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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…