10 Best Catch Scroll Progress Bar Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Catch Scroll Progress Bar has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Catch Scroll Progress Bar
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Worth The Read
Closest match4.3 (27) 3,000+ active installsAn adjustable progress meter showing how much of the post/page the user has scrolled through, and a read time commitment label near the post titles.
Shares the reading, scroll tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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5.0 (24) 1,000+ active installsA simple progress bar shortcode that can be styled with CSS
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since May 5, 2025.
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5.0 (66) 800+ active installsAdd reading position indicator on page top.
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated July 21, 2026.
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4.1 (43) 1,000+ active installsA WordPress plugin that helps your students keep track of their progress through your course.
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.5 (52) 1,000+ active installsAn awesome wordpress progress bar plugin helps writer and authors to show beautiful progress bar in percentage at any blog or post page.
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since December 27, 2024.
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5.0 (24) 1,000+ active installsUltimeter - the Ultimate Progress and Goals Meter
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated December 2, 2025.
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Free Shipping Label and Progress Bar for WooCommerce
5.0 (43) 5,000+ active installsIncrease order revenue by showing your customers just how close they are to your free shipping threshold.
Shares the progress bar tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 27 days ago.
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4.2 (56) 10,000+ active installsThis plugin will add a button that allows users to scroll smoothly to the top of the page.
Shares the scroll tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.3 (21) 10,000+ active installsCatch Infinite Scroll is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add the magic of infinite scrolling with several customization options on your website …
Shares the scroll tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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5.0 (25) 8,000+ active installsA small plugin to re-enable infinite scrolling in the Media Library after WordPress 5.8 is released.
Shares the scroll tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated February 6, 2026.
Switching from Catch Scroll Progress Bar: common questions
What is the best alternative to Catch Scroll Progress Bar?
Worth The Read is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 3,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Catch Scroll Progress Bar alternative has the most users?
Scroll Back To Top, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Catch Scroll Progress Bar alternative is rated highest?
Reading Position Indicator, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 66 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Catch Scroll Progress Bar alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Catch Scroll Progress Bar score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Catch Scroll Progress Bar on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Worth The Read is the closest match to Catch Scroll Progress Bar by the data we track, and Scroll Back To Top has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Worth The Read shipped the most recent release, on August 26, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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