Should I choose Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Send E-mail?

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection holds the higher average rating (4.7★ vs 0.0★). 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 Send E-mail?

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 0), 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). Send E-mail typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (0 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 Send E-mail?

Migration support varies by app and category. Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Send E-mail 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 Send E-mail" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.

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Akismet Anti-spam vs Send E-mail — WordPress

Akismet Anti-spam vs Send E-mail

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	Send E-mail
Tagline	—	—
Description	1087 / 5000 chars22% used	2893 / 5000 chars58% used
Screenshots	—	—
Languages
Platforms	WordPress	WordPress
Developer	Automattic	Paolo Melchiorre
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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 Send E-mail
Metric	Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection	Send E-mail
Rating	4.7 ★	—
Total reviews	1.2k	0
Active installs	5,000,000+	100+
Free plan	—	—

Keyword	Akismet Anti-spam	Send E-mail
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%

Send E-mail

Add a contact form to any post or page by inserting [contact-form] in the post. Messages will be sent to the post’s author or any email address you choose. Or add a contact form to a text widget. Messages will be sent to the email address set in your Settings -> General admin panel or any email address you choose. Your email address is never shown, and the sender never learns it (unless you reply to the email). As seen on WordPress.com. This plugin was imported from Grunion Contact Form but it adds full internationalization using localized string from WordPress core. An e-mail signature block was appended to the end of the e-mail message containing the sender’s name, email address, website and IP and delimited from the body of the message by a single line consisting of exactly two hyphens, followed by a space, followed by the end of line (“– \n”). This signature cut line allows software to automatically mark or remove the sig block. Configuration The [contact-form] shortcode has the following parameters: to: A comma separated list of email addresses to which the messages will be sent. If you leave this blank: contact forms in posts and pages will send messages to the post or page’s author; and contact forms in text widgets will send messages to the email address set in Settings -> General. Example: [contact-form to="[email protected]"] Example: [contact-form to="[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]"] subject: The e-mail subject of the message defaults to [{Blog Title}] {Sidebar} for text widgets and [{Blog Title}] {Post Title} for posts and pages. Set your own default with the subject option. Example: [contact-form subject="My Contact Form"] show_subject: You can allow the user to edit the subject by showing a new field on the form. The field will be populated with the default subject or the subject you have set with the previous option. Example: [contact-form subject="My Contact Form" show_subject="yes"] License Send E-mail Copyright (C) 2011 Paolo Melchiorre This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see Licenses – GNU Project. Donation This plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL License, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a small donation for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin.

Top keywords

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Akismet Anti-spam vs Send E-mail

Akismet Anti-spam

1. Listing metadata

2. Categories & rankings

Send E-mail

At a glance

AppRanks verdict

3. Search rankings

4. Activity in the last 90 days

Akismet Anti-spam · 1 changes

Send E-mail · 0 changes

5. App details

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Should I choose Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Send E-mail?

Which is faster to set up, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection or Send E-mail?

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

Can I migrate data between Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and Send E-mail?

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