Native Image Choices in Gravity Forms 2.9 vs. JetSloth’s Premium Add-on: A Comparison
The most recent release, Gravity Forms 2.9 introduced a long-awaited feature: native support for image choices. With version 2.9, users can now add images directly as choices in their forms, enhancing visual engagement and allowing users to interact with content more intuitively. However, for those who have been using JetSloth’s Image Choices addon, this new feature from Gravity Forms might spark questions.
Let’s dive into the differences between Gravity Forms’ native image choice feature and JetSloth’s premium addon, helping you determine which is best for your needs.
Native Image Choices vs JetSloth
Compare Gravity Forms’ new native image choices to JetSloth’s Image Choices addon. Discover which option offers the best customization, interactivity, and value for creating visually engaging WordPress forms.
| Feature | Native Image Choices | JetSloth Image Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Field Type | New Field | New & existing product, radio & checkbox fields |
| Supports existing fields | ❌ | ✅ |
| Editor UI | ✅ | ✅ |
| Basic Style Customisation | ✅ Block editor only | ✅ |
| Layout Options | ❌ | ✅ |
| Advanced Design Themes | ❌ | ✅ |
| Product Field Support | ❌ | ✅ |
| Quiz Field Support | ❌ | ✅ |
| Poll Field Support | ❌ | ✅ |
| Survey Field Support | ❌ | ✅ |
| Product Option Field Support | ❌ | ✅ |
| Image Lightbox Option | ❌ | ✅ |
| Image Attachment size cotnrol | ❌ | ✅ |
| Restricted Image Aspect Ratio | Restricted to 1:1 | No Restrictions |
Design Flexibility and Layout Control
- Gravity Forms Native Image Choices: The native solution provides a clean, no-code, and visually appealing way to display images. However, there are no layout options.
- JetSloth’s Image Choices Addon: JetSloth’s addon offers advanced layout controls, including grid settings, which allow images to be displayed in unique formats tailored to specific needs. This flexibility is helpful for users looking to blend image choices seamlessly into their form’s overall design.
Field Support & Lightbox
- Gravity Forms Native Image Choices: Image Choices is added as a new field so does not support the product field, product options field, survey field, quiz field and other existing third-party fields.
- JetSloth’s Image Choices Addon: JetSloth’s addon supports all the product fields so you can add images to products, in addition to quiz fields, and survey fields with integration with third-party add-ons like Gravity PDF, Gravity Wizz Auto Populate Anything and more. It also offers the option to have users click the choice image and present the image in a larger format via a lightbox.
Design themes
- Gravity Forms Native Image Choices: Easily edit the basic colours and styles of your choices using the orbital theme editor.
- JetSloth’s Image Choices Addon: JetSloth’s addon offers pre-built design themes to quickly and easily apply to your choices across product fields, radio, checkbox, quiz and survey fields!
Which Option is Best for You?
In conclusion, both the native Gravity Forms image choices and JetSloth’s Image Choices addon bring their own strengths to form-building. For users wanting quick, straightforward options and only need images on standard radio button or checkbox choices, Gravity Forms’ built-in feature does the trick.
But for those looking to go beyond basic functionality or need images on special fields like Pricing (Product, Option), Quiz, Survey or Poll, then JetSloth’s addon is a powerful tool for creating visually captivating, interactive forms that stand out.
The native image choice field is a new field type so worth noting, to “switch from JetSloth” you’ll have to rebuild your form fields using the new field to get the image options. New fields however can take advantage of the new image choice fields and options.
Gravity Forms Image Choices
Easily add images as choices for Radio Buttons or Checkboxes fields within Gravity Forms. Includes support for Survey, Quiz, Product and Options.
