appful Mobile App Plugin [OLD – NEW VERSION BELOW]
by Oskar Neumann · Uncategorized
Create a stunning native mobile App in 5 minutes. Mobile App for iPhone & Android. Try us for free!
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
20+
≈28 estimated
Momentum
+26%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “android”, “app” and “ios” 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.
46 health vs 58 average across 25,736 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.0%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 52.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,765 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19.
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 1233 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19; the current branch is 6.8
4.2★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1233 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.
32
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 9d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 9d
0.0
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| android your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| app your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| ios your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mobile your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mobile app your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 5 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “android”, “app” and “ios” 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 177 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
3.4y ago
latest release · v1.1.2 · 16 Jun 2023
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
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 “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 30.
Install history since 1 Feb 2016
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Julby5.7y ago
Easy to use platform to create high quality apps.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Oskar Neumann6.6y ago
Transforms any company’s website to a native app. Great!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ webitman6.8y ago
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Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ maxhuster877.5y ago
We used appful for creating a mobile app for our employees. Since you can also add pages which simply display a website, you can literally build everything. We built an mobile app without any posts. Great support and very good value for the price.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ banklooker7.7y ago
The service is ideal for magazines or companies with content. I discovered appful.io through an mobile app by them and used it for one of my projects.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2.2
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
8 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 "Create a stunning native mobile App in 5 minutes. Mobile App for iPhone & Android. Try us for free!"
- ✓ Has a FAQ 10 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 10 of 10 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use it", "for bloggers", "use this").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Google Analytics, YouTube, Twitter.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 15,722 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-31 30+ → 20+ down after 24 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 20+ → 30+ up after 43 days in tier
- 2026-06-25 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2026-06-17 20+ → 30+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-06-11 30+ → 20+ down after 307 days in tier
- 2025-08-08 40+ → 30+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2025-08-01 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-07-30 40+ → 30+ down after 76 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).
- I IdeaPress – Turn WordPress into Mobile Apps (Android, iPhone, WinPhone) 70+ installs · 3.9★ · 4 shared tags D
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Swipecart 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags -
WP-AppKit – Mobile apps and PWA for WordPress 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D -
WP Smart Banner 70+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D -
Appful – WordPress to Native iOS/Android App in 5 Minutes 40+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D - R Reactor: Core 30+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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