WordPress theme comparison
Asteroid vs Parabola
At a glance
- Parabola has more active installs: 10K+, against 800+ for Asteroid.
- On a typical day, Parabola is downloaded about 16 times, Asteroid about 0.
- Both are rated 4.9 out of 5.
- Parabola was updated more recently: Feb 1, 2026, against Jul 10, 2022 for Asteroid.
- Asteroid has been around longer: since 2012, against 2013 for Parabola.
Line by line
Parabola leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.
From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.
Tags they share
- Top Custom background themes
- Top Custom colors themes
- Top Custom header themes
- Top Custom menu themes
- Top Featured images themes
- Top Full width template themes
- Top Microformats themes
- Top Right sidebar themes
- Top RTL language support themes
- Top Sticky post themes
- Top Theme options themes
- Top Threaded comments themes
- Top Translation ready themes
- Top Two columns themes
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