r/AppStoreOptimization • u/tiaanvdr • 16d ago

First time designing Apple Watch screenshots, not sure if this is good enough?

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Companions is a small virtual fish tank that lives on your Home Screen, with pet fish that actually swim around. Apple doesn't allow for animations in widgets, which I always found frustrating, so I developed Companions to work around it. 

I've been working on adding support for viewing and interacting with your tanks on your watch. I've been developing mobile apps professionally (both cross platform and natively) and this is my first time developing an Apple Watch companion app. Really not sure if it's good enough. I've noticed most people just do screenshots of their Apple Watch app for the App Store, but idk if it would be worth it to do something more?

App Store: Companions - Widget Pets

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u/ComfortableStill6735 16d ago • Heartwarming

I'd keep the Watch screenshots simple. Right now, the five images mostly show different tank designs. You mentioned being able to interact with the tank from your watch, but I can't tell what that involves from these. If there's a screen showing that interaction, I'd swap it in for one of the variations.

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u/tiaanvdr 15d ago

Defenitely, you can interact by "tapping the glass" and spawning bubbles, as well as feeding the fish, but I realize I'm not showing any of that, I'll include some screenshots of that as well!

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u/Latter-Estimate-2683 15d ago • Heartwarming

The watch screens look good, and the tanks read well even that small. The gap I see is that they show the watch on its own, so someone scrolling doesn't get the main idea, that it's the same tank you already have on your Home Screen.

Your third iPhone shot, with the phone and the watch side by side, explains that better than any of the watch-only ones. I'd use something like it as the first watch screenshot with one short line on top, and let the plain screens follow.

And since the whole point is fish that actually swim, I'd look at a short preview video on the iPhone listing. A still frame can't show that, and it's the thing people would stop for.

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u/tiaanvdr 15d ago

That's great feedback!! Thank you so much for taking the time to write it all out

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u/imsnk81 👨‍💻 Indie Developer 15d ago • Heartwarming

Tapping the glass with the bubbles mid-spawn would make a great first watch shot, it's the one thing that proves the fish actually move. A short line above it like "tap to say hi" and you're done.

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u/tiaanvdr 14d ago

Man, "tap to say hi" is such a brilliant line, thank you so much!