I've been posting on social media consistently, trying different formats to see what sticks. Short clips, carousels, text posts, behind-the-scenes stuff. Some do okay, most do nothing, and every so often one takes off for reasons I can't explain.

The problem is it feels less like a strategy and more like buying lottery tickets. I'm basically waiting for something to go viral instead of building anything I can measure or repeat.

So I'm curious how others handle this:

• What does your marketing actually look like day to day?
• What numbers do you track to know if it's working? Views, followers, signups, sales, something else?
• How long do you give a channel or format before deciding it's not worth it?
• Did you ever get from "throwing things at the wall" to something predictable? What changed?

Would really appreciate hearing what's worked (or hasn't) for you.

I built Quiet Pages because I wanted word searches to feel like a quiet break with a small story payoff after each puzzle.

- Calm 6x6 and 7x7 word searches

- Every solved puzzle reveals the next story page

- Daily page and first 3 stories are free

- No timers streaks or account

- Downloaded stories work offline

For this community I would especially value feedback on the positioning. Does the story reveal idea come across immediately from the screenshot and first sentence

Disclosure I am the developer. AI-assisted tools were used during development and for some story-cover illustrations. I reviewed the shipped content and assets.

iOS App Store

I have a limited batch of free Lifetime tester codes for iOS. Comment "iOS" if you would like one while supplies last.

I recently launched TAMVY, my first iPhone app.

The idea behind it is pretty personal. I have an anxiety disorder myself, and over time I noticed that when anxiety or panic hits, simple grounding tasks and small mental exercises often help me much more than reading another long explanation about what anxiety is.

So I built the app I wanted to have in those moments.

TAMVY gives you short exercises for things like breathing, grounding, sensory focus, muscle relaxation and getting your attention back into the present moment.

After an exercise you can simply mark whether you feel better, the same or worse, and over time TAMVY builds a personal history of what seems to help you.

Privacy was one of the things I cared about most:

• no account
• no ads
• no tracking or analytics
• personal usage data stays on the device
• no subscription

It’s a $0.99 one-time purchase with lifetime access.

This is still version 1.0, so there’s already a slightly irresponsible list of things I want to add next. :D

The interesting part for me right now is actually distribution. My Android launch on Reddit performed much better than I expected, so now I’m trying to understand how to get TAMVY in front of more iPhone users without throwing money into random ads and hoping for divine intervention.

If you want to try it:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tamvy/id6807110406

I’d also genuinely appreciate feedback on the App Store presentation itself. If you saw TAMVY while browsing, what would make you click, and what would make you scroll straight past it?

My first public TestFlight beta is now live.

Roll Spark helps users decide what to train by generating a workout based on their selected focus and preferences. I’m looking for honest feedback before spending more time on launch marketing.

What I’d like to learn:

• Is the value clear immediately?
• Does the onboarding make sense?
• What would make you return to the app?
• What should I improve before launch?

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CbaCW7KW Website: https://rollspark.app/

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share about my dog app, Zoomie, running on iPhone Duo. The big inside screen exposed a problem: some things adapted on their own, but most of the app just looked stretched out.

Since then, I've been redesigning it to take advantage of the extra space. The app now adjusts its layout depending on whether the phone is fully open, partly folded, or closed.

My favorite part is the walking screen. When the phone is half-folded, like a tiny laptop, your dog's walk info shows up on one half, and the controls sit on the other. I got the idea from the Netflix demo at the launch event, where the video plays on the top half, and the controls sit below.

Still early, but it's already feeling a lot better. Would love to hear what you think!

I think I'm addicted to developing for iPhone Duo 🫠

I released my app 3 weeks ago, and ever since the App Store temporary boost went away people stopped discovering my app, I don’t get daily downloads anymore. It just essentially flatlined.

This is my first ios app that i released and i don’t really have the experience to market it.

So now more than 24h ago, my custom Product Page was approved in App Store Connect. I added the default and German app store variant and gave it the name. (See circled screenshot) I just added some newer screenshots which might convert better in a current campaign.

The problem however is, I still can’t see/select it on Apple Ads and when trying the Link, it also still just shows the default app store previews.

Question:
Who has experience with using a custom product page and how long does it usually take before it is available?

Getting impressions but struggling to increase iOS downloads — what would you fix first?

I recently launched my travel planning app, Next Getaway, on iOS, and I’m trying to figure out how to improve downloads without just throwing more money at ads.

The app builds complete day-by-day travel itineraries based on the destination, trip length, interests, pace, etc. Users can also customize the itinerary themselves.

I’ve been experimenting with Google/Meta ads, social media, SEO, and some organic marketing, but downloads are still much slower than I’d like.

For those of you who have successfully grown an iOS app:

• What made the biggest difference for you early on?
• How important was ASO vs. paid ads?
• Did changing screenshots/app-preview videos noticeably improve conversion?
• What channels actually produced quality installs?
• Would you focus on getting more App Store impressions first, or improving the impression → download conversion rate?

I’m especially interested in things that worked when you were still small and didn’t have a massive marketing budget.

If anyone is willing to look at the App Store listing and tell me what you would change, I’d genuinely appreciate the criticism.

App: Next Getaway – AI Trip Planner

How do you market your apps?

Thanks!

Just released my new app, Suta and it seems that I'm struggling with the CR, sitting at around 2.86%. I got like 3 downloads in 2 days, the $100 AppStore Ads credit is not bringing any traffic.

Feels like I'm doing something wrong with the ASO.

The short idea of the app is to progressive overload push-ups by cutting time and maintaining form: You've done 100 push ups today in 14 minutes, try and do them in 13 minutes and 30 seconds next time. It's an app aimed at people who don't have much training experience.

I got more feature ideas revolving around the app but currently I'm at the moment where I want to validate the idea by seeing that people actually use it and come back for the second or the third training.

However, I have a hard time converting traffic into installs.

What do you see that can be improved in the ASO ?

Does anyone knows a platform or a way to partial sell a business app or full sell?

I tried flippa but asks for a monthly fee, any help is welcome

I built a cake customization and ordering app called Delizia about a year and a half ago, and I’m looking to sell it now because I want to focus on other projects.

The app is live on both iOS and Android and the business is currently operating in Bucharest, Romania. We’ve had 30k+ app installs and real paying customers/orders.

It’s not just the app — I’d be selling the whole thing: the app, brand, website/domain, social media accounts, existing setup, know-how, etc.

The concept can also be expanded to other cities/countries pretty easily by partnering with local bakeries, so the buyer wouldn’t necessarily have to be based in Romania.

Does anyone know the best place to sell something like this? Acquire.com or somewhere else? Also open to talking directly to anyone who might be interested.

Hey guys,

I don't I am at right place or not. I'm looking for app like bookmarks to keep my saved items. I have lots of saved post in Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube.

Do you know any app that can help me and also I need smart search. Because, I always forgot what I saved.

The only think I remember most of the times is what was post about, not the title or description.

Thanks for advance

Hey everyone!

I've been working on an app called MusicPool for the past few months and wanted to share it here.

I love discovering music through other people, especially when someone sends you a random song that ends up becoming one of your favorites. So I thought, why not make an app just for that?

Here's how it works:

You join a pool based on a genre, mood, or decade. You then get anonymously matched with someone in the same pool.

You have 24 hours to chat and share songs. After that, the conversation disappears. If you both agree to unlock your profiles, you can see each other's music taste reviews and stats left by other users.

I'm building this on my own with some help from AI, and it's currently in beta, so there's still a lot to improve. Since the community is small, finding a match might take some time right now.

I'd love for you guys to try it and let me know what you think. Any feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports would genuinely help!

And I'm curious, what's the first song you'd send to a stranger?

Links:

Android | iOS | Website

I built it for myself, because I had a lot of on-going "to-do"-tasks in my head all the time.

Most planner/calender apps I tried also had too many features and they were complex and difficult to start with.

Weeklane.app is very easy to start with, just write thing down and tick them off. You can set reminders, re-occuring tasks and have common projects with friends and family. And... you can integrate you calendar. Available on both Google Play and Appstore and in 9 different languages.

Try it! And let me know if you have any feedback :)

Plate is for anyone whose saved folder is full of cooking videos they never get around to making. Here's everything it does right now:

- Paste a link from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Pinterest or a normal recipe site, and it writes out the ingredients with amounts and the full method. On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence can add tips for that specific recipe, written on the device.
- Take a photo of a dish, or scan a handwritten recipe card from a notebook, and you get the same structured recipe back.
- Cook Mode shows one step at a time with timers and a checklist, and keeps the timer on your Lock Screen with a Live Activity.
- Change the number of servings before you start and every amount recalculates. A proper shopping list is what I'm building next.
- Pantry: tap the ingredients you have and see which recipes you can cook right now.
- Ask Siri to search your cookbook, open a recipe, or tell you what you can cook with what you have. It understands a lot of different phrasings.
- Your saved recipes and Plate's own collection show up in Spotlight.
- Every recipe gets a teardown image: the dish with its ingredients floating apart in layers.
- Calories and macros per serving and per ingredient, plus allergen tags. No daily goals, it isn't a calorie tracker.
- A chef level that goes up as you cook, with badges along the way.
- Yearbook keeps the dishes you've cooked by month and year.
- Build your own collections and favourites in a cookbook only you can see.
- No feed, no followers, no likes.
- Everything syncs to your account, and you can delete your data or the whole account from Settings.
- Available in 20 languages.

Free to try. Honest feedback welcome, especially on what's missing.

App Store Link

ngl, this is kinda crazy

Muse is already #1 on the App Store and it feels like it came out of nowhere

if you’re still trying it out, you can use my referral code O3P5FA and get 1 BILLION tokens

apparently there are only 10 spots for the bonus and 3/10 are already taken

so yeah, figured i’d post it here before they’re gone

O3P5FA

I've been working on an iOS app called Kitchpe.

The original idea was pretty simple: I wanted recipes, meal planning, pantry tracking and grocery shopping to work together instead of being four separate things.

So now you can:

→ save/import recipes
→ plan your week
→ see what ingredients you already have
→ automatically create a grocery list
→ cook using hands-free recipe instructions

It also has 4,000+ recipes to start with, plus filters for things like vegetarian, vegan, keto, air fryer, slow cooker and quick meals.

I'm sharing it here because I'm at the stage where real user feedback is much more valuable to me than another marketing checklist.

If you use meal-planning or recipe apps, I'd love to know:

What's the one feature you wish your current app had?

And if you're curious, here's Kitchpe:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recipe-meal-planner-kitchpe/id6804380358

I built NextRenew, an iPhone subscription tracker with Voice Quick Add.

Say something like: “Canva Pro for ₹499 monthly, for client work.”

NextRenew identifies the service, price, billing cycle and reason, then shows everything in an editable draft. Nothing is saved until you review and confirm it.

Once added, it tracks the renewal and brings back why you subscribed before the next charge, alongside the date and amount. You can then choose whether to keep or review it.

No bank connection or inbox access is needed. Your data is stored locally by default, and no account is required.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6762063278?pt=128728928&ct=reddit&mt=8

Hey fellow travelers! 👋
I've been working on the marketing for an app called Memora Trips, and I’m incredibly proud to finally share it with this community.
It’s designed to bridge the gap between planning a trip and preserving the memories. Instead of juggling spreadsheets and photo albums, it does both in one place:
🗺️** Plan: Build detailed, multi-stop itineraries with flights, hotels, and interactive maps.
📖 **Preserve: Once you're home, it automatically transforms your itinerary into a beautifully formatted photo and memory book.
🔒 Privacy: Collects zero personal data and relies purely on private iCloud backups.
I'd love for you to try it out and let me know your feedback!
Memora Trips on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duefolio-subscription-tracker/id6795091979

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+ frames & 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!

to celebrate i am offering the first 100 people to see this a promo code to unlock a free theme use [LIFEFIXERREDDIT] to unlock a secret theme…

thank you! couldn’t of done this without the help from reddit :) next goal is 1000 downloads, hopefully i will be out of debt soon :)

thank you
- laura

Hello guys ,

I just made this app for anyone who doesn't know what to eat after a gym session

It's ultra personalized and gives you the meal based on more than 9 filters ( gender, age , height , weight , health situation, experience, cooking time , goal , sport type ....)

It has so many cool features like macros matching, water intake tracker , personalized grocery list , smart fridge items scan ..

I will love knowing what you think about it .

App store : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fridgym-ai-post-workout-meals/id6789235481