How to (consistently) get 4.8* App Ratings
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How to (consistently) get 4.8* App Ratings
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#2The unpredictable randomness of when an app is going to throw up a "please rate me!!" modal really drives me up the wall.
I understand developers do this because it works, but yeesh
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#3> Therefore, the majority of your app reviews should come when you ask for review. This is really easy via the StoreKit APIs in iOS.
I haven't been asked for a review in awhile, but whenever an app pops up a dialog for this I immediately rate it 1-star, hoping to discourage the behaviour.
I think this behaviour dropped off a cliff when Apple implemented a standard way to ask for reviews and a toggle to disable it, which I assume I toggled years ago. But some apps presumably don't use this framework and get through to me anyway.
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Re: How to (consistently) get 4.8* App Ratings
#5> Therefore, the majority of your app reviews should come when you ask for review. This is really easy via the StoreKit APIs in iOS. I haven't been asked for a review in awhile, but whenever an app pops up a dialog for this I immediately rate it 1-star, hoping to discourage the behaviour. I think this behaviour dropped off a cliff when Apple implemented a standard way to ask for reviews and a toggle to disable it, wh…
(Settings > App Store > In-app Ratings & Reviews)
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#6> In a typical bit of startup growth-hacking, we forced users to sign up after this questionnaire, but before they saw their results. Since they’d invested so much time already, this had phenomenally low drop-off.
> After burning this small amount of goodwill, we showed the user a beautiful, slow-running animation which revealing their carbon footprint, alongside several nifty graphs to break it down and benchmark it against other users.
> 5 seconds into this — enough time to be awed, but not enough time for the novelty to wear off — we asked for an app review.
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#7> Therefore, the majority of your app reviews should come when you ask for review. This is really easy via the StoreKit APIs in iOS. I haven't been asked for a review in awhile, but whenever an app pops up a dialog for this I immediately rate it 1-star, hoping to discourage the behaviour. I think this behaviour dropped off a cliff when Apple implemented a standard way to ask for reviews and a toggle to disable it, wh…
Funny, you are in this category exactly. Don't know if you got this far down.
> 6 users made it to the wow moment, but were so offended at being asked to review that they automatically put a 1* rating.
Re: How to (consistently) get 4.8* App Ratings
#8> Therefore, the majority of your app reviews should come when you ask for review. This is really easy via the StoreKit APIs in iOS. I haven't been asked for a review in awhile, but whenever an app pops up a dialog for this I immediately rate it 1-star, hoping to discourage the behaviour. I think this behaviour dropped off a cliff when Apple implemented a standard way to ask for reviews and a toggle to disable it, wh…
I don't know why you're getting downvoted but I do the same. I can't stand when I'm using and app and it asks me to rate it. If I am enjoying your app I will go to the store and rate/review it.
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#9> Therefore, the majority of your app reviews should come when you ask for review. This is really easy via the StoreKit APIs in iOS. I haven't been asked for a review in awhile, but whenever an app pops up a dialog for this I immediately rate it 1-star, hoping to discourage the behaviour. I think this behaviour dropped off a cliff when Apple implemented a standard way to ask for reviews and a toggle to disable it, wh…
I don't know why you're getting downvoted but I do the same. I can't stand when I'm using and app and it asks me to rate it. If I am enjoying your app I will go to the store and rate/review it.
Most people don't though.
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#10I kinda agree with the article, very few people go out of their way to review your application, usually it's people who want to report issues or are just there to give you 1 star and call it a day. Personally, I don't review the application when I'm prompted, but I know a lot of people that do this and it's probably better for the marketplace to get ratings from more people to rank the applications.
Also, I read in this article that Google forbids that review gating tactic, but I know 10-20 apps that asked me for feedback, I refused and then sent me to a random website to tell them what's wrong with this app. After that, of course, I went out of my way to drop 1 star since this is the worst tactic to gather engagement and turns people away from your app.