Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web App vs UpdraftPlus

🌟 Captivate your mobile visitors with a beautiful, customizable prompt on iOS and Android, encouraging them to add your site to their home screen. 🚀 Your site instantly transforms into a fast, smooth Web App, delivering a native-like mobile experience without the cost of building an app. 🛠️ Works seamlessly on both single-site and multisite installations. Network-wide settings are available for consistent configuration across all subsites. Perfect for blogs, businesses, e-commerce, online courses and WordPress multisite networks. 📺 Watch the quick video introduction Why Choose This Plugin? Engage Mobile Users: Prompt visitors to save your site as an app-like icon on their phone, keeping them coming back. Cross-Platform Support: Works on Safari and Chrome for iOS, as well as Chrome for Android, ensuring maximum compatibility across mobile devices. Cost-Effective: Build an app-like experience with WordPress and Progressive Web App (PWA) standards—no need for native iOS or Android app development. Multisite Ready: Seamlessly applies PWA settings across all subsites in a WordPress multisite network. Free & Pro Options: Start with robust free features and unlock premium capabilities for advanced customization and analytics. 2025 Update: Enhanced performance, improved multisite support, and new Pro features to make your PWA shine! Fully compliant with WordPress standards and optimized for the latest devices. 2026 Update: Fully adapted to the new Safari iOS share sheet flow (iOS 16.4+), which requires additional steps to reach “Add to Home Screen”. Free Features Customizable Floating Balloon: Display a stylish prompt on iOS and Android with tailored messages, animations, and delays. PWA Basics: Enable core Progressive Web App functionality with a manifest for standalone app-like behavior. Multisite Support: Customize PWA settings, iOS floating balloon, and Android install button consistently across all subsites in a WordPress network. Touch Icon: Add a custom icon (192×192 or 512×512 PNG) for the home screen. Flexible Display Options: Show the balloon on all pages or just the homepage, with settings for returning visitors. Animations & Timing: Choose from drop, bubble, or fade animations, and set start delays and lifespans. Built-in Translations: Includes English, French, and German translations, with support for custom message translations via WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, and more. Clean Uninstall: Safely remove the plugin with a proper data cleanup option to keep your site tidy. Lightweight & Fast: Built with performance in mind, using the proven Cubiq Add to Home Screen script. Premium Features (Pro Version) 🌟 Upgrade to the Pro version at tulipemedia.com for next-level PWA power: – Loading Spinner: Display a smooth, customizable loading spinner while your app content loads — fully integrated with your brand colors. – Pull to Refresh: Offer users a native-like refresh gesture on your Web App, just like on real mobile apps. – Bottom Navigation Bar: Enhance your PWA with a sleek, customizable bottom bar featuring Back, Forward, and Share buttons — for a smoother and more app-like mobile experience. – Dashboard PWA Support: Add the WordPress admin dashboard as a web app for quick mobile access — ideal for logged-in users or clients who need fast, app-like access to the WordPress backend. – Advanced Prompts: Fine-tune dashboard prompts for iOS and Android, with custom messages and icons. – Installation Tracking: Monitor how many users add your PWA to their home screens with detailed stats (GDPR-compliant, anonymized data). – Custom Colors & Spinner: Personalize the top bar and loading spinner color for a branded experience. – Custom Icons: Upload unique icons for frontend balloons and dashboard prompts. – Enhanced Multisite: Manage Pro settings at the network level for consistent PWA behavior across subsites, or customize per subsite for unique configurations. – Clean Uninstall: Safely remove the plugin (free and Pro) with a proper data cleanup option to keep your site tidy. Ready to elevate your PWA? Get Pro now at tulipemedia.com! 🌟 Demos Free Version: See it in action on tulipemedia.com (load on a mobile device for the full experience). Pro Version: Experience the Pro version on merco6.com (mobile view recommended). You’ll see the custom top bar color and loading spinner in action — both are fully customizable in the Pro version. Video Demo: Watch the demo video Who’s This For? Bloggers wanting to keep readers engaged on mobile. Businesses aiming for a native app-like experience without the cost. Online course creators & educators selling courses or training to engage learners on the go. Multisite network admins seeking a unified PWA solution. Content-Driven Businesses—coaches, trainers, content creators, researchers, journalists, educators, and consultants seeking to engage mobile audiences with a seamless Progressive Web App. Contribute 🌐 Translate: Help make the plugin accessible worldwide! Contribute translations at WordPress Translate. Donate: Support ongoing development with a coffee! ☕ Donate now. Rate Me: Love the plugin? Share a 5-star review on WordPress.org to help others discover it. Follow Me: Stay updated on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or YouTube. Credits Developed with ❤️ by Ziyad Bachalany. Uses the Cubiq Add to Home Screen script by Matteo Spinelli (MIT License). Support Need help? Visit our support page for documentation, FAQs, and contact options. Upgrade to the Pro version at tulipemedia.com. License This plugin is licensed under GPLv2 or later. The included Cubiq Add to Home Screen script is released under the MIT License: MIT License for Cubiq Script Copyright (c) 2013 Matteo Spinelli, https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.