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Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You
Excellent forms that come with a relentless side of rating popups.
HealthyGrowing
75/100
Users enjoy the responsive support but feel frustrated by intrusive rating prompts and misleading claims.
Active installs
~980,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 600k+
Rating
4.4★
1,393 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+41%
Growing fast
3,545 → 5,014 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
Growing fast · +41% in the last year
3,545/day a year ago→5,014/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayNinja Forms is a well-regarded contact form builder appreciated for its ease of use and notably responsive support team, but a recurring and prominent complaint about intrusive in-dashboard rating popups significantly undermines the user experience.
What people like
- +Responsive and hands-on support team that resolves issues quickly×3
- +Accessible UI suitable for both beginners and advanced users×2
- +Reliable day-to-day performance as a form builder×2
Common complaints
- −Intrusive and persistent rating/review popups that frustrate users×6
- −Core functionality that is standard in competing plugins is locked behind paid add-ons
- −Recurring styling issues with forms
- −Limited ability to extend, hook into, or build upon the plugin
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.58★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 39%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-02-092025-10-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,393 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-24★★★★★Excellent Plugin! Recommended!Periklis Kakarakidis
- 2026-04-22★★★★★100% Customer Servicestargfxllc
- 2026-04-19★★★★★Too soon to tellblogginginnovation
- 2026-04-17★★★★★…ju571n31-shot
- 2026-04-06★★★★★Excellent plugin and very competent support.Fred
- 2026-04-03★★★★★popupzonaisgood1-shot
- 2026-04-03★★★★★Stupid popup prompt for ratingesrahh1-shot
- 2026-03-31★★★★★Great plugin and good supportbobjgarrett
- 2026-03-27★★★★★Super proactive supportblueflamingo
- 2026-03-11★★★★★Brilliant!wwwireforks
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Ninja Forms
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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.
5,843
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
7,173
Prior 7-day baseline
5,725
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
105,824
Mean release-day peak (30d)
7,763
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-18.5%
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.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.57
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
82%
5★ share in analyzed sample
39%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-49%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.54 → 4.58★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered