Animation Builder vs Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blo

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

Animation Builder

by Toast Plugins

Health B73

Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blo

by Hardeep Asrani

Health A89

Active-install trajectory

Animation Builder Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blo

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Animation Builder	Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blo
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	900–1K	90K–100K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	+200% ✓	0%
Overall health	B · 73	A · 89 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	82/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.61★ ✓
Reviews	0	69 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	84/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	7mo ago	18d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	212	117.1K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Blocks

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

Release activity

Animation Builder Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blo

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.