Friendly Captcha for WordPress

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Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.

Author:Friendly Captcha GmbH (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.0
WordPress version tested:6.4.3
Plugin version:1.12.3
Added to WordPress repository:22-12-2009
Last updated:05-03-2024
Rating, %:86
Rated by:16
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Total downloads:94 754
Active installs:7 000+
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Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse.

Do you use a captcha like reCAPTCHA to keep out bots? Friendly Captcha is a powerful anti-spam service that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images and protects user privacy.

How Friendly Captcha Works

Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website. Other CAPTCHAs are a burden on your users, Friendly Captcha respects your users.

Friendly Captcha is a proof-of-work based anti-bot solution in which the user’s device does all the work. We generate a unique crypto puzzle for each visitor.

Solving it will usually take only a few seconds. As soon as the user starts filling the form it starts getting solved. By the time the user is ready to submit, the puzzle is probably already solved.

Friendly Captcha prevents spam and doesn’t punish real users in doing so.

Privacy Notices

No personal information

Our anti-bot service does not store personal data from your end users. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more.

No cookies

Our end user solution does not use cookies. This protects your end users from being tracked and followed from site to site.

No discrimination

Normal CAPTCHA tasks are not easy for all humans. Our solution works without labeling tasks and is thus accessible to everyone.

Decentralized data processing

By default, requests are processed in the point-of-presence closest to where it is accessed by the end user. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more.

Join thousands of organizations in switching to a privacy-first anti-bot solution.

Forms and Plugins Supported

  • WordPress Login Form
  • WordPress Register Form
  • WordPress Reset Password Form
  • WordPress Comments
  • CoBlocks
  • Contact Form 7
  • Elementor Pro Forms
  • FluentForm
  • Gravity Forms
  • Ultimate Member Login Form
  • Ultimate Member Register Form
  • Ultimate Member Reset Password Form
  • WooCommerce Login Form
  • WooCommerce Register Form
  • WooCommerce Checkout Form
  • WooCommerce Lost Password Form
  • WPForms
  • Profile Builder Login Form
  • Profile Builder Register Form
  • Profile Builder Reset Password Form
  • Forminator
  • Avada Form Builder

If you see an integration that’s missing, please open a pull request

However, you may wish to email the authors of plugins you’d like to support Friendly Captcha: it will usually take them only an hour or two to add native support if they choose to do so. This will simplify your use of Friendly Captcha, and is the best solution in the long run.


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