App Store growth (ASO)
Discoverability work for your app's store listing, keywords, screenshots, and description, approached from the growth and marketing side.
In depth
What app store growth (aso) really involves
Launching an app is the start of the work, not the end. Most apps get very few organic downloads unless someone deliberately works on how they're found, how the listing converts and how people are encouraged to come back after installing.
Growth here has three layers. Discovery: store search, ASO and paid install campaigns. Conversion: whether the listing's screenshots, text and ratings turn a visitor into an install. Retention: whether the person is still using the app a week later. The last one is often ignored, and it's where much of the value sits, since a leaky app wastes every install you pay for.
We look at your numbers across all three and work on the weakest link. If installs are healthy but people vanish after day one, buying more installs just burns money, and the fix lives in onboarding or notifications. If you want the technical store-listing side in more depth, see our App Store Optimization page under app development.
Why it matters
How this helps your business grow
What's included
What we set up for you
How it goes
How we approach app store growth (aso)
Find the weakest stage
We look at impressions, install rate and retention to see where users are being lost.
Improve the listing
Title, keywords, screenshots and description are reworked for each store, with changes tracked.
Add targeted install campaigns
Paid campaigns on the channels that fit your audience, judged by cost per retained user, not cost per install.
Improve retention
Onboarding tweaks and well-judged notifications to bring people back, tested one at a time.
Ideal for
Who this fits
Apps we've built, or any live app that's hard to find in store search
Teams investing in app growth after launch
Watch out for
Common mistakes, and how we avoid them
Buying installs that leave
Cheap installs with poor retention are wasted. We watch quality, not just quantity.
Ignoring reviews
Low ratings hurt conversion. We build a habit of responding and prompting at good moments.
Changing too much at once
We make one change at a time, so we can tell what worked.
FAQ · 05
App Store growth (ASO): common questions
ASO is about the store listing. Growth is wider: it includes paid campaigns, retention and engagement. They work best together.
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