diff --git a/lib/API/JSON/API.php b/lib/API/JSON/API.php
index 7421ffc3d4..af8bdc8ec9 100644
--- a/lib/API/JSON/API.php
+++ b/lib/API/JSON/API.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 namespace MailPoet\API\JSON;
 
 use MailPoet\Config\AccessControl;
+use MailPoet\Models\Setting;
 use MailPoet\Util\Helpers;
 use MailPoet\Util\Security;
 use MailPoet\WP\Hooks;
@@ -56,7 +57,13 @@ class API {
     Hooks::doAction('mailpoet_api_setup', array($this));
     $this->setRequestData($_POST);
 
-    if($this->checkToken() === false) {
+    $ignoreToken = (
+      Setting::getValue('re_captcha.enabled') && 
+      $this->_request_endpoint == 'subscribers' && 
+      $this->_request_method == 'subscribe'
+    ); 
+
+    if(!$ignoreToken && $this->checkToken() === false) {
       $error_message = __('Sorry, but we couldn\'t connect to the MailPoet server. Please refresh the web page and try again.', 'mailpoet');
       $error_response = $this->createErrorResponse(Error::UNAUTHORIZED, $error_message, Response::STATUS_UNAUTHORIZED);
       return $error_response->send();
diff --git a/lib/API/JSON/v1/Subscribers.php b/lib/API/JSON/v1/Subscribers.php
index e7448ac4fa..036e8f4548 100644
--- a/lib/API/JSON/v1/Subscribers.php
+++ b/lib/API/JSON/v1/Subscribers.php
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ namespace MailPoet\API\JSON\v1;
 use MailPoet\API\JSON\Endpoint as APIEndpoint;
 use MailPoet\API\JSON\Error as APIError;
 use MailPoet\Config\AccessControl;
-use MailPoet\Listing;
 use MailPoet\Form\Util\FieldNameObfuscator;
+use MailPoet\Listing;
 use MailPoet\Models\Form;
+use MailPoet\Models\Setting;
 use MailPoet\Models\StatisticsForms;
 use MailPoet\Models\Subscriber;
 use MailPoet\Newsletter\Scheduler\Scheduler;
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ class Subscribers extends APIEndpoint {
     $form = Form::findOne($form_id);
     unset($data['form_id']);
 
+    $recaptcha = Setting::getValue('re_captcha');
+
     if(!$form) {
       return $this->badRequest(array(
         APIError::BAD_REQUEST => __('Please specify a valid form ID.', 'mailpoet')
@@ -87,6 +90,26 @@ class Subscribers extends APIEndpoint {
       ));
     }
 
+    if($recaptcha['enabled'] && !isset($data['recaptcha'])) {
+      return $this->badRequest(array(
+        APIError::BAD_REQUEST => __('Please check the reCAPTCHA.', 'mailpoet')
+      ));
+    }
+
+    if($recaptcha['enabled']) {
+      $res = wp_remote_post('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify', array(
+        'body' => array(
+          'secret' => $recaptcha['secret_token'],
+          'response' => $data['recaptcha']
+        ) 
+      ));
+      if(is_wp_error($res) || !$res['body']['success']) {
+        return $this->badRequest(array(
+          APIError::BAD_REQUEST => __('Error while validating the reCAPTCHA.', 'mailpoet')
+        ));
+      }
+    }
+
     $data = $this->deobfuscateFormPayload($data);
 
     $segment_ids = (!empty($data['segments'])
diff --git a/lib/Form/Renderer.php b/lib/Form/Renderer.php
index e137b7ddeb..83b04fa075 100644
--- a/lib/Form/Renderer.php
+++ b/lib/Form/Renderer.php
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 namespace MailPoet\Form;
 
+use MailPoet\Models\Setting;
+
 if(!defined('ABSPATH')) exit;
 
 class Renderer {
@@ -39,15 +41,23 @@ class Renderer {
   }
 
   static function renderBlocks($blocks = array(), $honeypot_enabled = true) {
+    $html = array();
     // add honeypot for spambots
-    $html = ($honeypot_enabled) ?
+    $html[] = ($honeypot_enabled) ?
       '<label class="mailpoet_hp_email_label">' . __('Please leave this field empty', 'mailpoet') . '<input type="email" name="data[email]"></label>' :
       '';
     foreach($blocks as $key => $block) {
-      $html .= static::renderBlock($block) . PHP_EOL;
+      $html[] = static::renderBlock($block) . PHP_EOL;
     }
 
-    return $html;
+    if(Setting::getValue('re_captcha.enabled')) {
+      $submit = array_pop($html);
+      $site_key = Setting::getValue('re_captcha.site_token');
+      $html[] = '<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="'. $site_key .'"></div>';
+      $html[] = $submit;
+    }
+    
+    return implode('', $html);
   }
 
   static function renderBlock($block = array()) {
diff --git a/lib/Form/Widget.php b/lib/Form/Widget.php
index c12b761359..845eb37b39 100644
--- a/lib/Form/Widget.php
+++ b/lib/Form/Widget.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use MailPoet\Config\Env;
 use MailPoet\Config\Renderer as ConfigRenderer;
 use MailPoet\Form\Renderer as FormRenderer;
 use MailPoet\Models\Form;
+use MailPoet\Models\Setting;
 use MailPoet\Util\Security;
 use MailPoet\WP\Hooks;
 
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@ class Widget extends \WP_Widget {
     wp_print_scripts('jquery');
     wp_print_scripts('mailpoet_vendor');
     wp_print_scripts('mailpoet_public');
+    if(Setting::getValue('re_captcha.enabled')) {
+      echo '<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js"></script>';
+    }
     $scripts = ob_get_contents();
     ob_end_clean();
 
@@ -320,4 +324,4 @@ EOL;
       return $output;
     }
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}