r/iOSAppsMarketing

A different approach to productivity and getting things done :)
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A different approach to productivity and getting things done :)

Hey all, I'm currently building Lockn, an app that helps you do more and plan less. Rather than planning your whole week, you plan day by day with Lockn.

It incorporates over 10 different productivity methods and has some really cool features.

Its launching really really soon, I just wanted to get a rough sense if any of you would use it 😄

If there are any additional features you would like to see added do drop a comment below! or if there is anything you think you don't like feel free to let me know too!

thanks so much for reading!!

u/gordiony — 3 hours ago
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I’m 32 and tracked my fiber for a week mostly out of curiosity.

I was getting like 12g a day.

The recommendation is 25–35g, which honestly explained a lot. I always had mid-afternoon crashes, bloating, and just random stomach stuff I never really thought about.

The tracking apps I tried didn’t really help either. MyFitnessPal tracks fiber, but it’s buried behind calories and macros. Cronometer felt way too detailed for what I wanted.

I basically just wanted an app that told me one thing:

Did I hit my fiber today or not?

So I built one.

It has a daily ring for your fiber goal, barcode scanner, 200+ USDA foods, and a plant diversity score. That last part was kind of surprising to me. A lot of gut health research points to variety per week, not just total grams.

A few honest surprises after using it for ~6 months:

  • Getting to 30g isn’t that hard once you realize where fiber actually comes from. Beans, oats, raspberries, chia, avocado, etc.
  • Plant diversity was harder for me than the actual fiber goal.
  • A lot of packaged “high fiber” foods are not as useful as they make themselves sound.

Free, iOS only, on device, no account.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6760719879

Would genuinely love feedback on the food database or anything that feels off.

u/esilacynohtna — 3 hours ago
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A few things users have called it: "what stock alarms should be on iPhone" (Germany), "so flexible anyone can find the perfect alarm app" (Italy) and "possibly the best alarm app" (US).

It takes a different approach from the typical trying to annoy as much as possible so users wake up. It is for those who wakes up easily, yet their schedule is so varied it is a hassle to toggle switches everyday. Or they just want to avoid doing that all together.

With templates/folders, you can setup once how you like your alarms to be grouped together. Absolute time for template and relative time for folders. Then you apply it to days/weeks as you need. Or remove them all at once when you don't. Never have to face the alarms wall of shame again.

With simplified calendar automation based on calendar events, you set it to run daily and all your alarm needs are automatic, showing up on lockscreen widgets, homescreen widgets, in-app schedule, live activity and dynamic island.

With flexible recurrence, start/stop date, vacation mode and skipping (this one from Sleep as Android), you can truly set alarms that fit your need, skip alarms when you don't without changing the routine.

And last but not least: separate volume and crescendo option per alarms, not just a single Sleep schedule alarm like Clocks.

A few days left to purchase Lifetime at the price of 1 year sub. Ends May 1st.

u/Lemon8or88 — 1 hour ago
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I'm giving away free ad creation + distribution to 5 B2C apps this week.

I built an app to help businesses get real visibility without burning money on ads that go nowhere. We create the content and distribute it through real social media accounts.

So this week I want to put it to the test with a few of your apps.

What you get: 3 carousel posts made for you + full distribution. Completely free.

Drop your link below. B2C only. I'll choose a few that are a good fit.

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u/Full_Painting3502 — 3 hours ago

7 months ago I had an idea and zero app development experience

Today my app is live on the App Store and people are chatting with each other on flights without internet.

I built Wingman Cabin Chat as a solo founder after I realise realised it should be possible to connect people during travel.
I travelled quite often alone and was watching people around me sitting 8 hours next to someone… and nobody says a word anymore.
So I built an offline airplane chat app that works in Airplane Mode. No Wi-Fi. No SIM. No cloud servers. Just nearby passengers discovering each other locally.
Not gonna lie:
Apple rejections hurt 😂
Debugging the code at 2AM hurt more
Marketing a social app with no users is its own psychological challenge…
But seeing the first my app was accepted at Store and people start to download felt unreal.

If anyone here is building with SwiftUI / vibe coding / indie apps would love to connect 🙌

u/oneApee — 2 hours ago
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Hey guys, I built my first app… well, not really my first, but my first one that I’m seriously putting out there

It started as a simple to-do list app, but it turned into more of a life logger. I kept downloading different apps for finance, to-do lists, Pomodoro, workouts, and habit tracking, and honestly, it felt annoying switching the app

So I thought, why not combine everything into one app?

so yeah Lazier was born

I’d really love your feedback:

  • What should I change?
  • What should I remove?
  • Does the UI suck? Be honest (actually idk because i'm suck with it )
  • What feels good?
  • How does it feel after using it?

I actually use it every day myself and surprisingly… it kind of works
here is my download link now it only on ios because i wrote it on swift

download here [Lazier]

edit:
here is my screenshot also

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/KER9oOxz

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/l91ZVg5I

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/cncr2xU2

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/h0N2uedq

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/mfL_YODU

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/JPrLT5hp

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/6UoszF3k

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/Yt5fuxvB

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/xYnH1jKL

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/PGR2DDqp

u/divertzt — 5 hours ago
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Kadu — your private Instagram for memories [free]

I’ve tried a lot of journaling apps like Day One and Apple Journal, but I quickly realized something — I don’t actually enjoy writing that much.

What I really wanted was a way to save memories through photos and videos in a format that feels natural and enjoyable to browse.

That’s why I started building Kadu.

It’s basically a private journal combined with a personal media archive, but designed more like a social feed. You can create entries using only photos or videos without writing any text at all, and your memories appear in a clean feed similar to Instagram-style posts.

Kadu is fully private — everything is stored locally on your device.

I also focused heavily on media support because most journal apps still treat photos and videos like attachments instead of the main part of the experience. In Kadu, you can instantly capture photos and videos directly inside the app without first saving them to your gallery and importing them later. There’s also a functional text editor and a smart share button that lets you quickly publish posts with all attached media to social platforms if you decide to make something public.

Currently testing the idea and would genuinely love feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kadu-visual-diary-journal/id6762195713

u/DmitroKurdiukov — 1 hour ago

Roast my screen shots. Screen time app

App allows you to block other apps based on one of timers, daily schedules or exercises

u/antifringe — 2 hours ago

What strategy do you use to acquire users?

What strategy do you use to acquire users for your app? TikTok, Reels, Reddit?

u/LautaroVegaa — 9 hours ago
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I built AppReviewer Preflight after seeing how many great indie apps get slowed down by App Store rejections and made it free to get started

Hey everyone,

One thing I kept noticing with iOS releases is that even solid apps often get delayed during App Store review for issues that aren’t really about the core product.

Things like missing metadata, incomplete privacy details, subscription setup inconsistencies, or small guideline oversights tend to cause repeated rejection cycles and slow down launches more than the actual code does.

So I built AppReviewer Preflight.

It’s a structured pre-submission checklist tool designed to help iOS developers catch common App Store review risks before submitting a build.

Instead of relying on memory, scattered notes, or last-minute checks, it centralizes everything into a clear workflow you can actually follow before release.

Key Features:

  • Pre-submission checklist focused on common iOS review risks
  • Filter checks by app type (subscriptions, IAP, ads, UGC, login-required apps, etc.)
  • Severity labels for critical vs. major issues
  • Mark items as resolved or unresolved during review
  • Add internal notes for QA, handoff, or team tracking
  • Fast search across rules and submission topics
  • Save progress locally and continue anytime
  • Export reports as PDF or JSON
  • Quick access to official Apple guideline references
  • Clean workflow designed for iPhone and iPad

Who it’s for:

  • Indie developers preparing first launches
  • Agencies shipping client apps
  • Product and QA teams managing release cycles
  • Developers trying to reduce avoidable App Store delays

What it helps you do:

  • Catch privacy and compliance issues earlier
  • Validate monetization and subscription setups
  • Reduce preventable rejection cycles
  • Track unresolved review items in one place
  • Improve release confidence and consistency

The goal is to make App Store submission more predictable and less reactive.

You can try it here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/appreviewer-preflight/id6761920856

u/alexandmuller — 10 hours ago
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Adding big text to my screenshots increased App Store CR by 3%+

I used to have App Store conversion rates between 2% and 3.5% for my app.

Recently, I made one extremely simple change that pushed my CR to 5–7% almost immediately after the new screenshots went live.

The interesting part is that I had already tried adding text to screenshots before — but I used longer marketing-style sentences.

Then I started noticing that many successful apps shared on this subreddit used extremely large and very short text instead. So I decided to test it myself.

I redesigned my screenshots around a single idea:

Explain every feature in 1–2 huge words.

That was literally the only ASO-related change I made.

No keyword updates.

No metadata changes.

No external marketing.

No paid traffic.

Just screenshots with massive text that instantly communicates what the app does before the user even thinks.

The results honestly surprised me.

From the very next day the screenshots were approved, my CR jumped from ~2–3.5% to ~5–7%.

What’s even crazier is what a “small” 2–3% CR increase actually means in real numbers:

+30–50 additional downloads per day

~900–1500 extra users per month

…from a change that took maybe 5 minutes.

I also started noticing this behavior in myself while browsing the App Store:

The only screenshots that consistently make me stop scrolling are the ones with huge, instantly readable text.

My next step is localizing the screenshots, although that’ll be harder because many languages can’t explain features in only 2 words like English can.

Still, I’d honestly expect localized screenshots to push conversion even further — maybe into the 7–9% range.

Small changes can sometimes create surprisingly large results.

u/dejan000 — 12 hours ago
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[iOS][FREE] OptimistPal: A daily practice in optimism

I built it for myself to train my mind to be an optimist.

The app is very simple. It helps reframe negative thoughts into something positive.

It blocks apps until you reframe a negative thought.

It's free and I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/optimistpal/id6770231815

u/john200ok — 16 hours ago
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I shipped a subscription Tracker App and need feedback

Hi Guys, ı am an indie dev. and developed a subs. tracker app. There is an algorithm app that uses math rather than ai. The app Basicly does everything a subs. app does and additionally gives real saving advices according to your spending habit. ı havent been succesfull so far and need feedback from you guys.

Can you check and give feedbacks?

here is the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yula-subscription-tracker-ai/id6759402076

u/Funny-Guarantee-7977 — 24 hours ago
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NoThink is my second iOS app. 7 weeks live. Total revenue: $10. About 6–20 App Store impressions per day. One subscription. I'm a solo indie dev with a full-time job and studies, English isn't my first language, and I need to share something honest.

This week I sat down and audited my own ASO from scratch. It was bad.

My title was "NoThink: Pause, Reset, Unwind" — three emotive verbs, zero high-volume search keywords. My description never named a single one of my actual features (Box Breathing, Panic Relief, Do Nothing, Deep Thinking, Binaural sounds). My Turkish title had a typo — "Anskiyete" instead of "Anksiyete" — that one transposed letter was blocking the entire Turkish App Store from finding me for 7 weeks.

So I rewrote everything from scratch:

- New title: NoThink: Anxiety & Breathing

- New subtitle: Panic Relief & Mindfulness

- Keyword field: 14 single words tuned to actual search data (meditation, stress, calm, box, breathwork, binaural, sleep, focus, zen, deep, reset, nothing, grounding, detox)

- Description rewritten naming every feature

- Fixed the Turkish typo

- Optimized listings for UK, AU, CA, Spain, Sweden, Traditional Chinese — instead of 5 markets falling back to English

What floored me in the research: the top result for "anxiety" in the US App Store is Rootd, with only 10K ratings. Apple's algorithm rewards topical relevance, not just rating count. The wellness category looks impossible because Calm and Headspace dominate, but at the body/long-tail keyword layer it's wide open.

I'll come back to this subreddit in exactly 2 weeks with real numbers — impressions, conversion, revenue, win or lose.

Side note on the $10 story: a few days ago I posted here and accidentally wrote that the "lifetime" purchase was $6.99, but App Store was showing $6.99 monthly. One redditor pointed it out. I felt horrible. He was incredibly kind, accepted the corrected price, and bought lifetime. Next morning I woke up to my first real subscription notification. After months of nights and weekends, that "cha-ching" felt huge.

If you've ever struggled with overthinking, racing thoughts, or panic — free 3-day trial, no signup:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nothink-pause-reset-unwind/id6759533620

If it helps even a little, an honest App Store review would mean the world. And if you have ASO ideas I missed, please tell me — I'd rather hear hard truths now than learn them at $20 in revenue.

Thanks for reading. Have a calm day 🌿

u/Curious_Tap_6078 — 19 hours ago
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Question - 3% tap-through rate from App Store search - icon or screenshots problem?

I'm a solo dev running a chronic pain tracking app (Flare). Launched about a month ago, running Apple Search Ads alongside organic. Here are my numbers:

The Funel:

~150 search impressions/day (blended paid + organic)

~5 product page views/day

~3% tap-through rate from search results

- Once on the page, ~60-80% download (so the listing itself converts fine)

- 75 total downloads  

The drop-off is clearly at the search result card. People see me in results and scroll past.

The video preview was added May 16th so data on that is still just noise - I'd appreciate any feedback you can offer me! thanks

u/_Sarandi_ — 20 hours ago
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First impressions matter. Redesigned the App Store screenshots for GoMindAI — because the app deserved visuals that actually do it justice.

Hi everyone,

I've released new screenshots for my app and it's getting me more downloads. I've tried to explain many app features with pain points by keeping them simple and intuitive.

I would truly appreciate your genuine feedback on my app and screenshots.

u/UpstairsTask8983 — 1 day ago

Promoting app on x pre-launch - advice

Hello, I am currently in the process of building my app and collecting waitlist signups for it. I am mostly using Instagram and TikTok for marketing, and a bit of Reddit. I saw that X can also be used for it, but I have never been on this platform, and I need some guidance. I've been searching online and on subreddits such as this one, but it's been difficult of me to find a comprehensive guide on how to approach this. Does anyone here have experience with pre-launch marketing on X (and just using X for content), and could share it with me? I would also appreciate links to any guides online. Thanks!

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u/majazofia — 16 hours ago