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Comparison · Mkt Auto
Sulu vs Formaloo
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Sulu and Formaloo — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Sulu vs Formaloo: at a glance
What is Sulu?
Sulu ships 2.6 and 3.0 in lockstep, and the 3.0 line still reads like a maintenance branch.
Sulu is a Symfony-based CMS for developer-built sites, and its release process is a synchronised pair: every 3.0.x patch ships within a minute of the matching 2.6.x patch, carrying largely the same pull requests. Six releases in five months — 3.0.8/2.6.25, 3.0.7/2.6.24, 3.0.6/2.6.23 — are almost entirely fixes, editor upgrades and framework compatibility work. A security advisory was patched across both branches in March.
What is Formaloo?
Formaloo now lets you describe a form's logic instead of building it rule by rule.
Formaloo ships one large changelog roughly monthly, and 2026 has been a run of platform-level work: workspace Themes replacing per-form design, a Usage page with credit-based add-ons, Data Blocks rebuilt, workspace-wide timezones, Teams and access levels. July is the sharpest turn — Magic Logic generates a form's conditions, scoring and routing from a plain-English description, and Magic Voice lets respondents fill a form by speaking. Both sit alongside Magic Create, which builds a form from an uploaded PDF or photo, and Magic Design, which generates a theme from a sentence.
Sulu vs Formaloo: editorial side-by-side
Sulu
5.0MKT AUTO
Sulu ships 2.6 and 3.0 in lockstep, and the 3.0 line still reads like a maintenance branch.
◆ Current state
Sulu is a Symfony-based CMS for developer-built sites, and its release process is a synchronised pair: every 3.0.x patch ships within a minute of the matching 2.6.x patch, carrying largely the same pull requests. Six releases in five months — 3.0.8/2.6.25, 3.0.7/2.6.24, 3.0.6/2.6.23 — are almost entirely fixes, editor upgrades and framework compatibility work. A security advisory was patched across both branches in March.
◆ Where it's heading
Three threads run through the pairs. Editor upkeep is constant, with CKEditor moving to 47 LTS and then 48 and the fallout — table widgets, webpack font builds — fixed release by release. Framework compatibility is the second: Request->get calls replaced for Symfony 8, PHPUnit 13 and PHPStan kept green on lowest dependencies. The third and most interesting is data-model cleanup on the 3.0 side, where tags migrated from names to IDs behind a newly added DoctrineMigrationsBundle, with smart-content filters reworked to match. What is not visible is any capability that exists on 3.0 and not on 2.6 — a major version that is not yet behaving like one.
◆ Prediction
Expect the paired-release rhythm to continue with more Symfony 8 preparation and CKEditor 48 fallout. The open question is when 3.0 starts receiving work that is not upmerged from 2.6; until then the major version number is not buying users anything.
Formaloo
6.3MKT AUTO
Formaloo now lets you describe a form's logic instead of building it rule by rule.
◆ Current state
Formaloo ships one large changelog roughly monthly, and 2026 has been a run of platform-level work: workspace Themes replacing per-form design, a Usage page with credit-based add-ons, Data Blocks rebuilt, workspace-wide timezones, Teams and access levels. July is the sharpest turn — Magic Logic generates a form's conditions, scoring and routing from a plain-English description, and Magic Voice lets respondents fill a form by speaking. Both sit alongside Magic Create, which builds a form from an uploaded PDF or photo, and Magic Design, which generates a theme from a sentence.
◆ Where it's heading
AI is being pushed into every step of the form lifecycle: create it from a document, design it by description, write its logic from a sentence, fill it by voice. The construction of Magic Logic is the interesting part — it reads the existing form, prints every rule it intends to create as one plain sentence per line, and applies nothing until you approve, which is the right shape for a system where a wrong rule silently misroutes respondents. The non-AI releases point the same way commercially: enterprise sidebar controls, portal domain restrictions, purchasable credits, timezone-correct audit trails.
◆ Prediction
Magic Logic explicitly refuses to create fields, pages or ending pages that do not already exist and reports them instead. Lifting that restriction — one description producing the form and its logic together — is the gap the release itself names.
Alternatives to Sulu and Formaloo
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 Sulu or Formaloo.
Eleventy
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
Hugo
Steady feature-then-patch cadence, with security reports rising because AI tools are finding them
ClickFunnels
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
n8n
n8n's daily patch train hides the real work: hardening its MCP server into a proper auth resource.
OneSignal
OneSignal is arguing a new category into existence before showing the product behind it.
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Recent activity from Sulu and Formaloo
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoFormalooUnsplash, per-page covers, and a cleaner dashboard.
- 15d agoSuluSulu 3.0.8 validates selection filter params at build time
- 15d agoSuluSulu 2.6.25 adds a redirect after SSO login
- 22d agoFormalooMagic Logic writes form rules from a plain-English brief ⚡
- 2mo agoFormalooPortal domain rules, magic-link signup, and file-to-form
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 3.0.7 fixes smart-content filtering and speeds up indexing
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 2.6.24 upgrades CKEditor to version 48
- 2mo agoFormalooUpvoting on Kanban and Gallery, plus field-type conversion
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 3.0.6 migrates tag names to IDs with Doctrine migrations
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 2.6.23 moves to CKEditor 47 LTS and preps Symfony 8
- 3mo agoFormalooWorkspace Themes replace per-form design settings
- 4mo agoFormalooWorkspace-wide timezone for every system timestamp
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Sulu and Formaloo?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Formaloo is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 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 Sulu better than Formaloo?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Formaloo is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 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 Sulu?
Top Sulu alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Sulu alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/sulu for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Formaloo?
Top Formaloo alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Formaloo alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/formaloo for the full list with editorial commentary on each.