Comparison
EntryVault has a WPForms adapter. It reads your WPForms entries rather than replacing them, alongside ten other form builders. So this is not really a versus page — it is about what an entries list does well, and the point where you need something more like a pipeline.
WPForms lists Entry Management as a feature of its paid plans, from Basic upward: see submissions in the dashboard, export them as CSV, Excel or PDF, and import entries from CSV or migrate them in from other builders. For a site running WPForms and nothing else, that is a complete answer and you do not need us.
Two things to know before you rely on it. The first is the price: Basic is $49.50 for the first year and their footnote says all renewals are at full price, so the ongoing cost of an entries screen is $99 a year. The second is scope — it manages WPForms entries, which is exactly what it says it does, and nothing else on the site.
There is a third thing worth knowing if your forms take money, and it is stated on their pricing page verbatim: “If you're on WPForms free version or using an inactive license, then a 3% platform fee will apply on all transactions.” That is about payments rather than entries, but the “inactive license” half is the same trapdoor — a renewal that quietly fails changes how your site behaves.
An entries table sorted by date answers “what came in?”. It does not answer the questions that actually matter once more than one person is involved: who is handling this one? what stage is it at? which of these has nobody touched in a week? did anyone reply?
EntryVault gives every entry a stage on a Kanban board, an owner, tags, threaded notes and a timeline — all in the free tier. You can send email from the card and read the thread in place. Pro adds IMAP reply tracking, so a customer's reply lands back on the entry instead of in one person's inbox, plus an automation engine, multiple pipelines and signed webhooks.
This is the part that decides it on real sites. Sites accumulate form plugins — Contact Form 7 on the contact page from years ago, WPForms added for a campaign, something else inherited with a theme. Each keeps entries in its own tables behind its own screen, and no first-party entries list can see the others.
EntryVault reads from Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Formidable, Forminator, Ninja Forms, WS Form, Everest Forms, SureForms and Trinity Forms — eleven adapters, all available in the free tier. Your WPForms entries keep living in WPForms; EntryVault just also shows them next to everything else.
| WPForms entry management | EntryVault | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $49.50 first year, $99/yr after | Free tier; Pro from $79/yr |
| Reads entries from | WPForms | 11 builders, WPForms included |
| Entries list with filters | Yes | Yes, free |
| CSV export | Yes, plus Excel and PDF | CSV import and export free; scheduled CSV or Excel export by email in Pro |
| Kanban pipeline and stages | No | Yes, free |
| Owner assignment | No | Yes, free |
| Threaded notes and timeline | No | Yes, free |
| Email reply tracking | No | Yes, Pro, over IMAP |
| Automation triggers and actions | Smart workflows on higher tiers | Yes, Pro |
| Transaction fee on payments | 3% on free build or inactive licence | We do not process payments |
If WPForms is the only form plugin on the site and you already pay for it, use its entries screen. It works, it is included, and adding a plugin to duplicate something you own is not an improvement.
Add EntryVault when one of two things is true: the site has more than one form plugin and you are tired of checking several screens, or submissions have become work that more than one person is doing and a flat list has stopped being enough. Both are specific problems rather than general superiority, which is the honest way to put it.
Stick with WPForms entries if
WPForms is your only form plugin, you already hold a paid licence, and reading and exporting submissions is the whole job. You would be paying for something you have.
Add EntryVault if
Your site has more than one form plugin, entries need owners and stages rather than just storage, you want replies tracked back to the entry, or you want a free way to see everything in one place before spending anything.
Two caveats, both ours. EntryVault's free build is not currently installable from the WordPress plugin directory — the listing is closed while an account matter is resolved, and it is a direct download from us in the meantime. And on WPForms Lite specifically: their pricing table lists entry management as a paid feature from Basic upward, but it has no Lite column, and we could not load their documentation to confirm exactly what the free build stores. We are not going to state it as fact when we have not checked it.
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WPForms lists Entry Management as a feature of its paid plans from Basic upward. Basic is $49.50 for the first year, and their footnote states that all renewals are at full price, so it is $99 a year thereafter. Checked August 2026.
WPForms presents entry management as a paid feature starting at Basic, and their pricing comparison table covers only the paid tiers. We were unable to load their documentation to confirm exactly what the free build stores, so we will not state it as fact. What is confirmed on their pricing page is that a 3% platform fee applies to transactions on the free version or an inactive licence.
WPForms includes entry export as CSV, Excel or PDF in its paid plans. EntryVault exports to CSV for free and, in Pro, sends a scheduled CSV or Excel file by email (no PDF), and reads WPForms entries alongside ten other form builders, so a single export can cover submissions from several plugins at once.
Not with a first-party entries screen, which only sees its own plugin. EntryVault reads from eleven builders: Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Formidable, Forminator, Ninja Forms, WS Form, Everest Forms, SureForms and Trinity Forms. All eleven adapters work in the free tier.
No. EntryVault is not a form builder and does not create forms. It has a WPForms adapter that reads the entries your WPForms forms collect, so the two run together and your entries stay where they are.
On an active paid licence, no. Their pricing page states that a 3% platform fee applies on all transactions if you are on the free version or using an inactive licence, which means the fee also returns if a paid licence lapses.
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