Easy Digital Downloads vs Thrive Apprentice
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| Feature | Easy Digital Downloads v3.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Thrive Apprentice Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 40,000+ | — |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Easy Digital Downloads · Easy Digital Downloads Pro ($) | — |
| Pros | Built for selling digital downloads, with checkout and customer downloads; Stripe, PayPal and Square payment gateways; Discounts, reports and blocks for checkout pages | — |
| Cons | Subscriptions, recurring payments and recurring revenue reports need Pro; Pro requires a licence key from the vendor | — |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Digital product downloads, Checkout and purchase blocks, Discount codes and claims, Stripe payments, PayPal Standard payments, Square payments, Sales and download reports, Email summary of sales, Pro licence connection from the Lite edition ($) | — |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe, PayPal, Square | — |
| Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun | — | |
| Analytics | MonsterInsights (Google Analytics for WordPress) | — |
| Plugins | Elementor | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 6.7 | — |
| Requires PHP | 8.0 | — |
| Tested up to | 7.0 | — |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | — |
| External services | services.easydigitaldownloads.com, easydigitaldownloads.com, downloads.wordpress.org, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, api.stripe.com, connect.squareup.com, opencollective.com, ipinfo.io, plugin.easydigitaldownloads.com, static-eu.payments-amazon.com, static-na.payments-amazon.com, sellercentral.amazon.com, payments.amazon.co.uk, payments.amazon.de, www.paypal.com | — |
| Blocks | 16 | — |
| Shortcodes | 14 | — |