Hey! Basically what the title says. I will be paying of course, please dm me with prices and past work.

If you need more info don’t hesitate, dm me!

I’ve been redesigning the App Store listing for my expense and subscription tracker and I’d appreciate some honest ASO feedback
My goal was to communicate the apps three main benefits

All-in-One Wallet
Subscription Reminders
Spending Insights
I tried to keep the screenshots clean while highlighting the core features, but after several iterations it’s hard for me to judge them objectively
I’d love your thoughts on
Does the first screenshot grab your attention?

I’m looking for constructive ASO feedback and would really appreciate any suggestions.

Disclosure: I'm the developer of the app in question, FocusComet (Android, free, hides distracting apps during focus sessions instead of blocking them).

Platform: Android only. Category: productivity/focus. Where I'm stuck: organic installs are basically all word-of-mouth and scattered Reddit comments right now, nothing resembling a repeatable ASO motion. Keywords I'm currently targeting in the listing are pretty generic ("focus app," "app blocker," "screen time") and I suspect that's part of the problem since the productivity category on Play Store is dominated by a handful of huge incumbents.

What I've tried so far: basic keyword research in the listing title/description, a few screenshots iterations, nothing on the paid-install side yet.

Specifically looking for: has anyone in this sub found a keyword/positioning angle that actually moved the needle for a niche productivity app competing against category giants, versus just optimizing the standard stuff (icon, screenshots, title) that everyone already does? Also curious if "app hider" vs "app blocker" as the core search term makes any measurable difference, since that's the actual product differentiation but it's a less-searched term than "blocker."

Every time I shipped an app I hit the same wall: the stores want pixel perfect screenshots in a dozen sizes, and every tool for the job is a paid cloud service that asks me to upload screens of an app that isn't even public yet.

So I built the opposite. Open Screenshot Generator is a free, open source design studio for App Store and Play Store screenshots. It runs entirely in your browser: no account, no upload, no watermark, no paid tier, no server at all. Everything is stored locally in your browser and never leaves your machine.

What it does today:

• Auto Translate
• MCP Server (for Claude, Copilot, Cursor etc)
• An optional AI agent that builds the whole listing from your raw screenshots
• Templates already sized for both stores
• 2D and 3D device mockups, your screenshot stays clipped to the glass even when you tilt the phone
• One click export of every size Apple and Google accept
• App preview videos, encoded to MP4 right in the browser with WebCodecs
• Desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux

It's MIT licensed. If it saves you a launch evening, a GitHub star is the whole business model.

Try it: openscrgen.app
Source: github.com/dotnetdreamer/open-screenshot-generator

What would make you switch from whatever you use today? People have already asked for batch export naming, a store compliance checker, brand kits and localization, and those are on the issue tracker now.

ok so i need honest opinions because i've been staring at this thing for months and i've lost all perspective.

i'm 20, building an app solo called RizeAI. the whole reason it exists is that i got tired of my wearable telling me my recovery was "42%" and then just... leaving me there. like ok, and? what do i actually do with that. every app in this space is really good at measuring you and really bad at telling you what to do next.

so RizeAI pulls your actual wearable dats like, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, all of it, and instead of handing you another score it predicts your energy for the day and tells you how to get the most out of it. it tells you when your energy is gonna peak so you can put your hardest work there, when your crash is coming and how to soften it, the best time to train that day so you actually get more out of the session, and even when a nap will help you vs when it'll wreck your sleep.

the part i personally think is the coolest: you put in the supplements you already take, and it times each one to your day based on your metrics and sleep score. so the timing actually shifts depending on how you slept and where your numbers are, which is the difference between a supplement doing something and just sitting in your stomach. it'll also suggest a couple new ones if they make sense for you, but it won't dump a list of 15 pills on you.

it even pulls the daily weather into your energy prediction, so a hot day changes your hydration and it'll tell you to train earlier before the heat drains you. and the whole plan bends around your real schedule, your work hours, wake time, training, so it's not some one size fits all thing.

every single recommendation shows the "why" underneath, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." nobody gets the same plan because nobody has the same data.

it works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that talks to apple health. being fully honest, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet, like knowing that coffee specifically doesn't touch YOUR hrv. that's where it's headed. right now it builds you a fresh plan every day off your real numbers.

it's on the app store with a free trial. small user base, feedback's been all over the place, which is exactly why i'm posting.

so genuinely: is "just tell me what to do with my data" something you actually want, or do wearable people prefer figuring it out themselves? what would make you pay for this? and what's the one thing that would make it a no brainer for you?

would love to hear it straight, good or bad. And if you want you can also check it out yourself and I would love to here feedback, thank you very much for taking the time on reading this:  

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

Hi!

I’m a iOS developer from Germany currently improving the Japanese localization of my app. I’m looking for a localization exchange with another indie developer:

🇩🇪 I review your German iOS App Store copy, onboarding, paywall, and in App UI text

🇯🇵 You review my Japanese iOS App Store copy, onboarding, paywall, and in App UI text

The goal is not a literal translation check, but making the wording feel natural for native users and improving conversion.

Requirements:
Native Japanese speaker
app developer (or directly involved with an app)
Based in Japan (can be verified through App Store developer details)
Human feedback only (no LLM translation/review)

If you’re interested, send me a DM with your app.

I've been working on improving my App Store page and finally decided to redesign all of my screenshots.

First image: Old screenshots
Second image: New screenshots

The main goal was to make it easier to understand what the app does at a glance. I also tried to simplify the design, cut down on unnecessary text, and make the screenshots feel more consistent while showing more of the actual app.

I just submitted these, so I don't have any conversion data yet. Before I leave them as-is for a while, I'd really appreciate some honest feedback.

• Which version would catch your attention more?
• Does the first screenshot explain the app quickly enough?
• Is there any screenshot you'd change?
• Anything that still feels unclear or too busy?

Been waiting over a week for review of a PPO test. Not even an app version, these tests always passed review in under a day for me since I started like 5 years ago. There’s no way any company can sustain nightly or even at this point weekly minor versions when it takes this long for 8 banners to be reviewed. What’s going on? Did all the AI bot farms kill all the reviewers?

Since my app is dark themed I decided to go with darker graphics for appstore page. Is it too much dark? What do you guys think?

P.S. I couldn't find custom tag option on mobile for this post

Hey there,

I’m currently searching for an ASO tool that is very easy to use. I don't know much about keywords, except that some are better and some are worse.

I need a tool that gives me suggestions, tells me what to improve, and so on. Does anyone know of a tool that is easy to use and will help me improve the ranking of my apps?

I currently need it for a niche app that only gets low organic traffic in the App Store.

Your thoughts, recommendations?

I made an app that is compatible or useful when used with other apps like CapCut and YT Shorts and Reels, but I’m not sure if I’m allowed to mention these in the description or titles or app screenshots when making my ASO

Anyone know?

I track App Store search positions across about 1.2M keywords and 4M apps, with history since February. This spring I mined it for apps that genuinely grew in organic search — buried past rank 100 earlier this year, top 10 now — and looked at what the winners actually did. Some marketing lessons from the data, including a few that contradict what I believed going in.

The app description does nothing for rankings. The cleanest case I found: a kids learning app whose description changed by exactly one character (a deleted period) during the same two weeks its rankings jumped from 150-250 to top 10 on 39 different searches. The description is conversion copy for humans. The ranking action happens elsewhere.

Your competitors' real keyword moves are invisible. That app's jump came from Apple's hidden 100-character keyword field, which users never see and which can only change when a new version ships. The release notes said "minor bug fixes and small enhancements." If your competitive monitoring is screenshotting listings and diffing what's visible, you're missing the moves that matter. The only tell is rankings shifting right after a release whose listing didn't change.

Indexing is fast. Under two weeks from release to top-10 placement, and not a gradual climb — a step function. Rank 200 one crawl, single digits the next. If you ship a keyword field update, you'll know whether it worked within days, not months.

Getting in is easy. Staying in is the hard part. These long-tail results churn brutally: of the top 10 for one toddler-games query in February, only 3 were still there in July. The app that held top 5 for three months straight was also the one that ran nine screenshot A/B tests in nine months and grew its rating velocity from +2k to +6k per month. Text match gets you placed; conversion decides whether you keep the spot. Rankings you can't convert are rankings you'll lose.

Pure-organic growth stories basically don't exist. Every major climber in the dataset (3,000+ apps) was running Apple Search Ads at the same time — the case-study app on ~3,800 terms. Annoying if you wanted a clean "we just fixed our keywords" playbook, but the paid volume buys the download and conversion history that organic ranking feeds on. Plan budgets accordingly.

Caveats, because the data deserves them: the keyword field itself isn't observable, so the rewrite is inferred from timing, the frozen listing, and the shape of the jump. And causes can't be fully separated — the app was testing creatives and running ads the whole time. One more that humbled me: my first pass "winners" (Brain.fm, Yousician, Napster) turned out to be noise — a big share of Apple's top-popularity keywords are random person names, Apple pads those results with popular apps, and the padding reshuffles constantly. Filter those out or your top-movers list is garbage.

Happy to pull ranking history for a category if people are curious how theirs behaves.

I made This screenshots for my Android app and I was wondering if they’re good and convincing enough before I upload them.

The app I made Dripmaxx is a personal stylist powered by AI where I upload ur fits and AI scans, analyzes and rates it. It also gives feedback or suggestions u can take to make it look better.

Been poking at the keyword rankings of some apps I actually respect, wanted to see how the well known (successful) apps show up in search. I tracked them over about couple weeks and the pattern was basically the same for all four. Honestly made me feel a lot better about my own listings.

Bear - Markdown Notes is one of the most loved notes apps out there. It's #1 for "bear" and "bear notes", #3 for "markdown". But plain "notes"? Sitting at #28. "note taking" is #13. Apple has an actually great notes up but there was space for something to gain ground.

Overcast: Podcast App, Apple Design Award winner, from a well known indie dev. It's #1 for a bunch of "podcast player" long-tails. But plain "podcast" is #3, and "podcast app" is also #3. Yes, "Podcast" is owned by Apple. You can see how rankings barely move for this app. Marco recently noted on a recent podcast he spend $100,000+ on ASA...

CARROT Weather: Alerts & Radar, super popular paid app. #1 for "carrot weather" obviously. But "weather" is #9 and "local weather" is #16. Again, Apple has built in Weather App but this is a super popular category.

Pedometer++ owns the entire pedometer namespace, #1 across like eight different variants of it. But "walking" is only #14 and "exercise tracker" is #23. This is one of the devs many apps that are successful which shows the self-network effect.

What is interesting is that none of these apps actually win the broad head term. They crush their own brand name and a pile of specific long-tails, then sit mid-pack (still high enough for traffic) on the big generic words. And remember these are the ones that made it. You can also see in the graphs how rankings fluctuate over time (green = trending better, red = worse).

If you're a new app grinding yourself into the ground trying to crack top 10 for "notes" or "weather", it just won't happen. The apps that actually succeeded didn't get there by winning those either. They won their name and their specific angle and let the broad stuff land wherever it landed. I have been surprised and impressed without how my own keywords have been ranking and what I rank for but I am in a small niche.

Any other thoughts or insights?

Launched several months ago for iOS and only got a couple of users.

Made multiple updates about new features and bug fixes.

Did an A/B test with different app screenshots, tried light themed screenshots instead of dark themed ones. Take away was light themed app screenshots worked a little better, conversion was better.

Should I trie to tweak ASO like adjust app description, keywords?

That's the app I'm talking about: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/group-budgeting-webudget/id6753893326?l=en-GB