10 Best MW WP Form Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
MW WP Form has 200,000+ 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 MW WP Form
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Gravity PDF
Closest match4.9 (318) 20,000+ active installsAutomatically generate, email and download PDF documents from Gravity Forms entries
Shares the form tag on WordPress.org. 20,000+ installs against 200,000+, no update since July 23, 2025.
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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
4.8 (1,497) 1 million+ active installsThe #1 Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. Allows you to add a multitude of newsletter sign-up methods to your site.
Shares the form tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Contact Form & SMTP Plugin for WordPress by PirateForms
4.7 (223) 30,000+ active installsA simple and effective WordPress contact form & SMTP plugin. Compatible with best themes out there, is both a secure and responsive contact form p …
30,000+ installs against 200,000+, no update since January 20, 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 form tag on WordPress.org. 8,000+ installs against 200,000+, 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 form tag on WordPress.org. 7,000+ installs against 200,000+, last updated 23 days ago.
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E2Pdf – Export Pdf Tool for WordPress
4.8 (58) 10,000+ active installsPDF Builder for CF7, Divi, Elementor Forms, Everest, Fluent, Formidable, Forminator, Gravity, JFB, Ninja, WPForms, WooCommerce, Post Meta, ACF, etc.
Shares the form tag on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 200,000+, last updated July 27, 2026.
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4.2 (121) 800,000+ active installsA trustworthy message storage plugin for Contact Form 7.
Shares the mail tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.6 (67) 70,000+ active installsConfigure a SMTP server to send email from your WordPress site. Configure the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of the PHP mail() function.
Shares the mail tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.5 (142) 90,000+ active installsCustomize the default WooCommerce email templates design and text through the native WordPress customizer. Preview emails and send test emails.
Shares the mail tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated July 29, 2026.
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4.7 (39) 4,000+ active installsGenerate PDF using Contact Form 7 Plugin makes it simple to create PDFs for downloads, viewing, or sending as attachments after form submissions.
4,000+ installs against 200,000+, last updated June 19, 2026.
Switching from MW WP Form: common questions
What is the best alternative to MW WP Form?
Gravity PDF is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which MW WP Form alternative has the most users?
MC4WP, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which MW WP Form alternative is rated highest?
Gravity PDF, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 318 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these MW WP Form 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 MW WP Form 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 MW WP Form 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
Gravity PDF is the closest match to MW WP Form by the data we track, and MC4WP has the widest reach with 1 million+ active installs. SMTP Mailer shipped the most recent release, on August 21, 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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