u/Responsible-Ride-135

I launched my app on the App Store on June 11, the same day the World Cup started. Timing was everything, I wanted football fans to be able to use it from day one.

After 14 days, it has 1.62K downloads, all organic, $0 paid promotion. Honestly, I’m really proud of those numbers.

Not because of the money (proceeds do not even cover half of my API and backend costs 😅), but because people are actually using something I spent a lot of time building. For me, the biggest reward is seeing a product I genuinely believe in being useful to others.

Now for the fun part…

The tournament only has two weeks left. If you were in my position and your goal was to get this app from 1.6K to many more downloads (I do not want to say 20K or 30K) before the tournament ends, what would you do?

I’m already working on ASO (not so much time for that), TikTok, and continuously improving the app, but I’m sure there are ideas I haven’t thought of.

I’m genuinely curious what this community would try if they had a short-lived, event-driven app with only a couple of weeks left to make an impact.

After the tournament ends I will convert the app into an app for football fans, so it would have a life beyond the World Cup.

Hello everyone!

I created this app because I wanted to follow the World Cup in a beautiful interface. I wanted an app that gives you match schedules, live scores, live match events, live stats, insights, group standings, pre-match and live predictions, knockout bracket, widgets, favorite teams and players & more.

I managed to get my app approved by Apple just 1 day before the start of the World Cup, since then I already released 2 updates, so the app now works flawlessly. 

Many functions are free, for the predictions, advanced insights, stats, lineups, advanced notifications there is a one-time IAP for this tournament. 

All the schedules, live scores, group standings, match overview are completely free.

I'd love to know if you like it, suggest improvements or tell me about any other feature you would like to have in the app.

Thanks!

https://apps.apple.com/app/world-football-cup-2026/id6775471221

Hi everyone! My latest app was approved by Apple yesterday, these are the numbers from day one.

I'm thrilled to see them & I thought I'd share them with you 😀

A big thank you to the Redditors who helped with feedback and suggestions along the way!

What do you think?

Hi, everyone! I'm so happy that I couldn't wait to share this with you.

Apple just approved my latest app, right in time for the World Cup. 

It includes a lot of free cool features: Live scores, upcoming, matches, finished results, venues, kickoff times, group standings, match details, insights, widgets & more.

There's also a one-time IAP that unlocks Premium predictions, Match intelligence, Scenario simulator, Knockout Probability, Favorites tools, Premium notifications.

The UI is fully customized for the tournament and looks fantastic across all matches.

You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/world-football-cup-2026/id6775471221

The app was approved today, so it may take a little time to appear in all countries as it propagates through the App Store, but it will be available worldwide.

I hope you enjoy it & I’d love to hear your feedback.

Thanks!

Hi guys! I’ve launched this app almost 3 weeks ago, but the first week was really strong, nearly 80% of the sales were in the first week, when I also averaged 15-20 downloads/day, then all the numbers dropped aprubtly. Does anybody know why?
Does Apple do that, push your app for one week?