Companion Auto Update for WordPress Plugin Directory
Companion Auto Update is the #37 ranked security app on WordPress, with a 4.8 average rating from 105 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Companion Auto Update is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Papin Schipper. With a rating of 4.8★ from 105 reviews, it currently ranks #37 in the Security category.
AppRanks data: Companion Auto Update ranks #37 in Security on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 6% of that category.
AppRanks verdict
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Companion Auto Update is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Security category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 105 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Papin Schipper — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Companion Auto Update works
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Companion Auto Update is a powerful and completely free plugin that allows you to manage all the updates on your WordPress site. Our aim is to give you the best control over these updates and stay in the know at all times.
We understand that you might not always be able to check if your WordPress site has any updates that need to be installed. Especially when you maintain multiple websites keeping them up-to-date can be a lot of work. This plugin can help you with that. We’ll keep your site up-to-date and keep you posted about what’s happening and notify you when we need your help with something.
If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature
Main features
Auto-updating for plugins, themes, core and translation files
Set at what time you wish to update
Filter plugins and themes to not be updated
E-mail notifications about old software, pending updates and completed updates
An update log with all updates
Option to delay automatic updates with an x number of days
Full control over everything Full control, that’s what this plugin is all about. With this plugin you can enable (or disable) automatic updating for plugins, themes, WordPress core updates (both minor and major can be changed separately) and for translation files. Don’t want to run the updater for all plugins? Don’t worry, just disable auto updating for the plugins you’d like to skip and we can even notify you when there’s an update for these plugins so you can go and update them yourself.
Scheduling By default we’ll check for updates twice a day but you can change this to several different options if you’d like. When choosing to update on a daily basis you can even select at what time you’d like it to run. Besides the updaters you can also schedule te notifications, want to update every hour but only recieve notifications once a day? No problem!
Sometimes developers will push an update that will cause errors on your site, they’ll often fix it within a day but if the updater has run in the mean time it can cause all kinds of issues. Now you can choose to delay updates with an x number of days to prevent this from happening.
Know what’s happening We want you to know what’s happening on your website. This plugin offers settings for various email notifications. We can send you an email when an update is available, when a plugin has been updated or when wordpress has been updated.
But if you don’t want to recieve emails about this you can still log in and view the changelog to see what happened.
Category rankings
As of Sep 5, 2026- Security#37of 666Top 6%
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Competitors & alternatives
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Where Companion Auto Update stands in the Security category
Companion Auto Update ranks #37 of 666 apps in the Security category, placing it in the top 6% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Companion Auto Update?
Companion Auto Update is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 105 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Security category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Papin Schipper.
Where does Companion Auto Update rank on WordPress?
Companion Auto Update currently sits at position #37 in the Security category on WordPress. That places it in the top 6% of 666 apps tracked in the same category. Category positions are read from the live marketplace ranking and refresh on each scrape, so the number you see here reflects the most recent crawl rather than a long-running average.