10 Best Envato Toolkit Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Envato Toolkit has 5,000+ 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 Envato Toolkit
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Software License Manager
Closest match4.6 (35) 900+ active installsCreate and manage license keys for your software applications easily
Shares the license tag on WordPress.org. 900+ installs against 5,000+, last updated 21 days ago.
- 2
Serial Numbers – Ultimate License Manager for Selling, Licensing & Securely Delivering Digital Content with WooCommerce
4.7 (78) 1,000+ active installsAn easy way to sell digital products and manage licenses with WooCommerce.
Shares the license tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 8 days ago.
- 3
WordPress REST API (Version 2)
4.2 (34) 10,000+ active installsAccess your site's data through an easy-to-use HTTP REST API. (Version 2)
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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Get Use APIs – JSON Content Importer
4.9 (78) 5,000+ active installsConnects an API to WordPress: Get API-data (JSON, XML, CSV...), show it with a Shortcode, a JCI Block or PHP. Generate a template with the JCI Block
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 5 days ago.
- 5
4.8 (36) 30,000+ active installsDisables the WP REST API for visitors not logged into WordPress.
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. About 6 times the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.9 (49) 7,000+ active installsYandex Maps widget for Elementor
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated October 16, 2025.
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4.9 (42) 10,000+ active installsEnable caching of the WordPress REST API and auto-flush caches upon wp-admin editing.
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated July 25, 2026.
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Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on REST endpoints.
5.0 (47) 4,000+ active installsEnhance the WordPress REST API with JWT authentication for secure access by mobile apps, external sites, and third-party services.
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 29 days ago.
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4.8 (45) 1,000+ active installsConnect WordPress with External APIs and create no-code custom WordPress REST API endpoints to interact with the WordPress database to perform SQL ope …
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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WPGet API – Connect to any external REST API
5.0 (32) 10,000+ active installsConnect any REST API to WordPress. WPGet API enables easy API integration, allowing you to display API data without any code.
Shares the api tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
Switching from Envato Toolkit: common questions
What is the best alternative to Envato Toolkit?
Software License Manager is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 900+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Envato Toolkit alternative has the most users?
Disable WP REST API, with 30,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Envato Toolkit alternative is rated highest?
JSON Content Importer, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 78 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Envato Toolkit 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 Envato Toolkit 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 Envato Toolkit 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
Software License Manager is the closest match to Envato Toolkit by the data we track, and Disable WP REST API has the widest reach with 30,000+ active installs. Custom API for WP shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 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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