Form Plant vs reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Form Plant

by Reiji Sato

Health B80

reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form

by Masahiro NAKASHIMA

Health D49

Active-install trajectory

Form PlantreCAPTCHA for MW WP Form

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Form Plant	reCAPTCHA for MW WP Form
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	50–60	30K–40K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+300% ✓	Stable
Overall health	—	D · 49 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	17/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	71/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	3.9★ ✓
Reviews	0	3 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100 ✓	54/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	Elevated
Last updated	2mo ago ✓	2.5y ago
Downloads, last 30d	200	4.1K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+17%	+18%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	3.7%	22% ✓
Category	Forms	Forms

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Form PlantreCAPTCHA for MW WP Form

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.