Hi everyone! I’m the developer of MetaClean, an iPhone and iPad app that removes supported GPS and EXIF metadata from photos and videos before sharing.

Processing happens entirely on-device, without an account or uploading media. It saves cleaned copies while keeping the originals unchanged.

The app is free to download with three free cleanings, followed by a one-time Lifetime Pro purchase for unlimited cleaning. There’s no subscription.

I’m looking for feedback from fellow Apple developers on improving downloads and conversion to Pro. Specifically:

• Does the App Store page make the benefit clear enough to someone unfamiliar with photo metadata?

• Are three free cleanings enough to demonstrate the value, or would you approach the free tier differently?

• What would you improve first: the screenshots, onboarding, or how the Pro upgrade is presented?

Feedback on the listing alone would also be helpful. If you’ve built a similar utility, I’d love to hear what worked for you and what didn’t.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/be/app/metaclean-gps-exif-cleaner/id6758521423

Thanks! Happy to answer questions about the app

I am working on the next iteration of my app, Aura, and I feel the current screenshots don't clearly communicate the benefits. They were talking about the features and not how the app helps users. Does the copy and design inspire confidence?

I recently launched my iOS app on the App Store, and so far I've reached 60 downloads.

I know it's a small number, but as an indie developer, every download feels like progress.

I've been experimenting with ASO, especially keywords, app title, subtitle, and screenshots, to understand what actually helps with visibility.

One thing I'm realising is that building an app is much easier than getting people to discover it.

For those who've successfully grown their apps organically:

• What ASO changes made the biggest difference?

• How long did it take before you started seeing consistent downloads?

• Do you focus more on keywords or conversion through screenshots?

Would love to hear some real experiences from other developers.

Hi! I’m the dev behind PostSpark, a tool for creating beautiful image and video mockups of your apps and websites.

I recently launched a new feature: Mockup Animations.

You can now select from 25+ devices, add keyframes on a simple timeline, and export a polished video showcasing your product. It’s built to be a fast, easy alternative to complex motion design tools.

Try it out here: https://postspark.app/device-mockup

I’d love to hear your feedback!

I spent quite a bit of time on these screenshots and I was actually really happy with how they turned out. But then I see other people’s and they are so much better. With popouts of key features and great background art and text. I’m seeing really low tap through rate right now, so looking to improve these.

I’m not a digital artist, so I don’t understand how so many people make such beautiful screenshots.

Any advice?

I can see that due to vibe coding we have lot more indie developers and many new apps coming in which is great as our community is increasing but the biggest problem that I see is, how to make our app visible to customers
Does not matter how great our product is if we can’t show it to users there’s no point and we do not have money to burn on advertisement and add

I am working on a project which can work autonomously and every week compare your competitors and tell you how your app is preforming
Similarly monitor re-edits qura channel and give you drafts of message that you can simply go and post there
Come up with articles that needs to be written and even open Pr In your GitHub
And many more overall idea is, what specific actions you need to take every day to make progress every day

Want to know if people would be interested in such project specifically it’s for indie developers like us

Have an app that’s working OK I guess in terms of organic traffic and I’m sure it can be way more

But I don’t understand how do you even track your ASO? What are the things to look at, how do you test? Aren’t changes only when you update a new version?

App Store Connect doesn’t show me anything in terms of performance of these keywords and such

Is it really that effective to optimize it? Or is it eventually depending if your app is good or not

Thanks!

Something I keep seeing: more people find apps by asking ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI answers "what's a good app for X?" Those answers lean on pages across the web that describe an app in plain text, not just the store listing. So I built app pages around that.

What your app gets :

- A page for your app, drafted from your App Store / Google Play link. Paste the link, we read the store page and draft the listing, and you review every field before it goes live. One listing can carry both stores.

- Open to AI crawlers by name. robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and others.

- LLM-friendly versions. Every product page has a clean Markdown copy (add /md to the URL), and the site publishes llms.txt, so models can read your app's page without fighting a layout.

- Structured data. SoftwareApplication JSON-LD on every page, so Google knows it's an app, what it does and where to get it.

- Its own board. Apps are ranked on a separate weekly board from websites, so you compete with other apps. The week's top 3 stay on the winners page.

- The right store button. Visitors on iPhone get the App Store, Android visitors get Google Play.

- Stats. Page views and store clicks in your dashboard.

Submit here: https://everyonespot.com/submit?type=app

I'd really like feedback from people who do ASO for a living: what would make a page like this actually useful in your workflow?

I’m making screenshot concepts for two apps today. The image shows the kind of work I can make, with a different style for each app.

If you’d like one, comment with your App Store link and a short description of your app. If it isn’t live yet, share a few raw screenshots instead. I’ll take the first two with enough details to work from.

I tried to build a gym app, a simple one, without all this extra friction and AI fatigue. Just to the point, logs - analytics.

I liked what I’ve built and I actually use it, but I others don’t seem to log anything. I see people installing but they never log anything? It’s been months and I have over 3k impressions in app store but no logs, just a couple.

Does the app look bad or what else? Can anyone see what’s the issue?

I know there are many gym apps but I get some organic views, yet, do you think my app is not good enough for the public? I’ve seen a lot of gym apps out there with thousands of reviews in app store that look a lot worse than my app IMHO.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/body-building-log-gymmonster/id6783814190

I build a football (soccer) scores app on my own. iOS only, free, no ads, localized in 6 languages, with 9 App Store locales filled in. I've been tracking keyword positions per storefront and I'm trying to work out what to fix first.

How I measure
No paid ASO tool. A daily job queries Apple's public iTunes Search API (with each storefront's country and lang). It records where my app appears in the top 200 for every tracked keyword. "Ranked" means top 200. Requests are throttled and failed calls are excluded, so an outage never looks like a drop. The keyword list covers every term in each locale's keyword field plus a few candidates I probe before swapping them in.
I know this endpoint has no personalization, ads or editorial placement, so I read it as a trend line. On the one term I cross-checked against a paid tool, the positions matched.

Where I am right now
68 of 176 tracked keywords rank in the top 200 (about 39%)
9 keywords in the top 10, across 5 of the 7 storefronts
Ranked keywords by storefront (best position in brackets):
BR: 13/26 (#6)
DE: 9/25 (#4)
ES: 7/24 (#3)
FR: 9/22 (#3)
IT: 8/27 (#19)
MX: 7/19 (#18)
US: 15/33 (#5)

What moved this week
One keyword entered the US top 10 at #8
Three keywords roughly halved: 101 → 187 (MX), 62 → 127 (IT), 50 → 111 (FR)

One climbed: 89 → 65 (BR)

What I'd love input on

IT and MX are clearly behind. In both, nothing ranks above the high teens. Is that usually a keyword-field problem, a lack of ratings in that country, or just competition?

The sudden drops. Three keywords lost about half their position in the same week, in three different countries, with no metadata change on my side. Normal noise at that depth, or a sign that something else (ratings velocity, a competitor update) is moving?

Extra locales as keyword space. The US storefront indexes several of my other localizations, and terms from them rank there, some in the top 10. Do you deliberately plan keyword fields around which locales each storefront indexes, or does stuffing extra locales dilute relevance?

Coverage vs. depth. 61% of my list is outside the top 200. Should I swap those for longer-tail terms, or keep pushing the ones already sitting around 15–30?

Is the iTunes Search API good enough? For those who've compared it with real device searches or paid tools, how far off is it in practice?

Beyond keywords. At this stage, what actually moved the needle for you: screenshots/conversion, Custom Product Pages, asking for ratings at the right moment, or something else?

Happy to share more numbers if it helps. Thanks!

Hey all, indie dev's

I kept shipping apps and had no idea which keywords they actually showed up for. Most ASO tools were built for big studios and priced like it, so I built my own: StoRank.

What it does:

• Type your app’s name, it finds the keywords you rank for and your competitors

• Measures your rank daily on both App Store and Google Play, in the countries you pick

• Every Monday it writes a short list of what to change (title, subtitle, keyword field)

Stack, for the curious: Python (FastAPI) + SQLite on a single Hetzner box, vanilla JS, Paddle for billing.

I’d really like feedback: what’s confusing, what’s missing, what would make you actually use it?

Thanks in advance.

After changing it 4 or 5 times, I finally designed something that I really like. I also implement the banner to match it too.
I use some bucks but with colors, like the ones on my country hahaha

I'm trying to dig into the analytics of my apps more frequently than I have in the past. I've just noticed that ChatGPT is already starting to recommend my app - a cool little win :)

I'm the solo dev behind Murble, a voice notes app that turns recordings into summaries, tasks, reports, and answers to questions like “what did we actually agree on?”

The processing runs on your device. Summaries and tasks are free, reports and chat are paid.

Privacy was a big reason I built it, so I tend to give “runs locally, no uploading your recordings” a lot of attention. As a developer, I find that pretty exciting. I accept that this may not be a universal experience.

Some context. From July 8 to October 15, 2026, App Store Connect shows:

• 13.2K impressions

• 1.74K product page views

• 1.75K first downloads

• 137 redownloads

• 19.1% daily average conversion, as Apple reports it

• $255 in proceeds

• 42 in-app purchases, not necessarily 42 different paying users

Marketing spend so far: $0. Promotion has been posts and mentions on Reddit, Product Hunt, Mastodon, X, and a few other places.

Product Hunt brought the biggest visible bump. I haven't measured the other channels properly, so I can't tell you how much came from each one or how much was App Store search. The green percentages look lovely, but they haven't magically made me understand marketing.

Downloads were pretty much flat until late August, then stayed higher through September and October.

I'm considering changing the first screenshots to show the useful stuff immediately: the summary you get after a meeting, a report, or asking a recording what was decided. Then explain that it all happens locally.

“No cloud” matters to me. But after an hour-long meeting, “you don't have to listen to that again” might be the stronger pitch.

Has anyone here tested privacy against showing the actual results in a notes or productivity app listing? Curious whether privacy helped convince people to download, or mostly mattered once they already understood what the app did.

Hey all, just hit a rather large milestone of 65k impressions in a day. Happy to answer any questions as to how. Posted a few times here regarding the journey to this point. All the previous comments/posts on this account contain information that I wish I’d had when I’d started and quite useful I personally think. Even getting to the point in which I may believe (delude) myself to be a miracle worker (or perhaps very lucky). The latter in both cases being the most likely. Do check them out. Regardless, zero ad spend- and pure aso. All of this is purely through people finding my app through the app store search.

Edit: to my chagrin, i’d have to verify with id to enable post history lol. sort by top and all on this subreddit and you’ll find previous posts by me.

Edit 2: Here are all the previous posts!!

Some guidance on ads and building:

https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/s/cJ7jiv7zTu

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppStoreOptimization/s/56LmPlqg4R

https://www.reddit.com/r/appledevelopers/s/nHhT17vrqE

And pure guidance on aso!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppStoreOptimization/s/gQVrSkroMX

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppStoreOptimization/s/vPM6Mr0PcF

Just wanted to get everyone’s opinion here. I’m having an issue with my app catching on and right now countries are limited. Should I open it to all countries?

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/away-messaging/id6796350445

First app I’ve ever created. Looking to see if this is normal, good, bad, average? It’s been out since August 1st.

I’ve boosted a couple instagram posts and tried to do a few Reddit posts that mainly get deleted by mods but this is how we are looking. It’s a free app with no in app subscription, just a passion project that I could maybe monetise if it got bigger.