the forms you can't paste into a web converter: HR records, expense claims, incident reports, student files, grant applications. FormArchive is a desktop app. It reads the files from your disk, writes the PDFs and spreadsheets back to your disk, and works with the network cable unplugged. There is no upload step, no cloud account and no third party in the middle.
Make your InfoPath library readable again
Download FormArchive for Mac or Windows and preview your first 10 forms free.
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Works with InfoPath 2007, 2010 and 2013 forms. Mac and Windows.
InfoPath guides
Questions about InfoPath forms
How do I open an InfoPath form without InfoPath?
Drag the .xml form file into FormArchive. With the .xsn template alongside it, the form renders with its original layout; without the template, you still get every field in a readable generic view. You can then save it as a PDF or export the fields to Excel. InfoPath itself is not needed.
Can I convert InfoPath XML to PDF in bulk?
Yes. Point FormArchive at a folder of submissions and it writes one searchable PDF per form, or a single merged PDF, using the view stored in your template. The Library plan covers up to 10,000 forms.
Can I export InfoPath forms to Excel?
Yes. Every form becomes a row and every field in the schema becomes a column, including fields that were never promoted to SharePoint columns. Repeating sections and tables go to their own sheets, linked to the parent form by its file name.
Is FormArchive an .xsn viewer?
It reads .xsn templates: the views, the schema, the field names and the defaults inside them. Most people use it to view the forms filled in from that template, but you can open a template on its own to see how a form was laid out.
InfoPath has been retired. How do I archive my forms?
Download the submissions and the template from each SharePoint form library while you still have access, then export them with FormArchive to PDF for the record and Excel for the data. Our guide to archiving after the InfoPath retirement walks through it library by library.
How do I export InfoPath forms from SharePoint Online?
The submissions are ordinary files in the form library, so you can download them from the library view, sync the library with OneDrive, or script it with PowerShell. The template is usually in the library's Forms folder. Our export guide covers each option.
Are my forms uploaded anywhere?
No. FormArchive runs on your Mac or PC and works offline. The forms, the PDFs and the spreadsheets stay on your disk.
Is FormArchive made by Microsoft?
No. FormArchive is an independent app that reads InfoPath and SharePoint files. InfoPath and SharePoint are Microsoft trademarks, used here only to describe which files it opens.