# RafflePress review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Giveaway and contest plugin for WordPress Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. RafflePress is a WordPress plugin for running giveaways and contests that reward visitors with bonus entries for subscribing, following, sharing and referring friends. A lite edition is on WordPress.org, and the Pro licenses are paid once, with lifetime updates and a year of priority support. - **Category:** Popups & Website Widgets - **Made by:** RafflePress - **Website:** https://rafflepress.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your site is not self-hosted WordPress: there is no hosted version. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, RafflePress has a free plan, and paid plans start at $299 one-time for 1 site. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Lite edition on WordPress.org with the drag-and-drop builder; email integrations, landing pages and templates are Pro. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Lite | $0 | Free plugin from WordPress.org with the giveaway builder and basic entry actions. | | Single Site | $299 one-time, for 1 site | All features, integrations and templates, lifetime updates and 1 year of priority support. | | Unlimited Sites | $349 one-time, for unlimited sites | Same as Single Site on unlimited sites, including client sites. | Read from https://rafflepress.com/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with RafflePress before buying. ## Key features - **Bonus entry actions:** Visitors earn extra entries by subscribing, following accounts, sharing or watching a video; the site lists more than 30 entry actions. - **Viral referrals:** A refer-a-friend action gives each entrant a referral link and rewards them with bonus entries. - **Drag-and-drop builder and templates:** Giveaways are built visually from pre-built templates, and can be shown as a widget or a dedicated landing page. - **Fraud protection:** Actions are verified through APIs where possible, and the plugin can invalidate entries it flags as fraud. - **Email and CRM integrations:** Connects to more than 15 email services and CRMs, plus Zapier and webhooks, so entrants flow onto a list. ## Good for - WordPress sites growing an email list with a contest - Bloggers who prefer paying once instead of a subscription - Agencies running giveaways for client sites on one license ## Worth knowing - It works only on self-hosted WordPress; there is no hosted version. - The free Lite edition leaves out email integrations, templates and landing pages. - The one-time price includes only 1 year of priority support. - The page states a 14-day money-back guarantee. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. RafflePress is a WordPress plugin for giveaways and contests, with a free Lite edition and $299 once for one site. Email integrations, templates and landing pages are paid. It works only on self-hosted WordPress, and the one-time price covers 1 year of priority support. - **Value for money: B.** $299 once for one site is under two years of the popup category's middle subscription, with lifetime updates. Unlimited sites is $349. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free Lite edition with the builder and basic entry actions. Email integrations, templates and landing pages are Pro. - **Features: C.** Bonus entries, viral referrals, a builder, fraud protection and email integrations. It does the contest job fully, but it is a smaller job than a popup tool. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build each giveaway in an editor and connect an email tool. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Self-hosted WordPress only, with Mailchimp, ConvertKit, AWeber, Drip, ActiveCampaign, Constant Contact, GetResponse and Zapier named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from RafflePress's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among popup and widget tools - RafflePress's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 14 of the 54 other popup and widget tools we grade, and level with 19. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 33 of 54) and worst on features (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/popups ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace RafflePress you would be making a builder that other people can use without writing code. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 21 of the 54 other popup and widget tools grade higher. It costs $299, paid once. - You could make: Popups, templates and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Mailchimp, ConvertKit and AWeber among them. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Mailchimp, ConvertKit, AWeber, Drip, ActiveCampaign, Constant Contact, GetResponse, Zapier **Tags:** Popups, Templates, Reports, No-code ## Alternatives - [OptinMonster](https://toolgpa.com/tools/optinmonster): Pop-ups, floating bars and opt-in forms added to an existing site. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/optinmonster-vs-rafflepress) - [Popup Maker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/popup-maker): WordPress popup plugin with a free edition and yearly Pro licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/popup-maker-vs-rafflepress) - [WP Popups](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wp-popups): WordPress popup plugin with a free edition and paid licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rafflepress-vs-wp-popups) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://rafflepress.com/ - https://wordpress.org/plugins/rafflepress/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rafflepress Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).