9 Best WordPress Form Plugins and Their Most Useful Add-ons

Contact Form 7 is one of the longest-running free form plugins for WordPress, and it suits simple contact and enquiry forms shown here. You build forms by adding short form-tags to a template, which keeps forms light but means most extra features come from other plugins.

Out of the box, Contact Form 7 covers text, email, phone, number, date, dropdown, checkbox, radio, and file upload fields. It also includes a Stripe integration for card payments with no extra fee from Contact Form 7, spam protection through Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA or Akismet, and a Brevo integration for email lists.

WPForms is a drag-and-drop form builder with a free version, WPForms Lite, and paid licenses. It suits booking and request forms shown here, which was built entirely in WPForms Lite.

WPForms Lite includes the AI form builder, a large template library and the standard fields most forms need, such as name, email, dropdown, multiple choice and paragraph text. It can take payments through Stripe, Square and PayPal with an extra WPForms fee on each transaction, and it connects to Constant Contact. Two limits matter for most sites: WPForms Lite sends one notification email per form, and it does not keep entries in your WordPress dashboard.

Ninja Forms is a free drag-and-drop form plugin with paid add-ons. It suits quote and estimate forms because calculations are part of the free plugin, which updates its total as visitors choose a service and the number of rooms.

The free plugin is generous. It includes calculations, signature, star rating, date and repeatable fields, built-in templates, unlimited email notifications, and saved submissions you can view, edit and export to CSV. Spam protection is built in as well, with a honeypot on every form plus options like reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile. Ninja Forms also has an AI form builder, which works once you connect an AI provider.

Everest Forms is a drag-and-drop form plugin with a free version and Everest Forms Pro. It suits job applications and other forms that collect files, like the Pixel Harbor application shown here, which takes a resume upload.

The free version includes file and image uploads, saved entries, admin approval for entries and survey fields. It also has an AI form builder that needs no API key, plus spam protection with a honeypot, Akismet, a submission delay and CAPTCHA options. Styling in the free version comes from preset styles and custom CSS.

WS Form is a form plugin with a free version, WS Form LITE, and WS Form PRO. It suits long questionnaires because WS Form LITE can split a form into tabs, like the three-tab Northlight Marketing onboarding form shown here. Our WS Form guide covers the setup.

WS Form LITE includes multi-tab forms, single-click templates, a visual form styler, unlimited emails and translation support. It saves submissions once you add the Save action to a form, and you can export them to CSV. Next and Previous tab buttons, along with date and file upload fields, are part of WS Form PRO.

Gravity Forms is a premium form plugin with no free version, sold as Basic, Pro and Elite licenses. It suits paid registrations and other complex forms, like the two-page WP Ajmer Meetup registration shown here. Our guide to configure forms in Gravity Forms covers the setup.

Every license includes multi-page forms, conditional logic, file uploads and pricing fields such as product, quantity and total, so this registration form, with its dietary field that appears only for dinner tickets, works on any license. Higher licenses unlock more official add-ons: Basic includes email marketing add-ons like Mailchimp and HubSpot, Pro adds payment add-ons like Stripe and Square, and Elite adds User Registration, Survey and Signature.

Elementor Pro includes a Form widget that you design directly inside your Elementor pages. It suits lead forms that need to match your page design, like the two-step Brightside Web form shown here.

The Form widget supports multi-step forms through its Step field, an Acceptance field for consent, and spam protection with reCAPTCHA or Honeypot. After a submission, it can send emails and redirect visitors, and on plans that include them, it can also store submissions and connect to tools like Mailchimp. Saved form submissions and form integrations are not part of every Elementor Pro plan.

Bricks Builder includes a Form element built into the builder, so your forms use the same design controls as the rest of your Bricks site. It suits lead, signup, login and registration forms, like the Brightside Web lead form shown here. Our guide to build and configure a Bricks form walks through every setting.

The Form element covers far more than contact forms. It supports text, email, select, checkbox, radio, number, date, file upload, hidden and password fields, with actions such as email, redirect, Mailchimp, SendGrid, webhooks, user login, registration and password reset. Since Bricks 2.4, form actions can also run conditionally, and spam protection comes from reCAPTCHA v3, hCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile.

Beaver Builder includes its own form modules, so you can add a form to any layout without a separate form plugin. It suits contact, signup and login forms, like the Crumb & Co. enquiry shown here, and with the official Beaver Builder AI plugin it can also handle custom multi-step forms.

The Contact Form module is a simple, single-step email form with optional name, subject, email, phone and message fields, a terms checkbox, reCAPTCHA, and a confirmation message or redirect after submission.