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Top Social Stories Free vs Metricool

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

Metricool is the safest pick: health A · 86 against 45 for Top Social Stories Free, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Metricool moved up one install band, 80K+ 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 Top Social Stories Free Metricool
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads. 10–20 90K–100K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage. Stable 80K+ → 90K+ ✓
Overall health D · 45 A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated. 3/100 100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality. 74/100 82/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved. 70/100 70/100
Rating (weighted for review count) 4.0★ 4.3★ ✓
Reviews 1 23 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org. 37/100 96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status. High Low ✓
Last updated 9.9y ago 3d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d 35 125.8K ✓
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% +97%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. 0.2% 7.8% ✓
Category Analytics Social

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

Release activity

Top Social Stories FreeMetricool

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.