Category · recomputed daily
captcha plugins
288 plugins in the directory carry the captcha tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
288
plugins
2,555,990+
combined reach
110
released in 90 days
43%
quiet 18 months+
7
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Privacy CAPTCHA for Cap | 100+ | changed hands |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Mailster Cool Captcha | 400+ | released after a long silence |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Mailster reCaptcha | 1,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 06 Oct 2026 | Forms | 100+ | reopened |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Forms | 100+ | closed |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Frontend Dashboard Captcha | 60+ | released after a long silence |
| 23 Aug 2026 | Really Simple CAPTCHA | 300,000+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| SiteGuard WP Plugin Adds WordPress login and admin protections, including CAPTCHA, login lock, login alerts, renamed login URLs, and SiteGuard WAF tuning support. | 600,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 days ago |
| CF7 Apps – Addons for Contact Form 7 (Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, etc.) Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, Redirection, and AI-powered form generation to Contact Form 7. | 300,000+ | 3.8★ | 8 days ago |
| Really Simple CAPTCHA Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin. | 300,000+ | 4.2★ | 2 months ago |
| Advanced Google reCAPTCHA Captcha protection against spam comments & brute force login attacks using Google reCAPTCHA. | 200,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free! | 200,000+ | 4.7★ | 6 days ago |
| CAPTCHA 4WP – Antispam CAPTCHA solution for WordPress Use CAPTCHA to stop spam and allow customers & users to interact with your website easily. Block fake accounts and orders. Avoid false positives. | 100,000+ | 3.2★ | 2 months ago |
| Captcha Code GDPR compatible captcha anti-spam protection for login form, comments form, registration form & lost password form. Eliminate spam with captcha. | 100,000+ | 3.9★ | 1 month ago |
| LukasApps CAPTCHA tools for Contact Form 7 Protect Contact Form 7 forms from spam with Google reCAPTCHA v2, reCAPTCHA v3, hCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile. | 100,000+ | 4.1★ | 1 month ago |
| reCaptcha by BestWebSoft Protect WordPress website forms from spam entries with Google reCAPTCHA. | 100,000+ | 3.9★ | 6 months ago |
| Gravity Forms Zero Spam Block form spam in Gravity Forms with an invisible token check, email rejection rules, and optional AI review. No CAPTCHAs for your visitors. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| Login Lockdown & Protection Protect, lockdown & secure login form by limiting login attempts from the same IP & banning IPs. | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 30 days ago |
| Image CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7 and WPForms by HookAndHook (DSGVO/GDPR) Adds an Image CAPTCHA to Contact Form 7 and WPForms, GDPR ready, perfect WPForms or Contact Form 7 Spam Protection Image CAPTCHA, adds a honeypot | 70,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| hCaptcha for WP The strongest CAPTCHA. Switch from reCAPTCHA and Turnstile for free. Works with 60+ integrations: Contact Form 7, Elementor, WooCommerce, Divi, etc. | 70,000+ | 4.6★ | 7 days ago |
| Invisible reCaptcha Use reCaptcha v2 by Google to combat spam at your login and registration forms, WooCommerce account forms, contact forms, and more! | 70,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 days ago |
| Captcha by BestWebSoft – Advanced Spam Protection, Math & OCR-Friendly Captcha for Site Forms 1 The Ultimate Spam Protection Plugin Using Captcha for WordPress Forms. | 10,000+ | 4.1★ | 10 days ago |
| SilentShield – Captcha & Anti-Spam for WordPress (CF7, WPForms, Elementor, WooCommerce) SilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data. | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 29 days ago |
| DS CF7 Math Captcha "DS CF7 Math Captcha" is a math captcha with refresh captcha functionality to prevent unwanted spam for your contact form 7 plugin. | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Friendly Captcha for WordPress Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse. | 10,000+ | 3.9★ | 17 days ago |
| WPBruiser Security – No CAPTCHA Anti-Spam & Login Protection Security and anti-spam without CAPTCHA. Blocks bots on forms, comments and logins, limits login attempts and hardens WordPress. No outside service. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 13 days ago |
| Gravity Forms No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Adds "No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA" field to Gravity Forms as an alternative CAPTCHA option | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Login Security Captcha Secure WordPress login, registration, and comment form with Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile. Prevent Brute-force attacks and more. | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 29 days ago |
| Simple Login Captcha Adds a simple 3-digit number captcha on the login form. | 10,000+ | 3.9★ | 2 months ago |
| ReCaptcha Integration for WordPress reCaptcha for login, signup, comment forms, Ninja Forms and woocommerce. | 9,000+ | 4.4★ | 12 months ago |
| reCaptcha Add-On for FormCraft Add reCaptcha to your FormCraft forms. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Captcha Them All In any online website, hackers and unscrupulous users will try and attack your website. Whether it is trying to attack your website by brute forcing … | 5,000+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA — reCAPTCHA Alternative for All Forms Invisible spam protection for every form, login and checkout. No puzzles, no checkboxes, no lost visitors — a CAPTCHA your users never see. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 8 days ago |
| Kama SpamBlock Light and invisible protection against basic automated comment spam. Pings and trackbacks check for real backlinks. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| BotBlocker Security – Complete security platform Complete security platform for everyday: block bots, brute-force, viruses, spam, fake crawlers. WAF, 2FA, no-malware, proactive defense. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 26 days ago |
| Captcha by Yandex for Contact Form 7 Add antispam Yandex SmartCaptcha for your forms with Contact Form 7 | 3,000+ | 4.6★ | 6 months ago |
| Math Captcha for Elementor Forms Wordpress Plugin that will add a simple match captcha to your Elementor Forms. | 3,000+ | 4.0★ | 5 years ago · quiet |
| CrowdSec This plugin blocks detected attackers or displays them a captcha to check they are not bots. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 months ago |
| Human Presence – Stop Form Spam Without ReCaptcha The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress | 1,000+ | 4.7★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Enable Turnstile (Cloudflare) for Gravity Forms A lightweight plugin to enable Cloudflare's Turnstile alternative CAPTCHA on your Gravity Forms. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 16 days ago |
| Mailster reCaptcha Protect Mailster newsletter signup forms from spam with Google reCAPTCHA v3. | 1,000+ | 2.0★ | 23 days ago |
| Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA Secure your website Contact Form 7 forms from bots and hackers using plugin Contact Form 7 Text CAPTCHA. Just place shortcode [captchacf7* input-captc … | 1,000+ | 4.5★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Uber reCaptcha This plugin adds the reCaptcha form to the WordPress login form, recover password form, register form and comment form. | 1,000+ | 3.7★ | 16 months ago |
| Easy Spam Filter – Privacy-Friendly CAPTCHA Alternative with Turnstile for Contact Form 7, WPForms, BuddyPress, Elementor Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, WPForms, BuddyPress & Elementor. A CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress. | 1,000+ | 4.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 - Adds honeypot plus anti-spam functionality to Contact Form 7 forms. | 900+ | 3.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Power Captcha reCAPTCHA Protect WordPress/WooCommerce/Contact Form 7 forms from spam, brute-force attacks, fake comments, accounts, or registrations with Google reCAPTCHA. | 900+ | 4.3★ | 4 months ago |
| SKP WP Admin Login Captcha Add Google or Mathematical captcha on wordpress login page | 900+ | 5.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Advanced Custom Fields: reCAPTCHA Field Prevent spam on your Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) v5 frontend forms with Google reCAPTCHA. | 800+ | 4.2★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Give – Cloudflare Turnstile Reduce donation spam with Cloudflare turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA | 800+ | — | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Kitgenix CAPTCHA for Cloudflare Turnstile Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce and popular forms with server-side verification and anti-spam controls. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 7 days ago |
| Contact Form Block Tired of those heavy and old contact forms? Try this one. Simple, yet modern, pretty and extremely optimized. No JS or CSS files are loaded. | 600+ | 4.9★ | 14 days ago |
| Eazy CF Captcha Eazy C(omment)F(orm) Captcha adds a mathematic exercise to the comment form, contact form 7 & elementor, preventing bots to spam your comments and … | 500+ | 4.0★ | 2.5 years ago · quiet |
| Hizzle CAPTCHA – Protect your forms from spam Stop spam and bots across WordPress, WooCommerce, WPForms, Contact Form 7, and more with Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 10 days ago |
| OpenPorte Spam Protection Stop spam without CAPTCHAs. Proof-of-Work protection for your site. Open-source, self-hosted, privacy-first. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 8 days ago |
| TomS reCAPTCHA Integrated Google ReCaptcha for WordPress.Protect the login, register, lostpassword and comment forms. Support Woocommerce, Ultimate Member and more p … | 500+ | 5.0★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Affiliates Manager Google reCAPTCHA Integration An addon for the Affiliates Manager plugin to add Google reCAPTCHA to the registration page | 400+ | — | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Blue Captcha Blue Captcha is a powerful and highly customized WordPress plugin that effectively protects your WP blogs from spammers and unwanted persons. | 400+ | 4.7★ | 3 months ago |
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