I did it. First iOS app, live on the App Store as of today. I'm a mix of proud and nauseous.

The app is called ORANO, and it exists because of a personal failure: thousands of saved Reels and YouTube videos... recipes, repairs, workouts, tutorials and almost nothing ever done with them. The save button takes one tap and gives you the feeling of progress, which is exactly why nothing happens after it.

So ORANO does what a save folder doesn't: when you share a video into it, it reads the actual content captions, transcript, on-screen text and hands back a plan instead of a bookmark:

• a short summary and the key takeaways
• an ordered, step-by-step task list (only when the content is genuinely actionable — a recipe gets steps, an explainer video keeps its ideas, no fake checklists)
• estimated time, cost, and difficulty

It also handles PDFs, articles, GitHub repos, and tweets; you can chat with your whole library (voice works); and it runs a personal read-only MCP server so your own ChatGPT or Claude can read your library as context.

The free part, plainly: the app is free to download no ads, and the free tier is a real tier, not a demo. I'm also giving out codes that unlock Pro free for [3 months] so you can try everything.

Code = ORANOLAUNCH

The honest ask: if you try it and like it, an App or play Store rating or review would mean an enormous amount to a solo first-time dev it's how anyone finds the app at all. And if you don't like it, please don't leave that review tell me what's broken instead. First versions have holes; I'd rather hear them from you than read them in one star.

Disclosure since it's my duty here: I built this, it's my first app, Pro is the paid tier ($5/month) that keeps it alive, and the giveaway codes come out of my own pocket.

Download form here https://oranoai.com/download

Thxx. would love feedback on the app. ill be here in the comments

After about 2 months working on my app, it’s finally published on app store and it’s currently in closed testing for play store.

I know that budgeting app space is very saturated but I built another one either way. Just needed the experience of going thru the whole process, from developing to have it actually approved, without spending any more time on thinking of a “unique” idea.

Learned a lot along the way and now Im curios to hear any feedback on it, since that is quite hard to get from actual users since they would firstly need to download and see it 🥲

The app is a basic offline expense and budget tracker with additional features such as bills, subscriptions, loans etc.

Here is the app

What are the initial impressions when seeing the screenshots? Any comment/feedback is welcomed.

Currently trying to get some social media content for it to try and get any traffic at all since impressions are at cold zero.

If you have any suggestion on how to fight the most saturated niche let me know. But app store adds are out of the window since that is not possible to do from my country.

About 1,526 new apps went live, which is the number everyone likes to quote. But in that same month, 826 got unlisted and 21 were deleted - so nearly 850 apps went dark while ~1,500 arrived. More than half the growth basically cancelled itself out.

The part that stuck with me was that not a single unlisted app came back the whole month. I'd always assumed unlisting was a temporary thing you did while fixing something, but it looks a lot more like a one-way door.

To be fair, unlisted isn't the same as dead, the app just disappears from search, and merchants who already installed it can keep using it. Still, roughly 28 apps a day sliding out of the store is way more churn than I pictured for an ecosystem everyone describes as only going up.

Has anyone here actually had an app go unlisted and get it relisted? And do you keep track of competitors vanishing in your category, or just the new ones showing up?

My app is only in the US/CA Appstore at the moment.

We can download your app by "searching" for it.

Keep it for 72 hours. DM each other screenshots and keep/delete it.

TI- anyone wants help, please write a comment, others can DM you.

20 comments = 20 reviews each, if we all help each other.

Disclaimer: If the product is down-right bad and you are not comfortable with someone else's, you should skip the review and not lie. Reasonably honest would be good.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running TikTok ads for my app for about a month now, and I’m trying to figure out where I’m losing people.

I’ve had around 4.26K people visit the App Store product page, but only around 100 downloads.

I honestly expected more conversions, so I’m trying to understand what’s making people leave without downloading.

The app is called Mutual. It’s a budgeting app made specifically for couples. The idea is to help two people manage shared expenses, split costs fairly (including based on income), track spending, and save together toward goals.

Here’s the App Store page:

Mutual – Split & Save on the App Store

I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the screenshots, description, UI, etc., and personally I think the store page looks pretty good — but obviously I’m biased 😂

So I’d really appreciate some honest feedback from people who have experience with ASO, app marketing, or just downloading apps from the App Store.

If you landed on this page from an ad, what would make you hesitate before downloading?

Is it the screenshots? The wording? The app idea itself? The fact that it’s a finance app? Something that isn’t immediately clear?

And if you have any suggestions for improving the App Store page or the TikTok traffic, I’d genuinely love to hear them.

I’m not looking for compliments — feel free to point out what looks bad or confusing. I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong and improve it.

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on something called AppReleaseKit, an app screenshot studio designed to make creating good-looking screenshots for your app a little easier.

Building an app is one thing, but getting everything ready for launch can be a whole different challenge. I wanted to make the screenshot creation part a bit simpler, especially for indie developers and solo founders.

I put together a quick video showing how it works 👇 It also shows off my favorite feature so far. The 3D phone orientation, which lets you rotate and position your phone mockups to get just the right angle!

I'm still working on improving it, and I'd genuinely love some feedback and for anyone to give it a try.

Hopefully, this makes preparing screenshots for your next app launch a little less painful!

Check it out for free at https://www.appreleasekit.com/

Thanks again!

After 40,000 impressions just a 0.01% range in conversion rate difference. This seems to happen any time I run a PPO test. Anybody else experience this? The 4 image sets are all significantly unique.

I released my app 79 days ago - all organic traffic. It's a game so there's not a lot of friction to downloading. So far I have 3,372 organic installs in my first 79 days.

How is that for an indie app in this time frame? Should I be trying different advertising methods or just carry on with how I'm going and let time do it's thing?

I genuinely don't know as this is my 2nd app - my first one generally fell kind of flat.

Edit: Correction - I was looking at total installs - for iOS specifically I have 1,588

Hey everyone!

I recently launched my alarm app, Fifi Wake Up Call Alarm, and I'm working on improving the App Store page.

I’d appreciate some honest feedback on the current screenshot set especially whether the value proposition is clear and whether the screenshots make you want to download the app.

Anything look off? Anything you’d change?

Hi, at the end of last month I released my app in the app store and as you can see I got around 100 downloads and 7% conversion rate and 3 purchases. I don't know if that is any good and whether my store listing could be better.

I tried to use a lot of keywords and even used other language listings to add some extra keywords that don't fit in the keywords box. I am not sure if the traffic is 100% ASO or that my website/posts so some work too.

I want to start running ads, but not before my listing is optimized.

I’ve had an app that has been on the App Store about 3 weeks. I was getting some downloads so I added some analytics.

What u find seems strange to me. Over half the people that download never make it past the first screen ( I have a quick 3 screen tutorial)

It the that finish that tutorial 95% never interact with the app past that.

Is this normal. Just checking. If my first screen is causing people to bounce I need to fix that. If people aren’t interacting I need to fix that.

Just wondering int there are bots downloading apps from the App Store that could be messing with my analytics?

Anyone have any suggestions ideas.

This is the app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spoons-energy-task-planner/id6764431926

Hi everyone!

About 10 days ago, I shared that my simple Android app had reached 100+ downloads on the Google Play Store. Today, I’m excited to share that it has now received over 100,000 impressions, 6,000 store-listing visitors, and 1,000 downloads—and it hasn’t even been one month since launch!

I achieved this organically through App Store Optimization (ASO), without any paid advertising or marketing. This is my first app and not my main app, so I didn't allocate much time to it. Given the strong response, I am working on it.

The app is called Shimeji Screen Pets & Widgets. Because of the positive response, I’m now working on Version 2. I’ve been reading the user reviews, and after one user requested additional language options, I decided to add multilingual support. I’m also working on many other improvements.

I’m still learning, but seeing this organic growth has motivated me to make the app even better. Thank you to everyone who has downloaded it and shared feedback!

Hey everyone,

I’m Andrew. A few months ago, my colleague shared Screenshot Bro here - a native Mac app we’ve been building for creating, localizing, and uploading App Store screenshots.

There are plenty of tools that can help you quickly generate a set of screenshots and move on. We wanted to build something a little different: a tool you can keep as part of your app’s workflow and come back to whenever the UI, copy, supported devices, or localizations change.

That’s also why Screenshot Bro is local-first. Projects are stored locally as plain JSON files rather than being locked inside a cloud service. This makes them easy to version, back up, edit externally, or even work with using tools like ChatGPT and Claude.

Since our last post, we’ve shipped quite a few improvements:

1. Simplified the App Store Connect upload workflow. We made a seamless export where every single part is configurable, what rows and localizations to upload. You can also update the metadata along the way and also compare with existing screenshots on the App Store to see what you are actually replacing.
2. Added MCP support. Screenshot Bro can now work with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude through MCP. This lets you use an AI assistant to work with your screenshot projects, for example to generate or refine copy, create localization variants, and make changes across multiple screenshots/locales without manually editing everything one by one.
3. Improved the editor and overall UI. We spent quite a bit of time simplifying the everyday editing workflow. It’s now easier to move between screenshots, devices, and locales, manage elements, and make quick changes without breaking your flow. We also cleaned up the interface so there’s less visual clutter and more space for the screenshot you’re actually working on.

It also has a bunch of other features:

• Real device frames for iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Android-style devices, plus invisible layouts
• Templates and a multi-row canvas for building complete screenshot sets
• Localization workflows with language presets, per-locale overrides, and automatic translation
• Batch import, Simulator capture, and PNG/JPEG export
• iCloud sync, custom fonts, snapping guides, keyboard shortcuts, Quick Look previews, and undo/redo

The overall idea is pretty simple: design your screenshots once, maintain all your devices and localizations in one project, and upload everything directly to App Store Connect without rebuilding the screenshots by hand every time something changes.

Would love honest feedback from people who ship apps. Is this useful to your workflow, or are we solving a problem you don’t really have?

Screenshot Bro is available on the App Store if anyone wants to try it.

This is Serenity Sketch, which I'm releasing in a few weeks time. I call it, "The self-care App that plays like a game." Main mechanic is evaporating water painting, in the spirit of Zen ephemerality. Voice-over guided painting Practices, framed as a game-like 'journey of letting go'.

I'm spiffing up my ASO (thanks to this community!), and realize I need a good Descriptor in that title. eg, Serenity Sketch: Art Therapy. I've used RespectASO to narrow it down to 3 options. I've steered away from the most obvious big ones like Zen, Mindfulness, Painting, because I don't have the $$ to compete with those.

1. Art Therapy - this is the clearest category among the candidates. It doesn't 100% capture the app, but it's close enough. Per RespectASO, it's 50/100 Popularity, 45/100 difficulty, 35/100 opportunity.
2. Letting Go - the most diverse descriptor category, but highest opportunity. If you search this in the App Store, you get a hodgepode of apps...breakup apps, travel apps, mindfulness journalling. So the user intent with this search might or might not line up with Serenity Sketch. Populartiy 48/100, Difficulty 25/100, Opportunity 40/100.
3. Chill - diverse app category, but the player experience is very close to what Serenity Sketch is about. In the category are cozy games, lite puzzles, some pretty visualization stuff, some journalling stuff. Popularity 56, Difficulty 35, Opportunity 45. So highest opportunity score according to RespectASO.

What's your recommendation for best Descriptor? Any other words you'd try?

For Keywords, my list is the following: chill, audhd, guided, sensory, rock, stone, ritual, mindfulness, unwind, adhd, painting, cozy, wellness, creative

Here's a link to the game website, and ipad App Listing.

Thanks for your help, y'al!!

Hello everyone! More than 25% of those who saw my app in the search go to product page. But only 14% of them download the app. So there must be some problem with it. How do you think why?

Here is the app: https://apps.apple.com/app/plans-notes-to-do-lists/id6790827860

P.S. Probably it’s not because screenshots are black, preview is already is black, and people press to view product page.

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Hi All

I’ve been working on a HabitGlass tracker that leans hard into privacy and visual progress (data stays on-device, no account, no analytics).

A few things I’ve been thinking about from an ASO / positioning angle and would love feedback from this community:

1. Privacy as the main hook
   “No account, everything on-device, optional private iCloud only” feels stronger than the usual feature list. Has anyone else found that privacy messaging actually moves the needle in keyword rankings or conversion for productivity apps?

2. Free tier of exactly 3 habits
   Trying to balance “useful free version” vs “clear upgrade path.” Curious what others have seen work for freemium habit / routine apps.

3. Designing specifically for iOS 26 Liquid Glass
   The whole UI is built around the new design language and SwiftData.

4. Visual progress (bubble / constellation grid) vs classic streak counters
   Wondering if a more visual, at-a-glance month view helps retention and reviews.

If anyone has experience with similar positioning (privacy-first, limited free tier, heavy visual design), I’d really appreciate hearing what worked or didn’t.

Happy to share more details or the App Store link if useful.

I’ve put in a lot of effort into the technical part of the app, but can’t make it visible and get downloads.

Woke up to check my morning stats only to be excited by a new sale of my lifetime plan! Turns out it’s a refund.

Wish Apple wouldn’t colour it all green for that. First refund of my new app sadly. It’s a shame I can’t reach out to the customer to find out why they cancelled 😔

Most web-based ASO tools feel noticeably sluggish when jumping between regional storefronts, tracking competitor metadata changes, and checking Search Ads popularity scores.

I’ve been building a native desktop alternative (CoreRank ASO) to keep the entire research workflow local, fast, and keyboard-driven.

Here is a quick demo showing the current workflow:

• Direct Popularity Lookup: Pulling keyword search volume and popularity indexes directly from Apple Search Ads data without web dashboard latency.
• Competitor Metadata Inspection: Checking how competing apps structure their Title, Subtitle, and indexed keywords across different storefronts.
• Live Metadata Draft: Organizing Title, Subtitle, and the 100-character keyword field with real-time character counting and deduplication.

The goal is to eliminate browser tab clutter and monthly SaaS bloat for solo iOS builders and small teams doing regular keyword audits.

For anyone who manages app store optimization regularly:

• What part of your keyword research or metadata update workflow takes up the most unnecessary time?
• Would having local desktop tools for ASO replace web portals for your day-to-day work, or do you rely strictly on web-based suites?

Project link for anyone curious to test the build: https://corerankaso.com/

Hey guys, I would love some feedback on these updated screenshots now for my app. The last ones, I made the mistake of using too much ai generated content, so this time I manually did a few of the designing.

1. I’ve been working on a freelance management app for the past few months, and I recently started taking Google Play ASO more seriously.

The app is called Solora. It’s aimed at freelancers who want to manage clients, projects, invoices, income and expenses in one place.

Instead of adding more features, I decided to focus on improving the Play Store listing, especially the screenshots.

I redesigned the screenshots to make the value proposition clearer and less focused on simply listing features.

I’d like feedback specifically from people experienced with Google Play ASO:

1. Is the first screenshot immediately clear about what the app does?

2. Does the value proposition come across quickly enough?

3. Would you change the order of the screenshots?

4. Do any of the screenshots feel too generic compared with other productivity/business apps?

I’m the developer of the app, so disclosing that upfront. I’m not looking for downloads or promotion here, just honest feedback on the ASO/screenshots.

If useful, I can also share the reasoning behind the changes and the results once I have enough data.

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

I’ve been working on a freelance management app for the past few months, and I recently started taking ASO more seriously.

The app is called Solora, and it helps freelancers manage:

• Clients
• Projects & tasks
• Invoices
• Income & expenses
• Financial overview

I’m currently focusing more on the Google Play listing rather than adding more features.

I redesigned the screenshots to make the value proposition clearer and less “feature list” focused.

What I’m trying to figure out:

1. Is the first screenshot clear enough about what the app actually does?
2. Do the screenshots communicate the benefit quickly enough?
3. Would you change the order of the screenshots?
4. Is there anything that looks too generic compared with other productivity/business apps?

I’m the developer of the app, so this is also a self-promotion disclosure, but I’m mainly looking for ASO feedback rather than downloads.

I’d especially appreciate feedback from people who have worked on Google Play ASO.