13 Top WordPress Contact Form Plugins [2022 Edition]

Before developing the JetFormBuilder plugin, we studied dozens of similar WordPress tools to create the most useful and optimal product for our users. Today, let’s explore the 13 best contact form plugins for WordPress.

Top WordPress Contact Form Plugins:

Please note: The description presents the key features of each of the plugins. You can find the complete list by following the links in the descriptions. The plugins are listed in no particular order.

More than 5 million downloads make Contact Form 7 the most popular contact form builder. This plugin offers the most basic functionality for creating contact forms, but at the same time, does not have the simplest interface, and it might not work for beginners. Its main advantage is that it is free.

Features 

  • Simple markup allows customizing the form;
  • AJAX form submitting;
  • reCAPTCHA support;
  • Different types of fields including text, date, URL, and email.

Integrations

  • Akismet
  • Flamingo
  • Bogo 
  • Constant Contact (Endurance International Group)
  • Sendinblue

Price

JetFormBuilder

Let’s start over with a plugin from Crocoblock. It is the first one we developed especially for Gutenberg and it already proved itself at WordPress Plugin Madness 2021 competition! Despite being only 3 months old, the plugin successfully won three rounds of the contest. 

Features

  • Allows creating both regular and multi-step forms;
  • beginner-friendly since it allows you to create forms as if you were on the front end;
  • 18 field types;
  • ability to adjust the visibility conditions and set how/when the fields will be displayed;
  • three available input mask types – are numeric, alphabetical, and alphanumeric;
  • different post submit mechanism options available – AJAX and page reload;
  • file uploads option. Also, you can configure users authorized to attach files to the forms – registered, not-registered, or all users;
  • allows linking the forms to PayPal, Stripe, or WooCommerce gateways;
  • allows adding Google reCAPTCHA for spam protection and more.

Integrations

  • JetEngine
  • JetStyleManager
  • Zapier, Integromat, and similar third-party services
  • GetResponse
  • WooCommerce
  • PayPal and Stripe

Price

⚡️ DEMO PAGE

HappyForms

HappyForms is a relatively new plugin in the niche. It’s compatible with Gutenberg and includes free features, in addition to those available in the upgraded paid version. Let’s see what it can do. 😉

Free features 

  • Allows creating an unlimited number of forms, fields, and messages;
  • ability to add several forms on one page;
  • multi-column layouts;
  • different fields available – short/long answer, email, drop-down menus, numeric fields, and multiple/single choice;
  • a submission confirmation message and the email sent to the user;
  • HoneyPot spam prevention in one click.

Premium features 

  • access to 20+ form fields;
  • access to theme styles;
  • post submission redirect to any webpage;
  • private access with a password;
  • advanced filtering;
  • files uploading;
  • reCAPTCHA;
  • log IP addresses;
  • access to Slack community and more.

Integrations

  • Google Analytics
  • ActiveCampaign
  • AWeber
  • Mailchimp, MailerLite, MailPoet, SendFox, SendGrid, and Sendinblue
  • Zapier and Integromat
  • PayPal and Stripe

Price:

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $49/year

weForms

weForms is another drag & drop contact form builder for WordPress. It offers an intuitive beginner-friendly interface and easy adjustment options. The free version contains numerous features, while the premium one offers integration with many well-known third-party plugins.

Features 

  • Unlimited forms are created with the ability to add any number of fields;
  • 25+ form templates;
  • 33 types of custom fields;
  • multi-step forms;
  • post submission without page reloading via AJAX;
  • allows setting a form expiration date;
  • ability to set the number of entries restriction;
  • reCAPTCHA;
  • REST API and more.

Integrations

  • Slack
  • HubSpot
  • MailChimp
  • PayPal
  • Stripe
  • Google Analytics

Price

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $49 per year

Paperform

Paperform is a flexible online platform that helps small businesses and teams simplify work and get more done. It takes payments, manages bookings, collects information, or runs an entire company — building the solutions you need tailoring to your unique brand.

paperform form builder plugin

Features

  • Payment features: With over 80 various payment integrations like Stripe, PayPal Business, Square, and Braintree, it’s easy to collect information, capture payments, and automate invoicing online. 
  • Calculations: With calculations, you can work with a user’s responses to calculate and optionally display a value. It’s a field that you can wield for various use cases, ranging from complex price calculations to simple quiz scorecards.
  • Automate workflows: Automatically upload your new contacts and leads, send automatic custom emails, receipts, tax invoices, and more, simply by using Paperform and one of its 3,000 integrations. 
  • Simple creation: Paperform’s powerful no-code editor eliminated the clunky menus or lagging interfaces. Instead, the drag & drop functionality, in-app editor, and option to create from scratch means it’s as simple as writing a document. 
  • Unique customization: Curate your unique look and feel by customizing colors, fonts, layouts, and themes, or go crazy with their 650+ templates. More advanced users can play around with the custom HTML & CSS capabilities and complex fields like conditional logic and calculation functions, so your form has both brains and beauty.

Pricing

  • 14-day free trial
  • $20/month

Fluent Forms

Fluent Forms is another plugin developed to help you build forms. It also has freemium and pro versions, and a user-friendly interface. The free version offers all the necessary functions for the complete creation of basic forms, including different fields and templates. The pro version expands the list of available templates, allows you to add a payment to the form, and integrates the form with an impressive number of third-party services.

Free features 

  • Drag & drop form editor;
  • multi-column layout;
  • 60+ ready-made templates;
  • 15 input fields;
  • 5 advanced fields;
  • custom CSS and JavaScript;
  • post submission email notification;
  • reCAPTCHA support;
  • conditional logic.

Premium features 

  • Multi-step forms;
  • file & image upload;
  • connecting forms with PayPal and Stripe;
  • repeated and calculated fields;
  • repeated Fields;
  • data analysis tools;
  • visibility conditions adjustment;
  • form scheduling;
  • SMS notifications and more.

Integrations

  • Constant Contact
  • 15+ third-party Integrations including MailChimp, Slack, GetResponse

Price

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Forminator

With so many features provided, it’s quite surprising to find out Forminator is a free WordPress plugin. Developers made sure to cover all basic needs for building forms here, as well as set integrations with many services.

Features 

  • 3 types of forms – Standard, Polls, Quizzes
  • Front-end post submission
  • Conditional logic
  • Allows connecting Stripe and PayPal payments
  • Calculations 
  • File uploads
  • reCAPTCHA
  • Advanced fields restriction option
  • Ability to import data from the Contact Form 7 form

Integrations

  • Trello 
  • Zapier
  • MailChimp
  • Slack and many other

Price

Everest Forms

Light-weight, fast, and full of advanced features even in the free version, Everest Forms is a WordPress form builder plugin worth considering. With the Pro version, it offers paid add-ons that extend the list of features, including form customizer, conditional logic, PayPal and Stripe connection, some further third-party integrations, and more. But what it lacks in its basic version is the ability to let users submit the form from the front end.

Free features 

  • Drag & drop builder;
  • unlimited forms creation;
  • ready-made templates included;
  • all basic form fields included: radio, checkboxes, dropdowns, date;
  • multi-column layout;
  • multiple email recipients and notifications;
  • shortcode support;
  • entries data export in CSV;
  • AJAX form submission;
  • option for redirecting to any website after the form submission;
  • reCAPTCHA;
  • HoneyPot.

Premium features

  • Forms style customizer;
  • conditional logic;
  • multi-step forms;
  • custom captcha;
  • PDF form submission;
  • integrations with other services.

Integrations

  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • MailChimp
  • ConvertKit

Price

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $49 per year

Kali Forms

Kali forms plugin

Kali Forms is a React-built form builder that is easy to use and suitable for beginners. It also comes with a free version filled with basic features, and a pro one that allows for third-party integrations.

Free features 

  • Drag & drop builder;
  • 2 in-built templates – the standard form and the employee information form;
  • API call for third-party plugin integration.

Premium features

  • 13 advanced form templates;
  • multi-page forms;
  • conditional logic;
  • file upload option;
  • form calculator;
  • payments integration via PayPal and Stripe;
  • email notifications.

Integrations

  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Akismet
  • MailChimp
  • ActiveCampaign
  • Sendfox
  • Sendinblue
  • HubSpot CRM

All third-party integrations are available for users of the Pro version.

Price

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $29/year

Formidable Forms

This list would be incomplete without a Formidable form builder. This plugin is easy and fast but it seems that its free version is very limited (like most of them, by the way) while the pro version’s features might seem too complicated for beginners, but it also enables third-party integrations. Let’s take a closer look. 

Free features 

  • Drag & drop builder;
  • unlimited forms creation;
  • basic fields;
  • form autoresponders;
  • spam protection;
  • export entries to CSV option;
  • custom CSS.

Premium features

  • Advanced fields;
  • repeater fields;
  • drop-down menus;
  • conditional form notifications;
  • ability to set visibility conditions;
  • file upload option;
  • calculator forms;
  • surveys, polls, and quizzes;
  • user registration and tracking;
  • Formidable and calendar views;
  • front end submissions;
  • white label.

Integrations

  • WooCommerce Product Configurator
  • ActiveCampaign 
  • GetResponse and more

Price

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $49.50 per year

MetForm

MetForm is the most flexible and user-friendly form builder plugin for Elementor. The plugin features both free and pro versions. In both versions, you will enjoy tons of advanced features to design contact forms, multi step forms, newsletter signups, event forms, registration forms, booking forms, and more.

Free features

  • Export entries as CSV;
  • capture user browser data;
  • save entries in the admin panel;
  • validation fields based on words and characters;
  • redirect after successful submission;
  • supports shortcode;
  • GDPR Consent field.

Premium features

  • Advanced validations by expressions;
  • conditional logic for the forms;
  • dragging and dropping multi-step forms;
  • integrate calculations in the form;
  • include the payment method field in the form;
  • image and toggle select;
  • Google map location;
  • color picker integration;
  • 30+ pre-defined contact forms templates;
  • Google sheet integration.

Integrations

  • Newsletter integrations – Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse
  • CRM integrations – Hubspot Contact & Forms, Zoho Contact, and HelpScout
  • Payment Integrations – Paypal and Stripe

Pricing

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $39 per year

Form Maker

Form Maker by 10Web is a drag-and-drop WordPress form plugin. With this plugin, you can create both simple and complex contact forms, and the premium version allows for a number of third-party integrations.

Free features

  • 43 form field types;
  • responsive and mobile friendly;
  • form templates;
  • conditional logic;
  • multi-page forms.

Premium features

  • Conditional mailing to send emails to different groups;
  • save form progress;
  • import/export form replies in XML format;
  • receive notification on your phone, after submission;
  • registration forms;
  • front-end submission forms;
  • calculated content.

Integrations

  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • PDF integrations
  • Stripe

Pricing

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $30 website

Ninja Forms

Ninja Forms WordPress plugin is one of the most known contact form plugins, with over 1 million active installations.

Free features

  • 27+ form fields types;
  • form templates;
  • unlimited form submissions;
  • import and export WordPress forms;
  • spam protection.

Premium features

  • Conditional logic;
  • multi-step forms;
  • file uploading;
  • save progress;
  • front end forms;
  • webhooks.

Integrations

  • Payment: PayPal, Stripe,
  • Newsletter: MailChimp, mailPoet, EmailOctopus, etc.
  • Marketing & automation: Campaign Monitor, ConvertKit, AWeber, Salesforce, Zoho CRM

Pricing

  • Free
  • Premium starts at $29/year

Sum Up

What is the best free Gutenberg editor contact form plugin?

JetFormBuilder is the free Gutenberg form plugin, that allows you to create and style the form from pattern or scratch.

free WordPress form plugin

How to add a contact form plugin in WordPress?

Go to WordPress Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New and upload plugin in zip. or choose from search.

How to create a WordPress contact form without a plugin?

You can create a WordPress contact form without a plugin using code. First, create a page template with the ‘Contact’ title. Then create a contact form using code. Set post-submit action manually via code, add JQuery verification, and you are done.

Which contact form plugin to use in WordPress?

If you want to create a simple contact form, go with Contact Form 7 plugin, but if you need more free functionality to create complex forms, proceed with the JetFormBuilder plugin.

What premium plugin is currently one of the most popular contact form plugins for WordPress?

Looking at the WordPress plugin directory, the most popular premium plugin is WPForms.

Hope you enjoyed our best contact form plugins for the WordPress list. Don’t hesitate to share your favorite one in the comments below.

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