10 Best PrettyLinks Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
PrettyLinks has 200,000+ 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 PrettyLinks
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Tutor LMS
Closest matchTutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution
4.4 (588) 100,000+ active installsA complete WordPress LMS plugin to create any eLearning website easily.
About half the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 17 days ago.
- 2
Ninja Forms – The Contact Form Builder That Grows With You
4.4 (1,395) 600,000+ active installsThe 100% beginner friendly WordPress form builder. Drag & drop form fields to build beautiful, professional contact forms in minutes.
About 3 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 7 days ago.
- 3
4.8 (1,285) 600,000+ active installsEasy to use Under Construction Page & Coming Soon Page. Enable Under Construction Mode in seconds & show you're Under Construction!
About 3 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
- 4
Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin
4.9 (4,350) 1 million+ active installsFormerly "Instagram Feed". Display clean, customizable, and responsive Instagram feeds from multiple accounts. Supports Instagram oEmbeds.
About 5 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 7 days ago.
- 5
MailPoet
Paid version availableMailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation
4.4 (1,432) 500,000+ active installsSend beautiful newsletters from WordPress. Collect subscribers with signup forms, automate your emails for WooCommerce, blog post notifications & more
About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 6 days ago.
- 6
Forminator Forms
Paid version availableForminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder
4.8 (2,121) 600,000+ active installsBest WordPress form builder plugin. Create contact forms, payment forms & order forms with 1000+ integrations.
About 3 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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Uncanny Automator – AI + Automation for WordPress | AI Agent, AI Page Builder, Free AI Usage Included
4.9 (157) 40,000+ active installsThe AI + Automation plugin for WordPress. Automate workflows across all your plugins and apps, add an AI agent, and build pages with AI — no code.
About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 4 days ago.
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SureForms – Contact Form Builder, AI Forms, Payment Form, Survey & Quiz
4.9 (91) 500,000+ active installsAI form generator and WordPress form builder for contact and Stripe payment forms, with surveys and quizzes in SureForms Business.
About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 5 days ago.
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BetterLinks
Paid version availableBetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP
4.8 (85) 20,000+ active installsShorten, cloak, redirect & track every link in WordPress. Branded short URLs, click analytics, affiliate links & MCP access for AI assistants.
Shares the affiliate links, link cloaking, url shortener tags on WordPress.org. 20,000+ installs against 200,000+, last updated 15 days ago.
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Yoast SEO
Paid version availableYoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI
4.8 (27,819) 10 million+ active installsReal-time SEO guidance, schema, and AI built in. Help search engines and AI systems understand your content. All AI tools included, no hidden fees.
About 50 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
Switching from PrettyLinks: common questions
What is the best alternative to PrettyLinks?
Tutor LMS is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 100,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which PrettyLinks alternative has the most users?
Yoast SEO, with 10 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which PrettyLinks alternative is rated highest?
Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 4,350 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these PrettyLinks 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 PrettyLinks 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 PrettyLinks 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
Tutor LMS is the closest match to PrettyLinks by the data we track, and Yoast SEO has the widest reach with 10 million+ active installs. Uncanny Automator shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 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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