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FormSubmit is the shortest path from an HTML form to your inbox that exists. No account, no key, no dashboard: put your email address in the form's action, confirm once, and it forwards submissions to you forever, for free, at unlimited volume. For a personal site with one form, that is genuinely hard to argue with, and this page will not try.
The trade is that FormSubmit is a pipe, not a place. mailcontact gives each project one inbox that receives both form submissions and messages sent to its own real email address, with pings in Discord, Slack, email, or a webhook.
what is formsubmit
FormSubmit forwards HTML form submissions to an email address with no registration. Checked on 17 July 2026, their documentation states unlimited submissions from unlimited forms, at no cost, with no paid tier of any kind. It supports AJAX submission, a post-submit redirect, a honeypot, a captcha toggle and file attachments.
It does keep an archive, contrary to how it is often described: submissions are retained for 30 days and reachable through a small API, though that API is limited to five calls a day and there is no dashboard to browse. There is also no public changelog, blog or status page, so its maintenance status is hard to assess from the outside. The homepage claims over six million submissions from more than 400,000 sites.
side by side
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| mailcontact | FormSubmit | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier for a form, an address and up to 2 projects; Pro at launch | Free, unlimited, no paid tier. Nothing to beat here |
| Signup | An account, so there's something to log into | None at all. Your email in the action attribute is the setup |
| Where messages live | A unified inbox per project, forms and email together | Your email. Plus a 30-day archive via an API capped at 5 calls/day |
| Inbound email address | Included: yourproject@mailcontact.app works from the first second | Not offered; it forwards to an address you already have |
| Notifications | Discord, Slack, email, and webhooks | Email only |
| Your address on the page | Not exposed. The endpoint is an opaque project id | Encoded, but the form's action is tied to your address |
the honest take
faq
Yes, as far as their own documentation goes: unlimited submissions from unlimited forms, no registration, and no paid plan exists anywhere on the site. Checked on 17 July 2026. There is no upsell because there is nothing to sell you.
For 30 days, which is more than most people assume. You reach them through an API (fetch a key by email, then request your submissions), not a dashboard, and the API is limited to five calls per day. Uploaded files are not retained or reachable that way.
Hard to say from outside, and we'd rather say that than guess. The site is up, the footer is current, and a new beta feature is in the nav, which suggests someone is home. But there's no changelog, blog or status page, and some documentation examples still carry 2019 timestamps. For a free service with no account, that's a risk you're accepting either way.
Often you shouldn't. The reasons that hold are structural: you want a per-project inbox rather than everything landing in one mailbox, you want an inbound address of your own, or you want a Discord ping. If your one form emails you fine, that's a solved problem and you should leave it solved.
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