Free captcha for WordPress that replaces Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Cloudflare Turnstile. No puzzles, and nothing leaves your server.
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.
Intelligent spam protection for WordPress forms, comments, and reviews. No CAPTCHA needed. Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and more.
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.
Invisible Proof-of-Work CAPTCHA. No checkboxes, no image grids, no Google, no tracking. Just spam protection that gets out of the way.
Prosopo Procaptchav1.24.1
Free, GDPR-compliant CAPTCHA that stops spam bots on WordPress core forms and 21 form plugins, page builders and themes.
Simple contact forms that are easy to set up and style, accessible by default, with effective built-in spam protection.
A lightweight WordPress contact form plugin with 18 themes, SMTP support, Google reCAPTCHA or internal captcha, and instant theme switching.
SilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data.