10 Best Friendly Captcha Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Friendly Captcha has 10,000+ 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 Friendly Captcha
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hCaptcha for WP
Closest match4.6 (86) 70,000+ active installsThe strongest CAPTCHA. Switch from reCAPTCHA and Turnstile for free. Works with 60+ integrations: Contact Form 7, Elementor, WooCommerce, Divi, etc.
Shares the antispam, captcha, recaptcha tags on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, last updated August 6, 2026.
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Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA — reCAPTCHA Alternative for All Forms
4.8 (50) 4,000+ active installsInvisible spam protection for every form, login and checkout. No puzzles, no checkboxes, no lost visitors — a CAPTCHA your users never see.
Shares the captcha, recaptcha, spam tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
Shares the antispam, captcha, spam tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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4.7 (255) 200,000+ active installsAdd Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free!
Shares the captcha, spam tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
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SilentShield – Captcha & Anti-Spam for WordPress (CF7, WPForms, Elementor, WooCommerce)
4.7 (21) 10,000+ active installsSilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data.
Shares the captcha tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of 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.
Shares the antispam, spam tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.3 (24) 100,000+ active installsBlock form spam in Gravity Forms with an invisible token check, email rejection rules, and optional AI review. No CAPTCHAs for your visitors.
Shares the captcha, spam tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 6 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 half the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Titan Anti-spam & Security – Brute Force Protection, 2FA & Spam Filter
4.5 (370) 50,000+ active installsBlock spam comments, defend against login attacks, strengthen site security. Anti-spam, brute-force protection & two-factor authentication built in.
Shares the antispam tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms
4.1 (20) 10,000+ active installs1 The Ultimate Spam Protection Plugin Using Captcha for WordPress Forms.
Shares the antispam, captcha tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
Switching from Friendly Captcha: common questions
What is the best alternative to Friendly Captcha?
hCaptcha for WP is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 70,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Friendly Captcha alternative has the most users?
CleanTalk, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Friendly Captcha alternative is rated highest?
CleanTalk, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 3,211 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Friendly Captcha 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 Friendly Captcha 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 Friendly Captcha 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
hCaptcha for WP is the closest match to Friendly Captcha by the data we track, and CleanTalk has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. CleanTalk shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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