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Official Add to Homescreen vs WPtouch

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

WPtouch is the safest pick: health C · 67 against 48 for Official Add to Homescreen, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Official Add to Homescreen moved down one install band, 300+ to 200+; WPtouch moved down one install band, 50K+ to 40K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Official Add to Homescreen	WPtouch
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	200–300	40K–50K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-33%	-20% ✓
Overall health	D · 48	C · 67 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	66/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	84/100 ✓	67/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.3★ ✓	3.7★
Reviews	13	341 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	40/100	84/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	12.1y ago	11mo ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	107	8.8K ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+12%	+1%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	1.0% ✓	0.3%
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Official Add to HomescreenWPtouch

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.