71
Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly
A polished printer with a side of privacy concerns.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
71/100
The plugin provides reliable printing but suffers from heavy ad injection and privacy concerns.
Active installs
~48,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
3.8★
237 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+230%
Growing fast
61 → 201 installs/day
Warnings
- Distributed from inside Yoast's main product — growth is partly captive.
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.80★
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 fast · +230% in the last year
61/day a year ago→201/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPrintFriendly is a generally functional print/PDF plugin with a loyal user base, but it carries significant concerns around ads injected into output, external rendering that raises privacy and tracking issues, and a paid tier that reportedly fails to remove the advertised benefits.
What people like
- +Works reliably out of the box for printing and PDF generation×7
- +Useful CSS and design customization options×2
- +Supports images and active links in generated PDFs×2
- +Responsive support team that can fix rendering issues on request
Common complaints
- −Ads are injected into print/PDF output; pro/trial version reportedly does not remove them×2
- −Pages are rendered via the external printfriendly.com service, raising user tracking and privacy concerns×2
- −Prompts users to install browser plugins, described as borderline spyware
- −Cached/stale content issue: plugin does not reflect updated page content after edits
- −Causes Error 500 on the WordPress admin dashboard button
- −Core functionality blocked or broken without a subscription×2
- −Cannot save front-end button display options
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.80★
- 17%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 237 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-05-15★★★★★Ne fonctionne pas….gilcantinelli
- 2024-06-10★★★★★Too many ads, even trial doesn't remove adsteoriweb
- 2024-03-07★★★★★Front end not workinginfofabio
- 2024-01-30★★★★★Great! Just need a background image for generated PDFdevopscit
- 2023-08-27★★★★★Well designed and good workingFrank Spade
- 2023-08-21★★★★★rubbishvurvargurgar
- 2023-01-27★★★★★Great!fade10
- 2022-06-02★★★★★Excelenttimofran
- 2022-05-06★★★★★Gave me a Error 500 when going to dashboard, Great otherwiseZeb
- 2021-11-22★★★★★Was good until they started injecting ads into PDFs! AVOID THIS!awcode
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.
232
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
189
Prior 7-day baseline
199
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
7,387
Mean release-day peak (30d)
200
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+22.8%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.56
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
3.89 → 3.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered