Progressive Web Apps

12 Best Examples of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) [Updated 2023]

It’s no secret that performance is vital to the success and profitability of any online venture. As a consequence, websites across industries are utilizing a new standard called Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to improve their performance.

Supported by Google, the front-end technology aims at delivering a high level of performance regardless of device or network condition. They achieve that by enhancing PWAs with native-app qualities that are reliable, fast, and engaging. While receiving lots of attention, the concept of PWAs is relatively new to most people.

To deeply understand how a Progressive Web App differ from conventional responsive websites, the best way is to look at some good examples of PWAs.

Here is a list of impressive Progressive Web App examples across a variety of industries – so you can experience the new web technology yourself.

1. Starbucks

starbucks pwa on mobile
Starbucks PWA on desktop
Starbucks PWA on mobile and desktop

Aiming at providing accessible, user-friendly online ordering to all of their customers, Starbucks built a PWA of the ordering system on the web, which delivers a similar experience to their existing native app. In other words, with its capability to run in offline mode, Starbucks PWA allows their customers to browse the menu, customize their orders, and add items to their carts – all without consistent access to the internet. Once online, they can view location-specific pricing and place their food and drinks order.

As most of the PWA is available without network connection, it’s great for on the go customers who may go in and out of connectivity throughout the day or emerging markets like rural communities where the connection is less reliable. By launching the new ordering PWA, Starbucks has already seen significant results. The PWA is 99.84% smaller than Starbucks’ existing iOS app, making the web app a favorite amongst its users. As a result, they doubled the number of web users who place orders each day, with desktop users now ordering at about the same rate as mobile users.

2. Debenhams

Debenhams PWA on mobile
Debenhams PWA on desktop
Debenhams PWA on mobile and desktop

When talking about brands that are transforming their shopping experience in the fashion industry, you can’t miss out on Debenham. The famous UK brand realized that even though their old website had increased mobile traffic, the mobile conversion rate wasn’t growing. So they concluded that it was time for a digital transformation, otherwise, their digital and overall growth would slow down soon. The brand looked for a solution that can offer a smooth experience for users, especially on mobile devices. 

PWA was the answer for the team at Debenhams. After transforming their old website into a PWA, their effort surely paid off. They have improved the customer experience by removing blocks on a customer journey – slow pages, hard-to-navigate structure, complicated checkout process. Overall, Debenhams enjoyed a 40% increase in mobile revenue and a 20% increase in conversions. 

3. BMW

BMW PWA on mobile
BMW PWA on desktop
BMW PWA on mobile and desktop

As a pioneering brand in the car industry, BMW proves that they aren’t shy away from new technologies, be it with their cars or their website. In order to improve the customer experience, the brand sought to provide quality and engaging content, which reflects their values.

The new BMW’s PWA definitely delivers users a ‘wow’ experience. The first thing that anyone would notice is the high-resolution images and videos, and the web loads pretty much instantly with all of these features (4X times faster than the old site). Their reports also showed other impressive numbers following the establishment of the PWA: 4X increase in people clicking from the homepage to a BMW sales site; 50% growth in mobile users and 49% more site visits compared to the old site.

4. Flipboard

flipboard pwa
Flipboard PWA on desktop
Flipboard PWA on mobile and desktop

As the world’s most popular social magazine, Flipboard allows readers to keep up with all topics, news, and events they care about, from one single place. Based on the user’s interest, the platform brings news and stories from around the world together in a magazine format. Flipboard users can follow their favorite sources and save stories, images, and videos into their own Flipboard magazines to read later or share with others.

Flipboard is one of the best examples of PWA for online news. The PWA minimizes data usage to deliver a slick and fast browsing experience, in a beautiful interface. Until the launch of their PWA, Flipboard was a mobile app, which only presents on mobile devices. Hence, now the PWA allows Flipboard to deliver a similar experience to their fully-featured native app on the web, making it available for desktop users as well.

5. Soundslice 

soundslice pwa
Soundslice PWA on desktop
Soundslice PWA on mobile and desktop

Soundslice is the advanced music education software on the web that revolutionizes how musicians learn and practice music. The company makes use of PWA to deliver the finest music creating and learning experience. The PWA-based software makes the process of learning a piece of music easier and more efficient for self-taught musicians with an innovative music player. The Soundslice player allows users to learn a piece of music while reading and hearing it on any device, whether it’s a phone or a large-screen desktop. On top of that, music teachers can utilize the tool to create interactive music lessons. With a focus on learning from recordings, Soundslice also has a store that sells lessons and transcriptions.

6. 2048 Game

2048 pwa
Game 2048 PWA on desktop
Game 2048 PWA on mobile and desktop

The puzzle game 2048 was originally released as a free app for Android & iOs in 2014. It immediately became a viral hit with more than 4 million users in less than a week after launch. The game is simple and addictive. Described as “Candy Crush for math geeks”, its goal is to combine blocks with the same numbers to ultimately total 2048. An official PWA version is made available at 2048game.com so players can get instant access from any web browser. With smooth transitions and a full-screen view, it’s hard to tell the PWA apart from its native app counterpart. Plus, the 2048 PWA can be fully played in offline mode.

7. MakeMyTrip

makemytrip pwa
Makemytrip pwa
MakeMyTrip PWA on mobile and desktop

The MakeMyTrip.com site is a great example of PWA. India’s leading travel company has about eight million visitors to their site on a monthly basis, with mobile traffic accounting for two-thirds. As mobile becoming the most preferred channel for booking among MakeMyTrip customers, they developed a PWA that led to a fast, reliable and polished mobile-web experience.

The new PWA experience has tripled its conversion rate by reducing page-load times by 38%. Compared with their previous mobile site, MakeMyTrip drove a 160% increase in user sessions and lowered the bounce rate by 20%.

8. Uber

uber pwa
Uber PWA
Uber PWA on mobile and desktop

As the company expands to new markets, its Uber web was rebuilt from scratch as a PWA to offer a comparable booking experience to the native mobile app. The Uber PWA is designed to make car booking viable on low-speed, 2G networks. Built around the concept of an app-like experience which is accessible on all modern browsers, The PWA is great for riders on low-end devices, which may not be compatible with the native Uber app.

By bringing the native experience in a super-lightweight web app, Uber has enabled quick ride requests regardless of location, network speed, and device. The core app of only 50kB allows it to load within 3 seconds on 2G networks.

9. Kopa (Padpiper)

Kopa PWA mobile
Kopa PWA desktop
Kopa PWA on mobile and desktop

Kopa (formerly called Padpiper) is the platform to help students easily find trusted housing for school terms and internships, and allow landlords to quickly find suitable tenants for their spaces. In fact, the platform now supports 9000 schools and has over 100 listings on its PWA. They have verified landlords and listing reviews to save time for students in finding their best fit. Once students have added the work address, they can look up directions to work from each listing in the results page. The web app can also connect students with others who are working near them or find out where their classmates are on co-op.

10. Pinterest

pinterest pwa
Pinterest PWA
Pinterest PWA on mobile and desktop

With a focus on international growth, Pinterest started their new mobile web experience from the ground up as a PWA. The social network found that only 1% of their mobile users convert into sign-ups, logins or app installs, due to poor performance on mobile.

Onto realizing that the opportunity to improve the conversion was huge, so they rebuilt the mobile web using PWA technology, which led to several positive results: Time spent is up by 40% compared to the previous mobile web, user-generated ad revenue is up 44% and core engagements are up 60%

11. Yummly

yummly pwa
Yummly PWA
Yummly PWA on mobile and desktop

Yummly is the smart cooking discovery platform that learns an individual’s taste, nutrition needs, skill level and more to recommend personalized recipes, shopping lists, and one-hour grocery delivery. Along with its native Android & iOS app, Yummly is also available on web browsers as a PWA. Much like its native presence, The Yummly PWA offers a search engine for food, cooking, and recipes. It allows users to search from more than one million recipes, sourced from top food sites, niche blogs or local food brands. Moreover, the search results can be filtered by ingredient, diet, allergy, nutrition, price, cuisine, time, taste, meal courses and more.

12. Spotify 

spotify pwa
Spotify pwa
Spotify PWA on mobile and desktop

Your favorite music player is now PWA-powered. Due to some disagreement between Spotify and Apple regarding Apple’s 30% app store commission, Spotify found it a timely opportunity to start developing a PWA version of their app—as many other big brands have. Compared to its native-app counterpart, the PWA version is considerably faster with its own unique and adaptive UI that changes its background as the user progresses through the app. Like many other PWAs, users are also prompted to add Spotify PWA to their home screen, making Spotify PWA more accessible and on-par with its other versions.

Wrapping Up

PWA can be applied to many sections of the technology sphere, from PWA games to PWA Magento. To understand more deeply about PWA & its use cases in your specific field, please check our other dedicated articles:


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Etornam
Etornam
2 years ago

thank you for this amazing post.

NQuantum
NQuantum
2 years ago

Great article and wonderful website from you if it is not already a pwa, I was already very confident in my choice of pwa for my next application but some developer friends were putting doubt in my mind and you have erased them all

Tiandy
1 year ago
Reply to  NQuantum

Hi, I agree with you

Melanie
Melanie
3 years ago

Hi, I cannot access the starbucks website or any of the other ones mentioned when offline – is there a different way to do it maybe?

hikvisioncenter
1 year ago
Reply to  Dom

Hi, The text was fascinating and excellent. Thanks for the helpful info in this article

Mark
Mark
1 year ago
Reply to  Melanie

this site works offline – https://app.starbucks.com/

ali hm
3 years ago

Hi, we have an awesome PWA in alibaba too

Jane
3 years ago

Could you tell me more about it?

فاواتک
1 year ago
Reply to  Jane

we have an awesome PWA in alibaba too

John Destacamento
2 years ago

Thanks. As a PWA Developer, we need the community to keep pushing good blogs like this one. I jumped on the PWA Wagon years ago but sadly yet to see it evolve into the mainstream.

تعمیر مبل
1 year ago

Great article and wonderful website from you if it is not already a pwa, I was already very confident in my choice of pwa for my next application but some developer friends were putting doubt in my mind and you have erased them all

cym
cym
2 years ago

I would love to see some examples of the pages displayed in offline mode. Even when you visited a site before, most don’t load the full content of the site and only cache when you have viewed that page. I’d like to see some examples of when you click on a page that you haven’t been too and is not in your local cache.

Ismale
2 years ago

I am looking for a PWA consultant .

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5 months ago
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Rahul
Rahul
2 years ago

Hi, this is very insightful. I had one question, you said MakeMyTrip, AliExpress & Flipkart improved their conversion rate by huge margins. They might have various conversion goals. Wanted to understand for which conversion they saw such a massive uplift.

Luke Vu
2 years ago
Reply to  Rahul

Hi Rahul,
The major performance uplift claim, i.e., “tripled conversion rate”, that is observed by our source (Google) is a conversion rate for mobile web visitors to make a booking on MakeMyTrip’s new PWA. Additionally, the two sites you mentioned (AliExpress & Flipkart) both have the same conversion goal in mind — that is to make a sale.
Hope this helped!

Last edited 2 years ago by Luke Vu
فر توکار
5 months ago
Reply to  Rahul

Hi Rahul,
The major performance uplift claim, i.e., “tripled conversion rate”, that is observed by our source (Google) is a conversion rate for mobile web visitors to make a booking on MakeMyTrip’s new PWA. Additionally, the two sites you mentioned (AliExpress & Flipkart) both have the same conversion goal in mind — that is to make a sale.
Hope this helped!

hafez
2 years ago

hello i have a great PWA i my site. please check that.

azarbilit
1 year ago
Reply to  hafez

Please tell truth. I check it. No service Worker launch.

ASGHAR
2 years ago

I would love to see some examples of the pages displayed in offline mode. Even when you visited a site before, most don’t load the full content of the site and only cache when you have viewed that page

Efren
Efren
2 years ago

Nice list, I have to say that I’m a big fan of PWAs. BTW one of my favorite apps, https://unalengua.com/ipa, is a PWA.

هود
5 months ago
Reply to  Efren

The nice website I have seen yet. I am Martin Guptil as a PWA Developer and today I am opening my thoughts for progressive web Apps development companies in New York. By the way, the article is really awesome and informative. Keep it up. Thanks!

Martin Guptil
2 years ago

The nice website I have seen yet. I am Martin Guptil as a PWA Developer and today I am opening my thoughts for progressive web Apps development companies in New York. By the way, the article is really awesome and informative. Keep it up. Thanks!

cctv
1 year ago
Reply to  Martin Guptil

Yes, I agree, you have given good examples and clear explanations.

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1 year ago

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azarbilit
1 year ago

progressive web app is a good instance of mobile application. we implemented for our website users and execute wisely.

اطلس ابزار
1 year ago

Hi, I cannot access the starbucks website or any of the other ones mentioned when offline – is there a different way to do it maybe?

Ray
Ray
1 year ago

How do most users ‘discover’ PWAs?

Bistoon
1 year ago

I would love to see some examples of the pages displayed in offline mode. Even when you visited a site before, most don’t load the full content of the site and only cache when you have viewed that page

Anoop Gupta
1 year ago

Hi Dom,

PWA is a great innovation to the web industry. I completely agree with your points and examples of how companies have changed with the current market trends. We are growing in the Digital World, so we need a good digital experience as well. Your examples show that all.

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post. PWA is a powerful tool to enhance the online business experience.

ایمن کالا
1 year ago
Reply to  Anoop Gupta

Hi, The text was fascinating and excellent. Thanks for the helpful info in this article

Graham Smith
1 year ago

Righly said Anoop, PWA is a powerful tool that we also use in most of our blogs. its helps us get repeated visitors.

Saurabh
1 year ago
Reply to  Graham Smith

Hello, Graham have just started my new blog can I use PWA tool for attracting traffic to my site? Please help

raha
1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this helpful article. In my opinion, PWA can be very useful with its offline functionality or even GPS access. We also have a good pwa in ghasedak 24

Vishesh
1 year ago
Reply to  raha

PWA in Ghasedak, can you please elaborate that?

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azarbilit
progressive web app is a good instance of mobile application. we implemented for our website users and execute wisely.

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1 year ago

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minojamshidi
1 year ago

 The PWA is 99.84% smaller than Starbucks’ existing iOS app

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1 year ago

It was really helpfull and i approved your content. very good I will mention some of these in my essay and i will put the credit to your page. thanks

Damien
Damien
1 year ago

Debenhams not a great example since the business has folded….

Rounak
1 year ago

Yes Dom, its really a good example of progressive apps. I myself have use quite a few from them like mmt, uber, bmw and starbuck and I must say, really I like using all of them. They’re super smooth and always strive for better customer experience.

HH DD
1 year ago

Hi Hi
we also have PWA version on jabama the best site of villa reservation.

فلایتیو
1 year ago

PWAs should be small in size. the time it gets for the PWA to be installed on a phone is important. a travel agency comes to mind. Flightio PWA is accessible on the website. so go on and check it. it’s only 1 or 2 MBs. The link is in my name.

Mehrdad
11 months ago

realy good apps, also we have a good example on http://www.ebus.ir too

ممبر فیک تلگرام

I wonder when i see BMW on this list! what a good article! go on thank you!

Daroo
11 months ago

Thanks for your great and useful article.

sunnybrook.ca
10 months ago

I have a PWA.your blog post is very useful

Travel Case
9 months ago

I agree Dom, this is a great example of a progressive app. In fact, I have used several of them myself, such as MMT, Uber, BMW, and Starbucks, and I love them all. I love how smooth they are and how they strive to provide better customer service.

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9 months ago

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8 months ago

Verry goood.Thanks

king khan
8 months ago

This is a very helpful Progressive Web Apps, thanks for sharing this great information with us.

william
william
8 months ago

Good day! Very interesting. Thank you for information

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thank you for this amazing post.

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Great article and wonderful website from you if it is not already a pwa, I was already very confident in my choice of pwa for my next application but some developer friends were putting doubt in my mind and you have erased them all

George Thomas
7 months ago

I really enjoyed reading this blog. It has quite in-depth information regarding web app development to scale up today’s business productivity. Thank you for sharing!

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6 months ago

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Hi Dom,
PWA is a great innovation to the web industry. I completely agree with your points and examples of how companies have changed with the current market trends. We are growing in the Digital World, so we need a good digital experience as well. Your examples show that all.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post. PWA is a powerful tool to enhance the online business experience.

اجاق گاز رومیزی

Hi Melanie,
You won’t be able to access these sites offline if you’ve never visited them before. In other words, you can only browse offline the pages that you’ve already visited.

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5 months ago

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