E-junkie vs Easy Digital Downloads (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, E-junkie grades higher than Easy Digital Downloads: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
E-junkie grades higher on value for money and ease of use. Easy Digital Downloads grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
E-junkie
Sell downloads and goods with buttons, carts or a shop
Easy Digital Downloads
WordPress plugin for selling digital downloads from your own site
Which one is for you
Pick E-junkie if
- Fits if you want a buy button on a site you already have
- Works for sellers who want a flat monthly fee rather than a cut of each sale
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you sell more than 10 products or 200 MB on the $8 plan
- Skip it if you want tax and VAT handled, as it is not a merchant of record
- Watch out: you need your own payment processor, and its fees come on top
- Watch out: only monthly prices are listed, with no annual option
Pick Easy Digital Downloads if
- Fits if you already run a WordPress site and want to sell files from it
- Works for plugin and theme makers who need license keys, on Professional at $599 a year
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you don't want to look after a WordPress site and its hosting, which isn't priced here
- Pricey if you budget on the first-year price, as passes renew at double, from $199 a year for Personal
- Tight if you stay on Lite or Personal: platform fees apply until Extended at $399 a year, 3% of Stripe sales on Lite
- Pricey if you want licensing, the API, a marketplace or a second site, which start on Professional at $599 a year
- Watch out: canceling a license ends support and updates, and you lose your locked-in price
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAE-junkieFair | 2.2GPAEasy Digital DownloadsFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B$8 a month for 10 products, inside the cheapest quarter of digital-product tools ($10), though not under 60% of it ($6). | CThe free Lite plugin adds a 3% fee to Stripe sales: $30 on $1,000, plus the cost of hosting WordPress, which isn't on record. Extended at $399 a year drops the fee. Software that's free only if you host it yourself counts as a C here. |
| Free plan and trial | CA 14-day trial with no card; no free plan. | BLite is free on WordPress.org with unlimited products and transactions, so you can run a real store on it. Not an A: it needs a WordPress site on a paid host, and subscriptions and discount codes need a pass. |
| Features | CButtons, cart and shop, digital delivery, physical goods and shipping, affiliates and pricing options. It is not a merchant of record, so sales tax and VAT are not handled for you. | CStore, cart and checkout, then subscriptions, content restriction, license keys, a multi-vendor marketplace and cart recovery on paid passes. It needs a WordPress site to be useful, and much of it sits on Professional at $599 a year. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You paste buttons into a site and connect a payment processor. | DNo rating on record. You host it yourself: a WordPress site you run, or a WordPress.com business plan, plus yearly licence renewals to keep support and updates. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with eight listed integrations including PayPal, Stripe, ClickBank and WordPress. No desktop or phone app. | BRuns in the browser inside WordPress, with Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, Zapier, Mailchimp and Elementor, and an API on Professional. No phone or desktop app is listed. |
| Best for | buy buttons and a cart for downloads and goods | selling files from your own WordPress site |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: E-junkie and Easy Digital Downloads. How we grade
Price against what you get
E-junkie starts at $8 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Easy Digital Downloads starts at $16.58 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.0.
E-junkie scores higher and starts $8.58 a month lower. Of the other tools for selling digital products on the chart, 7 score higher than E-junkie for less, and 16 score higher than Easy Digital Downloads for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- E-junkie also covers affiliate tracking and shipping labels.
At a glance
| E-junkie | Easy Digital Downloads | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $8 per month for up to 10 products | $199 per year at renewal, after a first year for $99.50 |
| Free plan | None | The Lite plugin is free on WordPress.org with unlimited products and transactions and Stripe and PayPal checkout; Stripe sales carry an extra 3% fee in the free version. |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | E-junkie | Sandhills Development, LLC |
| Price read from | e-junkie.com | easydigitaldownloads.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
E-junkie
- You need your own payment processor account; processor fees are separate from E-junkie's plan price.
- Plans are limited by product count and file storage, and the lowest plan holds 10 products and 200 MB.
- It is not a merchant of record, so sales tax and VAT are not handled for you.
- The pricing page lists monthly prices only and shows no annual option.
Easy Digital Downloads
- It needs a WordPress site you run yourself, or a WordPress.com business plan, which allows third-party plugins.
- First-year prices are introductory: passes renew at full price, from $199 a year for Personal.
- The free version and the Personal pass do not include no-platform-fees; EDD's blog puts the free version's Stripe fee at 3%.
- Licenses renew yearly; cancelling ends support and updates, and you lose your locked-in price.
Key features
E-junkie
- Buttons, cart and shop
- Paste button code or links into any site, or use a shopping cart, product pages, a hosted shop or a self-hosted shop.
- Digital delivery
- Files and codes are delivered right after payment. It sells file downloads, game codes, tickets and gift cards, with PDF stamping listed.
- Physical goods and shipping
- The cart calculates shipping and handling using UPS, USPS, flat rate and custom rules for tangible items.
- Affiliate program
- Sellers can sign affiliates up with sign-up links, and there is an affiliate network plus a marketplace for discovering products.
- Pricing options
- Fixed prices, pay what you want, donations, free checkout, discounts, product bundles and product variations.
- Your own payment processor
- You connect a processor such as PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, Authorize.net, 2Checkout or Razorpay; it does not collect payments itself.
Easy Digital Downloads
- Store on your own WordPress site
- Unlimited products, a cart and checkout inside WordPress, with full ownership of your store data and Elementor checkout templates.
- Payments
- Stripe, PayPal and Square in the free plugin, Apple Pay listed on every paid pass, and Authorize.net and 2Checkout from Extended up.
- Subscriptions and memberships
- Recurring payments with free trials and setup fees on paid passes, plus content restriction for members from Extended up.
- Software licensing
- Issue license keys and deliver updates for plugins, themes and other software, on Professional and All Access.
- Marketplace and commissions
- Run a multi-vendor marketplace and pay commissions to sellers, on Professional and All Access.
- Marketing tools
- Discount codes, abandoned cart recovery, cross-sells and upsells, AI product recommendations and syncing with Mailchimp, ConvertKit and others.
Plans
E-junkie
10 products$8
per month for up to 10 products
10 products and 200 MB of download file storage. No transaction fee.
40 products$10
per month for up to 40 products
40 products and 2 GB of download file storage.
150 products$20
per month for up to 150 products
150 products and 8 GB of download file storage.
Unlimited products$40
per month
Unlimited products and unlimited download file storage.
Easy Digital Downloads
Lite$0
Free plugin from WordPress.org that you run on your own WordPress site. EDD adds a 3% fee to each Stripe transaction in the free version.
Personal$199
per year at renewal, after a first year for $99.50
1 site, subscriptions and free trials, discount codes, EU VAT, AI recommendations and cart recovery. Platform fees are not waived on this pass.
Extended$399
per year at renewal, after a first year for $199.50
1 site, no platform fees, Authorize.net and 2Checkout, multi-currency, content restriction, bundles, reviews and Zapier.
Professional$599
per year at renewal, after a first year for $299.50
2 sites, adds software licensing and API, a multi-vendor marketplace with commissions, shipping, post-purchase funnels and premium support.
All Access$999
per year at renewal, after a first year for $499.50
3 sites, every extension, including loyalty rewards, fraud prevention, advanced reports and bulk discount codes.
Ways to pay less
E-junkie
No public discounts listed.
Easy Digital Downloads
- Other savings
Half price in the first year
EDD's pricing page shows introductory first-year prices of half the regular rate, from $99.50 for Personal; renewals are at full price.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, E-junkie or Easy Digital Downloads?
As of Nov 13, 2026, E-junkie is cheaper to start with: $8 a month, against $16.58 a month when paid by the year for Easy Digital Downloads. E-junkie starts at $8 per month for up to 10 products, and Easy Digital Downloads starts at $199 per year at renewal, after a first year for $99.50.
Which has a free plan, E-junkie or Easy Digital Downloads?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Easy Digital Downloads has a free plan. E-junkie does not, though it has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.