Listing an app on iPip costs nothing. Here is every step, so nothing surprises you.
Before you start
- Your app is on the App Store, for iPhone, iPad or both.
- You have its App Store link. It starts with
apps.apple.comand has an id in it, likeid1234567890. - You have an email address you can read. There is no password: you sign in with a 6-digit code.
The steps
- Paste your link on the submit page. iPip reads the public App Store listing: name, icon, iPhone and iPad screenshots, category and price.
- Check what we read. Pick which screenshots to show, and in what order. Your app is shown only on the devices it is made for.
- Write your one line. The name can be 30 characters and the tagline 90. These are your own words, and we never rewrite or translate them.
- Sign in with the 6-digit code we email you. Your MacPip account works here too.
- Pick a launch day or a listing. A launch day can be any open day from tomorrow up to 21 days ahead, with up to 5 free launches a day. A listing has no date.
- Give one, get one. A free launch asks you to write one honest review of another maker's app first: what you tried, what worked, and one thing that could be better. It is labelled Maker review and left out of the app's star average.
- Wait for a person. Every app is looked at by a person before it goes live. If we say no, your status page says why, so you can fix it and send it back.
On your launch day
Your app sits in Today's launches with live votes from midnight to midnight UTC. Share your app's page wherever your users are: every vote counts the same, and nobody can buy one.
Premium
Premium launches open soon. Until then every launch on iPip is free, and there is nothing to buy. When it opens, a Premium launch will take one of 3 extra spots a day and be labelled Featured, and it still never changes votes, rank or winners. Pricing says more.