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Réalisations au sein de Bookapp.com

slecorne — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:36:00 +0100

Voici quelques applications réalisées au sein de Bookapp.com :

Omega Digital Sales Force Tool - Application d'aide à la vente

Candide, l'édition enrichie - Livre numérique et contenu additionnel

De Saison - application incontournable du printemps

slecorne — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:41:00 +0200

Le journal suisse 24heures a sélectionné l'application De Saison pour sa liste d'application incontournables du printemps:

http://www.24heures.ch/high-tech/hard-software/applications-incontournables-printemps/story/22356193?dossier_id=1493

Téléchargez là dès aujourd'hui:

New Release Tune Buster iOS 5

slecorne — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:45:00 +0200

A new release is available from today on ITunes for Tune Buster and Tune Buster Lite. It fixes many issues reported by users regarding problems gathering songs from the IPod library and some potential crash. Furthermore, this new release has been tested and validated on iOS 5.

Get the new 2.5 version today: Tune Buster or Tune Buster Lite

App Name Contest Winner

slecorne — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:20:00 +0200

And the Winning Name is:

Tune Buster (Song test) on ITunes
Tune Buster on SpringBoard

The winners are Ziocleto for suggesting Tune Busters and MochiBits for Song test. They share the 50$ reward.

App Name Contest - 50$ price [Ended]

slecorne — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:18:00 +0200

Following my post App Name: Impact on AppStore Sales, I decided to change back the name of my game to hope a boost in sales.

A contest is open to anyone having suggestion for a great new name to replace "WhoSingIt Game".

Please read the post above and check the application description before suggesting names.

Rules:

name SHOULD NOT exist on ITunes for another IPhone/IPad application
name SHOULD NOT be close or similar to a registered trademark
name should be representative of the application content
name should be posted in comments of this article
the person proposing the name which will be chosen will be rewarded by a 50$ Price on Paypal account

Français:

Soumettez le prochain nom pour Name That Song et remportez 50$ sur votre compte PayPal

le nom ne doit pas être utilisé sur l'App Store
le nom ne doit pas être enregistré comme marque ou nom déposé
le nom doit être proposé dans les commentaires ci-dessous

App Name: Impact on AppStore Sales

slecorne — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:28:00 +0200

Impact of change of Name on AppStore downloads.

As some users may have noticed, "Name That Song" game was changed to "WhoSingIt Game" at the end of march. This change had some strong effect on App Download (for free version) and sales (for paid version). I thought it could be interesting to share some statistics and information about it. This may be useful for some IPhone/IPad developers.

It started after I have been contacted by Apple Intellectual Property Department following an infringement notice of the trademark owner of "Name That Tune". Even though the infringement may not be clear and the company does not own the "Name That Song" expression and does not distribute any IPhone application, I decided to change the name of my application to avoid legal action, possibly a long and expensive procedure for a freelance developer.

"Name That Song" was being downloaded quite well for the free version (mainly in the US), with more than 700'000 downloads and around 2'000 downloads/day. The paid version figures were around 100 times less ( around 9'000 total). This gives also interesting information on downloads comparison for Lite/Full version.

Now, the bad surprise for me was the drop of sales after the new version "WhoSingIt Game" was on the App Store. It was released as an update with only the App Name changed. Thus, positions in charts were not changed when the new App Name was released and no change in the game were made, the drop of sales can only be explained by the change in name.

Here are some graphics on downloads and sales statistics:

"Name That Song" LITE VERSION - January 2001/May 2011

As you can see the drop is clearly visible at the end of march. Downloads were cut by more than a factor 10! It can also be noticed that around Christmas/New Year Eve, downloads are boosted for a few weeks.

For the paid version, the drop is less obvious but sales were divided by more than 2.

"Name That Song" FULL VERSION - January 2011/May 2011

Finally as a bonus, statistics of advertising revenue drop for "Name That Song" LITE - March-April 2011

To conclude with, one may not underestimate the importance of picking a great name for his application in order to achieve good results on the App Store. This may be true also for localized names in other store than US AppStore which may be sensitive to different names.

A contest is also open to submit a new name App Name Contest - 50$ Price

Stéphane Lecorney

IPhone/IPad developer of "Name That Song"/"WhoSingIt Game"

Name That Song: pick your favorite playlist to play

slecorne — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:50:00 +0100

Following some users request, you can now choose your favorite playlist to play with "Name That Song". Discover a specific artist by choosing his song, play with your best playlists, or your whole iPod Library, the choice is yours!

Enjoy new challenging games.

Do not hesitate to request some new features to be added in future release.

De Saison Free today

slecorne — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:55:00 +0100

Today in collaboration with http://www.ecoappsfree.com/, De Saison is free. Be quick, this offer will expire tomorrow!

Half Million Downloads for Name That Song!

slecorne — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:15:00 +0100

Today the lite version of Name That Song reached more than 500 000 downloads!

Thank you for this great success.

Sélection Bookapp du mois

slecorne — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:09:00 +0100

Inauguration d'un nouveau billet mensuel présentant une sélection de bookapp. Les Bookapps sont des "livres-applications" pour iPhone et iPad enrichis pour utiliser l'interactivité. Solution développée par Ozwe, société avec laquelle je collabore.

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