Intelligent spam protection for WordPress forms, comments, and reviews. No CAPTCHA needed. Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and more.
Alternatives to Friendly Captcha for WordPress
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WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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Cookieless, EU-hosted reCAPTCHA alternative for WooCommerce, WPForms, Fluent Forms & CF7. GDPR-clean, no cookie banner.
Free captcha for WordPress that replaces Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile. No puzzles, and nothing leaves your server.
QWeb Spam Shieldv1.1.0
Stop spam on every form, comment, review, signup and WooCommerce checkout, with no CAPTCHA and no external calls. Card-testing defense built in.
Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 - Adds honeypot plus anti-spam functionality to Contact Form 7 forms.
Prosopo Procaptchav1.24.1
Free, GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA that stops spam bots on WordPress core forms and 21 form plugins, page builders and themes.
SilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data.
Invisible 15-layer anti-spam for Contact Form 7 & WPForms. Score-based 3-Tier Triage silently blocks bots — no CAPTCHA, no user friction.
Invisible Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA. No checkboxes, no image grids, no Google, no tracking. Just spam protection that gets out of the way.
hCaptcha for WPv5.5.0
The strongest CAPTCHA. Switch from reCAPTCHA and Turnstile for free. Works with 60+ integrations: Contact Form 7, Elementor, WooCommerce, Divi, etc.