10 Best Easy Digital Downloads Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy Digital Downloads sits at #2 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. 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 Easy Digital Downloads
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SureCart
Closest matchSureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments
4.8 (282) 80,000+ active installsMake ecommerce easy with a simple-to-use, all-in-one platform that anyone can set up in just a few minutes!
#4 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.7, last updated 4 days ago.
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2.8 (577) 800,000+ active installsPayPal's latest payment processing solution. Accept PayPal, Pay Later, credit/debit cards, alternative digital wallets and bank accounts.
#3 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 20 times the installs, rated 2.8 against 4.7, last updated August 4, 2026.
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WooCommerce
Paid version available4.5 (4,821) 7 million+ active installsEverything you need to launch an online store in days and keep it growing for years. From your first sale to millions in revenue, Woo is with you.
#1 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 175 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.7, last updated 4 days ago.
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3.9 (693) 100,000+ active installsOffer to your clients the best experience in e-Commerce by using Mercado Pago as your payment method.
#8 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 3.9 against 4.7, last updated 14 days ago.
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ProfilePress
Paid version availablePaid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress
3.1 (938) 100,000+ active installsSetup paid membership, accept payment, sell subscription & digital product, paywall, create login & registration form, user profile & member directory
#7 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 3.1 against 4.7, last updated 2 days ago.
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4.5 (228) 20,000+ active installsPowerful, easy to use ecommerce shopping cart for WordPress. Sell on Facebook and Instagram. iPhone & Android apps. Superb support.
#6 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.7, last updated 30 days ago.
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eCommerce Product Catalog
Paid version available4.7 (269) 7,000+ active installseCommerce Product Catalog is a powerful and free plugin to sell with a beautiful eCommerce or request for a quote WordPress website.
#10 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. 7,000+ installs against 40,000+, last updated 14 days ago.
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4.0 (725) 200,000+ active installsConnect your store to your Mailchimp audience to track sales, create targeted emails, send abandoned cart emails, and more.
#9 in the WordPress.org Ecommerce Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.0 against 4.7, last updated August 7, 2026.
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FluentCart A New Era of eCommerce – Faster, Lighter, and Simpler
4.4 (39) 8,000+ active installsSell Subscriptions, Physical Products, Digital Downloads easier than ever. Built for performance, scalability, and flexibility.
Shares the ecommerce, payments tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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Contact Form 7
Paid version availableContact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on
4.2 (124) 7,000+ active installsEasily add PayPal and Stripe to Contact Form 7. Accept credit card payments with Stripe & PayPal on your site today. Offical PayPal & Stripe Partner.
Shares the ecommerce, payments, stripe tags on WordPress.org. 7,000+ installs against 40,000+, rated 4.2 against 4.7, last updated 24 days ago.
Easy Digital Downloads against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Easy Digital Downloads vs SureCart40,000+ vs 80,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.8
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Easy Digital Downloads vs WooCommerce PayPal Payments40,000+ vs 800,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 2.8
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Easy Digital Downloads vs WooCommerce40,000+ vs 7 million+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.5
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Easy Digital Downloads vs Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce40,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 3.9
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Easy Digital Downloads vs ProfilePress40,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 3.1
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Easy Digital Downloads vs Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart40,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.7 vs 4.5
Switching from Easy Digital Downloads: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy Digital Downloads?
SureCart is the closest match: it shares the Ecommerce Plugins top 10 with Easy Digital Downloads and has 80,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy Digital Downloads alternative has the most users?
WooCommerce, with 7 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Easy Digital Downloads alternative is rated highest?
SureCart, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 282 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Easy Digital Downloads 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 Easy Digital Downloads 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 Easy Digital Downloads 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
SureCart is the closest match to Easy Digital Downloads by the data we track, and WooCommerce has the widest reach with 7 million+ active installs. ProfilePress shipped the most recent release, on September 5, 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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