Votes
- One vote per app from each network. No account needed, and every vote weighs the same.
- The most voted app ranks first. A tie goes to the app sent in first.
- Results lock at midnight UTC, when the launch day ends. The most voted app wins the day. A day with no votes has no winner.
- Signed in, each vote also gives you Pips. Pips never change a vote's weight.
- We remove launches that buy votes, and we say so.
Launch days
- Up to 5 free launches a day, first come, first served. You can book a day from tomorrow up to 21 days ahead.
- A free launch needs one honest review of another maker's app first: say 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.
- When Premium opens, a Premium launch takes one of 3 Premium spots a day, on top of the 5 free ones, so it never takes a free spot. It is pinned at the top of its own day and labelled Featured. The number on its row is still its rank by votes, and the most voted app wins, pinned or not.
- Not launching? Your app can just be listed. It gets its own page for good, with no date.
What money can buy
Nothing yet. When payments open:
| What | What you get |
|---|---|
| Premium launch | One of 3 Premium spots a day, pinned at the top of its launch day, labelled Featured |
| Featured | A labelled spot apart from the list |
What money can never buy
- A vote. Votes come from people, one per app from each network.
- A better rank. A pinned row keeps the rank its votes give it.
- A win. The most voted app wins the day.
- A pass on the check. Paid apps get the same look from a person, at the same speed.
- Pips. Pips can't be bought, and no payment gives any. They never change votes, rank or winners.
Always labelled
Every paid place says so: Featured on a Premium launch, Sponsored on a paid spot. Every paid link is marked rel="sponsored" for search engines.
What gets in
- An iPhone or iPad app on the App Store. We show it only on the devices it is made for.
- Its name, icon and screenshots come from its App Store listing, and they are real.
- Names, taglines and descriptions are the maker's own words. We never rewrite or translate them. A name can be 30 characters, a tagline 90.
If we say no
We tell you why on your status page, so you can fix it and send it back.
Pips, our points
- Pips are iPip's points. You earn them for taking part: +5 Pips for each vote while you are signed in, up to 6 votes a day, +15 for every third day in a row you vote, and +40 for every seventh.
- Pips can't be bought, and no payment gives any. They never change votes, rank or winners.
- iPip and MacPip share one account, so you have one Pips total and one level on both sites. There is one daily cap of 120 Pips across both sites (30 on an account's first day), so voting on both never doubles anyone's Pips.
- Your level comes from every Pip you have ever earned: level 2 takes 60 Pips in all, level 3 takes 150, level 4 270 and level 5 420. Each level asks a little more than the last.
- A Premium launch or a Featured spot gives no Pips, and Pips never buy a place on a launch day.
That's all of it.
Free to list, fair on launch day.