Carpool.School
School Carpools & Dismissal
Your score
Shaky. 16 of 43 checks need attention.
Carpool.School
Travel · US
- Discoverability61.2
Top 5 for 3 of 6 terms · 78% of characters
- First impression82.3
icon 100, shot 1 88, subtitle 60 of 100
- Credibility46.1
3.0★ from 4 ratings · no review themes
- Clarity90.5
5 of 6 viewers described it correctly
- Competitiveness9.3
Picked 0 of 2 shelf runs · 23rd pct
Working
- You have a subtitle. Good, most indie apps don't.
- Your subtitle uses 27 of 30 characters. Well spent.
Not working
- You're at 3.0 stars. Below 3.5 nothing else on this page matters. About half of users won't consider a 3-star app at all, and you're invisible to editorial featuring, where 95% of picks are 4.0+. Fix the rating first; every other recommendation in this report is downstream of it.
- One word appears in more than one indexed field ("school"), costing you roughly 7 characters. Apple counts each word once and says plainly not to repeat words from your name, subtitle or category. Delete the repeats and spend the space on new terms.
Leaderboard rank
See the full board →- #53Eat UNC61.5
- #54Carpool.Schoolthis app60.3
- #55intelli.coach59.8
The shelf
3 of 3 simulated users picked a rival off this row.
Search results · US · Travel
They were asked to find: “You are going somewhere new next month and want the trip to stay organised.”
- You1
Carpool.School
School Carpools & Dismissal
3.04 ratingsGet
Skeptical Researcher passed: “3.0 stars on only 4 ratings is too thin to trust for something handling my family's travel.”
- 2
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5.05 ratingsGet
- 3
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4.81.1K ratingsGet
- 4
BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus
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4.715K ratingsGet
- 5
Scoop - Carpooling & Commuting
Share your trip to work!
4.820K ratingsGet
Your taps
Where the taps went
- Scoop - Carpooling & Commuting4/6
- BlaBlaCar: Carpooling and Bus2/6
- Carpool.Schoolyou0/6
Fix these first
5 changes, in order of impact.
Rating average
+10–35% est.You're at 3.0 stars. Below 3.5 nothing else on this page matters. About half of users won't consider a 3-star app at all, and you're invisible to editorial featuring, where 95% of picks are 4.0+. Fix the rating first; every other recommendation in this report is downstream of it. Fix the rating before anything else on this page. Below 4.0 stars, creative advice is noise.
conversionStrong evidenceCategory choice sanity
Nothing in your name, subtitle or description sounds like a Travel app. Both categories are indexed, and App Review treats an irrelevant category as grounds for rejection. Check that this is really where you belong, and if it is, say so in your own words. Make sure your primary category matches what your listing says you do, and set a secondary category. Both are indexed, and an irrelevant one is grounds for rejection.
visibilityApple-documentedRating count vs the top 5
You have 4 ratings against a top-5 median of 6,736. Under about 25 ratings, even a 4.8 average reads as unproven. This is a volume problem, not a quality one. Ask for ratings in-app at a moment the user is happy. iOS shows no download counts, so your rating count is the only popularity proof a stranger can see.
conversionIndustry consensusSocial proof is the weakest part of your listing
Social proof scores 0/100. Weakest: 3.00★; ~50% of users won't consider a 3★ app; 95% of featured apps are 4.0+; 4 ratings vs a top-5 median of 6,736 (0%). What the review actually saw: 3.00★; ~50% of users won't consider a 3★ app; 95% of featured apps are 4.0+; 4 ratings vs a top-5 median of 6,736 (0%).
conversionOur proposalCross-index locales unused
You're publishing in one language, and the United States storefront supports 9 more. Each missing one is another 30-character name, 30-character subtitle and 100-character keyword field: 1,440 indexable characters you're leaving on the table in the same storefront, without translating your app. Missing: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Mexico), Vietnamese. Add metadata in your storefront's additional supported languages. Each one is another 160 indexable characters (30 name + 30 subtitle + 100 keywords) in the same storefront.
visibilityIndustry consensus
What simulated users said
0 of 6 would tap your card; 0 of 6 would install.
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“A 3-star rating on a carpool app is a hard pass — I'm not betting my child's pickup on something that low.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“Four ratings at 3.0 stars tells me nothing good, and I'm not installing something this new with a score that low.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Silver Adopter
68, retired teacher · capable, but scam-fearful
“I need to see a lot more people have used this before I'll trust it with my grandchild's transportation.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Silver Adopter
68, retired teacher · capable, but scam-fearful
“I need to see a lot more people have tried this and come out okay before I put my location into an app I've never heard of.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Busy Parent
41, two kids · decides in stolen moments outside a bedroom door
“I'm not trusting my kids' rides to an app that barely has any reviews.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Busy Parent
41, two kids · decides in stolen moments outside a bedroom door
“A carpool app shouldn't need a 17+ rating — that's a red flag I'm not sticking around to understand.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it