Widgets for Social Photo Feed vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

Widgets for Social Photo Feed

by Trustindex

Health A88

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

Widgets for Social Photo Feed Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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	Widgets for Social Photo Feed	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 88	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	87/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	62/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.44★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	26	4,350 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	97/100 ✓	92/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2mo ago	today ✓
Downloads · 30d	3.7K	714.0K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Widgets for Social Photo Feed Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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.