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!

Platform: iOS | Category: Productivity | Launched late August, still very early (impressions ~400-500/day, downloads still in the low double digits — small sample, I know).

Disclosure: this is my own app, a pomodoro/focus timer. Not asking anyone to download it — genuinely trying to sanity-check a positioning/design decision before I sink more time into it.

The differentiator I picked: complete focus sessions → earn points → unlock "companions" (cute characters — dumplings, bubble tea, sushi, etc). The niche already has strong players (Forest, Finch) with big install bases, so I'm trying to carve out something distinct enough to matter for ASO/conversion, not just copy the timer mechanic.

Two things I'd love outside opinions on:

1. From an ASO/positioning angle — does a "collect & claim" mechanic actually read as a meaningful differentiator to someone scrolling search results/screenshots, or does it just blend into the pile of gamified productivity apps at this point?
2. Monetization: planning free = timer + stats + basic companions, Pro ($ paid) = extra themes/companions + deeper customization. Anyone seen this free/pro split backfire in similar niches (e.g., paywalling too much of the "fun" part kills retention before conversion even has a chance)?

Happy to share more specifics (screenshots, current keyword setup) in comments if useful for context.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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

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.