replyMail vs Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer

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

Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer is the safest pick: health A · 88 against 45 for replyMail, led by lower removal risk.

replyMail

by bingu

Health D45

Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer

by Nexcess

Health A88

Active-install trajectory

replyMail moved down one install band, 50+ to 40+; Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer moved down one install band, 100K+ to 90K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	replyMail	Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40–50	90K–100K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-20%	-10% ✓
Overall health	D · 45	A · 88 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	87/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.4★ ✓
Reviews	1	142 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	43/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	16.5y ago	2mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	74	17.2K ✓
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.	-33%	+35%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.6%	3.8% ✓
Category	Email & Marketing	Email & Marketing

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

Release activity

replyMailKadence WooCommerce Email Designer

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.