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Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder
Advanced logic and calculators meet stellar support for power users.
HealthyDeclining
89/100
Users love the deep functionality and excellent support despite the steep learning curve.
Active installs
~350,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 300k+
Rating
4.8★
1,369 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-22%
Declining
2,443 → 1,911 installs/day
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 · -22% in the last year
2,443/day a year ago→1,911/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayFormidable Forms is widely regarded as one of the most powerful and feature-rich form builders for WordPress, with standout support frequently praised, though its depth of functionality can feel overwhelming to new users and at least one user reports recurring form-breaking issues prompting them to consider switching.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, knowledgeable, and effective — including rapid bug fixes involving developers×8
- +Highly capable and feature-rich, suitable for complex use cases like calculators, membership sites, and business-critical forms×6
- +Free (Lite) version works well for simple contact forms without needing an upgrade×2
- +Long-term reliability reported by users who have used it for many years across multiple sites×4
- +Good documentation that complements the support offering×2
Common complaints
- −The breadth of functionality can be confusing or overwhelming, especially for newer users×2
- −No phone support — limited to online/email support channels only
- −At least one user reports recurring unexplained form breakage, leading them to consider switching at renewal
- −Some settings feel unintuitive or unclear on first use
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.86★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-03-112025-11-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,369 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Extremely usefuljmguridi
- 2026-06-02★★★★★Good but Mixedsahara8
- 2026-06-01★★★★★Great supportrvwfreewheelers
- 2026-05-29★★★★★Excellent support and fast bug fixishish1
- 2026-05-20★★★★★Great Product!!Nubian7
- 2026-04-21★★★★★Very good supportMirva Webb
- 2026-04-21★★★★★Support is terrificspotlight124
- 2026-04-16★★★★★Very Easy to setup and easy to usetopgoser
- 2026-04-16★★★★★Forms quit working, I've had to remake 1 3x in 9 monthsvioletness26
- 2026-04-14★★★★★Very good pluginantoine04
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Formidable Forms
Top Forms plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
1,660
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,878
Prior 7-day baseline
1,977
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
27,094
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,295
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-11.6%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.45
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+10%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.84 → 4.86★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered