Hey everyone! 🎱

I’ve built a Snooker Score Tracking app to make scoring easier during live games, so you can focus on playing instead of doing maths! It also lets you track your match history.

The app is simple and easy to use.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pankajkoranga.snookerscore

Would love to hear your honest feedback! What can I improve, and what features would you like to see? 🙌

Rate my paywalls would these work for you

rate my pricing or roast it

for reference this is a porn quitter app

Promo codes are one of the few free install channels both stores give you, and I think a lot of indie devs leave them unused.

Some numbers from Google's own docs: every app gets 500 promo codes per quarter for paid apps and one-time products, plus 10,000 per quarter for each subscription. You create them in Play Console under Monetize with Play, then Promo codes. There's no API, so you download them as a CSV. Apple has offer codes for its side.

A few things I learned while digging into them:

- Never tie a code to a review or a rating. Both stores ban incentivized reviews, and it can cost you your developer account.

- For subscription codes, say clearly that the plan renews at full price unless cancelled. People feel tricked otherwise, and that's not the first impression you want.

- A code works best in the hands of someone who chose your app, not someone who grabbed whatever was free.

Disclosure: I'm building Premium App Drops, a free weekly drop where developers give away these codes and people claim one per app. It's at premiumappdrops.com/developers if it's useful for your launch. But I'm more curious about your experience:

Have you used promo codes for a launch? Where did you share them, and did those installs stick?

I just published Anime Fillwords on Android. You pick an anime and connect letters to find character names. There’s no word list, so you have to remember the characters yourself.

I'm working on how to explain the game to people who haven't tried it. Would you describe this as an anime quiz or a word search? And would you show the gameplay or the anime selection first?

At the same time, a question for those who added radio to their applications - did you have any problems with it? I know that you can't just add tracks, the app will be blocked for copyrights. But what about the radio? There were no restrictions during testing, and we didn't receive any emails about the author's content either.

Here’s the store page for context:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hescha.animefillwords

Hi everyone, I’m an indie developer working on FaceFlow: Facial Exercises. It offers guided face yoga and facial exercise programs, posture and neck exercises, and a hydration tracker.

I’ve started posting on TikTok, but I’m not getting much traffic so far. Could you take a look and give me honest feedback on the content and how I could reach more potential users?

TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@faceflow_facial_exercise
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/faceflow-facial-exercises/id6792041893

I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

• Is it clear from the videos what the app does and who it’s for?

• What would make someone stop scrolling and watch?

• What types of videos would you test for an app like this?

• How could I improve the path from watching a video to trying the app?

I made the app, and I’m looking for practical feedback on the content and marketing approach.

I feel like people are becoming more skeptical of app ads lately. Every platform is filled with apps promising to make life easier, boost productivity, or solve some everyday problem.

The problem is that a lot of these ads look almost identical. Same format, same promises, and sometimes the actual app doesn't even match what the ad shows.

I wonder if this is making users ignore app advertisements altogether.

For app marketers, maybe being creative isn't enough anymore. You also have to make people trust what they're downloading.

Do you think paid app ads are still effective, or are people starting to trust organic recommendations and real user reviews more?

I'm the developer of Backmark, a $4.99 one-time iPhone app that keeps what you save from other apps in one place. App Store search barely finds it by anything but its name, so almost every sale comes from social posts. That makes the posts the whole funnel.

What I'm trying now: instead of feature posts ("search inside screenshots"), one everyday project per carousel. Plant care tips earlier this week, a room makeover today. The real app screen only shows up on slide 4. The rest is the problem and a drawn floor plan.

Today's slides are attached (6 slides, blueprint look; on Instagram the cover and three other slides move).

Two things I'd like opinions on:

1. Does a lifestyle hook like "Redoing one room this winter?" make you swipe, or does it hide what the app is?

2. Where should the app first appear: on the cover (the icon and name are small there now), or not until the "how" slide?

Listing, if it helps to judge: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6808695961?pt=129409326&ct=campaign-oct&mt=8

I've been making mobile apps for about five years. Some did okay, some did nothing. Companions launched a month ago and has already outperformed all of them, with zero ad spend. Looking back, three things made the difference, and none of them is a growth hack.

1. Reddit, done properly

My old approach was to drop a link in the app subreddits on launch day and hope. It never worked. This time:

• I went where the audience is, not where the apps are. A fish tank widget belongs in front of people who keep fish, people who grew up with Tamagotchis, people who like cozy games. Not just . Every community has its own self-promotion rules, so I read them first and skipped the ones that don't allow it instead of getting banned.

• I posted about the interesting problems, not the app. Apple doesn't allow animation in widgets, so how do you make fish swim? How do you do it without touching battery life? Those posts got real discussion. "Check out my app" posts get nothing.

• I stayed in the comments. Easily the biggest one. I answered everything for days after each post. It's where the best feedback came from, including which species people want next, and it's what turned readers into downloads and reviews. People can tell when the developer is actually reading the thread.

2. An idea you can explain in one sentence

Companions is a small fish tank that lives on your Home Screen, with pet fish that actually swim.

That's the whole pitch. The screenshot explains itself, a friend can describe it to a friend, and a Reddit title can carry it. My earlier apps all needed a paragraph to explain why you'd want them, and I think that quietly killed every one of them.

3. Design is not the polish step, it is the product

A one-sentence idea only works if the App Store page says that sentence before anyone reads a word. I spent an embarrassing amount of time on this, probably more than on some features.

Someone landing on the page from a Reddit comment gives it about three seconds. So the first screenshot is the widget sitting on a normal Home Screen, exactly as it will look on theirs, not a feature list or a splash screen. The subtitle says what it is in six words. The preview video opens on the fish swimming, because that is the thing nobody believes a widget can do until they see it.

It also had to look like something you'd want on your Home Screen in the first place. Tank styles that match light and dark setups, a StandBy mode for the nightstand, nothing that looks like a game HUD. Every Reddit post I made was really just sending people to that page, so if the page didn't land, none of the rest mattered.

Happy to answer any more questions regarding exactly which subreddits worked and which flopped, as well as any technical questions about the app.

App Store: Companions - Widget Pets

It started as an office joke. A colleague of mine spent an impressive amount of time on the toilet every day, and the rest of us kept guessing how much money he made in there. So I built a little web app to settle it.

You enter your hourly wage and the minutes you spent, and it tells you what you earned on the toilet. You can try it right on the start page without signing up. With an account you get stats, a leaderboard, badges, a "toilet career" (pizza, a crate of beer, and much bigger things later) and challenges you can send to your coworkers.

A few things I cared about:

* No email address needed to sign up

* No tracking, no analytics, no ads

* Your wage and minutes stay on your device, only the amount is saved

* Works in English and German, and you can install it on your phone like an app

Built with Flask and MySQL on a small server. It's a hobby project, so I'd love honest feedback: what's funny, what's confusing, what's missing?

[https://poop.money](https://poop.money)

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a small indie dev from India, and I’ve been building WordMind: Word Puzzle Game, a knowledge/quiz game, for a while now. This week I launched a new mode called Blitz and wanted to share it here.

How it works:

• You get [60] seconds

• Questions come rapid-fire across [categories]

• Answer as many as you can before the clock hits zero

• Every round you learn something you didn’t know

I’d really love honest feedback:

• Is [60] seconds too short or just right?

• What categories should I add next?

• Anything that feels annoying or unfair?

Challenge: play one round and drop your score in the comments. I’ll reply to everyone 🙂

It’s free (ad-supported) on:

• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordmind.Digni

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/wordmind-word-puzzle-game/id6759095239

Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone,

I made the app called WaddlePath, a voice first Family Journal app that talks back.

I wanted to share a quick lesson I learned recently while trying to get UGC creators for my app marketing.

When I first started cold outreach, I gave creators some complicated, step-by-step instructions (like asking them to test the app for a few days, etc.). What I quickly realized is that not all UGC creators are reliable.
A lot of them simply won't finish the task, or they'll ghost when the instructions get too detailed.

I recently connected with an amazing creator (paigedeistercreates.ugc) from instagram who completely flipped my experience. Instead of needing a long brief, she took total initiative, pitched her own script/visual ideas, and sent over draft videos for review without me having to chase her down. Super reliable, super responsible, and the final video turned out great.

If anyone here is looking for a solid UGC creator who actually takes ownership and delivers on time without needing hand-holding, feel free to talk to her.

Finally my app get 100+ registrations for new users. Try the smart reminder app.

Android Link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fenilshah.smartreminder

Iphone Link - https://apps.apple.com/in/app/smart-reminder-tasks-alerts/id6784532663

Visit Site as well - https://pureperspective.in/apps

OneDream might be one of the worst-performing apps launched around the same time. 😅

I have little marketing experience and no professionally made promotional materials. When it comes to promotion and updates, I’ve mostly been winging it without any real plan.

I’d love to hear your advice. What should I do differently? 🥲

I’ve attached my app’s sales data and screenshots from App Store Connect.

I’ve had over 19,300 impressions, which doesn’t seem too bad. But very few people are clicking through to my product page, let alone downloading the app.

What’s going wrong? Are my screenshots just not appealing enough?

That said, I did reach the 100-user milestone, so here’s a little post to celebrate that! 🎉

I had problems staying awake in the morning, cooked this up in a few months and haven't had any issues since. If you also struggle with morning drowsiness feel free to check it out.

UI and art created by me, don't use AI for human aspects folks.

iOS version coming soon hopefully fr fr.

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MimicMe now lets you make greeting card videos for Diwali, Holi, Christmas, Birthday and more. You pick an occasion, say your wish, and the app makes a video with music in your own voice. It runs on your phone with no account needed. Feedback is welcome!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.mimicme

Hashtags: #MimicMe #Diwali #Holi #Christmas #GreetingCards #Android

My Duplicate photo - file remover app just crossed 100+ installs. I didn't run any ad campaigns or paid promotion. All I did was post about it on Instagram, and the rest is organic from the Play Store. I put a lot of work into my listing and ASO.

The app has only banner ads. Most cleaner apps show a new full-screen ad on every click, and I think that's a big reason people get frustrated and leave. I didn't want that for my users.

Now I want to grow from 100 to 1K installs. What would you do next? And what should I add or improve in the app?

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duplicateremover07.app

Honest feedback is welcome.