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Tag Archives: App Store Optimization

App Hacks: How to Get Your Android App Featured on the Google Play Store

App DevBy Instabug TeamNovember 18, 2020

Welcome to the second post of our App Hacks series. In the last post, we explained how to get your iOS app featured on the Apple App Store. Now, it’s the green robot’s turn — let’s talk about how to get that Android app of yours featured. When it comes to distribution, your app competes with…

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How to write an app store description

How to Write an App Store Description That Sells Itself

App DevBy Charlotte SwanSeptember 2, 2020

Got a new app that’s ready to go live? Or is your app discoverable in the app stores but not seeing many downloads? It’s time to write (or rewrite) your app store description, one that’s crisp, juicy, and convincing. You don’t have to be a marketing magician to write a powerful app store description that…

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photo video category apps

Photo & Video Category Apps: How Often Should You Update?

App DevBy Nezar MansourMarch 12, 2020

How often should mobile apps be updated? To help answer this question, we analyzed the Top 100 Free, Paid, and Grossing apps (as of August 8th, 2019) and their version update history. When we sliced the data by app category and looked at the top 10 apps in each, we found meaningful differences between the categories.…

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music category apps

Music Category Apps: How Often Should You Update?

App DevBy Nezar MansourMarch 11, 2020

How often should mobile apps be updated? To help answer this question, we analyzed the Top 100 Free, Paid, and Grossing apps (as of August 8th, 2019) and their version update history. When we sliced the data by app category and looked at the top 10 apps in each, we found meaningful differences between the categories.…

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Mobile game publisher

Entertainment Category Apps: How Often Should You Update?

App DevBy Nezar MansourMarch 5, 2020

How often should mobile apps be updated? To help answer this question, we analyzed the Top 100 Free, Paid, and Grossing apps (as of August 8th, 2019) and their version update history. When we sliced the data by app category and looked at the top 10 apps in each, we found meaningful differences between the categories.…

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how often should you update your paid mobile app

How Often Should You Update Your Paid Mobile App?

App DevBy Nezar MansourOctober 31, 2019

How often should you update your app? In our last post, we looked at data from the top 100 free apps as well as data from the top 100 grossing apps, which were 99% free, to understand how often free apps are releasing updates. Now, we’ll take a look at the top 100 paid apps…

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how often should you update your free mobile app

How Often Should You Update Your Free Mobile App?

App DevBy Nezar MansourOctober 24, 2019

How often should you update your app? There seems to be no particularly clear answer, and how could there be. Each developer, app, and market are completely different from one another. So how can there be a magic number that applies to an app like Facebook as well as an up-and-coming indie game? The answer…

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iOS 12 App Store

How Will the iOS 12 App Store Affect Your App?

App DevBy Hady ElHadyAugust 9, 2018

iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…

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app downloads

How to Boost App Downloads and Revive Your Dying App

App DevBy Guest AuthorAugust 9, 2017

I’ve been there, too. One of the games I created reached number eight in educational games in the app store. My second app also generated a big zero. However, after some tweaks, that same app generated the biggest revenue of my life. So, what does it take to revive a dying app? Sometimes, the problem…

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ASO Guide

The Beginner’s Guide to App Store Optimization (ASO)

App DevBy Hady ElHadyAugust 9, 2017

As of March 2017, there are more than 2.8 million apps in Google Play and 2.2 million apps in the Apple App Store. With so much competition out there, it’s becoming harder and harder to make your app stand out. This app store optimization (ASO) guide explains what areas to focus on and how to…

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Top App Store Optimization Tools To Get Your App Ranked

App DevBy Hady ElHadyJuly 31, 2017

When you have your app ready, the next step is getting it in the hands of users. But just submitting your app to an app store, whether the Apple App Store or Google Play, won’t cut it. If people can’t reach your app, then all of the work you put into it will go to…

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App Store iOS 11 Changes

How Will The iOS 11 App Store Affect Your App?

App DevBy Hady ElHadyJuly 26, 2017

iOS 11 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2017, and with it came a lot of changes. One of the most drastic changes in the new operating system is its App Store. Apple’s App Store was launched nine years ago and currently has over two million apps, and that…

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