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Comparison · Mkt Auto
Mautic vs OpnForm
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mautic and OpnForm — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mautic vs OpnForm: at a glance
What is Mautic?
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
What is OpnForm?
OpnForm's V2 bet: import your Typeform, generate the PDF, self-host the lot.
OpnForm is an open-source form builder that shipped a major V2 in June 2026 and has spent every release since hardening it for self-hosters. V2 brought PDF generation from submissions, computed variables, version history, and importers for Typeform, Tally, Google Forms and Fillout. The three releases after it are almost entirely OIDC, Docker and PDF reliability work.
Mautic vs OpnForm: editorial side-by-side
Mautic
5.0MKT AUTO
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
◆ Current state
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
◆ Where it's heading
This is maintenance-shaped output from a community project carrying a wide support matrix. The 7.2 RC notes are dominated by dependency bumps, refactoring, and developer-experience work rather than new marketing automation capability, and the campaign engine keeps surfacing scheduling bugs that suggest that subsystem is where the complexity sits. A second RC without notes points to stabilisation rather than late feature additions.
◆ Prediction
Expect 7.2.0 to reach stable off the current RC line, and expect any further fixes to be backported across all three supported branches as the coordinated May security release was.
OpnForm
5.0MKT AUTO
OpnForm's V2 bet: import your Typeform, generate the PDF, self-host the lot.
◆ Current state
OpnForm is an open-source form builder that shipped a major V2 in June 2026 and has spent every release since hardening it for self-hosters. V2 brought PDF generation from submissions, computed variables, version history, and importers for Typeform, Tally, Google Forms and Fillout. The three releases after it are almost entirely OIDC, Docker and PDF reliability work.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is aimed at teams leaving a hosted form builder: the importers remove the migration cost, PDF generation covers the paperwork workflows those tools charge for, and the run of self-hosting fixes makes the destination credible enough to move to. The plan-based feature access introduced in V2 is the commercial half — an open core with an Enterprise tier, now being enforced consistently across self-hosted installs.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next releases to keep filling in V2's surface rather than opening a new one, with PDF templates and computed variables the likeliest areas given how often both reappear in follow-up fixes.
Alternatives to Mautic and OpnForm
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Mautic or OpnForm.
Joomla
Three release lines in parallel, and changelogs that publish checksums instead of changes
Customer.io
Location becomes a trigger, Twilio stops being the only SMS path, and the LLM layer gets a memory
Buttondown
Buttondown ships something almost every day, and most of it is somebody's bug report.
Systeme.io
Systeme.io's feed is an unbroken run of customer success stories, not a changelog.
Customer.io
Customer.io's summer wave pushes messaging into location triggers and live device surfaces.
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Recent activity from Mautic and OpnForm
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoMautic7.2.0-rc2: second release candidate on the 7.2 line
- 16d agoOpnFormv2.2.2: E2E CI reliability
- 16d agoOpnFormv2.2.1: Self-hosted reliability and file-link controls
- 17d agoOpnFormv2.2.0: More reliable self-hosting and PDF generation
- 23d agoMautic7.1.3 fixes campaign resend loops, restores GrapesJS typography
- 1mo agoOpnFormv2.1.0: Self-hosted form fixes
- 1mo agoOpnFormv2.0.0: OpnForm V2 ⚡
- 1mo agoMautic7.2.0 RC: dependency cleanup and configurable campaign cache TTL
- 2mo agoMautic7.1.2 security release patches SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI
- 2mo agoMautic6.0.9 backports the SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI fixes
- 2mo agoMautic5.2.11 backports the same three security advisories
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Mautic and OpnForm?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Mautic and OpnForm are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Mautic better than OpnForm?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Mautic and OpnForm are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 5.0 vs 5.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Mautic?
Top Mautic alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mautic alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mautic for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to OpnForm?
Top OpnForm alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "OpnForm alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/opnform for the full list with editorial commentary on each.