Comparing Gitalk to Basin
Compare Gitalk with Basin for adding forms to your static site.
Gitalk
A comment system based on GitHub Issues
Overview
Last updated 2021; similar to Utterances but uses the older Issues API; development stalled
+ Pros
- Open source
- uses GitHub Issues
- Markdown support
- multiple themes
- notifications
− Cons
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- only works with GitHub
- older project
Basin
Build forms that work; without all the work
Partial free
Overview
Made in Canada by Moonshot Ventures; AI-powered spam filtering via SpamCheck.ai; Postmark for email delivery
+ Pros
- No code form builder
- AI spam detection
- Lead Agent AI
- multi-step forms
- 35,000+ users
- spam protection
- GDPR-ready
- 10GB file storage
− Cons
- Limited free tier
- form builder may be overkill for simple HTML forms
- pricing is mid-range