Akismet Anti-spam vs Pixeline's Email — WordPress

Akismet Anti-spam vs Pixeline's

Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points

Akismet Anti-spam

4.7·1.2kreviews·5,000,000+installs

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1. Listing metadata

Field-level data

	Akismet Anti-spam	Pixeline's
Tagline	—	—
Description	1087 / 5000 chars22% used	2655 / 5000 chars53% used
Screenshots	—	—
Languages
Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	Automattic	pixeline
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Last updated	—	—

2. Categories & rankings

Shared categories on the same row · in-category position inline

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At a glance

4 metrics · auto-computed

Feature comparison between Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Pixeline's Email Protector
Metric	Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection	Pixeline's Email Protector
Rating	★ 4.7 ★	4.3 ★
Total reviews	★ 1.2k	8
Active installs	5,000,000+	800+
Free plan	—	—

Keyword	Akismet Anti-spam	Pixeline's
contact form	#61	Not ranked
contact	#69	Not ranked
form	#115	Not ranked

5. App details

Long-form description · keyword frequency

Akismet Anti-spam

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce. Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Top keywords

comments6×3.33%
spam6×3.33%
akismet4×2.22%
comment3×1.67%
checks2×1.11%
contact2×1.11%
contact form2×1.11%
form2×1.11%
see2×1.11%
site2×1.11%

Pixeline's

This plugin provides an unobtrusive yet efficient protection against email harvesters / spambots. Post/page authors may write email addresses in their article in the usual format (“[email protected]”) without exposing them to spam email harvesters. The plugin takes care of the obfuscation, implementing a graceful degradation technique focusing on usability so as to protect your email addresses from harvesters while keeping them usable to your human visitors. The plugin replaces any email address found in posts, pages, comments and excerpts, and replace them by a bit of html markup that should deceive most email harvesters: john(replace the parenthesis by @)doe.com . If javascript is available, it will display a clickable link and display the original email to the human user. Maximum usability, maximum protection. Please rate the plugin if you like it. Usage Write your email addresses inside your posts and pages as usual. When the plugin is activated, it will replace them by a human-readable html string that explains how to deduce the email address, and if javascript is available (99.9% of the time), the original email address will be displayed as a clickable mailto: link. For example: Hello [email protected]. How are you today? will become John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com. Additionally, you can specify what the mailto: link should look like by sticking a parenthesis inside of which you put the visible link text, like this: Hello [email protected](John Doe). How are you today? will become John( replace these parenthesis by @ )doe.com. inside a theme If you need to protect emails inside your Theme’s files (like the footer.php for example), you can use the function safe_email() like this: echo safe_email('[email protected]'); Theme-safe alternative (plugin can be disabled) If your theme must keep working even when this plugin is disabled, use a wrapper in your theme (for example in functions.php) and call that wrapper everywhere instead of calling safe_email() directly. if ( ! function_exists( 'theme_safe_email' ) ) { function theme_safe_email( $email, $label = '' ) { $email = sanitize_email( $email ); if ( '' === $email ) { return ''; } if ( function_exists( 'safe_email' ) ) { $payload = $email . ( '' !== $label ? '(' . $label . ')' : '' ); return safe_email( $payload ); } $encoded_email = antispambot( $email ); $link_label = '' !== $label ? $label : $encoded_email; return ' ' . esc_html( $link_label ) . ' '; } } Contribute Github repo: https://github.com/pixeline/pixeline-email-protector

Top keywords

email24×6.03%
com7×1.76%

Frequently asked

Common questions about this comparison

Which has better reviews, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection has the higher average rating (4.7★ from 1,186 reviews) compared to Pixeline's Email Protector (4.3★ from 8 reviews). Both are tracked daily by AppRanks, so the figures here update each refresh cycle.

Should I choose Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection holds the higher average rating (4.7★ vs 4.3★). That is the one dimension AppRanks can separate them on here — read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.

Which is faster to set up, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Both apps are one-click installs from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection has the deeper published review base (1,186 vs 8), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (1,186 reviews). Pixeline's Email Protector typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (8 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

Can I migrate data between Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Pixeline's Email Protector?

Migration support varies by app and category. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Pixeline's Email Protector both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Pixeline's Email Protector" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

Akismet Anti-spam vs Pixeline's

Akismet Anti-spam

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

Pixeline's

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

3. Search rankings

4. Activity in the last 90 days

Akismet Anti-spam · 1 changes

Pixeline's · 2 changes

5. App details

Frequently asked

Which has better reviews, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Should I choose Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Which is faster to set up, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Pixeline's Email Protector?

Which works better for small vs large WordPress Plugin Directory site owners?

Can I migrate data between Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Pixeline's Email Protector?

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