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Free customer chat solution

by wpsonetel · Chat & Support

Sonetel's AI assisted website chat and call service for your business saves time, makes your business look professional and increases sales.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
58 Health · C
Maintenance 38/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

58 health vs 63 average across 672 Chat & Support plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 47/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 572 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+58% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

133

now · peak 463

12830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Free customer chat s · #9768 you ChatSupport · #19549 Jibber Chat · #42378 Nuway · #52207

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

320per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

6.8y ago

latest release · v1.0.6

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.6 · 6.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈450

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-10-21 · 1,420 observations

400Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.7
Last updated
1.6y ago
Added
2019-11-18 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.1
Tested up to
6.3.10
Requires PHP
5.2.4

Recent reviews

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  1. nwabudechibueze6
    4.4y ago

    Free local number

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  2. olami20
    4.5y ago

    m*M(ij#4eR@NlOQp

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  3. Vivian E
    5.5y ago

    I have seen various reviews on here about Sonetel’s service and thought I should give everyone my honest review based on my experience using sonetel. If you are in a hurry just know this; they are the best and most underrated Communications service! I say underrated because they are still many entrepreneurs yet to discover this communications gold! Sonetel is actually a one stop customer service management solutions for any serious entrepreneur! The support they provide to users is exceptional! Sonetal have features such as a light weight web chat widget (plugin and App)which helps in email capturing of your website visitors plus a robot that initiates a conversation with your visitors, your customer service team can easily integrate your brands social media platforms and answer customer queries from the Sonetel App! You can have free international calls and have free conference call with you brand’s team across sonetel, free IVR services and your brand can easily scale its services with Sonetel’s international call handling,it’s quite a lot that Sonetel offer and mostly for free, so if you are serious about customer service for you company, try Sonetel!!

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  4. rossplank
    5.7y ago

    The app installed fine, activated fine. Then on prompt to connect, it didn’t and got failure to connect.

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  5. mounyo111
    6.0y ago

    This is an awesome plugin to use on any site by WP

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  6. smoothdev
    6.4y ago

    They ask for Personal government issued ID for their phone number and chat. We deleted after we were asked to verify. Company seems fraudulent, no address. Says it’s a Swedish company, employees in India and got a phone verification chat from Tajikistan country code. This topic was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by smoothdev. This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Ipstenu (Mika Epstein).

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-07-22 500+ → 400+ down after 43 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-09 600+ → 500+ down after 213 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-08 700+ → 600+ down after 34 days in tier
  4. 2025-10-05 600+ → 700+ up after 41 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-25 500+ → 600+ up after 79 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-07 400+ → 500+ up after 80 days in tier
  7. 2025-03-19 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-03-17 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier

Competes with

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Free customer chat solution: 400+ active installs, 3.8★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sonetel-website-chat