The Short Version Appsfire is introducing today a powerful and innovative signal to assess whether an app is worth downloading. App Score is a dynamic score which processes dozens of parameters several times a day across all the apps in the iOS App Store. The App Score for a particular app goes beyond the current ratings, rankings [...]
Google Play Store is suffering from a weak app discovery experience. In spite of the redesigns and the web presence they introduced recently, most people still suffer from finding great apps in the newly named Play store. Some people will point to the fact the search experience is broken. But search is only a minor [...]
The App discovery is a young industry. But also a very messy one with all kinds of weird and shady business practices. Recently a lot was said about the Bot and fake download business. But this is just the tipping point of a bigger set of problems. We’re not used to write a lot about [...]
All app developers know it: it is hard to get discovered. But it will get worse before it gets better. Why? because there is more and more apps and because the native discovery mechanism built in the App Store are limited. Rankings - regarded as the most popular discovery mechanism - are limited and gamed: [...]
This post is fairly technical in nature, but also fairly accessible. Inter-app communication is still in its infancy. Indeed, as powerful software publishers would have it, each app or each suite of apps would attempt to lock users into a unique file format to achieve a sort of monopole. This is clearly what Microsoft [...]
Today Facebook is opening its Open Graph to Third Party apps. Basically Web services can, with the agreement of the user, populate their timeline with actions they take on those services Appsfire proud to be the very first Mobile app discovery service to launch as a partner along with a range of prestigious Web services [...]
Lots of great stuff coming from Appsfire this week. Version 3.1 of our Android app, 2 newly Universal apps, 1 new iOS app. The only thing we’re missing is a partridge in a pear tree. Let’s start with our newest app, Logostream. We debuted this app at LeWeb last week. Check out the video… [...]
Well, well! Black Friday has reached even the app store. After all, the app store is a store like any other stores. But it is not easy to realize how intense is the “black friday”, because there is no “Special Sales” section to discover those “deals” in the App store. But those of you who [...]
Movies have their trailers. Music titles, their preview. Apps deserve an equivalent At Appsfire we consider apps like a new media unit, a new way to consume content. Users perceive it that way and it is not by mistake that Apple has included the App store in iTunes along with music and movies. Media units, [...]
We track thousands of apps and we’re constantly in touch with many developers to help them grow. We consistently see the same mistakes made when it comes to making your app as visible as possible (what we call app discovery). Mistake #1: Do not wait for the launch of the app to start [...]
