Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs AddToAny Share Buttons

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

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons

by Inisev

Health A91

AddToAny Share Buttons

by micropat

Health A90

Active-install trajectory

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons AddToAny Share Buttons

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	Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons	AddToAny Share Buttons
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	300K–400K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 91 ✓	A · 90
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	99/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	97/100 ✓	94/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.86★ ✓	4.74★
Reviews	1,911 ✓	1,113
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	100/100 ✓	99/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2mo ago ✓	3mo ago
Downloads · 30d	3.1K	36.4K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons AddToAny Share Buttons

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.