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Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups
Great support cannot fix a name that promises features you must buy.
HealthyGrowing
76/100
Helpful support and easy setup are offset by misleading feature claims in the plugin name.
Active installs
~66,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.6★
81 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+10%
Growing
508 → 559 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 · +10% in the last year
508/day a year ago→559/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPopup Box is generally well-regarded as a feature-rich, easy-to-use popup plugin with notably responsive support, though some users feel the most advertised features are locked behind the paid version.
What people like
- +Responsive and helpful customer support, praised even for free-tier users×6
- +Free version includes a solid range of features×4
- +Easy to set up and use×3
- +Interface is not cluttered with advertisements
- +Pro version seen as good value by users who upgraded
Common complaints
- −Key features advertised in the plugin name are reportedly locked behind a paid upgrade×2
- −Unusable without a mouse, suggesting poor keyboard/accessibility support
- −Reported difficulty uninstalling the plugin
- −Interface is less polished compared to competing plugins
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.58★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 21%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 81 total
Latest reviews · 81 analyzed
- 2026-04-28★★★★★seemingly simpleSyberKnight
- 2026-04-07★★★★★Amazing customer servicelewis
- 2026-03-20★★★★★Popup Box WORKS!gmcconville1-shot
- 2026-02-26★★★★★Great customer serviceliveolives
- 2026-01-07★★★★★Great Plugin!ic0ach
- 2025-12-18★★★★★Great plugin!wielko1-shot
- 2025-12-11★★★★★Easy to use, great support.trojan
- 2025-09-30★★★★★Cannot deinstallMatthias Schulz
- 2025-09-04★★★★★Nice plugin Easy to usecreativeone
- 2025-09-02★★★★★SCAM! DO NOT INSTALL! FALSE ADVERTISING!picklypickle
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Popup Box
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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.
389
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
690
Prior 7-day baseline
481
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
9,110
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,052
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-43.6%
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.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.06
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
21%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+17%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.62 → 4.58★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered