71
Image CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms by HookAndHook (DSGVO/GDPR)
Excellent for GDPR but it might struggle to speak your language
Declining
71/100
The plugin offers lightweight spam protection but a persistent translation bug frustrates many users.
Active installs
~85,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 80k+
Rating
4.7★
49 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-64%
Declining fast
383 → 138 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 64% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -64% in the last year
383/day a year ago→138/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayImage CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms is a lightweight, GDPR-compliant spam-prevention tool that generally works well in its free version, but is held back by a persistent and frustrating translation/language-switching bug that affects newer Contact Form 7 versions.
What people like
- +Works effectively as a spam and bot prevention tool for Contact Form 7×3
- +Lightweight and easy to configure×2
- +GDPR compliant, which users consider a meaningful advantage×2
- +Responsive and helpful developer support×2
Common complaints
- −Translation/language display does not work correctly out of the box, requiring a manual database workaround to fix (since 3.3.3)×3
- −Language switching breaks with newer versions of Contact Form 7, specifically CF7 5.7.2 and later (since 3.3.3)×2
- −Pro version purchasing is reportedly unavailable or inaccessible, limiting upgrade options
- −Some users still receive spam despite the plugin being active
- −Free version text cannot be customized for formal language (e.g., German formal address), limiting localization
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 49 total
Latest reviews · 49 analyzed
- 2025-09-28★★★★★Would have been the perfect solutionsvenhein
- 2024-09-13★★★★★Awesome Plugin, Easy to Userobert433
- 2024-07-23★★★★★Great Plugin, simple Settigs, works awesomebarboravy
- 2024-07-12★★★★★some sentences not to be translated to Chinese (China)noone100
- 2024-06-25★★★★★Thanks for the simplenbagouri1-shot
- 2024-06-23★★★★★Great Supportbeatcore
- 2024-05-15★★★★★Great!irisvanderveenillustrations
- 2024-03-11★★★★★Cannot change language ;(maik2558
- 2024-02-09★★★★★Great Support and Great Pluginmarirs1-shot
- 2024-02-01★★★★★PenetrateableDreamers
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
133
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
149
Prior 7-day baseline
95
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
271
Mean release-day peak (30d)
169
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-10.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
19%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.65
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
84%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.65 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered