App Reviews LITE
by admapps · Email & Marketing
Carousel to display iOS app ratings & reviews right from the App Store in real time on your Wordpress site. No maintenance required.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
-40%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “ios”, “ipad” and “iphone” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 66 average across 2,120 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 3.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,294 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.25.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2303 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.4.25; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2303 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| itunes app store | #23 | #19 | down 1 |
| ios your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| ipad your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| iphone your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| itunes your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| marketing your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “ios”, “ipad” and “iphone” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 155 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ soundspectrum9.0y ago
Not only was App Reviews simple to implement on my page, Aaron was very responsive to my inquiries and feedback. Ideas for improvements were quickly implemented and the plugin is absolutely beautiful and responsive on my site. Very Happy to be a customer of this Plugin. [link redacted] This topic was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ helenobrien9.6y ago
App Reviews LITE has enabled us to display reviews from the app store without knowledge of code. Adding the review section to the page takes no time at all – and i can now rest assured my visitors will always see the most up to date, relevant reviews. Furthermore, Aaron at App Reviews LITE has provided us with amazing support – quickly addressing my enquiry, and updating the app to suit our needs – thank you.
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Carousel to display iOS app ratings & reviews right from the App Store in real time on your Wordpress site...."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,306 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("ipad", "iphone", "itunes" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-29 20+ → 10+ down after 23 days in tier
- 2026-01-06 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-01-04 20+ → 10+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2025-12-27 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-26 20+ → 10+ down after 18 days in tier
- 2025-12-08 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-12-06 20+ → 10+ down after 22 days in tier
- 2025-11-14 10+ → 20+ up after 12 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Retina @2x 700+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D - S Smart App Banner 500+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C
- I iOS Smart App Banner For Safari 20+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
- A AppStore Lookup for WordPress 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
- M Multi Device Switcher 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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iOS images fixer 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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