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Comparison · Mkt Auto
OpnForm vs Gumloop
A side-by-side editorial comparison of OpnForm and Gumloop — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
OpnForm vs Gumloop: at a glance
| Feature | OpnForm | Gumloop |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Mkt Auto | Mkt Auto |
| Velocity score | 5.0 | 7.5 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 1 |
| Top themes | form-builder, open-source, self-hosting, pdf-generation | agent platform, company brain, mcp connectors, skills as code |
| Last editorial update | 2h ago | 1d ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
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.
What is Gumloop?
Gumloop is turning its whole connector catalog into agent memory, one week at a time.
Gumloop launched Company Brain in early July and has widened it on almost every release since — Zendesk as a source, then permission-preserving Google Drive, then any connector in the catalog at all. The agent layer is picking up its own plumbing in parallel: organization skills sync from a GitHub repository and update as commits land, skills and connectors are manageable through the developer API (including by other agents), and agents can be DM'd directly in Slack. Models rotate through continuously, with Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 the latest, alongside bring-your-own Fireworks keys for running open models on a customer's own account.
OpnForm vs Gumloop: editorial side-by-side
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.
Gumloop
7.5MKT AUTO
Gumloop is turning its whole connector catalog into agent memory, one week at a time.
◆ Current state
Gumloop launched Company Brain in early July and has widened it on almost every release since — Zendesk as a source, then permission-preserving Google Drive, then any connector in the catalog at all. The agent layer is picking up its own plumbing in parallel: organization skills sync from a GitHub repository and update as commits land, skills and connectors are manageable through the developer API (including by other agents), and agents can be DM'd directly in Slack. Models rotate through continuously, with Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 the latest, alongside bring-your-own Fireworks keys for running open models on a customer's own account.
◆ Where it's heading
Two loops are closing at once. On knowledge, every connector Gumloop adds now doubles as a retrieval source, so catalog growth and Brain quality compound instead of competing for roadmap. On capability, skills are becoming versioned artifacts that live in a repository and agents are becoming things other agents can configure through the API — the platform is moving from a place you build one agent to a place agents are provisioned programmatically. Governance is following a step behind rather than leading: audit logs for Brain activity, access requests routed to approvers, per-conversation credit breakdowns, and usage-based billing for workflow AI steps.
◆ Prediction
Expect the same generalization that took Brain from fixed sources to any connector to be applied to triggers and actions, and expect the agent-configures-agent API to grow into templated provisioning so organizations can stamp out fleets rather than assemble agents one at a time.
Alternatives to OpnForm and Gumloop
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 OpnForm or Gumloop.
Craft CMS
Craft 6 is being rebuilt on Laravel in public, one alpha at a time
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.
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Recent activity from OpnForm and Gumloop
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoGumloopClaude Opus 5
- 8d agoGumloopSync Organization Skills from GitHub
- 10d agoGumloopAny Connector as a Brain Source ⚡
- 14d agoGumloopDM Your Agent in Slack
- 16d agoGumloopZendesk in Gumloop Brain
- 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
- 18d agoGumloopBrain respects Drive permissions; Meta Ads connector added
- 1mo agoOpnFormv2.1.0: Self-hosted form fixes
- 1mo agoOpnFormv2.0.0: OpnForm V2 ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between OpnForm and Gumloop?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Gumloop is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is OpnForm better than Gumloop?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Gumloop is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
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.
What are the best alternatives to Gumloop?
Top Gumloop alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Gumloop alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/gumloop for the full list with editorial commentary on each.