5 Essential Tips for Building a Successful iPhone App

This article is aimed to help iPhone/iPad developers and indie publishers in knowing the factors that can help in building a successful iPhone app:

While brainstorming for your next app, use all the easily accessible information. Check out the factors that are selling at this moment. And, for that – open iTunes and see which mobile apps are in each and every category of the App Store in the Top 100 and “What’s hot” in charts. Ensure to maintain a difference between an over-whelming and over-saturated market and an opportunity market. 

If you are adding more tricky and challenging factors including creating 3d racing game – undoubtedly, a lot of $ to be spent. And, if you are publishing an app, then money you are spending in developing an app is one of the major factors that you are considering.  But always remember that if you are doing more work that doesn’t mean that you’ll earn more profit out of it. So, always spend wisely and have right expectations from your app.

One of the most common mistakes that most of the potential developers do is - an idea strikes them and they start spending hours, days and weeks on fantasizing on it. They spend hours in thinking about the profit they can earn and functionalities their app will include and how enticing it will look. And, then the time comes when they mention it to a friend and he or she points them out to have a very similar app in the App Store which is already live and has many more enticing features and its design was contracted to a professional designer.

To get rid of this, you need to – open iTunes and spend time to make a research.

Name is the first thing that will help your user get a glimpse of your app. It is one of the difficult tasks. App owners struggle a lot to come up with a catchy and user-centric name. And, once you have chosen an app name, you’ve accomplished an important task.

Visitors only spend 2 seconds on the list of apps on your iTunes page. And, in that 2 seconds they decide whether to see the app in detail or go for another one. There is a possibility that they stay longer on your site, browse around it to check testimonials etc., but there are high chances that they will change their minds after that first decision. Always remember that your most treasured marketing assets are your icon and the app name.

These are the initial things that visitors will first see on your iTunes page or your web site. And, if those two don’t have the capability to sell your app it’s almost over for you. By highlighting all the key features in the app description, you can increase the chances of getting your app downloaded.

Hope the above mentioned tips will help you in developing a successful iPhone app.