Grade F

Poptin – Exit Pop Ups & Email Popups

Name: Poptin – Exit Pop Ups & Email Popups
Rating: 5.0 (688 reviews)
Author: Poptin

⤓ Download v1.3.10 on WordPress.org ↗

by Poptinupdated 2026-05-20🎭The Crowd-Pleaser*

Powerful exit intent tools wrapped in a sea of generic praise.

DecliningSuspicious reviews

67/100

The plugin offers a generous free tier but relies on many hollow reviews.

Loved32/40

Trustworthy10/15

Fair & Honest14/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum2/12

Composite 76, adjusted to 67 (×0.88) for a low verified rating or signs of review manipulation.

Active installs

~25,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+

Rating

4.9★

688 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-30%

Declining fast

169 → 119 installs/day

Warnings

◐56% of reviewers have no other wp.org activity — pattern often associated with paid or solicited 5★.

What to watch out for

MAJOR56% drive-by reviewers + concentrated review pattern
MINORdownloads down 30% vs a year ago
MINORreview volume down 61% vs prior 6mo

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -30% in the last year

169/day a year ago→119/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Review trustMostly organic

5.00★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
56%One-shot reviewers — their only wp.org activity is this review — pattern linked to solicited 5★

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2024-10-122025-08-082026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 688 total

5★

664

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2026-05-21★★★★★Pop-ups and more stevex64
2026-05-04★★★★★Great!jspencer991-shot
2026-04-16★★★★★Great Results & Seamless Experience thelaserbeautique1-shot
2026-04-09★★★★★Easy to use, great support and great plugin sabinehir1-shot
2026-03-10★★★★★Easy to use and great customer service.jmorgan931-shot
2026-02-18★★★★★Reliable arunki
2026-01-27★★★★★Easy to use & brand emma3r1-shot
2026-01-16★★★★★Nice 🙂Miss Falkenberg
2026-01-10★★★★★Great Find, Highly Recomended livegoodpros1-shot
2025-12-28★★★★★Super jsalma

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-20v1.3.10
2026-01-27v1.3.9
2025-12-02v1.3.8
2025-12-01v1.3.7
2025-08-25v1.3.6
2025-07-22v1.3.5
2025-06-17v1.3.4
2025-06-16v1.3.3

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download 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.

112

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

111

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

189

Mean release-day peak (30d)

137

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+0.9%

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.

10%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

0.61

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

100%

5★ share in analyzed sample

56%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

-61%

Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

5.00 → 5.00★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered