Free is great. Free with a dashboard is better.
FormSubmit forwards form emails for free with no account — and that's genuinely useful. But there's no dashboard or archive: if an email is lost, the submission is gone. Formcrest's free plan stores every submission, filters spam properly, and grows with you.
| Feature | Formcrest | FormSubmit |
|---|---|---|
| Free to start | 500 submissions / month | ✓ |
| Dashboard with searchable archive | ✓ | No dashboard — submissions exist only as emails |
| CSV export | ✓ | — |
| Spam filtering | Honeypot + Turnstile + rate limits, quarantined for review | reCAPTCHA challenge (on by default) |
| Webhooks | Pro — HMAC-signed, retries, dead-letters | Basic _webhook forwarding |
| Multiple recipients | Verified inboxes: 15 (Pro) / 30+ (Agency) | _cc comma-separated list |
| Autoresponders | Pro | Basic _autoresponse field |
| Hourly / daily digests | ✓ | — |
| Per-form analytics | Pro | — |
| Account & access control | ✓ | Per-form email activation only |
Switching takes about five minutes
- 01
Your HTML barely changes
FormSubmit and Formcrest both use a plain action= endpoint. Remove FormSubmit's _-prefixed config fields; their behavior moves into your Formcrest dashboard.
- 02
Create a Formcrest form
Sign up free, verify your inbox once — no more per-form activation emails.
- 03
Swap the action URL
Replace formsubmit.co/your@email with your Formcrest endpoint. Your address is no longer exposed in your page source.
Try Formcrest on your next form
Keep FormSubmit running while you test. Swap the URL when you're happy — no submissions lost.
Create a free accountComparison based on publicly available information from formsubmit.co as of June 2026; their features may change — check formsubmit.co for the latest. Formcrest is an independent product and is not affiliated with FormSubmit.