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PWA for WP – Progressive Web Apps Made Simple
Easy app features with a side of billing anxiety.
HealthyDeclining
67/100
The plugin offers easy PWA features but faces serious allegations regarding billing and stability.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.6★
229 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-6%
Declining
187 → 176 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -6% in the last year
187/day a year ago→176/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPWA for WP is generally well-regarded as a capable and easy-to-use Progressive Web App plugin with responsive support, though it carries serious concerns around billing practices and occasional site-breaking updates.
What people like
- +Support team is consistently praised as helpful and responsive, for both free and paid users×4
- +Easy to set up and use, even for users with no prior PWA experience×3
- +Stable, well-coded, and runs without errors or crashes according to long-term users×3
- +Useful for real-world use cases such as offline access and Google Play Store publishing×2
- +Extensive customization options available
Common complaints
- −A user reports being charged for years without consent and receiving no help from the company when raised, describing the billing as fraudulent
- −An update broke at least one user's website
- −Plugin replaced the site favicon with a default one, negatively affecting Google visibility and meta tags even after attempting to fix it
- −Icon display on mobile devices is inconsistent
- −Plugin may conflict with Full Site Editor (FSE) design changes, requiring it to be disabled during design work
- −No iOS installation banner available (user-requested feature gap)
- −One user notes the plugin slows down the WordPress admin area
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.52★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 229 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-20★★★★★Really good app for Pagespeed Insightszzr6001-shot
- 2025-08-31★★★★★Best PWA Plugin and Best Supportrahkarnegarco
- 2025-03-06★★★★★Excellent!nikonorovsv
- 2025-01-23★★★★★Fraudulent Company, Stay Awayzorv
- 2024-10-24★★★★★Uno dei migliori pluginCharmed
- 2024-08-24★★★★★Ваш плагин тормозит сайт админкиfgter
- 2024-08-05★★★★★Great supportPietBoekema
- 2024-07-03★★★★★Outstanding WordPress Plugin with Excellent Code Quality and a Minor Suggestioni3lani
- 2024-06-21★★★★★Best PWA Plugin and Best Supportmarperacet
- 2024-06-11★★★★★Asked for a fefund, nothing refundedBob
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
168
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
197
Prior 7-day baseline
149
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,038
Mean release-day peak (30d)
147
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.7%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.35
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
78%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.46 → 4.52★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered