iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer

Post by alohahacker » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 2:36 PM UTC

avgarrison wrote: post #40

teej wrote: post #38

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Would you mind disclosing your sales for the past week? What did you do (without pushing an update) that made it shoot up so much? http://www.appannie.com/bridgebasher/ranking/history/#view=g...

I have another app, SimplePhysics, which is a far better app, and I made it free last week. I have a notification in it that says: "If you like SimplePhysics, then you should check out my other game, BridgeBasher!" and redirects them to the download page for BB. Since SP is free, it's getting around 80k-100k downloads per day, and really driving sales for BB.

Post by alohahacker » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

Post by hello_moto » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

bignoggins wrote: post #70

acangiano wrote: post #50

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Damn, you are doing well. Is it just you behind this operation?

only me full time. I hire contractors for graphics and some programming. Android is handled mainly by a friend of mine and we have a 50/50 revenue share. I also have another iPhone app that sells much better but it came out recently so I haven't had a chance to port to iPad or Android yet.

Post by kjbake01 » Sat, Aug 27, 2011, 6:14 PM UTC

Post by jc4p » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 5:45 AM UTC

avgarrison wrote: post #28

It may be worthwhile for me to chime in here with my own stats, which are far less impressive than bignoggins. I recently ported my iOS app, BridgeBasher, to Android. I took a different route though. Since I had no users on Android, I thought the best thing to do would be to create an ad-based version on Android, mostly because I've heard a lot of people say that Android users are less likely to pay for apps. I decid…