Alternatives to Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.7/5 (1,156 reviews)
Downloads: 380,651,097
Active installs: 6,000,000
Maintenance score: 73/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 5.8
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.2
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Antispam Bee(224)•Updated 162d ago
Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.
700,000 installs10,808,584 downloads69/100 • Maintained
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CF7 Apps – [Honeypot and hCAPTCHA for Contact Form 7](130)•Updated 55d ago
Add hCaptcha, Honeypot and Redirection to Contact Form 7 with CF7 Apps. Improve form security, lightweight, and no unnecessary code.
300,000 installs4,905,642 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk(3,139)•Updated 26d ago
Blocks spam comments, fake users, contact form spam and more. No impact on SEO. Privacy focused. CAPTCHA free, premium Antispam plugin.
200,000 installs21,901,167 downloads91/100 • Actively maintained
Email Address Encoder(159)•Updated 344d ago
A lightweight plugin that protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots, by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities.
100,000 installs1,540,943 downloads47/100 • Stale
Gravity Forms Zero Spam(23)•Updated 357d ago
Enhance your Gravity Forms to include anti-spam measures originally based on the work of David Walsh's "Zero Spam" technique.
100,000 installs866,254 downloads32/100 • Stale
Maspik – Ultimate Spam Protection(79)•Updated 63d ago
🛡️ No more fake leads, and unwanted spam - Every email will be real and valuable (For all Contact-forms/Comments and Registration forms).
30,000 installs752,477 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}(213)•Updated 1904d ago
An extremely powerful antispam plugin that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images.
10,000 installs687,969 downloads29/100 • Possibly abandoned
AntiSpam for Contact Form 7(10)•Updated 35d ago
A trustworthy antispam plugin for Contact Form 7. Wave goodbye to spam and keep your inbox clean!
10,000 installs64,946 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
6,000 installs97,328 downloads44/100 • Stale
OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA)(45)•Updated 26d ago
Protect your forms from spam with 99.9% accuracy - no CAPTCHA, no JavaScript, no tracking. Trusted by 3.5M+ websites.
5,000 installs190,986 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
Anti-spam, Spam protection, ReCaptcha for all forms and GDPR-compliant(44)•Updated 212d ago
Anti-spam - CAPTCHA that protects all forms against spam and brute-force. Invisible and GDPR-compliant.
4,000 installs51,947 downloads34/100 • Stale
La Sentinelle antispam(19)•Updated 44d ago
Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way.
3,000 installs46,756 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Human Presence – Stop Form Spam Without ReCaptcha(15)•Updated 677d ago
The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress
1,000 installs32,396 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Stop Contact Form 7 Spam & WPForms Spam – Free Protection(11)•Updated 46d ago
Stop Contact Form 7 spam and WPForms spam instantly. Free spam protection for business sites. No CAPTCHA. No API keys. Just works.
1,000 installs54,447 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Disable WP Registration Page Spam(5)•Updated 556d ago
Disable default WordPress registration page, remove register link and stop registration spam, without disabling user registration.
1,000 installs11,030 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Spam Protection, AntiSpam, reCaptcha, Stop bad bots, tor, Spam submissions, web scraping / FREE by CloudFilt(3)•Updated 258d ago
Prevent and stop bots traffic. This plugin inserts in your website the CloudFilt codes for the security tracking available on https://cloudfilt.com/.
700 installs16,983 downloads40/100 • Stale
WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)(3)•Updated 1829d ago
WordPress plugin to fight with 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more).
700 installs19,490 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
En Spam(7)•Updated 31d ago
Block spam with cookies and JavaScript. All Spambots will remain away from your blog. Without settings or Captcha, install and forget the spam.
600 installs16,335 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
I don't like Spam!(2)•Updated 55d ago
Use the Comment Blocklist feature to protect your contact form.
200 installs8,922 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Turbo Ecommerce(0)•Updated 744d ago
Turbo plugin helps you integrate your WooCommerce website with the Turbo shipping system.
30 installs1,661 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned