65
Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers
Winning a giveaway is easier than escaping this plugin's sales pitch.
HealthyGrowingPoor rating
65/100
The setup is easy but the free version feels like a deceptive advertisement.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
3.9★
43 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+26%
Growing fast
146 → 184 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.69★
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 · +26% in the last year
146/day a year ago→184/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRafflePress is a giveaway and contest plugin that users find easy to set up and run, but it carries a significant reputation for aggressive upselling, deceptive pricing tactics, and locking nearly all meaningful features behind paid tiers — even for paying customers.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and get a giveaway running quickly×3
- +Works reliably for running basic raffles and giveaways×3
- +Responsive customer support×2
- +Provides fair renewal reminders before auto-renewing subscriptions
Common complaints
- −Free version is effectively non-functional — nearly every useful feature is locked behind a paid upgrade×3
- −Pricing is considered deceptive: a perpetual 'sale' price creates false urgency, and renewal prices balloon compared to the advertised rate×2
- −Even paid licence holders report being repeatedly prompted to upgrade to access features
- −Limited customization — basic UI changes like button text or header image placement require workarounds
- −Affiliate program is seen as incentivizing further deceptive marketing practices
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.69★Verified rating — drops from 3.90★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 19%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 43 total
Latest reviews · 43 analyzed
- 2026-05-09★★★★★Good Entertainmentnocoffeejusttea31-shot
- 2025-10-05★★★★★SUPeRTom In-Europe
- 2024-11-25★★★★★Very very wellnameservarmbj1-shot
- 2024-05-08★★★★★Smashing!!jarlhalla
- 2024-03-15★★★★★Excellent Plugindigicreationsno1
- 2023-12-14★★★★★Fraud practices by creatorspatrykos3601
- 2023-11-13★★★★★Thank You!eaglecraz
- 2023-06-07★★★★★Delivers What's promisedTobija
- 2023-02-06★★★★★UzDesingersanjarbek061-shot
- 2022-12-12★★★★★Sehr gutsebastian
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.
168
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
180
Prior 7-day baseline
134
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
608
Mean release-day peak (30d)
168
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.7%
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.89
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
67%
5★ share in analyzed sample
19%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.93 → 3.69★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered