Free vs Signature

Free is complete. Signature goes further.

Echo Forms is a free WordPress form builder: the whole builder, with no limit on forms or entries. Signature is a second plugin that installs beside it and switches on 56 more features. Here is every one of them, side by side, as a plain form plugin comparison.

36 features in the free plugin

56 more with Signature

One price for all of them

Why two plugins?

The WordPress.org plugin guidelines ask that free plugins never lock features behind a payment, and we agree. So nothing inside the free plugin is locked, and Signature lives in a plugin of its own.

01

Install the free plugin

From WordPress.org or our download. Build forms right away.

02

Add Signature beside it

Install the Signature plugin next to the free one. Nothing is replaced.

03

Enter your key

Every Signature feature switches on. Your forms, entries and settings stay where they are.

Every feature, side by side.

Grouped the way you would look for them. Every feature in the free plugin is also part of Signature.

Feature
Free
Signature

Building forms

8 free · 8 more with Signature
Drag-and-drop builder

With the live form beside you as you build.

Included
Included
55 templates

Everyday contact and booking forms, and forms for eleven kinds of business.

Included
Included
20 more templates

Quizzes, surveys, polls and calculators that score, tally and add up from the first entry.

Not included
Included
33 field types

Basic, choice, date and time, layout and booking fields, from country lists to date ranges.

Included
Included
22 more field types

Address lookup, a map pin, signature, camera, password, range slider, repeater, NPS, Likert, ranking, product picker, registration, login and password reset, calculator, priced choices, coupon code, answer and loading screens, and entry preview.

Not included
Included
20 themes and a Style tab

Rounded or sharp, and any form can have a look of its own.

Included
Included
Twelve finished designs

Aurora, Frosted, Poster, Noir and eight more, each with its colors, corners, font, fields and button to change.

Not included
Included
Custom CSS for a form

Your own styles, for that form only.

Included
Included
Duplicate, export and import

Copy a form, or move it to another site.

Included
Included
Preview and test mode

A test link, and made-up answers filled in for you.

Included
Included
A block for the block editor

Pick a form, see it in the editor.

Included
Included
Choices filled from your site

Posts, terms, users and more.

Not included
Included
Version history

Restore any earlier version.

Not included
Included
Describe your form

Say what it is for in a sentence and it is built, on your own AI account.

Not included
Included
Access by role

Who builds forms, sees entries, changes entries and changes settings.

Not included
Included
Custom JavaScript

Your own script, for one form.

Not included
Included

Logic and calculations

4 free · 5 more with Signature
Conditional logic on any field

Show or hide a field by an earlier answer.

Included
Included
Input masks

Phone numbers, dates and codes typed the right way.

Included
Included
Answers from the page address

Fill fields in from the link you share.

Included
Included
Thank-you message or a redirect

To a page on your site or any web address.

Included
Included
A formula engine

Totals, quotes and loan calculators.

Not included
Included
Entry preview

A live summary of everything filled in so far.

Not included
Included
Answers that change the ending

Thank-you messages and redirects by answer.

Not included
Included
Dependent dropdowns

Pick a country, then see only its cities.

Not included
Included
Picture and icon choices

Choices shown as cards people tap.

Not included
Included

Longer forms

1 free · 8 more with Signature
Multi-page forms

With page breaks and progress.

Included
Included
Repeaters

A table, or one button per person.

Not included
Included
Save and resume later

Visitors come back to where they were.

Not included
Included
Abandoned forms

An email with a link back, for people who stop part way.

Not included
Included
Quizzes

Points, right answers or personality types, with designed results, charts and product picks.

Not included
Included
Ranking, NPS and agree scales

Drag to order, the 0 to 10 score and Likert grids.

Not included
Included
Conversational forms

One question at a time, full screen.

Not included
Included
Form landing pages

A form’s own address, with your logo and a short intro.

Not included
Included
Offline forms

Filled with no connection, sent when it returns.

Not included
Included

Form workflows

All 5 with Signature
Connect one form to another

Finish one form and the next opens with the answers already carried over.

Not included
Included
Data carried between forms

Map any field from the first form onto the next.

Not included
Included
Multi-step approvals

Send a submission on to the next person, with their own form to fill in.

Not included
Included
One entry per person

By login, email or device, and answers that must be unique.

Not included
Included
Login and password-reset forms

Beside registration.

Not included
Included

Who can send it

1 free · 4 more with Signature
Logged-in people only

Or only people with certain roles.

Included
Included
Open and close dates

And a cap on how many can send it.

Not included
Included
Password-protected forms

Only people with the password see the form.

Not included
Included
Editable entries

A link that lets people change what they sent.

Not included
Included
Entry approval

Emails wait until your team approves the entry.

Not included
Included

Popups

1 free · 1 more with Signature
Popups from a button

Any form, in a popup sized to fit it.

Included
Included
Popup triggers

On load, after a delay, on scroll or on the way out, as often as you choose.

Not included
Included

Payments and products

4 free · 6 more with Signature
Products with a total

Single items with a price, added up as they choose.

Included
Included
Stripe, PayPal and Razorpay

The visitor pays on the provider’s own page. No shop plugin needed.

Included
Included
Mercado Pago and Paystack

Hosted checkout, like Echo’s other free gateways.

Included
Included
Subscriptions

Charge every week, month or year with Stripe or PayPal.

Not included
Included
Cash and bank transfer

Shown after sending, with your own instructions.

Included
Included
Priced checkboxes and dropdowns

A price on every choice.

Not included
Included
WooCommerce product picker

Your shop’s products in a form.

Not included
Included
Coupons

With their own redeemable codes.

Not included
Included
Ask to pay in person

Customers ask, and staff approve it.

Not included
Included
More gateways

Square, Authorize.Net, Elavon Converge, WooCommerce checkout and Recurly.

Not included
Included

Uploads and special fields

1 free · 4 more with Signature
File uploads

Collected safely.

Included
Included
Signatures and camera

Signed on screen, or a photo straight from a phone.

Not included
Included
Address autocomplete

Google Places or Mapbox, and a map to drop a pin on.

Not included
Included
Registration fields

Create a WordPress account.

Not included
Included
Post creation

Turn an entry into a WordPress post.

Not included
Included

Spam protection

All 3 free
Honeypot and blocklist

Built in, with a check for forms sent too fast.

Included
Included
Custom CAPTCHA

A math question of our own, with no outside service.

Included
Included
reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha

If you prefer them.

Included
Included

Entries

6 free · 6 more with Signature
Entries in their own table

Fast, searchable, never WordPress posts.

Included
Included
Analytics, notes and favorites

Work through what came in.

Included
Included
CSV export

Everything out, any time.

Included
Included
Privacy tools

Raw submissions cleared after 90 days, and no cookies if you choose.

Included
Included
PDF of any entry

Download or attach.

Not included
Included
Summary email

“Here’s what came in”, daily or weekly.

Included
Included
Survey results

A chart per question, the NPS score, rating averages and agree grids.

Not included
Included
Live poll results

Shown to people once they vote.

Not included
Included
Views, starts and drop-off

Where people stopped, step by step.

Not included
Included
Visitor location

Country and city on each entry.

Not included
Included
Scheduled export and clean-up

A spreadsheet emailed every week or month; old entries cleared.

Not included
Included
Entries moved from other plugins

Gravity Forms, WPForms, Formidable, Fluent Forms and Contact Form 7.

Included
Included

Notifications

2 free · 3 more with Signature
Email notifications

With merge tags for every field.

Included
Included
Files attached to emails

Uploads go along with the notification.

Included
Included
Emails by answer

Sent only when an answer matches.

Not included
Included
Emails a few minutes later

For a reply that should not look automatic.

Not included
Included
Text notifications

Twilio, Vonage, Plivo, MessageBird and ClickSend.

Not included
Included

Connections

5 free · 6 more with Signature
Import from other form plugins

Gravity Forms, WPForms, Formidable, Fluent Forms and Contact Form 7, entries and all.

Included
Included
Email marketing

Mailchimp, Brevo, Kit, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Drip, MailPoet and five more.

Included
Included
Google Sheets

A row per entry.

Included
Included
Webhooks and Slack

Zapier, Slack, anything.

Not included
Included
Elementor widget and shortcode

Drop a form anywhere.

Included
Included
CRM connections

HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and Zoho.

Not included
Included
Google Drive and Dropbox

Uploaded files filed in a folder per form.

Not included
Included
Google Calendar

An event for each submission, on the day it asks for.

Not included
Included
Notion and Airtable

A row for each entry, each question in its column.

Not included
Included
Zapier, Make and n8n

New entries to thousands of apps, and entries added from them.

Not included
Included
QR code for any form

For posters, tables and counters.

Included
Included

Questions, answered.

No. Nothing in the free plugin is a trial or a teaser, and it never nags you to upgrade. There is no limit on forms or entries, and we add no fee to the payments you take.

No. Signature installs beside the free plugin and adds to it. Keep both active.

No. Your forms, entries and settings stay exactly as they are. The Signature features simply become available in the builder.

Your forms and entries stay on your site and the free plugin keeps working. The Signature features switch off until you renew.

Yes. All 56 Signature features come with every plan. The plans only differ in how many sites they cover.

Every Signature feature, from $49.

One price for all 56 Signature features. Plans only change how many sites.

Get Echo Forms, free

Every field, logic and payments, with no limit on forms or entries. We email you the download and three setup steps.

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