# Happyforms review (2026): is the free plan enough? > WordPress form builder with a live preview in the customizer Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Happyforms is a WordPress plugin for building contact, order, registration and survey forms with a live preview while you edit. Paid plans are sold per year by number of websites and include unlimited forms and responses, with payments, signatures, file uploads and many email-marketing integrations. A free edition is listed on WordPress.org. - **Category:** Forms & Surveys - **Made by:** Jestro LLC (trading as Happyforms) (since 2017) - **Website:** https://happyforms.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't use WordPress, as it runs only inside it. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Happyforms has a free plan, and paid plans start at $89 per year for 1 website. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** A free edition of the plugin is listed on WordPress.org; the plans page describes paid-only features such as conditional logic and signatures. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | The WordPress.org edition, installed on your own site, with fewer features than the paid plans. | | Starter | $89 per year for 1 website | Priority support and a subset of the paid features, marked as Starter-only on the plans page. | | Pro | $99 per year for up to 3 websites | All features; shown on sale at $99 with $159 crossed out and a '$60 off today' label, with no end date given. | | Unlimited | $399 per year for unlimited websites | All features on unlimited websites. | Read from https://happyforms.io/upgrade/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Happyforms before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **14-day refund guarantee** (Other savings): The plans page says a payment is refunded in full if Happyforms is not right for you within 14 days. Source: https://happyforms.io/upgrade/ ## Key features - **Live form builder:** Preview the form as you build it, directly in the WordPress customizer. - **Conditional logic and multi-page forms:** Show or hide parts of a form, split long forms over pages and let people resume partial submissions. - **Payments:** PayPal and Stripe order, donation and payment forms with coupon codes and no transaction fees from the plugin. - **Signatures and file uploads:** Collect hand-drawn signatures and file uploads, with over 20 advanced fields. - **Email marketing integrations:** Connects to Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, AWeber, Constant Contact, ConvertKit, MailerLite and others. - **Spam protection and data control:** reCAPTCHA, a submission blocklist and IP logging; submissions stay in your own WordPress database. ## Good for - WordPress sites that want unlimited forms and responses at a flat yearly price - Order and registration forms with PayPal or Stripe - Owners who want to keep submission data on their own host ## Worth knowing - It runs only inside WordPress. - Without an active subscription you are locked out of the plugin in the WordPress dashboard, though submissions can still be exported. - Starter covers 1 website and Pro 3 websites; going beyond a limit is not billed automatically. - The plans page does not list which features are in the free edition. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Happyforms is a WordPress form builder that shows a live preview in the customizer. It runs only inside WordPress, the plans page doesn't say what the free edition includes, and without a subscription you are locked out of the plugin in the dashboard. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $89 a year for 1 website, about $7.40 a month, with Pro at $99 for 3 sites shown on a sale with no end date. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free edition is listed on WordPress.org, but the plans page names conditional logic and signatures as paid-only and doesn't list what the free one has. - **Features: C.** Live builder, conditional logic, multi-page forms, payments, signatures and uploads. Starter has only a subset of the paid features, and the free edition's features aren't listed. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and it is a plugin you install and configure inside WordPress, so it sits at C. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** WordPress only, with eight listed features including email marketing connections. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Happyforms's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among form and survey tools - Happyforms's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 56 of the 148 other form and survey tools we grade, and level with 31. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 107 of 148) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $7.42 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $20 for the category: 23 of the 114 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 19 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/forms ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Happyforms you would be making a builder that other people can use without writing code. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $89 a year. - You could make: Forms, surveys and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, AWeber, Constant Contact, Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, ConvertKit **Tags:** Forms, Surveys, Templates, No-code, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [WPForms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wpforms): Drag-and-drop form builder plugin for WordPress sites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/happyforms-vs-wpforms) - [Gravity Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gravity-forms): WordPress form builder plugin sold as a yearly license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gravity-forms-vs-happyforms) - [Ninja Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ninja-forms): WordPress form builder with a free core and paid add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/happyforms-vs-ninja-forms) - [Formidable Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formidable-forms): WordPress form builder that also displays entries as Views. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/formidable-forms-vs-happyforms) - [Fluent Forms](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fluent-forms): WordPress form plugin with annual and lifetime licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fluent-forms-vs-happyforms) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://happyforms.io/ - https://happyforms.io/upgrade/ - https://happyforms.io/features/ - https://wordpress.org/plugins/happyforms/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/happyforms Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).