What’s the actual relationship between Gravity Forms and GravityView?

Jac Son
Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:34:05 +0000
General Discussion

I’ve been trying to understand the relationship between Gravity Forms and GravityKit (formerly GravityView), and honestly it’s pretty confusing from the outside.

At first glance, the branding makes it seem like they’re the same company or at least officially connected, especially since GravityKit’s entire product suite is built specifically on top of Gravity Forms. But from what I can tell, they’re actually separate companies.

That raises a few questions for me:

• Why are they allowed to use such similar naming without trademark conflicts?
• Is there any formal partnership, or is it just a long-standing ecosystem relationship?
• It feels obvious how GravityKit benefits (they depend entirely on Gravity Forms), but what does Gravity Forms really gain in return?
• Is this considered a typical “platform + independent add-on developer” situation, or is there more history here?

From the outside, it almost looks like a one-sided dependency rather than a mutually beneficial relationship but maybe I’m missing something.

Would love if someone familiar with the history or business side could clarify.

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