App Store Assistant
by SEALsystems · eCommerce
Lets you display the detail of an item or an RSS feed from Apple's App Store, iTunes Stores or Amazon.com. Affiliate ready.
50 health vs 77 average across 1,435 eCommerce plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.21, well behind 6.8.
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
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2272 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
33
now · peak 133
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-10 30+ → 20+ down after 230 days in band
- 2025-11-22 40+ → 30+ down after 111 days in band
- 2025-08-03 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-08-02 40+ → 50+ up after 36 days in band
- 2025-06-27 50+ → 40+ down after 154 days in band
- 2025-01-24 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-22 50+ → 60+ up after 54 days in band
- 2024-11-29 60+ → 50+ down after 111 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP-Appbox 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - I IdeaPress – Turn WordPress into Mobile Apps (Android, iPhone, WinPhone) 80+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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Seriously Simple Podcasting 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag B - O OpenID Connect Generic Client 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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iOS images fixer 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag C -
Publish To Apple News 5K+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/app-store-assistant" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="App Store Assistant — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> App Store Assistant: 20+ active installs, 4.8★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/app-store-assistant