Web Stories is the #53 ranked block-enabled app on WordPress, with a 4.2 average rating from 87 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Web Stories is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Google. With a rating of 4.2★ from 87 reviews, it currently ranks #53 in the Block-enabled category.
AppRanks data: Web Stories ranks #53 in Block-enabled on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 13% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Web Stories is a well-rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Block-enabled category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 87 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Google — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (87) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Web Stories works
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Web Stories are a free, open-web, visual storytelling format for the web, enabling you to easily create visual narratives with engaging animations and tappable interactions, and immerse your readers in great and fast-loading full-screen experiences.
Benefits of Web Stories The Web Stories format puts features and capabilities at your fingertips to engage with your audience via the power of storytelling on the open web. Specifically, you can:
Create beautiful and engaging content easily: Web Stories make the production of stories as easy as possible from a technical perspective.
Enjoy creative flexibility for editorial freedom and branding: The Web Stories format comes with preset but flexible layout templates, standardized UI controls, and components for sharing and adding follow-on content.
Share and link your stories on the open web: Web Stories are part of the open web and can be shared and embedded across sites and apps without being confined to a single ecosystem.
Track and measure your stories: Supports analytics and bookend capabilities for viral sharing and monetization.
Capture the attention of your readers by offering fast loading times to your stories: Web Stories are lightning fast so that your audience stays engaged and entertained.
Engage with your readers via immersive storytelling: Web Stories are a new and modern way to reach existing readers.
Monetize effectively the beautiful and engaging stories you create: Web Stories enable monetization capability for publishers using affiliate links. For advertisers, Stories is a way to reach a unique audience within a new storytelling experience.
Web Stories Editor The Web Stories editor for WordPress brings together a robust set of story creation capabilities in a user-friendly, WYSIWYG creation tool. Some of the key features you can leverage out of the box are:
A visually rich and intuitive dashboard, allowing you to easily navigate the story creation process
Beautiful and expressive page templates to you get your story creation process started quickly and smoothly
Easy drag-and-drop capabilities, making it easy to compose beautiful stories
Convenient access to WordPress’ media library, enabling you to grab your media assets right from the plugin dashboard as you create your stories
Customizable color and text style presets, making it easy to tailor the style of your stories to the needs of your content strategy
And much more!
Using the Web Stories editor for WordPress, you can easily create visual narratives with tappable interactions, and share freely across the web, or embed them on your existing content strategies. The Stories you create are yours in every way, as Web Stories belong to the open web, instead of being confined to any specific closed ecosystem or platform.
Audience: Everyone Web Stories are for everyone! If you are a site owner, content creator, or publisher on the web, embracing the Web Stories format would be great as a way to enhance the quality of your content strategy, the value you bring to your readers, and consequently your chances of achieving sustainable success.
Terms of Service By using this plugin, you agree to Google’s Terms of Service. By using third-party imagery and video provided by Unsplash, Coverr and Tenor, you agree to adhere to the respective Terms of Service.
Category rankings
As of Sep 4, 2026- Block-enabled#53of 427Top 13%
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Competitors & alternatives
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Where Web Stories stands in the Block-enabled category
Web Stories ranks #53 of 427 apps in the Block-enabled category, placing it in the top 13% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Web Stories?
Web Stories is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.2-star rating from 87 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Block-enabled category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Google.
Who uses Web Stories?
Currently around 60,000 active stores have installed Web Stories. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Block-enabled category on WordPress.
Where does Web Stories rank on WordPress?
Web Stories currently sits at position #53 in the Block-enabled category on WordPress. That places it in the top 12% of 427 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.