Formidable Forms

RATING:

4.9

(90)

About Formidable Forms

Formidable Forms is a WordPress form builder plugin, which helps businesses create simple to complex multi-page forms with file uploads, conditional logic, calculations and various other elements. Features include predefined templates, survey creation, data import/export, customizable branding, user tracking and data review. The application includes a visual styler, which enables users to design custom forms with required colors, borders, padding and other components. Team members can collect multiple data sets such as group registrations or work history using repeater fields and transform entries into listings, directories, and calendars. Supervisors can schedule forms, set up response limit and add datepicker options. The solution also allows professionals to au...

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Formidable Forms Pricing

Basic: $39.50/year Plus: $99.50/year Business: $199.50/year Elite: $299.50/year

Starting price: 

$79.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

Formidable Forms Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

5

Most Helpful Reviews for Formidable Forms

1 - 5 of 89 Reviews

User Profile

Randy J

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2018

Best WordPress Form Builder

Overall we've stayed with Formidable because of their support and functionality. I've tried others and nothing yet compares to the team and product of Formidable Forms as of yet.

PROS

As a WordPress developer, I shopped and compared many form builders and landed with Formidable Forms. I've been using Formidable Forms for about 4 years now on all our websites and enjoy the ease of use and functionality for customization when a specialty form is needed. Their customer service and support is great as well.

CONS

I wish they had encryption so we can do medical submissions.

Michael

Internet, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

Top Forms Builder For Making Web and Mobile Apps on WordPress

Formidable Forms has helped solved every single forms-based challenge - from simple lead gen and contact forms, through complex business workflows.

PROS

The built-in features for creating custom forms-based business applications are the best.

CONS

Some of the documentation on the most advanced features is sometimes difficult to get through, but that's easily overcome through the generous support offered by expert advanced users in the Formidable Community.

Reason for choosing Formidable Forms

Formidable Forms quickly set itself apart with its powerful third-party integrations, native report building features, workflow/automation capabilities and its API.

Reasons for switching to Formidable Forms

I kept looking for the best *native, built-in* features and functionality for building web applications. Once I found Formidable Forms, I've nenver looked back.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Great product, but support isn't always helpful

Mostly positive, until support is needed.

PROS

Relatively easy to use, with a lot of advanced features. It's great but overkill for what most users will need from a forms plugin.

CONS

Support was difficult to work with when I did have issues. They would send back solutions unrelated to my issues, if I send downloads or videos as reference they would not watch or download them before answering me, and multiple times their solution was "don't use other plugins." I've only had to contact them a couple times in two years and both times I got the same representative, so hopefully it's not a company-wide issue.It's really a shame, because I love the plugin itself, but that kind of support doesn't give me a lot of confidence when it comes to using it on client sites. Hopefully they can get those issues under control, it has a lot of potential if so!

Reason for choosing Formidable Forms

Formidable was faster and easier to setup than Gravity forms, with better first party features. WSforms was not as mature of a product when I was doing my evaluations 2 years ago, but I've heard a lot of great things about that and will be re-evaluating what plugin to use in the next couple months.

Reasons for switching to Formidable Forms

Needed more features.

Vendor Response

Hello. I'm very sorry to hear you had a negative experience with support. We pride ourselves on providing top-notch support, so I would really appreciate the opportunity to make it right. However, I don't have a way to locate your support tickets since this review is anonymous. It would be great if you could respond to the email notification so we can to more to make sure every experience with anyone on our team is great in the future.

Replied March 2023

Albert

Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2024

Great WordPress form plugin with features and templates galore

PROS

Countless templates, integrations with API, Zapier, AI, and more! It even handles calculations, signatures, payments, uploads, and DIY applications. You can make a web application with this.

CONS

The free version of the software is very average. You are forced to upgrade to get any usability out of it.

Reasons for switching to Formidable Forms

More functionality, extensions, and styling.

Jonathan

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

Conditional action hooks make this the best form plugin for WordPress

Overall, Formidable Forms has been my go-to form builder for the last 7 years. I switched from a competitor because while their feature set was more robust, Formidable had a more modern feel and was easier to work with as a developer.

PROS

Not only is the drag-n-drop interface super easy to work with, but the included fields almost always meet my needs. The included actions that can be triggered on successful form submission, while not exhaustive, usually meet the requirements of my projects. There are plenty of add-ons that help to meet the needs if one of the built-in ones doesn't.

CONS

One thing I feel is missing from this plugin is advanced conditional field values. When using a form to try to create a quiz that scored users based on their overall answers, it was difficult to add those form values together and redirect to an appropriate success page base on the total of all fields.

Reason for choosing Formidable Forms

In the end, Formidable was easier to work with as a developer and provided a fuller feature set for the cost than the competition. Form Actions was probably the biggest selling point for me early on. They are amazing.