https://fledly.app/blog/App Store research and ASO guides for indie iOS developers.en https://fledly.app/blog/best-app-ideas-indie-ios-2026/https://fledly.app/blog/best-app-ideas-indie-ios-2026/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTNot brainstormed: every idea on this list has young iPhone apps on the Top Grossing charts right now, most from several unrelated developers. Scores, evidence and the opening a solo developer could take. https://fledly.app/blog/how-much-do-top-grossing-apps-make/https://fledly.app/blog/how-much-do-top-grossing-apps-make/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTApple doesn't publish app revenue, but the Top Grossing chart ranks apps by it. Our rank-to-revenue model for the US App Store, a calculator, the honest error bars, and what a category rank means. https://fledly.app/blog/app-subscription-pricing-2026/https://fledly.app/blog/app-subscription-pricing-2026/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe real prices of 70 young iPhone apps that are on the US Top Grossing charts: typical weekly, monthly and yearly prices, which plans they offer, how big the yearly discount is, and what that means for pricing your own app. https://fledly.app/tools/keyword-field-checker/https://fledly.app/tools/keyword-field-checker/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTPaste your iOS app name, subtitle and keyword field. The checker counts characters and bytes, finds repeated words, plurals, spaces and wasted words, and gives you a cleaned-up keyword field to copy. https://fledly.app/blog/budget-meal-planner-apps/https://fledly.app/blog/budget-meal-planner-apps/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTapCook, NeatEat, mise and Potto all launched in mid-2026 and already sit in the US Food & Drink Top Grossing top 10. Their prices, how they grow, what 143 one- and two-star reviews say, and the version a solo developer could build. https://fledly.app/blog/ai-photo-to-video-apps/https://fledly.app/blog/ai-photo-to-video-apps/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTNine AI photo-to-video apps under two years old were on Apple's US Photo & Video Top Grossing chart on October 27, 2026. What they earn (roughly), how they price, what 152 one- and two-star reviews say, and what a solo developer would have to do differently. https://fledly.app/blog/apple-ads-search-popularity/https://fledly.app/blog/apple-ads-search-popularity/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTApple's search popularity score is the only first-party measure of App Store search demand. What the 1–100 and 1–5 values mean, why most keywords have no score, what we see in 66 weeks of US data, and how to use it to pick keywords. https://fledly.app/blog/ask-for-app-store-ratings/https://fledly.app/blog/ask-for-app-store-ratings/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTApple's system review prompt shows at most three times a year, so timing is everything. When to ask, the SwiftUI and UIKit code, what Apple forbids, and how many ratings young top-grossing apps actually have. https://fledly.app/blog/spot-apps-that-buy-growth/https://fledly.app/blog/spot-apps-that-buy-growth/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTA Top Grossing rank proves an app earns, not that people look for it. Five public checks show whether a successful app grows on real demand or on ad spend you would have to match. https://fledly.app/blog/app-ideas-solo-developers-cant-copy/https://fledly.app/blog/app-ideas-solo-developers-cant-copy/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTYoung apps in these ten groups are on the Top Grossing charts right now, and they look like easy targets. The money comes from content rights, network effects, licences or hardware, not from the app. Here is how to spot them. https://fledly.app/blog/young-apps-us-top-grossing-october-2026/https://fledly.app/blog/young-apps-us-top-grossing-october-2026/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTWe looked at every non-game app on Apple's US Top Grossing charts on October 26, 2026. One in five launched in the last two years. Their age, size, categories, pricing and the app concepts that repeat. https://fledly.app/blog/app-store-cross-localization/https://fledly.app/blog/app-store-cross-localization/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTMost App Store countries index more than one localization of your app. Here is which ones, how to use the extra keyword fields safely, and the mistakes that waste them. https://fledly.app/blog/app-store-keyword-field/https://fledly.app/blog/app-store-keyword-field/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTA practical guide to the iOS keyword field: what the App Store indexes, the 100-character limit (and when it is bytes), comma rules, word combinations, what not to include, and how to measure a change. https://fledly.app/blog/aso-tools-for-indie-ios-developers/https://fledly.app/blog/aso-tools-for-indie-ios-developers/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTAstro, Appfigures, AppTweak, Sensor Tower, Sonar, Mobile Action, WowKeywords and Fledly compared on price, platforms and what each is actually best at, for a developer shipping alone. https://fledly.app/blog/validate-ios-app-idea/https://fledly.app/blog/validate-ios-app-idea/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTA repeatable, evidence-first method for indie iOS developers: look for young apps that already earn, check that more than one developer made it work, measure real user pull, and filter out the traps.