50
UiCore Animate – Free Animations, Transitions, and Interactions Addon for Elementor & Gutenberg blocks
Speedy setup meets a very thin animation library.
DecliningPoor rating
50/100
The simple workflow cannot offset the tiny animation library and stability issues.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
3.2★
10 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-17%
Declining
202 → 169 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 3.20★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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
Declining · -17% in the last year
202/day a year ago→169/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayUiCore Animate is a free Elementor-focused animation plugin that earns appreciation for its simplicity and time-saving workflow, but is held back by a very limited animation library, performance concerns, and occasional update-related breakage.
What people like
- +Praised for being simple and easy to use for applying animations in Elementor×3
- +Speeds up the animation application process, saving time in Elementor workflows×2
- +Preloader functionality is highlighted as working well
- +Support team responded quickly to fix a breakage caused by an update
Common complaints
- −Very limited number of animations available (fewer than 10, mostly zoom-based), leaving users expecting much more×3
- −Plugin causes noticeable performance degradation, dropping PageSpeed Insights scores from green to yellow
- −Firefox compatibility issues: elements briefly flash or appear incorrectly on page refresh
- −An update broke all animations, hiding animated elements on live sites, while the fixed version was not yet available for download (since 1.0.8)×2
- −Split Text Animation is incompatible with WP Rocket's minification features
- −No onboarding documentation, getting-started guide, or visible UI integration after activation
- −General stability and glitches noted as needing improvement
Review trustMostly organic
- 3.20★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.20★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-05-152025-06-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 10 total
Latest reviews · 10 analyzed
- 2026-03-16★★★★★No documentationwebstpro
- 2025-11-24★★★★★Clean, lightweight, and easy to usenordword
- 2025-03-13★★★★★Bad for Firefox and PageSpeed Insightsanwario
- 2024-11-25★★★★★Pointless1ramyt
- 2024-11-25★★★★★Not sure what's going on…jaydenbtc
- 2024-11-13★★★★★Need Minor Improvementsaymeak
- 2024-11-12★★★★★AMAZING! But update broke my sitebbbstoked
- 2024-11-05★★★★★Best Addon for apply effects in elementor!creativewebr
- 2024-06-13★★★★★Good but…dominiks8318
- 2024-04-26★★★★★Such a time saver! 🙌🏻mansoorjadoon44
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.
144
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
133
Prior 7-day baseline
124
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,090
Mean release-day peak (30d)
144
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+8.3%
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.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.17
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
50%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.20 → 3.20★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered