10 Best cformsII Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
cformsII 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 cformsII
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Contact Form Email
Closest match4.3 (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 tags on WordPress.org. About 2.7 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.7 (195) 7,000+ active installsA clean and simple contact form with flexible CSS framework support.
Shares the contact, form tags on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, last updated 4 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 tags on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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Contact Form 7 – Post Fields
5.0 (34) 3,000+ active installsThis plugin provides a dynamic post selection, radio and checkbox field to your CF7 forms.
Shares the contact, form tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated February 13, 2026.
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4.9 (41) 500+ active installsTired of those heavy and old contact forms? Try this one. Simple, yet modern, pretty and extremely optimized. No JS or CSS files are loaded.
Shares the contact, form tags on WordPress.org. 500+ installs against 3,000+, last updated 17 days ago.
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Calculated Fields Form – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact, Payment, Quote, Quiz & More
4.9 (970) 40,000+ active installsCalculated Fields Form: complete WordPress form builder for contact,booking,quote,payment forms & more,with built-in dynamic calculation capabilities.
Shares the form tag on WordPress.org. About 13 times the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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4.3 (36) 9,000+ active installsGuide your customers with the animated progress bar. Generate dynamic multi step forms. Divide longer forms into small steps for better usability.
Shares the multi-step tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.7 (76) 10,000+ active installsBreak your looooooong form into user-friendly steps
Shares the multi-step tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 15 days ago.
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OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA)
4.9 (49) 6,000+ active installsProtect your forms from spam with 99.9% accuracy - no CAPTCHA, no JavaScript, no tracking. Trusted by 3.5M+ websites.
About 2 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Maspik – Multi-Layer Spam Protection
4.7 (87) 30,000+ active installsMulti-layer spam protection for forms, comments and WooCommerce. No CAPTCHA, no puzzles — accurate blocking that works out of the box.
About 10 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
Switching from cformsII: common questions
What is the best alternative to cformsII?
Contact Form Email is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 8,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which cformsII alternative has the most users?
Calculated Fields Form, with 40,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which cformsII alternative is rated highest?
Calculated Fields Form, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 970 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these cformsII 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 cformsII 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 cformsII 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
Contact Form Email is the closest match to cformsII by the data we track, and Calculated Fields Form has the widest reach with 40,000+ active installs. Calculated Fields Form shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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