85
Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker
Powerful quizzes and stellar support with a few technical hiccups.
HealthyGrowing
85/100
Users love the generous free features and support despite reports of core functionality bugs.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.7★
1,279 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+6%
Growing
387 → 410 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 · +6% in the last year
387/day a year ago→410/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayQSM is widely regarded as one of the most feature-rich free quiz and survey plugins for WordPress with notably responsive support, though a small number of users report serious bugs with core functionality and concerns about code quality that go unresolved.
What people like
- +Free version is considered generous and competitive with paid alternatives from other plugins×4
- +Support team is consistently praised as fast, professional, and thorough — including sending how-to videos and even adding requested features×8
- +Highly customizable with hooks, themes, and flexible settings for diverse use cases×3
- +Paid version offers meaningful upgrades such as certificates, result exports, and deeper analytics×2
Common complaints
- −Core multiple-choice grading reported as unreliable, marking correct answers as incorrect the majority of the time, with support unable to resolve it
- −Translation support is broken — .pot files provided but translations are not picked up by tools like Loco Translate
- −Import functionality is buggy: HTML code (e.g. <br />) is imported literally into questions, and duplicate questions are created in the database with no clean deduplication
- −Code quality described as poor, with a messy database structure that leaves behind orphaned data and is difficult to manage without direct database access
- −Reported bugs can go unacknowledged or unresolved for months, with improvements appearing to be prioritized for paid plans
- −Some features are locked behind paid extensions or plans×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.33★Verified rating — drops from 4.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 26%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 · 1,279 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-09★★★★★Excelente herramienta para QUIZDino Pierini
- 2026-03-23★★★★★TOP PLUGIN! WELL DONE TEAM!OFILS.com
- 2026-03-17★★★★★I can't imagine betterdock3r
- 2025-12-10★★★★★Translation issueerdeme61
- 2025-10-06★★★★★Superb supportbtavagyok
- 2025-09-23★★★★★Great supportlesponnes1-shot
- 2025-09-17★★★★★Great plugin and supportetd87
- 2025-09-16★★★★★A Truly Amazing Support Team & Fantastic Plugin🤩Tricia Belmonte
- 2025-09-01★★★★★Great capabilities and easy to useseerad
- 2025-09-01★★★★★Free version is goodAbsyir Developer
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Quiz and Survey Master (QSM)
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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.
443
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
335
Prior 7-day baseline
778
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
5,770
Mean release-day peak (30d)
777
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+32.2%
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.
15%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.09
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
26%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-50%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.48 → 4.33★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered