Tag: aso
All the articles with the tag "aso".
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Why it exists · Mantra Why I built Mantra: your own words on the lock screen, and the Android bug where setting a wallpaper kills your Activity
Affirmation apps push other people's quotes; wallpaper changers have no words. Mantra is the gap between them. The Play Store keyword that decided the name, the Material You re-theme that recreates your Activity a second after you set a wallpaper, WorkManager's first-run surprise, adaptive scrims from luminance stats, and why user photos are never paywalled.
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Why it exists · Textrix Why Textrix moved from a cloud model to on-device AI (and what it cost)
Textrix launched in 2024 sending every paragraph to a cloud API. Version 2.8 runs the AI on the iPhone — Apple's on-device model where available, a downloaded local model everywhere else. Why the switch, the 940 MB download problem, what got worse, what got better, and the keyword audit that found the app ranking for 'proofread' at #219 and nothing else.
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Why it exists · Booksum Why I built Booksum — and what chasing 'book tracker' taught me about App Store keywords
Booksum started as a fix for forgetting what I read: scan the page, keep the passage, summarise it on-device. Then it shipped under the wrong title. The numbers behind renaming 'Book Tracker & Scan' to 'Reading Journal', the intent traps ('summary' is a meeting-notes term, 'passage' is a health app), and why brand names got stripped from every non-US title.