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10 Best Smart Forms Alternatives in 2026

Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works

Smart Forms has 5,000+ 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 Smart Forms

  1. 1

    weForms

    Closest match

    weForms – Easy Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder For WordPress

    4.5 (111) 10,000+ active installs

    The easiest & fastest Contact Form on WordPress. Multiple templates, drag-&-drop live builder, submission listing, reCaptcha & more!

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.

  2. 2

    Happyforms – Form Builder for WordPress: Drag & Drop Contact Forms, Surveys, Payments & Multipurpose Forms

    4.4 (433) 20,000+ active installs

    Best WordPress contact form, newsletter form and payment form builder without the sucky stuff — lost emails, pesky spam, leaky privacy and outsourced …

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.5, last updated July 14, 2026.

  3. 3

    WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder

    5.0 (320) 10,000+ active installs

    Contact form builder for WordPress. Create professional, accessible, mobile-friendly forms in minutes without coding.

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 5.0 against 4.5, last updated 11 days ago.

  4. 4

    Formidable Forms

    Paid version available

    Formidable Forms – WordPress Form Builder for Contact Forms, Calculators, Quizzes & More

    4.8 (1,381) 300,000+ active installs

    The most powerful drag and drop WordPress form builder for contact forms, payment forms, calculators, quizzes, surveys, and data-driven applications.

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 60 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated 11 days ago.

  5. 5

    WPForms – AI Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Survey Form, Quiz & More

    4.8 (14,371) 5 million+ active installs

    The best WordPress contact form plugin. Drag & Drop form builder to create beautiful contact forms, payment forms, & other custom forms.

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 1,000 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated 3 days ago.

  6. 6

    Fluent Forms

    Paid version available

    Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms, Survey, Quiz, & Conversational Form Builder

    4.8 (791) 700,000+ active installs

    Get a fast contact form plugin. Create advanced forms using drag and drop form builder with all smart features.

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 140 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated 16 days ago.

  7. 7

    Everest Forms

    Paid version available

    Everest Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form, Quiz, Survey & Custom Form Builder with AI

    4.9 (375) 90,000+ active installs

    AI form builder for WordPress. Build contact forms, payment forms, quiz, survey & conversational forms with built-in AI or drag & drop builder.

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 18 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, last updated 25 days ago.

  8. 8
    4.8 (106) 60,000+ active installs

    50+ Essential Addons for Contact Form 7 - Conditional Fields, Multi Step, Redirection, Columns, WooCommerce, Mailchimp & more

    Shares the contact form, custom form, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 12 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated 6 days ago.

  9. 9

    Kali Forms — Contact Form & Drag-and-Drop Builder

    4.8 (89) 10,000+ active installs

    Build contact forms for your WordPress website in minutes through the Drag & Drop builder and Guided Emails for entries notifications.

    Shares the contact form, form builder, forms tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, last updated 12 days ago.

  10. 10

    Form Maker by 10Web – Mobile-Friendly Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder

    4.5 (777) 30,000+ active installs

    Form 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, form builder tags on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.

Switching from Smart Forms: common questions

What is the best alternative to Smart Forms?

weForms is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.

Which Smart Forms alternative has the most users?

WPForms, with 5 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.

Which Smart Forms alternative is rated highest?

WS Form, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 320 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.

Are these Smart 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 Smart 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 Smart 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

weForms is the closest match to Smart Forms by the data we track, and WPForms has the widest reach with 5 million+ active installs. WPForms 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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