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POEditor vs Polylang

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

Polylang is the safest pick: health B · 83 against 71 for POEditor, led by stronger maintenance.

Active-install trajectory

POEditor moved down one install band, 600+ to 500+; Polylang moved up one install band, 800K+ to 900K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	POEditor	Polylang
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	500–600	900K–1M ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-17%	+13% ✓
Overall health	B · 71	B · 83 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	66/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	78/100	94/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	40/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	11	3,004 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	77/100	87/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	11mo ago	16d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	290	955.7K ✓
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.	+16%	+10%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.1%	3.0% ✓
Category	Multilingual	Multilingual

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

Release activity

POEditorPolylang

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.