Driftwood: Hard Talk Rehearsal
Social Anxiety Roleplay Coach
Your score
Shaky. 8 of 43 checks need attention.
Driftwood: Hard Talk Rehearsal
Lifestyle · US
- Discoverability51.9
Outranked on all 6 terms · 98% of characters
- First impression90.3
icon 100, shot 1 88, subtitle 85 of 100
- Credibility42.6
Unrated. Scored on freshness and reviews only
- Clarity90.5
5 of 6 viewers described it correctly
- Competitiveness10.4
Picked 0 of 4 shelf runs · 26th pct
Working
- Your app name uses 30 of 30 characters. That's a good use of the highest-weighted field you have.
- You have a subtitle. Good, most indie apps don't.
Not working
- Nothing in your name or subtitle says what the app actually does. It reads as a brand plus adjectives. Those 60 characters are the only text on your search card, so a stranger has to guess, and Apple's text matching has nothing to work with.
- 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.
Leaderboard rank
See the full board →- #56Read This For Me: Scan Text59.8
- #57Driftwood: Hard Talk Rehearsalthis app59.0
- #58Sprig: Private Meeting Notes58.7
The shelf
3 of 3 simulated users picked a rival off this row.
Search results · US · Lifestyle
They were asked to find: “You want to build one habit and keep it for longer than a fortnight.”
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Your taps
Where the taps went
- Social Wizard - up ur game2/6
- T-Life2/6
- Driftwood: Hard Talk Rehearsalyou1/6
- Hatchr: Social Anxiety Coach1/6
Fix these first
5 changes, in order of impact.
Rating count vs the top 5
You have 0 ratings against a top-5 median of 6,663. 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 consensusPreview video is the weakest part of your listing
Preview video scores 0/100. Weakest: no preview video, while 1 of 5 benchmark rivals ship one; a good one measures +20–35% and watchers are ~3× likelier to install. What the review actually saw: no preview video, while 1 of 5 benchmark rivals ship one; a good one measures +20–35% and watchers are ~3× likelier to install.
conversionOur proposalSocial proof is the weakest part of your listing
Social proof scores 0/100. Weakest: 0.00★; ~50% of users won't consider a 3★ app; 95% of featured apps are 4.0+; 0 ratings vs a top-5 median of 6,663 (0%). What the review actually saw: 0.00★; ~50% of users won't consider a 3★ app; 95% of featured apps are 4.0+; 0 ratings vs a top-5 median of 6,663 (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 consensusNo functional word in name + subtitle
Nothing in your name or subtitle says what the app actually does. It reads as a brand plus adjectives. Those 60 characters are the only text on your search card, so a stranger has to guess, and Apple's text matching has nothing to work with. Put one word in your name or subtitle that says what the app does: the verb or the noun someone would type into search.
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)
“I need to see actual people have used this and rated it before I spend time on it, and right now there's nothing.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“I can see what it does and it sounds useful, but zero ratings means zero proof it actually works.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Price-Sensitive Pragmatist
29, gig worker · goes straight to the in-app purchase list
“It says free but the first screenshot basically tells me the real content is locked until I pay, so no thanks.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Price-Sensitive Pragmatist
29, gig worker · goes straight to the in-app purchase list
“I can see from the screenshots that most of the lines are locked behind 'subscribe' buttons, so this is a subscription trap dressed up as free.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Power User
31, developer · actually reads the description
“The screenshots show real depth in what it's trying to do, but zero ratings and a paywall on most of the content makes me skip it.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- would install
Power User
31, developer · actually reads the description
“The idea is solid but everything real is locked, so I have no way to know if the coaching feedback is actually useful or just generic affirmations.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- would install