Comparing Valine to Reform
Compare Valine with Reform for adding forms to your static site.
Valine
A fast, simple and efficient comment system without back-end
Overview
LeanCloud free tier is limited; requires configuration; Chinese-developed
+ Pros
- No backend required
- fast
- lightweight
- Markdown support
- emoji support
- visitor count feature
− Cons
- Relies on third-party services (LeanCloud) for storage
- privacy concerns with data stored externally
- development paused
Reform
No-code form builder for high-converting lead generation
Partial free
Overview
By FunnelEnvy; trusted by MicroConf; Fathom; TinySeed; SavvyCal; Justin Jackson (Transistor.fm) testimonial
+ Pros
- Conversion-optimized
- A/B testing
- multi-step forms
- lead enrichment
- CRM integrations
- abandoned submission capture
- real-time analytics
− Cons
- Not a pure form backend
- expensive
- focused on marketing teams
- no responses display widget
- no self-hosted option