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Surface vs Sydney

At a glance

  • Sydney has more active installs: 80K+, against 70+ for Surface.
  • On a typical day, Sydney is downloaded about 643 times, Surface about 0.
  • Surface has no reviews yet.
  • Sydney was updated more recently: Nov 9, 2026, against Jul 17, 2012 for Surface.
  • Surface has been around longer: since 2012, against 2015 for Sydney.

Line by line

Sydney leads on 3 of 3 comparable lines.

MetricSurfaceSydney
Popular rank–#35
Active installs70+80K+
Downloads, last 30 days036.1K
RatingNo ratings4.9(795)
Last release14 years agotoday
Requires PHP–7.2

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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