63
Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager
Relief at the setup quickly turns to annoyance at the paywall.
HealthyDecliningPoor rating
63/100
The plugin offers easy setup but suffers from a very limited free tier and unresponsive support for Pro users.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.0★
41 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-21%
Declining
192 → 151 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.85★
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
Declining · -21% in the last year
192/day a year ago→151/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPixel Cat is a generally well-regarded Facebook Pixel management plugin for WordPress, appreciated for its ease of setup and reliability, but undermined by a heavily restricted free tier and reported support failures for paying customers.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and manage Facebook Pixel and events without coding×4
- +Supports multiple Facebook event types (Purchase, ViewContent, CompleteRegistration, etc.) reliably×3
- +Works without breaking existing pages or conflicting with other plugins×2
- +Product feed/WooCommerce sync works well as an alternative to the official Facebook plugin
- +Considered the best option among comparable plugins when factoring in paid upgrade pricing
Common complaints
- −Free/Lite version is severely limited — core functionality such as adding a pixel ID or custom events requires a paid upgrade×4
- −Plugin does not work for some users even after setup (pixel not detected, no events firing)×2
- −Advertisements or upsell prompts persist even after purchasing the Pro version
- −Support is unresponsive for paying Pro customers, with reports of no reply for over a week
- −Deprecation warnings and compatibility issues reported on PHP 8.2+
- −Custom event configuration (e.g., onclick events) is unintuitive and lacks sufficient documentation
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.85★Verified rating — drops from 4.00★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 17%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 41 total
Latest reviews · 41 analyzed
- 2026-05-12★★★★★Great supportpgaucho1-shot
- 2025-11-21★★★★★Pixel Cat Reviewshayt
- 2024-08-28★★★★★Wow! Excellent!leodefaveri
- 2024-05-22★★★★★Doesn't offer basic custom event configurationssonicavatar
- 2024-03-05★★★★★It doesn't work!kkman
- 2024-02-20★★★★★please add support for PHP 8.2, 8.3zzprof
- 2023-07-28★★★★★Great Pluginclaytonauthor
- 2023-06-30★★★★★Doesn't workcarlamkt
- 2022-09-19★★★★★Pixel Cat works fine and saved me time and hasslesframetonic
- 2022-08-15★★★★★Only one that worksCold Realms Tech
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Pixel Cat
Top Analytics plugins, ranked by score.For 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.
261
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
148
Prior 7-day baseline
204
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,542
Mean release-day peak (30d)
266
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+76.4%
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.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.15
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
68%
5★ share in analyzed sample
17%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.95 → 3.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered