# Content Refresher review (2026): is it worth $19 a month? > WordPress plugin that drafts AI updates for aging blog posts Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Content Refresher is a WordPress plugin that picks out posts older than a set age and sends them to its service, which drafts an updated version with current facts, statistics and FAQ sections using Google Gemini. Each draft waits in a verification queue inside WordPress and changes the post only after someone approves it. Plans are sold as a monthly number of refreshes. - **Category:** SEO Content Optimizers - **Made by:** VELTE Tomasz Adamski - **Website:** https://content-refresher.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your site isn't on WordPress, as it runs only as a plugin there. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Content Refresher is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $19 per month for 10 refreshes. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 1 free refresh credit when the plugin is installed, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $19 per month for 10 refreshes | One site, the standard AI model and email support. | | Growth | $49 per month for 50 refreshes | Up to 10 sites, the advanced model with deep research, brand voice matching and priority support. | | Agency | $149 per month for 200 refreshes | Up to 100 domains, with the same advanced model, deep research, brand voice and priority support as Growth. | Read from https://content-refresher.com/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Content Refresher before buying. ## Key features - **Stale post detection:** Checks posts daily against an age threshold you set, using either the publish date or the last-modified date, with a daily limit and a cooldown. - **AI refresh drafts:** Rewrites outdated sections, updates statistics and facts from live research, and keeps the post's existing formatting. - **Verification queue:** Every draft lands in a review queue in the WordPress dashboard; nothing changes on the post until it is approved. - **Scope selector:** Limit refreshes to all posts, chosen categories or tags, or posts picked by hand. - **Schema and FAQ sections:** Adds FAQ sections and structured data to refreshed posts, aimed at People Also Ask results. - **Brand voice matching:** Trains on your existing posts so refreshed text keeps the same voice. Included on Growth and Agency. ## Good for - WordPress blogs with a large archive of posts that go out of date - Agencies offering content updates across many client WordPress sites - Teams that want an editor to approve every AI change before it goes live ## Worth knowing - It runs only inside WordPress, as a plugin; the site lists Gutenberg and Elementor support. - There is no free plan: new installs get one free refresh, then a monthly plan or token packs are needed. - Extra tokens cost $15 for 10 down to $115 for 100; they never expire, unlike the monthly plan credits. - Starter covers one site and the standard model; deep research and brand voice start at Growth for $49 a month. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Content Refresher is a WordPress plugin that picks out posts past an age you set, drafts updated versions with current facts, stats and FAQs, and holds each one until someone approves it. Starter is $19 a month for 10 refreshes on one site. It only works inside WordPress, and it picks posts by age, not by how their traffic is doing. - **Value for money: B.** Starter is $19 a month for 10 refreshes on one site, just inside this category's cheaper quarter, which starts at $20. Deep research and brand voice need Growth at $49, right at the middle. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. A new install gets 1 free refresh with no card, and after that it's a monthly plan or a token pack. - **Features: C.** Finds posts past an age threshold, drafts updates with live research, keeps the formatting, adds FAQs and schema, and queues every draft for approval. It does refreshing fully, but that's a smaller job, and nothing on record ranks posts by traffic. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but it's a plugin inside the WordPress dashboard you already use: set an age and a scope, then approve drafts from the queue. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** WordPress only, as a plugin, with Gutenberg and Elementor support and Google Gemini doing the writing. No other CMS, app or API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Content Refresher's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SEO content tools - Content Refresher's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 59 of the 87 other SEO content tools we grade, and level with 21. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 83 of 87) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $45 for the category: 13 of the 80 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-content ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Content Refresher you could make: schema markup. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 59 of the 87 other SEO content tools we grade. It costs $228 a year. - You could make: Schema markup: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Elementor, Google Gemini **Tags:** Content optimization, AI features, Schema markup ## Alternatives - [FreshRank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshrank): Finds decaying WordPress posts and drafts AI updates for review. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/content-refresher-vs-freshrank) - [ClickFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clickflow): Plans, drafts, refreshes and tracks SEO content from Search Console. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clickflow-vs-content-refresher) - [Content Raptor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/content-raptor): Picks pages to optimize from Search Console data and tests the result. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/content-raptor-vs-content-refresher) - [Autorank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/autorank): Writes and publishes SEO blog posts from Search Console data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autorank-vs-content-refresher) - [Surfer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surfer): Content editor that scores articles for search and AI citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/content-refresher-vs-surfer) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://content-refresher.com/ - https://content-refresher.com/terms.html - https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-decay-copilot-content-refresher/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/content-refresher Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).