68
Smart Popup by Supsystic
Flashy popups that might crash your site before they convert.
HealthyGrowing
68/100
Rich features are offset by stability issues and a shrinking free version.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
340 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+22%
Growing
97 → 118 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 · +22% in the last year
97/day a year ago→118/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySmart Popup is praised for its rich features and ease of use, but many users report serious stability, usability, and support problems.
What people like
- +Provides many options and effects that work without custom CSS
- +Offers a lifetime plan at a reasonable price
- +Free version includes useful functionality such as a Christmas Countdown
- +Support responded quickly to installation issues
- +Easy to use
- +Good CSS customization features
Common complaints
- −Popup appears in admin dashboard and close button does not work
- −Clunky and overwhelming UX/UI
- −Core functionality moved to paid plan, reducing free version usefulness
- −Causes critical errors or site crashes, especially in latest versions×3
- −Installation problems reported
- −Stops working after updates and appears abandoned by authors
- −Unintuitive and frustrating to use
- −Not compatible with WPML translation, preventing multilingual use
- −Mobile responsiveness issues; hide-on-mobile setting does not work×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.14★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 18%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 340 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-24★★★★★Violate Plugin Policy.tien-nguyen
- 2025-03-19★★★★★Does its job, RIP free versionSFAT LLC
- 2024-12-02★★★★★Critical error caused by this pluginshahvatnak
- 2024-07-19★★★★★Easy to create your Popupmiguel
- 2023-12-21★★★★★Convenient and simpledimag4go
- 2023-11-29★★★★★Not working anymorears111
- 2023-09-07★★★★★WORST PLUGIN EVERhench1g1-shot
- 2023-08-04★★★★★Broken Plug Inmontytx
- 2023-07-31★★★★★Unreliable, breaks websiteMeOnline
- 2023-03-24★★★★★todo oksisserv1-shot
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.
109
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
112
Prior 7-day baseline
98
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,484
Mean release-day peak (30d)
180
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-2.7%
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.
22%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.94
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
77%
5★ share in analyzed sample
18%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.16 → 4.14★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered