u/Rare_Oven_8888

Hey everyone 👋

Long time lurker, first time poster here. Wanted to share something I've been working on for the past few months. Honest reason I built this app I got genuinely annoyed.

I was trying every budget app on the Play Store and every single one either wanted my phone number, bank account access, or made me create an account just to track that I spent ₹20 on chai. It felt wrong. These apps are "free" but they're clearly making money off my data somewhere.

So I just... built my own. I'm a solo developer from India and this is my first published app.

It's called CashFlow - Expense Tracker.

The whole point was simple what if an expense tracker just worked, with zero data leaving your phone?

→ No login of any kind. You open it and it works.

→ Fully offline. No Firebase, no backend, nothing.

→ Adding an expense takes under 5 seconds. Genuinely timed it.

→ Basic analytics so you can see where money is going at month end.

Built it in Flutter. Local storage only. No ads inside the app either.

I'm not here to say it's perfect it's my first app and I'm sure there are things I've missed. But I'd genuinely love feedback from this community, especially around:

- Play Store listing / screenshots are they clear enough?

- Anything that looks off as a developer?

- Would you personally use something like this?

Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.setubandhTech.cashflow&hl=en

Thanks for reading. Any feedback is appreciated, even the brutal kind 🙏

Hey,

So I finally did it. Published my first Android app on the Play Store about two weeks ago and honestly it's been a weird mix of exciting and humbling at the same time.

The app is called Checkin — basically a daily safety check-in. You open it once a day, tap a button, your emergency contact knows you're okay. If you miss it, they get an automatic SMS or email alert. No GPS, no account, no subscription. I built it because my mom lives alone and I wanted something simple for her. Link at the bottom.

Anyway, here's what actually surprised me after going through the whole process:

**The first review took 3 days.** I was checking the console every few hours like a maniac. The second update went through in about a day. Is that pretty standard or did something probably get flagged the first time?

**The pre-launch report is actually worth checking.** Firebase Test Lab ran a crawl on my app and caught a couple of UI things I completely missed on my own phone. I almost skipped it thinking it wouldn't matter for a simple app. Glad I didn't.

**ASO is confusing me.** I put real effort into the description and screenshots but I genuinely don't know if any of it is working. The acquisition report says installs are coming from "Google Play search" but doesn't show me which actual queries. Is there any way to see that at low volume, or is it just not available until you hit some threshold?

**Haven't touched store listing experiments yet.** I see the A/B testing for icons and screenshots but it feels pointless at 22 downloads. Does it need significant traffic before the results mean anything?

That's where I'm at. All organic so far, zero paid anything. If anyone has gone through this early stage and has thoughts on reading the console better or just what to actually focus on right now — I'd genuinely appreciate it.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexaserve.checkinapps