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Advanced Appointment Booking & Scheduling vs Simply Schedule Appointments

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Simply Schedule Appointments is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Simply Schedule Appointments moved down one install band, 60K+ to 50K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Advanced Appointment Booking & Scheduling	Simply Schedule Appointments
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	3K–4K	50K–60K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	60K+ → 50K+
Overall health	—	A · 99 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	100/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.9★ ✓
Reviews	0	155 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	88/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	4d ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	2.4K	81.2K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	-2%	-29%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	5.6% ✓	1.2%
Category	Booking & Events	Booking & Events

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Advanced Appointment Booking & SchedulingSimply Schedule Appointments

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.