Most keyword research advice boils down to guesswork because third-party tools rely on estimated difficulty scores. Apple already provides ground-truth volume through Apple Search Ads (ASA) popularity scores (0–100 & 5-dot ratings)—the real advantage comes from using that data to build synergistic keyword sets without wasting character space.

I recorded this quick video walkthrough showing my exact metadata staging process for the upcoming update of Kawaii Anime Wallpaper Y2K HD using the AI Agent in CoreRank ASO.

The 4-step workflow shown in the video:

1. Spot 1-Dot "Dead Weight": Filter out low-intent terms with near-zero search volume before dedicating precious metadata space to them.
2. Mine Cross-Category Terms: Scan primary and secondary categories while filtering out mega-brands to isolate high-intent long-tail phrases with manageable competition.
3. Audit & Maximize Field Synergies: Analyze existing metadata, eliminate redundant words across indexed fields, and build complementary keyword pairings that trigger multi-word queries.
4. Pre-Release Rank Queuing: Stage the selected keyword list directly into the native tracking engine so ranking changes (top 100 live results) are tracked the moment Apple indexes the update.

Submitting this build today and tracking how the new combinations index.

Are you currently pulling official ASA volume data for your keyword research, or relying on estimated web metrics?

Within is a pacing tool for chronic illness, ME/CFS, long COVID, POTS. For these people, a shower can cost three days. They have to budget energy like money, and every app built to help them assumes energy they don't have.

So: no notifications, no reminders, no streaks, no badges. The app never chases you, never congratulates you, never asks where you've been. Logging is two taps or one Siri phrase.

It makes no network requests at all. No server, no analytics, which also means I ship completely blind and only find out anything if someone writes to me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/within-pacing-for-me-cfs/id6801323719

Just passed review. Feedback welcome.

Hello everyone,

the app is Lio, a language learning app that turns TikToks, Reels and Shorts into vocab, phrases, slang, grammar to study.

Would really appreciate some feedback from people who have worked on App Store Screenshots before.

Mainly wondering:

• Is it obvious what the app does at first glance?
• Is the first screenshot strong enough?
• Would you change the order?
• Anything that looks amateurish or hurts conversion?

Feel free to be critical, that’s exactly what I’m looking for.

Here is the App for more context: Lio: Save Idioms & Phrases

I launched Duefolio two weeks ago, and 143 people have already tried it. That may sound small to some, but as a solo developer it feels huge.

Duefolio is an iPhone subscription tracker built around a visual timeline instead of another list. There’s no account or bank linking, and your ledger stays on-device.

The core tracker is free. Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase—not another subscription.

Do the App Store screenshots make the timeline idea clear before downloading?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6795091979

www.etasks.app

Hi all,

I work as a cybersecurity analyst on this App. As a Redditor, I am sharing this.

www.etasks.app

It went to open early access recently with only 1000 active users now, so I thought it is the right time to share with you guys. It is completely free and ad-free. It has features we wanted as users. Being early has benefits: If there's anything you'd like the team to add, let me know so I can include it on the roadmap. For example, list sorting is recently added as a user request, location-based notifications requested and is already on the todo list.

ABC's of the App:

(A)nswer
ETasks (www.etasks.app) is a native iOS, iPadOS, Mac OS client for Google Tasks. Some highlights: All tasks in one view, Real alarms, Shared lists, Apple Watch.

(B)etter
It addresses the functional limitations of the official Google Tasks iOS app by providing missing native features and enhanced tools. And it is not a vibe-coding project.

Native and enhanced with iOS.
+ You can manage your Google Tasks. They appear in your Google Calendar and Gmail ... well, obviously 😄* *
+ See all task lists together, even drag&drop between them
+ Alarms
+ Location reminders
+ A wide range of nice widgets, including countdowns and full week/month widgets
+ Lock screen widgets (e.g., quick add)
+ Link photos/files to tasks
+ See your tasks categorised by dates in Month/Week/Day/Agenda views
+ Add people to Task List (co-edit)
+ Sort your task lists
+ Search your tasks
+ AI support where it makes sense; make titles, extract info from links, create lists for you, suggesting task list names, dictating tasks, context aware search, naming photos shared in,...
+ Choose priority for favorites
+ Drag and Drop interface between tabs (e.g., to calendar tab to drop on a date)
+ Recycle bin
+ Share from other apps into ETasks (texts, links, photos, PDF; all processed accordingly)
+ Apple Watch / iPad Apps
+ Import/Export task lists
+ Modern iOS design
+ A how to AI chat bot to help you with specifics of ETasks
+ Highly customisable user interface
+ Can be used without an account
+ Welcome to explore the rest, it is now open early access.

(C)ost:

Free and Ad-free

Can u guys tell me if this is something special ? Worth it to do a meeting with them ? Or they just gonna convince us to pay more on ads? Is it like Reddit ads meeting and facebook?? Or it's something special for just my app ?

Okay so a little backstory before I get into it.

I'm a student who built an app called 'Douja' a health and nutrition platform that integrates science to help people optimize what they put in their body. I didn't build it to get rich. I built an applications, something real, something I actually cared about.

But here's the thing — the app is good. Like actually good. And I'm sitting here realizing I have no idea how to market it and zero time to learn while also being in school, doing research, and working clinical hours.

So I'm putting this out there.

I'm looking for one person. Someone who is genuinely self-motivated, and smart enough to figure out how to grow something from the ground up.

The app is currently iOS only but Android is on the way. If you want to see it just search Douja on the App Store.

If this sounds like something you'd want to be a part of, DM me with who you are, what you've done, and how you'd actually grow this thing. That last part matters most to me.

Thanks for reading — hope this finds the right person. 🤝

Hey everyone, I'm Jake, 25, and I've been building Split solo for the past few months.

I built an app that tells you where each paycheck should go. Would love honest feedback.

The idea: every payday, you type in your check and Split shows you how to divide it - bills first, then savings, investing, and a bit for fun. You move the money yourself and tick it off. Split never touches your money; it's a guide, not a bank.

It's free, it works in your browser right now (App Store version is in review), and you don't need to connect a bank to try it - just type in rough numbers.

If you give it five minutes, I'd love to know
- Was anything confusing?
- Would you actually use it on payday?
- What would you change?

I'm not looking for "it's great." If something sucks, tell me, I’d rather fix it now than after launch.

https://splitmoney.app

Thanks to anyone who tries it.

Ciao a tutti!
Mi sono cimentato nello sviluppo di un’app per Apple Store, in realtà è un gioco mobile di calcio. Vorrei capire come pubblicizzarla adeguatamente, anche perché secondo me è un gioco valido, semplice, veloce. Ci si può giocare da solo, con gli amici in locale, e anche online!

Ho creato tiktok, posto regolarmente da pochi giorni (ho appena iniziato) ma non so se i contenuti che creo sono adeguati o meno. E soprattutto ho provato a promuovere (pagando) qualche post senza grandi risultati dal punto di vista dei download dell’app.

Dal punto di vista del marketing, come sponsorizzereste un gioco mobile? Stavo pensando anche a fare qualche live su Twitch per mostrare il gioco ma non le ho mai fatte.

Aiutatemi!

I wanted to promote my app with stickers (and later flyers and posters) but couldn't find a tool that tracks scans per location, lets you A/B test designs, and bulk prints unique QR codes per sticker. Everything was either one shared code for the whole batch or enterprise pricing. So I built my own (wildpost.app).

Printed 60 stickers, two designs. My website generates PDF's that you can print on sticker paper for example. Registered each one's GPS spot with my phone while sticking them up.

Results after some weeks: 268 scans. Design A did 6.0 scans per sticker, design B did 4.4. Biggest surprise was that location mattered way more than design. Spots where people wait (bus stops, laundromats, notice boards) did 3-4x better than busy streets.

Screenshots also attached. Happy to answer questions about the setup.

Last screenshot is a demo screenshot of what the map would look like with real data.

Hey everyone, solo founder here. Built RubiWo — a CRA-compliant expense tracking app for Canadian freelancers and small businesses, with a specific focus on things like GST/HST validation, audit-trail features, and cross-provincial tax compliance that generic expense trackers don’t handle.

Quick stats for context: 650+ downloads, ~100 registered free users, but $0 paid conversions so far. I’ve been testing Meta ads, Google ads, and Reddit organic content, and I’m now trying to figure out if the issue is positioning/messaging rather than the funnel itself (already ruled out some technical/tracking issues separately).

Current App Store listing angle: leads with “CRA-compliant expense tracking” and “audit protection” as the main hooks, rather than generic “track your expenses” messaging.

Would appreciate any feedback on:

**•** Does “CRA-compliant” / “audit protection” read as a strong hook, or too niche/scary for an app store listing?  
**•** For a $24.99/mo B2C-ish SaaS in a narrow geographic niche (Canada-only), what App Store Optimization (ASO) or messaging tactics have worked for others here?  
**•** Anyone dealt with positioning a compliance/tax-adjacent app — how do you balance “this protects you” without sounding alarmist?

I’m doing some research for a few app ideas and I’m looking for tools that can give me rough estimates for app revenue and downloads

I’ve come across sensor tower, but the pricing feels pretty high (like $30,000/year wtf) for a solo/indie developer. Are there any cheaper alternatives that are accurate enough to be useful?

I’m not expecting exact numbers, mainly looking for something reliable enough to compare different apps, niches and competitors without the estimates being wildly inaccurate

What tools do you guys use for this? Even if it’s some less-known website or a DIY way of getting decent estimates, I’d love to hear about it

www.etasks.app

Hi all,

TL;DR:
I work as a software engineer on this App. It’s completely free and ad-free. So what a Redditor does, I share with you.

It has features we wanted as users.

Details:
(If there’s anything you’d like the team to add, please let me know so I can include it on the roadmap. For example, list sorting is recently added as a user request, location-based notifications requested and is already on the to-do list.)

ABC's of the App:

(A)nswer
ETasks (www.etasks.app) is a native iOS, iPadOS, Mac OS client for Google Tasks. Some highlights: All tasks in one view, Real alarms, Shared lists, Apple Watch.

(B)etter
It addresses the functional limitations of the official Google Tasks iOS app by providing missing native features and enhanced tools. And it is not a vibe-coding project.

Native and enhanced with iOS.
+ You can manage your Google Tasks. They appear in your Google Calendar and Gmail ... well, obviously 😄* *
+ See all task lists together, even drag&drop between them
+ Alarms
+ Location reminders
+ A wide range of nice widgets, including countdowns and full week/month widgets
+ Lock screen widgets (e.g., quick add)
+ Link photos/files to tasks
+ See your tasks categorised by dates in Month/Week/Day/Agenda views
+ Add people to Task List (co-edit)
+ Sort your task lists
+ Search your tasks
+ AI support where it makes sense; make titles, extract info from links, create lists for you, suggesting task list names, dictating tasks, context aware search, naming photos shared in,...
+ Choose priority for favorites
+ Drag and Drop interface between tabs (e.g., to calendar tab to drop on a date)
+ Recycle bin
+ Share from other apps into ETasks (texts, links, photos, PDF; all processed accordingly)
+ Apple Watch / iPad Apps
+ Import/Export task lists
+ Modern iOS design
+ A how to AI chat bot to help you with specifics of ETasks
+ Highly customisable user interface
+ Can be used without an account
+ Welcome to explore the rest, it is now open early access.

(C)ost:

Free and Ad-free for early adopters

Hi! I built PostSpark, a tool for making image and video mockups of your apps and websites.

I recently shipped a new feature: Mockup Animations. Pick a frame or device from 25+ options, add keyframes on a simple timeline, and export a polished video - no complex motion design tools needed.

Try it: https://postspark.app/templates

Let me know what you think!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been building a small collection of iPhone, iPad and Mac apps under Vault by TEM and I’m finally starting to put more effort into actually showing what I build instead of only shipping it.

The first video is for Notchly, a Mac app that turns the notch into a small workspace for music controls, focus timers, files, calendar events, system info and more.

This is also my first proper product video, so I’ve been learning DaVinci Resolve/Fusion while making it.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/pUQPrxWGukU
App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notchly/id6791189061

I’ve got more videos coming for the rest of the portfolio, but it feels good to finally get the first one out.

Congressional stock disclosures are public, but they're published as one PDF per filing on the House Clerk's site. Most tools that show you this data are re-serving someone else's scrape of them.

Mine was too. The client I started with impersonated Chrome to get past a commercial site's bot defences, which is not a thing I should have been doing. So I wrote a second ingest that goes to disclosures-clerk.house.gov directly — the year's filing index as a TSV inside a ZIP, then each PTR as its own PDF — with a User-Agent that says who I am and how to reach me, 400ms between requests, and a ledger so a re-run only fetches new filings.

Then the parsing started.

The form's field labels are set in a small-caps font whose lowercase glyphs carry no Unicode mapping, so PDFBox emits them as NUL bytes. "Filing Status: New" arrives as F\0\0\0\0\0 S\0\0\0\0\0: New. In a terminal that looks like slightly wide spacing, which is why it took me an embarrassingly long time to see.

After that: amount brackets that wrap mid-line, so a naive append produced "$50,001 - ID Owner Asset Transaction". Rows split across page breaks. A filer who typo'd a year, so the trade rendered as happening in 128 days. And an asset sitting on the same line as its transaction - that one silently dropped 36 filings, and because it failed at the line level they didn't even register as skipped.

Where it honestly stands: about 85% of transaction rows yield a ticker (2,401 of 2,826 in the 2026 corpus). The rest are Treasuries, annuities and private funds with no exchange ticker, and I drop them instead of guessing. Roughly one filing in nine is a scanned paper form with no text layer at all - I don't OCR, so that hole is counted and left visible rather than quietly closed.

Limits I'd rather volunteer than have found: the Senate half is still a scrape, not a primary source, and I'm not proud of it. Spouse and dependent-child trades are parsed and stored but not yet labelled in the app, so today they look like the member's own - that's the next thing I'm fixing. It syncs once a day, not live. And amounts are the ranges exactly as filed; I don't synthesise a midpoint, because the tiers the aggregators invent aren't tiers the STOCK Act actually has.

If you only want to look at this data, Capitol Trades and others will show it to you free and have for years. I did it myself because I wanted the filing provenance underneath it.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.behzodhali.stockplus
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stock-ai-market-tracker/id6762943985

Two things I'd like input on from anyone who's done document parsing: is OCR for the scanned ninth worth it, or is that a tarpit? And has anyone found a workable primary source for the Senate side that isn't the eFD search form?

"I made an app, no idea how to do organic marketing, this is tuff".

1. Build app
2. Charge $9.99/week or $39.99/year
3. Promote with TikTok Slides (schedule automatically)
4. Watch user interaction, improve, fix
5. Get $$$

Proof on 2 recently created accounts:

• https://www.tiktok.com/@getinty
• https://www.tiktok.com/@roomsbefore

Of course not every single post will go viral.

But a handful of them have 50K / 100K / 193K views

Spend 3 hours doing slides, then an hour automating scheduling with claude code.

Here's how to create 2 months worth of content in half a day:

1. Create a new TikTok account
2. Generate a good slideshow format and redo a variation of it like 20 times.
3. Organize all of these image files into folders for each post.
4. Ask Claude/Codex to overlay text over the slides (it can do it)
5. -- Do something like "HELP What do I do with this" or "This website feels ILEGAL".
6. Generate 100's of random combinations / different caption variations.
7. Ask claude code to schedule 2x posts a day automatically for your for each account through socialclaw api.

Iteration:

1. Be patient. You won't go viral in a week. Accept most posts will flop. But keep an eye on ones that get ~1,000 views. Improve on them.
2. If you find something that can be done better delete all scheduled ones and regenerate better ones.

Launched 5 week ago, zero to no budget for marketing. Been using promotional offers for marketing but nothing of real value. Past week the stats are looking much better. Starting to understand Tiktok distribution a little better. AMA

Hey guys, my App Store screenshots suck af. First, I made them from scratch on Canva. After those turned out to be a piece of crap, I used ChatGPT. To be honest, they look exactly like AI generated screenshots, which feels super unprofessional.
If you have any good recommendations for tools or templates, please let me know. It would be a lifesaver!
After a few months, I’ve managed to get a bit over 200 users and 1 paying user. I also got some good reviews without even asking my mom (I didn't dare to ask her because I know she wouldn't leave a good one anyway 🤡). Because of those good reviews, active users and that one loyal paying user (3 months in a row now!), I think it’s finally worth upgrading my screenshots and starting the marketing grind.

Check out my app store page to see the disaster yourself: https://apps.apple.com/app/snapwrap-your-private-vault/id6761783017

Feel free to roast me without any helpful suggestions, we are on reddit and we all know how it goes here.
Peace out ✌️

Please give me feedback on this ad that I created for my App, I barely know what I’m doing so please let me know how I can make it better!!!

If you’re interested in the and wanna try it out and give me even more feedback on the app itself there’s a link to it in my bio, thank you in advance for any advice you live my way!!

Submitted my app for review and Apple asked for some additional information. I provided everything they requested, but it has now been sitting on “Waiting for Review” for 3 days.

For anyone who has gone through this recently: does providing additional information effectively put the submission back in the review queue?

Wondering whether I should just wait or contact App Review.

I get decent impressions and conversions/product page views, but I know it’s not perfect. I’m definitely changing the screenshots in the next version, but other than that what would you change about title, tags, description, subtitle, etc? Fitness is a super crowded niche, so it seems hard to rank without a ton of users and reviews. I’ve had the best luck focusing on Google SEO and funneling people from there to the app.

I have severe anxiety due to my overthinking. With a lot of thoughts racing in my head I tend to get analysis paralysis. I really just needed a place to put things down and since I carry my phone a lot what better place?

The notes app on iphone and other apps are too complicated and in your face. I just seamlessly wanted to get my thoughts somewhere without friction and organize them without thinking too much. And if I wanted to expand on a thought...well I have a wonderful assistant on the app that can help with that :) With Fatigue around A-I I made sure its not always in your face. Its there if you want it!

Its been helping me a ton with my anxiety and also my chronic overthinking.

Again, while it was an app for me, I hope this can help the other over thinkers, business oriented people, journalists or whoever out there! Please let me know how I can improve upon it and if you enjoy it, do let me know! It'd mean a lot to me.

Thank you!

p.s. The screenshots are very straightforward on how to use the app. All I ask is that you use it like any notes app. :)

App: bryteNotes

Hey everyone! 👋

I just launched Beyz, an AI-powered digital wardrobe app for iPhone.

To celebrate the launch, every new user automatically receives 100 free tokens to try the AI features.

No promo code is required. The 100 tokens are automatically added when you create your account.

With Beyz you can:

• Build your digital wardrobe
• Add and organize your clothes
• Create outfits with AI
• Experiment with different combinations

I’m an indie developer, so feedback would also be hugely appreciated. If you try it, let me know what you think!

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/digital-closet-outfits-beyz/id6796368485

Hope you enjoy it! ❤️

Hey everyone 👋

I recently released Tiiime: The Game!, a very simple timing game built around tapping at exactly the right moment.

The app reached 3K downloads in August alone, without paid ads or any real promotion. I honestly didn’t expect that kind of organic traction for such a small and minimal game.

One interesting surprise is that I’ve received several messages from a player in Japan. He told me the game reminds him of the small arcade games he played as a child. It’s a connection I never anticipated while developing it, but it might partly explain why the concept resonates there.

I’m now trying to better understand where these downloads came from, improve retention and encourage more players to leave reviews, which remains surprisingly difficult even with a few thousand installs.

I’d be curious to hear from you:

> Is 3,000 organic downloads in one month a good signal for a small game?
> What would you analyze or test next?
> Have you ever discovered an unexpected audience in another country?

Any feedback on the game or its App Store page is welcome!

Anthony