10 Best Easy Media Download Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy Media Download sits at #8 in the WordPress.org Download Manager 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 Media Download
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Simple Download Counter
Closest match4.9 (19) 2,000+ active installsSimply counts the number of times your files are downloaded. Display download links and counts using shortcodes.
#10 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 29 days ago.
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4.5 (25) 60,000+ active installsDownload any plugin from your WordPress admin panel's Plugins page by just one click! Now, download themes, users, blog posts, pages, custom post …
#3 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
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Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard
Paid version available4.9 (27) 30,000+ active installsDownload installed plugins and themes in ZIP files directly from your WordPress admin dashboard, download any or all without FTP or cPanel access.
#4 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated July 24, 2026.
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5.0 (16) 3,000+ active installsDownloadable files management system
#9 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, last updated December 15, 2025.
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Download Monitor
Paid version available4.5 (524) 80,000+ active installsPowerful Download Manager Plugin for WordPress
#2 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About 8.9 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Shared Files – File Upload & Download Manager
4.4 (34) 4,000+ active installsFile management plugin featuring file upload, download manager, statistics and download log.
#6 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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5.0 (1) 5,000+ active installsEditor Blocks by Download Manager is the collection of beautiful ready-to-use custom blocks for the new Gutenberg block editor.
#5 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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2.2 (5) 6,000+ active installsDownload Manager Addons for Elementor
#7 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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Download Manager
Paid version available4.1 (1,007) 100,000+ active installsThis File Management & Digital Store plugin will help you to control file downloads & sell digital products from your WP site.
#1 in the WordPress.org Download Manager Plugins ranking. About 11 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.0 (37) 3,000+ active installsAdds a simple download manager to your WordPress blog.
Shares the download, downloads tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
Easy Media Download 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 Media Download vs Simple Download Counter9,000+ vs 2,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 4.9
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Easy Media Download vs Download Plugin9,000+ vs 60,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 4.5
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Easy Media Download vs Download Plugins and Themes in ZIP from Dashboard9,000+ vs 30,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 4.9
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Easy Media Download vs Lana Downloads Manager9,000+ vs 3,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 5.0
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Easy Media Download vs Download Monitor9,000+ vs 80,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 4.5
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Easy Media Download vs Shared Files9,000+ vs 4,000+ installs · 4.0 vs 4.4
Switching from Easy Media Download: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy Media Download?
Simple Download Counter is the closest match: it shares the Download Manager Plugins top 10 with Easy Media Download and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy Media Download alternative has the most users?
Download Manager, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Easy Media Download alternative is rated highest?
Download Monitor, rated 4.5 out of 5 by 524 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Easy Media Download 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 Media Download 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 Media Download 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
Simple Download Counter is the closest match to Easy Media Download by the data we track, and Download Manager has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Download Monitor shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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