r/AppStoreOptimization

I'm Jerry, founder of Monni.

I'm giving 20 people a free 1-year membership in exchange for blunt feedback on the first week.

Monni is an iOS money brief for people who want a lighter weekly check-in instead of a full budgeting system.

Best fit:

• you use or used Mint, Monarch, YNAB, Simplifi, spreadsheets, or mental math
• you want a clearer "what's safe to spend this week?" view
• you're okay telling me what feels confusing or untrustworthy

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monni-ai-money-tracker/id6778174904

Website: https://monni.io

DM me if you want one. I'll reply asking for the email to grant access to, then manually add the free year.

Please don't post your email publicly, and don't send balances, screenshots, account numbers, addresses, passwords, or private financial details. High-level workflow feedback is enough.

I may be biased because I'm the founder of Monni.io.

I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription for keyword data, so I wrote a CLI that gets it straight from Apple.

What it does

• Popularity from Apple Search Ads (free Apple Ads account, no campaigns or billing needed). Terms Apple floors at 5 get re-checked through recommendations, which often returns the real value
• Difficulty based on the top 10 apps for a term, plus keyword suggestions
• Rank tracking with history in a local SQLite file
• Metadata linter for title, subtitle and keyword field (duplicate words, wasted characters, plurals)

Install

npm i -g hristo2612/aso-cli && aso setup

Try it

aso keywords "white noise,sleep sounds"
aso suggest meditation
aso search "habit tracker"

Runs locally, no account, no telemetry. MIT.

Repo: github.com/hristo2612/aso-cli

Curious how the difficulty numbers line up with whatever tool you use today.

Title:

V1: Booze Count

V2: Booze Count: Alcohol Tracker

Subtitle:

V1: BAC Calculator & Drink Log

V2: Alcohol Tracker & Coach

Keywords:

V1: alcohol,drink tracker,drinking,drink counter,quit drinking,BAC,drink logging,cocktail,addiction,weed

V2:

In 21 days, I have made some updates. Not particularly because of issues with analytics, I just evolved it a few times.

Why did I change screenshots

I wanted to show a better story of how my app is going to be helpful to users who are out drinking and want to calculate their BAC to both stay healthy and know when they could consider driving. The hope was, showing a cartoon use case scenario can be easily followed and people will see themselves in similar situations. I just changed it so we'll see how this performs.

Why did I change the logo

I wanted to make sure that my app doesn't look like an old generic app. By adding a mascot and a vibrant color theme, I was hoping people would recognize my app much easier. Also I thought it would be easy for story telling. I am not sure if this makes it feel too cutesy considering my target audience may be a bit skewed towards men. After all, men are more likely to engage in heavy drinking and have higher rates of alcohol use disorder. Although, that doesn't automatically determine my user base.

Why did I change the title / subtitle

Originally my title was just "Booze Count". But on another reddit, someone told me I should optimize. I wasn't focused on those things until yesterday, but now I'm doing a bunch of research and that's how I ended up on this page anyway.

What's next for me?

• Header and Search Results screenshots Unsure, but I will try re-working the first screenshot or show the challenge/badge collecting as the main page to let users know about the gamification. Maybe I'll get new ideas and perspectives as I design it.
• Keywords I still don't think I have a final version of the keywords. I'm trying to learn some tools that help with ASO. I don't want to spend a fortune, so I'm going to find some free keywords research tools.
• TikTok Marketing I have some plans for making some TikTok videos "My app making journey blog" or "Funny videos with my app as a story device". I have been seeing some people who allegedly have succeeded in marketing their apps. I'll try something.

Yeah so there it is! any questions, feedbacks, criticisms, words of encouragements, are all welcome!

Hi everyone! I made a workout tracker called Shugyo, but I’m now working on ASO before going too crazy with marketing. I know there are improvements I can make, I’m just hoping the good people in this subreddit may be willing to help me learn. It’s my second app, but one that I have a clearer vision for.

There isn’t a whole lot I’ve done so far since I have a day job as well, but I put much of what little free time I have. There are plans for additional localization and eventually a subscription piece with some premium features, but it’s largely a freemium app supported by ads. I don’t store anyone’s data and I have non-personalized ads by default for privacy.

I’d be happy to learn from any real examples you’ve got from your own work as well. All feedback is appreciated, so please brutally roast when you have a moment 🤗

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shugyo-by-cascadia-software/id6769858957

I’m the developer of PicPop, an iPhone app for chipping away at a messy camera roll. It groups similar and blurry shots for manual review, with Screenshots in their own section. You choose what to keep or delete; it doesn’t delete anything automatically.

14-second demo (Reddit video): https://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/comments/1w42yjj/comment/pcji0f3/

It’s free to download, with a 3-day trial and then a subscription. App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picpop-photo-video-cleaner/id6808016560

Would you start with the similar shots or work through photos month by month?

I launched the new Founder subscription today. I wrote more about why I’m doing it and what it means here:

https://wellnessproject.ai/early-access

You can sign up as a founder here:

https://wellnessproject.ai/settings/subscription

Also shipped this week:

• Push-to-talk voice logging Food barcode scanning
• Expanded body metrics, including BMI, body composition, tape measurements and more
• Chat history, free for everyone for the next 60 days
• Set / rep / weight workout imports on Android where Health Connect exposes the data
• Sync improvements to make wearable and health data updates more stable and frequent
• Better nutrition syncing and broader wearable / smart-scale support
• Continued expansion of language support
• Apple still doesn’t expose detailed strength-workout sets and reps the same way Android can, so we're exploring direct integrations there.

The product is starting to feel much more like the health data layer I originally wanted to build: workouts, nutrition, sleep, recovery, body composition and AI in one place.

As always, suggestions are very welcome.

I’m working on the screenshots for my travel app, and the biggest feedback on my previous set was that people couldn’t tell what the app actually did.

I’ve replaced the vague captions with direct benefits and used real app screens alongside examples of what users can create. I also made the phone sizes and layout consistent.

Before explaining the app here and influencing your first impression: what would you expect this app to do from these screenshots alone?

Would you keep this order, or is there a stronger screenshot to lead with? Honest criticism welcome.