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Cue vs Lightning

Cue

by Site Nerdy

100+ installs

Lightning

by Hidekazu Ishikawa

100K+ installs4.8

At a glance

  • Lightning has more active installs: 100K+, against 100+ for Cue.
  • On a typical day, Lightning is downloaded about 451 times, Cue about 0.
  • Cue has no reviews yet.
  • Lightning was updated more recently: Sep 9, 2026, against Jan 19, 2024 for Cue.
  • Lightning has been around longer: since 2015, against 2024 for Cue.

Line by line

Lightning leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.

MetricCueLightning
Popular rank–#28
Active installs100+100K+
Downloads, last 30 days219.6K
RatingNo ratings4.8(12)
Last release2 years ago2 months ago
Requires PHP5.77.4

From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.

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