Nobody leaves Google Forms over price
It is free, unlimited, and it will still be free next year. So the argument for moving is never cost, which makes this a different comparison from the others on this site.
People move for three reasons:
It looks like Google. Embedded in your site it is visibly a Google Form, in a Google iframe, styled by Google. So on a brand site it reads as unfinished.
The iframe. It cannot inherit your CSS, it does not resize gracefully on mobile, and it loads from Google’s servers on every view of the page carrying it.
The data goes to a spreadsheet. Which is fine until you want a submission to create a post, trigger an email sequence, or land in a CRM. After that you are wiring Sheets to Zapier to something else.
So if none of those bother you, stay. It is a good product and this page is not going to talk you out of a free tool that works.
What to use instead
| Plugin | Active installs | Rating | Why you would pick it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Form 7 | 10,000,000 | 80/100 | simplest, free forever, no branding |
| WPForms Lite | 5,000,000 | 96/100 | closest to Google Forms’ ease |
| Fluent Forms | 700,000 | 96/100 | free conditional logic |
| Forminator | 600,000 | 96/100 | quizzes and polls, like Forms does |
| Everest Forms | 90,000 | 98/100 | small, well rated |
WordPress.org plugin API, 29 August 2026.
Forminator is the closest match in spirit. Google Forms is used as much for quizzes and polls as for contact forms, and Forminator does both in its free version. Most form plugins do not.
The thing Google Forms does that plugins do not
Responses land in a spreadsheet automatically, and the spreadsheet is genuinely useful. Filtering, charts, sharing with someone who does not have a WordPress login.
WordPress plugins store submissions in the database and show them in wp-admin. Exporting to CSV is one click, but it is still a click, and nobody outside your admin users can see them without an account.
If your workflow is “the team lives in that spreadsheet”, that is a real cost. Some plugins offer a Google Sheets integration on a paid tier, which puts you back where you started with an extra bill.
After the switch
In short, the submissions are now in WordPress, and getting them to MailerLite or anywhere else is the next step. Getting them to Mailchimp, Brevo or Klaviyo is the next step, and Contact Form 7 has no integrations of its own, so it needs a connector. That is what ClickSyncr does.
Questions people actually ask
Is there a free WordPress form plugin with no branding? All five above.
Can I still get responses in a spreadsheet? Only via a paid Google Sheets integration on some plugins, or a CSV export.
Will my page get faster? A little. You are removing a Google iframe from any page carrying the form.
Can I import my existing Google Form? No. Rebuild it, and export your existing responses from Sheets first.