Shopify app comparison · updated Sep 15, 2026
Powerful Contact Form vs Shopify Forms
Compare Powerful Contact Form and Shopify Forms for Shopify using current ratings, review activity, pricing, features, and OngoingAI-observed adoption.
Powerful Form
Powerful Contact Form Builder
Build your contact us form or custom form without any technical knowledge required
- Rating
- 4.90
- Reviews
- 2,482
- Review growth · 30d
- +152 · +6.5%
- Pricing
- Free plan available
- Years on Shopify
- 9
- Stores observed
- 5,151
Shopify
Shopify Forms
Grow your contact list and convert new leads with Shopify’s customizable forms tool.
- Rating
- 4.40
- Reviews
- 720
- Review growth · 30d
- +50 · +7.5%
- Pricing
- Free
- Years on Shopify
- 4
- Stores observed
- 28,155
Our read
Shopify Forms has the stronger observed market footprint in OngoingAI's data — it appears on 5.5× more tracked stores. Ratings and recent review growth are closer.
- Rating
- Powerful Contact Form leads4.9 vs 4.4
- Review growth
- Shopify Forms faster+7.5% vs +6.5%
- Review depth
- Powerful Contact Form3.4× more reviews
- Observed adoption
- Shopify Forms5.5× more tracked stores
Review trajectory
How each app's Shopify reviews are moving.
Daily App Store review counts since we began tracking — who's gaining reviews fastest, who holds the larger base, and how the race is developing.
Powerful Contact Form Builder leads total reviews and is adding them fastest over the tracked window.
Reviews each app has gained since the start of this tracking window. · Tracking window · Aug 17 – Sep 14, 2026
Head-to-head
The signals, side by side.
Each row reads straight from the live App Store listing and OngoingAI’s census. The Difference column states the gap — not a buyer recommendation.
| Dimension | Powerful Contact Form | Shopify Forms | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.90 | 4.40 | Powerful Contact Form +0.50 |
| Reviews | 2,482 | 720 | Powerful Contact Form 3.4× |
| Review growth · 30d | +152 · +6.5% | +50 · +7.5% | Shopify Forms faster |
| Listed pricing | Free plan available | Free | Not directly comparable |
| Years on Shopify | 9 | 4 | Powerful Contact Form +5y |
| Stores observed | 5,151 | 28,155 | Shopify Forms leads |
Review corpus
What merchants actually report.
Powerful Contact Form
4.88 avg · 2,396 reviews
Shopify Forms
4.28 avg · 690 reviews
| Signal | Powerful Contact Form | Shopify Forms | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-star share | 93% | 67% | Powerful Contact Form leads |
| Rating · last 90 days | 4.98 | 4.77 | Powerful Contact Form leads |
| Replies to reviews | 0% | 8% | Shopify Forms leads |
| Replies to critical (≤3★) | 7% | 34% | Shopify Forms leads |
| Long-term reviewers (1yr+) | 26% | 13% | Powerful Contact Form leads |
| Top market | United States 30% | United States 28% | — |
| Reviews analyzed | 2,396 | 690 | — |
Based on public merchant reviews, with newer feedback given more weight. OngoingAI matches each review to an identifiable store and the app they use.
Which fits your requirements?
Choose by what you actually need.
Choose Powerful Contact Form if…
- You need applications
- You need bookings
- You need contacts
- A higher App Store rating is a priority
Choose Shopify Forms if…
- You need email marketing
- You need landing pages
- You need discounts
- Recent review-growth signals matter to you
Tied to observable requirements only — listed capabilities, ratings, review growth, adoption and price. It doesn’t assert usability or support quality.
Feature differences
What Powerful Contact Form and Shopify Forms each do that the other doesn’t.
They cover largely the same ground — 10% of listed capabilities overlap. The decision material is the rest: what each lists that the other doesn’t.
Powerful Contact Form only
36
- Applications
- Bookings
- Contacts
- Custom
- Feedback
- File upload
- Multi-step
- Orders
- Pricing quotes
- Registrations
- Surveys
- Wholesale
- Font and color
- Custom fields
- Custom CSS
- Embedded forms
- Email templates
- Multi-language
- Conditional logic
- GDPR checkbox
- Email responses
- Auto-sync
- Data export
- Dashboard
Shopify Forms only
17
- Email marketing
- Landing pages
- Discounts
- Exit intent
- Welcome emails
- Editor tool
- Consent collection
- Email capture list
- SMS capture list
- Triggers and rules
- Automations
- Targeting
- Segmentation
- Tagging
- Tracking
- Reporting
- Email pop-ups
4 shared capabilities
- Forms
- Newsletters
- Pop-ups
- Analytics
Observed adoption
Who actually runs each, on real stores.
The stores OngoingAI’s weekly census observes running each app, and the platform each skews toward — observed presence, not vendor-reported install totals.
Powerful Contact Form
5,151
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Shopify Forms
28,155
stores observed
Skews Shopify · 100%
Scope
What this comparison measures.
What it measures
Shopify App Store ratings and review counts, rating distribution, developer reply rates, reviewer tenure and geography, listed pricing and capabilities, category data, and OngoingAI-observed storefront adoption for Powerful Contact Form and Shopify Forms.
What it doesn’t
Hands-on usability, customer-support quality, deliverability, merchant sentiment from review text, or revenue impact. We draw a sharp line around what we can observe.
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Methodology
Where the numbers come from.
Ratings, review counts, pricing, and categories come from the live Shopify App Store listing, refreshed daily. Review growth compares the observed snapshots across the trailing 30-day window. “Stores observed” and the platform split come from OngoingAI’s weekly storefront census — the real stores running each app, not the listing’s claimed totals. Comparison generated Sep 15, 2026.
See who’s switching — as it happens.
Track app adoption on live ecommerce stores. Find merchants running Powerful Contact Form or Shopify Forms, follow stack changes, and see when a store installs, removes, or replaces an app.