WordPress theme comparison
Crates vs Lightning
At a glance
- Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 20+ for Crates.
- On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, Crates about 0.
- Crates is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 2 reviews, against 4.8 from 12 reviews.
- Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Feb 8, 2014 for Crates.
- Crates has been around longer: since 2014, against 2015 for Lightning.
Line by line
Lightning leads on 3 of 4 comparable lines.
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