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Audio Story Images
A tiny niche tool that gives your photos a voice.
HealthyGrowing
78/100
It serves a unique niche well but lacks customization and recent updates.
Active installs
~450
our estimate · wp.org shows 400+
Rating
4.9★
14 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+33%
Growing fast
3 → 4 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +33% in the last year
3/day a year ago→4/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAudio Story Images is a niche, well-liked plugin that fulfills a specific use case (attaching audio to images), but concerns about long-term development activity and a lack of advanced features temper enthusiasm.
What people like
- +Fills a genuinely rare niche: attaching audio clips directly to images with no close alternatives found by users×3
- +Works reliably with no reported bugs or errors×3
- +Easy to set up and use×2
- +Responsive and helpful developer/support×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin has not been updated for a long time, raising concerns about future maintenance and compatibility×2
- −No autoplay functionality — multiple users specifically requested it as a missing feature×2
- −Reported compatibility issue with Jetpack
- −No way to scale or reposition the play button (user had to request custom code for basic icon color changes)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.85★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-06-092025-12-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 14 total
Latest reviews · 14 analyzed
- 2025-11-26★★★★★Very attractiveAli Daei
- 2025-05-25★★★★★Brilliantmarkstothard
- 2021-10-03★★★★★Great work, great plugin. Highly recommended!!esventot
- 2021-03-02★★★★★Excelente!! Me encanta!!!Sergioot
- 2019-10-14★★★★★Could have been goodtwomoons
- 2019-08-31★★★★★Highly recommendedstephenf
- 2019-03-15★★★★★Working Great!videoopp
- 2019-01-26★★★★★Audio Story for Images – Great Pluginwcalcote
- 2019-01-08★★★★★Great Idea!arenai
- 2018-11-16★★★★★The Best Plugin I have ever used so far!Daveyap
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
4
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
5
Prior 7-day baseline
4
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
13
Mean release-day peak (30d)
7
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
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Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.35
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.86 → 4.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered