Short version
GravityView is a front-end entry directory — letting site visitors search, filter, and edit Gravity Forms entries — that added charts later, through a separate paid add-on. wpDataTables is a general-purpose table/chart builder for any data source that happens to support Gravity Forms through an add-on. Formboard is built specifically for turning form (or spreadsheet) data into reporting: charts, KPI cards, and pivot tables, natively, in one plugin, at one price. If what you need is reporting and dashboards, Formboard is the narrowest fit. If you need front-end entry management, GravityView does that better than either of the other two. If you need a general table/chart builder for non-form data across your whole site, wpDataTables is the more flexible base.
Feature-by-feature
| Capability | Formboard | GravityView | wpDataTables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native Gravity Forms integration | ✓ Built in | ✓ Core requirement | Separate paid add-on |
| Works without Gravity Forms (CSV / Excel / Sheets) | ✓ Every tier | ✗ | ✓ Its default mode |
| Charts (bar, line, pie, etc.) | ✓ Every tier | Separate add-on (GravityCharts) | ✓ Multiple chart engines |
| KPI / stat-tile cards | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pivot tables | ✓ With subtotals | ✗ | ✗ (open feature request) |
| Cross-form / cross-table relationships | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Formulas / calculated fields | ✓ | Separate add-on (GravityMath) | ✓ Calculated columns |
| Front-end entry editing / directory | ✗ Not its job | ✓ Its core strength | ✗ |
| Starting price | $49.99/yr | ~$119/yr core, charts extra | $59–99/yr |
| Unlimited-site price | $179/yr | ~$396/yr bundle | $398/yr |
Compiled from each vendor's public pricing and documentation pages as of 2026. Promotional first-year pricing may differ from renewal pricing on any of these products — always check the vendor's current pricing page before deciding.
What GravityView is actually built for
GravityView's core plugin isn't a reporting tool at all — it's a front-end entry directory. It lets site visitors (or logged-in users) search, filter, sort, and even edit or delete their own Gravity Forms entries from the front end, with approval workflows and DataTables-style layouts. That's a genuinely different, valuable job, and it's one Formboard doesn't attempt.
Charts were added later as a separate product, GravityCharts, sold apart from GravityView itself. Getting a comparable feature set to Formboard — charts, plus totals via GravityMath, plus tables via a third add-on — means stacking multiple GravityKit products, each with its own license. Neither KPI cards, pivot tables, nor cross-form relationships are available in any of them as of this writing.
If what you actually need is letting users manage their own submissions on the front end, GravityView remains the more mature, purpose-built option — that's not a gap Formboard tries to fill.
What wpDataTables is actually built for
wpDataTables is older and broader than either of the other two: a general table-and-chart builder for WordPress that reads from CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, MySQL, JSON, XML, or manual entry, with a choice of chart engines (Google Charts, Chart.js, ApexCharts, or Highcharts under its own separate commercial license). It has no idea what Gravity Forms is out of the box — that connection requires a separate paid "Gravity Forms Integration" add-on on top of its Premium tier.
It does support calculated/formula columns, which puts it ahead of GravityView on that front. But it has no native pivot table (an open, years-old, unshipped feature request on its own public roadmap), no KPI cards, and no concept of relationships between data sources.
If your reporting needs extend well beyond Gravity Forms — a general table/chart tool for any data across your whole site — wpDataTables' breadth is a real advantage over a forms-specific tool like Formboard.
Where Formboard fits
Formboard was built narrowly, on purpose: turn Gravity Forms entries — or a CSV, Excel file, or Google Sheet, no forms plugin required — into charts, KPI cards, pivot tables, and data tables, with cross-form relationships and calculated formulas, all in one plugin, included at every pricing tier. It doesn't do front-end entry management, and it isn't a general-purpose table builder for arbitrary WordPress content. It's a dashboard for the data you already have.
That focus is the whole pitch: no stacking three add-ons to approximate one dashboard, and no paying extra to unlock the import or the charts.
See how it looks with your data
Every widget type — charts, KPI cards, pivot tables, and data tables — is demoed with sample data on the homepage.
See the widget library