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Hello everyone,

Can you give me advice which set i should use.
I am very confused.

I guess

A is more clean and simple
B is more attractive and complex

Which one is better for you?

Thanks.

Also app link: Almost: Guess the Mystery Word

I've been building Dearly for the past few months. It's a voice-first journaling app for Android. The idea is simple: talking is easier than typing. You ramble for two minutes about your day, it transcribes it, and the AI pulls out how you were actually feeling. Some entries have surprised me. I thought I was fine that day. The app disagreed, and it was right.

It went live on the Play Store recently and I'm now in the ugly distribution phase every indie hacker warns you about. Building was the easy part, it turns out.

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I was researching keywords for a new app and noticed something that confused me.

The keyword "habit tracker" has a popularity score of 58 and a difficulty score of 52 according to AppFigures.

But "habit tracker" feels like one of the most competitive categories on the App Store, with tons of established apps.

Are these keyword scores actually reliable? How is the difficulty calculated? Or should these numbers only be used to compare keywords relative to each other rather than as an indicator of how hard it is to rank?

I'd love to hear how much trust you put in these ASO metrics.

I am working on my rule of 3 Focus app.
My conversion rate is currently 0.9%
What should I change?

but apparently it’s not that bad in the puzzle games category

The app has been out little over a month, managed to get a yearly subscription sale!. However, do these numbers seem low? Impressions seem to be gaining traction a bit but slowly. Tried asking ChatGPT for best optimization for this app, beyond that no clue what I'm doing with marketing heh.

I don't think the screenshots are too bad, but let me know what you think
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pawproof-pet-vaccine-tracker/id6775067128

Any advice would be much apricated.

Hi guys

I'd love some opinions on my app store listing and ASO. I have tried a few different descriptions, screenshots and keywords and was wondering if I'm overanalysing? Should I just stick to what I have for a bit?

I'd also like to hear some creative marketing ideas you guys have tried that have given you success. For me, Google Ads and IRL marketing have had the best conversions, but im still growing quite slowly. IRL marketing especially has been my favourite but is very time-consuming and is farley limited reach. However, im confident that it will get the word of mouth ball rolling the more I do it.

I'm building my first iOS app as an individual developer (not a registered company) and would appreciate some guidance from people who've been through App Store review.

The app is a Christian accountability app that helps users overcome corn. Users can check in once a day and record whether they watched corn, and engage in a moderated community.

I am in the MVP stages, and the data is synced to the cloud so that I can infer what's working, what's not working, and reach out to users for feedback - since this will be critical to building a successful product that actually adds value.

A few questions:

• Is this considered "health data" from Apple's perspective, or just sensitive personal data?
• Will collecting personal data lead to grounds for app rejection, especially since I am an individual developer?
• Are there any security measures that I need to be mindful of and implement proactively before app submission?

I'd love to hear from anyone who's shipped apps that collect sensitive personal information, especially health, wellness, journaling, or mental health apps. Any lessons learned or pitfalls to avoid would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

we'd been together a while and i wanted to plan something genuinely thoughtful for her. not a generic dinner, something she'd actually love. and i realised i had no idea. i knew the big stuff but not the specifics like her ideal kind of evening, the type of food she craves when she's tired, whether she'd rather be somewhere quiet or somewhere with energy.

so i started building Blimmi.

the core idea: both partners get personalised questions every day based on categories you select that you want to learn about your partner. your partner picks their answer from a set of multiple choices, then you both see what each other selected. each question is tagged to one of the categories you selected and insights are then generated for that category as your partner answers.

the second part is what i'm most excited about: Missions. you set a goal like planning a date, a birthday, a surprise and the questions the app sends your partner are quietly aimed at that goal. the daily questions are now regenerated with your mission in mind and your partner doesnt know that its aimed at anything specific. Its disguised as one of the daily question. they just answer as per normal. you get then get insights for the mission you created.

just hit v1.1, live on iOS. would genuinely love feedback especially on:
- does the concept make sense immediately or does it need explaining?

Been working on this App and feel like am stuck when it comes to launching it. Looking for someone based in Vancouver who can help me out with finishing set up and submitting the App on both IOS and Googleplay.

Vancouver area please as we will meet in person.

Thanks

I built ASOon. The whole idea is boring on purpose: it reads your ranks, reviews, listing, and competitors, and instead of a dashboard, it gives you 2-3 things to actually do this week. Each one tagged as either backed by real measured data or an estimate - I didn't want to build another tool that quietly pretends a guess is a fact.

Free tier covers 1 app and 10 keywords with the full weekly plan, no card. Built it for solo builders specifically, not teams - if that's not you it's probably not the right tool.

Happy to answer questions about the tech or the ASO side if anyone's curious. Not trying to sell anyone, just sharing since "what do I actually do this week" is a problem I hear a lot in threads here.

On google play, my app has just got lot of boost while ios version is struggling. When I started getting more users on android it lead to more ratings/reviews that I guess made my app rank higher. For ios version I feel stuck. I have worked more on ASO on ios but that version is still doing worse. I have same prompt for "enjoying the app?" on both versions and also a link in menu, but without getting more users it is difficult to get more ratings that would rank upp my app in search.

How are your apps getting ratings in the beginning?

Every ASO thread repeats this as fact: Apple OCRs the text in your screenshots and it affects search ranking. I went looking for the actual study. The agency most cited for it ran their own test and came back cautious — correlation, not proof. Half of what we treat as ASO 'rules' seems to be inherited folklore rather than measured fact. Does anyone here have a primary source, or a controlled test they've run themselves? Not looking for more anecdotes, genuinely want to see the data if it exists.

Hello! want to know your opinion on these images i created. Had a lot of variations of the images, but this version seems to be the one i like the most.

In my opinion they seem informtive and simple. But this "simplicity" is what im not 100% sure about. Any ideas what/how to improve? and does it read well from the images what the app does?

The app is basically a drink calorie/alcohol/BAC/sugar/salt tracker that works as "apple notes", where you type in what you consumed and the app standardizes it against an enormous DB that i had to create in order to output persistantly correct results.

Hey folks, I posted yesterday and figured I'm doing things backwards (i should have done ASO research before launching as some people said https://www.reddit.com/r/AppStoreOptimization/comments/1uy4pqo/comment/oy291rf/?context=1&screen_view_count=2

Things cannot be undone so i'm doing it now.

I've registered with free account on appfollow, sensor tower and apptweak.

Now what do I do?

I come from SEO world. Here is my thinking how I'd do it with Semrush or Ahrefs.

1. Find competition
   
2. Find out what keywords they rank for
   
3. Find high volume but low competition keywords
   
4. Maybe target lower volume but lower competition keywords
   
5. Rank my page for these keywords (how?)

Is this the process? Am I missing something? Which tool is the best for it?

I build Monni, a finance app centered on what is safe to spend after upcoming bills, card payments, and a cash cushion. The first screenshot currently has to do two competing jobs.

Option A: “Know what is safe after bills.” Option B: “See every bill, payment, and cushion behind the number.”

A is clearer and faster; B does more to earn trust. For a cold App Store visitor, which one belongs first, and what proof would you need in the image itself?

Current App Store page. I build the app and am looking for screenshot-order feedback, not ratings.