10 Best Advanced Forms Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Advanced Forms has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Advanced Forms
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Advanced Custom Fields
Closest matchAdvanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field
5.0 (33) 8,000+ active installsAdd-On plugin for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) that adds a 'Nav Menu' Field type.
Shares the acf, advanced custom fields tags on WordPress.org. About 2.7 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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ACF Theme Code
Paid version availableACF Theme Code for Advanced Custom Fields
5.0 (42) 10,000+ active installsAutomatically generate the code needed to implement Advanced Custom Fields in your themes.
Shares the acf, advanced custom fields tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2023.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsAdd navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
Shares the acf, advanced custom fields tags on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
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4.1 (318) 20,000+ active installsBuild beautiful, fully functional contact forms in only a few minutes without writing PHP, CSS, or HTML.
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, no update since May 27, 2022.
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Form Maker by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder
4.5 (777) 30,000+ active installsForm Maker is a user-friendly contact form builder that allows to create forms for any purpose, from a simple contact form to multi page survey forms
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.9 (318) 20,000+ active installsAutomatically generate, email and download PDF documents from Gravity Forms entries
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, no update since July 23, 2025.
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4.3 (102) 8,000+ active installsContact form with visual form builder. Contact form that sends the data to email, to a database list and to CSV / Excel files.
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 2.7 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.8 (50) 7,000+ active installsWith this lightweight plugin you can create a contact form.
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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HTML Forms – Simple WordPress Forms Plugin
4.9 (57) 10,000+ active installsA simpler, faster, and smarter WordPress forms plugin.
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated August 7, 2026.
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Bit Form
Paid version availableBit Form – Contact Form, Payment Forms, Multi Step Forms, Calculator & Custom Form Builder
5.0 (260) 10,000+ active installsContact Form Builder for WordPress with payment forms, multistep forms, conversational forms, conditional logic, and integrations.
Shares the contact form, form tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
Switching from Advanced Forms: common questions
What is the best alternative to Advanced Forms?
Advanced Custom Fields is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 8,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Advanced Forms alternative has the most users?
Form Maker, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Advanced Forms alternative is rated highest?
Bit Form, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 260 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Advanced Forms alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Advanced Forms score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Advanced Forms on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Advanced Custom Fields is the closest match to Advanced Forms by the data we track, and Form Maker has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. Bit Form shipped the most recent release, on August 27, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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