Grade A

Easy Updates Manager

Name: Easy Updates Manager
Rating: 5.0 (722 reviews)
Author: David Anderson / Team Updraft

⤓ Download v9.0.21 on WordPress.org ↗

by David Anderson / Team Updraftupdated 2026-05-13🐴The Workhorse

Master your update schedule and stop the accidental site crashes.

HealthyGrowing

90/100

It offers powerful granular control over updates and a very useful free tier.

Loved37/40

Trustworthy11/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum9/12

Active installs

~388,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 300k+

→ on track for 400k+in ~3 months

Rating

4.8★

722 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

+15%

Growing

554 → 638 installs/day

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

Growing · +15% in the last year

554/day a year ago→638/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Review trustReviews look organic

4.95★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
12%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 · 722 total

5★

670

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 90 analyzed

2026-04-13★★★★★Very usefull!mariogroleau
2026-03-18★★★★★Amazing tool Havyarimana Fabien
2026-01-26★★★★★Works perfect albanlzdesign1-shot
2026-01-05★★★★★Very helpful plugin CarpeDiemTim1-shot
2025-12-11★★★★★Great plugin!jorgeml20
2025-11-04★★★★★Great product Jim Burke
2025-10-06★★★★★Its Just Great koitiata
2025-09-20★★★★★Easy Auto Update emexa
2025-09-20★★★★★gd charlipro1-shot
2025-08-18★★★★★Works really nice, on and on…magdamunro

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-13v9.0.21
2026-03-25v9.0.20
2025-11-12v9.0.19
2024-10-28v9.0.18
2024-03-16v9.0.17
2023-07-19v9.0.16
2023-04-12v9.0.15
2023-03-09v9.0.14

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.

618

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

670

Prior 7-day baseline

2,287

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

41,476

Mean release-day peak (30d)

2,752

Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)

-7.8%

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.

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

0.78

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

99%

5★ share in analyzed sample

12%

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

-38%

Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.96 → 4.95★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered