This plugin uses
Add to Home Screen's Cubiq script to place a floating balloon inviting the user to add a website to their home screen as a standard iOS application.
It's a good way to retain visitors coming to your blog, especially if you don’t want to develop an expensive native application just to let them read your WordPress blog articles.
The floating balloon is compatible with all recent iPhones and iPads.
2025 UPDATE: The Add to Home Screen WP Plugin is back online, fully compliant with WordPress requirements, and now offers premium features!
Free Features
- Floating balloon to invite users to add your blog to their iOS home screen.
- Customizable message, animations, delays, and touch icon.
- Compatible with iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch.
Premium Features
Unlock advanced features with a purchase at
tulipemedia.com:
- PWA Support: Transform your blog into a Progressive Web App.
- Android Install Prompt: Display a custom "Add to Home Screen" button for Android users.
- Loading Indicator: Add a sleek spinner for smooth page transitions.
- Customization Options: Tailor your app with color settings and force the web app to launch on the homepage.
The free version adds the floating balloon, while the premium version enhances your blog with these powerful PWA features and more.
Demo
Watch the Demo Video
Check a demo on my blog (load it on an iPhone).
Read more and documentation
Internationalisation
This plugin supports translations. Help translate it by
notifying me in comments and I’ll add your mo/po files.
Available languages: English, French, German. Thanks to
Julian for the German translation!
Features
Free Features (Cubiq Script):
- Custom message with HTML support.
- Animation: drop, bubble, or fade.
- Delays: start delay and lifespan.
- Expire: minutes before showing again.
- Touch icon support.
-
Show to returning visitors only.
Premium Features:
-
PWA Support.
- Android Install Prompt.
- Loading Indicator.
- Color Option.
- Force the web app to launch on the homepage.
Follow me
Keep in touch on:
2.6.4
- Improved: License validation UI with "Checking license..." indicator and green/bold success message; switched to AJAX validation.
2.6.3
- Changed: Replaced embedded YouTube demo video with a clickable link in readme.txt for reliability.
2.6.2
- Fixed: YouTube demo video not displaying on plugin page, now embedded correctly.
2.6.1
- Fixed: "Enable ATHS Premium Features" checkbox now saves correctly when unchecked.
2.6
- Improved: free option page settings
- Added: License key system to unlock premium features.
- Improved: Updated plugin structure for freemium model.
2.5
- Added: Simplified touch icon support to a single 180x180 size for modern iOS devices.
- Removed: Deprecated touch icon sizes (57x57, 72x72, 114x114, 144x144) from options.
- Updated: Replaced Universal Analytics tracking with Google Analytics 4 compatibility.
- Improved: Renamed main plugin file from "index.php" to "add-to-home-screen-wp.php" to follow WordPress conventions.
- Version 2.6 simplifies touch icon support to a single 180x180 size and updates tracking to Google Analytics 4.
2.4
Minor fix.
2.3
Minor fix.
2.2
Support for HTML formatting in the custom message balloon for richer styling.
2.1
Major fix.
2
Major fix.
1.9
Minor fix.
1.8
Minor fix.
1.7
Minor fix, tested up to WordPress 5.4.
1.6
Little fix.
1.5
Little fix.
1.4
New version tested up to WordPress 5.2.
1.3
Bugs fixed.
1.2
New version tested up to 4.8.1.
Some old functionnalities have been removed.
1.1
Fix for the iOS 7 web app status bar.
German translation added.
1.0
Floating balloon updated for iOS 7.
0.9
New home screen icons and startup screens for all iOs devices (ipad, iPhone 5, etc...).
0.8
Fix bug with "homepage only or all pages" option.
Some little performance improvements.
0.7
Improvement of the bottom navigation bar on Web App: added forward and reload buttons.
Allow using Safari mode in Web App.
Fix bug with the "returningVisitor" function.
0.6
Improvement CSS of the Web App.
Allow opening the balloon on homepage only or all pages.
0.5
Touch startup image that is displayed while the web application launches.
Prevent links switching to Safari browser.
Add navigation bar (back button) in the Web App.
0.4
Allow customizing Web App Title.
0.3
Ability to use device and icon tags when customizing the message.
Allow using apostrophe in custom message.
0.2
Display title of the page.
0.1
First version of the plugin.