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Image Hover Effects Ultimate ( Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison & Magnifier )
Desktop users will love the flair while mobile users might feel the squeeze.
HealthyGrowing
89/100
The plugin delivers beautiful animations and a huge template library. Image scaling remains a recurring issue on smaller screens.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
248 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+21%
Growing
123 → 149 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 · +21% in the last year
123/day a year ago→149/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayImage Hover Effects Ultimate is well-regarded as an easy-to-use, visually polished plugin that reliably delivers its core hover effect functionality, with the main caveat being some difficulty achieving a clean mobile experience.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, with an intuitive interface×7
- +Delivers on its core promise of smooth, elegant hover effects×5
- +Works reliably over time without issues×3
- +Helpful tutorial video aids onboarding
- +Responsive same-day support when issues arise
- +Performs well on mobile in general use
Common complaints
- −Mobile experience can be tricky — images may get squashed and lack pinch-to-zoom or scroll interaction×2
- −Effect creation process can feel slightly complicated
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.78★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 19%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 · 248 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-08★★★★★Beautiful effectsmarkusmaxen
- 2026-03-29★★★★★Fantastic Plugin – Beautiful Effects and Extremely Reliabledrradupotenz
- 2025-11-03★★★★★Very helpfullt79
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Buen pluginscreciendoweb1-shot
- 2025-07-21★★★★★Love itPJPycroft
- 2025-07-17★★★★★Very Good!domstr68
- 2025-07-06★★★★★Great!!!Angel Diaz
- 2025-06-10★★★★★Good but tricky on mobilebloohair
- 2025-06-10★★★★★Worked as expectedkaimelberg1-shot
- 2025-05-22★★★★★Great Plugindonal13
Releases
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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.
143
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
168
Prior 7-day baseline
150
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,560
Mean release-day peak (30d)
278
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-14.9%
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
1.01
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-71%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.81 → 4.78★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered