TRNDG - Back what’s trending
Back What's Trending
Your score
Solid. 11 of 43 checks need attention.
TRNDG - Back what’s trending
News · US
- Discoverability60.2
Top 5 for 1 of 6 terms · 74% of characters
- First impression72.6
icon 78, shot 1 63, subtitle 80 of 100
- Credibility73.6
5.0★ from 5 ratings
- Clarity86.9
5 of 6 viewers described it correctly
- Competitiveness50.3
Shelf picks flipped on order, no preference · 50th pct
Working
- Your app name uses 28 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
- 3 words appear in more than one indexed field ("trending", "back", "what"), costing you roughly 19 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.
- 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.
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The shelf
3 of 3 simulated users picked a rival off this row.
Search results · US · News
They were asked to find: “You want a quick, honest read of what happened today that isn't shouting at you.”
- You1
TRNDG - Back what’s trending
Back What's Trending
5.05 ratingsGet
Skeptical Researcher passed: “5.0 stars over only 5 ratings is meaningless—that's not a real sample size, it's just five people who happened to like it.”
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World trending search topics
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- 3
Volv - Curated 9-Second News
Latest Trending News Summaries
4.6942 ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
- 4
Break The Web
The Internet's Scoreboard
4.7479 ratingsGet
- 5
WFAE Public Radio App
News
4.3130 ratingsGet
Your taps
Where the taps went
- Volv - Curated 9-Second News3/6
- Break The Web3/6
- TRNDG - Back what’s trendingyou0/6
Fix these first
5 changes, in order of impact.
Cross-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 consensusRating count vs the top 5
You have 5 ratings against a top-5 median of 130. 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 proposalSame word used in more than one indexed field
3 words appear in more than one indexed field ("trending", "back", "what"), costing you roughly 19 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. Delete the repeated words from your keyword field. Every word counts once, so repeating it is pure character waste.
visibilityApple-documented
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)
“The rating is perfect but five people is not a sample size, and I'm not putting money into something I can't verify.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“Five ratings total with a perfect score and nothing but praise is exactly when I need to see the 1-star side, and I'm not getting it.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Silver Adopter
68, retired teacher · capable, but scam-fearful
“This looks like betting on celebrities, which is not news, and I have never heard of who made it or whether it is legitimate.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Silver Adopter
68, retired teacher · capable, but scam-fearful
“This is asking me to gamble on celebrities with real money from someone I've never heard of, and that's not happening.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Impulse Scroller
19, student · installs several apps a week, deletes most of them
“The icon's clean and the design is modern, but I have no idea what I'd be tapping into, so I'm scrolling.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it
Impulse Scroller
19, student · installs several apps a week, deletes most of them
“The yellow and black design caught me, but the first screenshot didn't explain what I was actually doing with those 'Buy in' buttons, so I would've been gone before I got here.”
- The card
- would not tap
- The page
- did not open it