8-Bit Avrin Apps 2015 Overview

2016

First, I want to give a big THANK YOU to everyone that downloaded an app, liked or shared a post, favorite or retweeted a tweet, spread news word of mouth, and/or anything else positive about my apps. It was a year full of changes, but I was able to develop & release five neat high quality apps, and also complete some great updates. I didn’t have much time to develop, so when I did have time I had to make sure to laser focus on the tasks I needed to complete. Here’s some lists of my top apps that were downloaded, top countries that downloaded my apps, and the best months for downloads. After that I’ll go into some more detail on 2015, 2016, and post some great app reviews received in 2015.

Top 5 Downloads

Quiz of Medicine
Motivational Quotes to Inspire
Ultra Fortune Ball – Free
Professor Piggy Bank
Ultra Retro Game Soundboard

Top 5 Free Downloads

Quiz of Medicine
Motivational Quotes to Inspire
Ultra Fortune Ball – Free
Saving Bunnies
Survive in Hyperdrive

Top 5 Paid Downloads

Professor Piggy Bank
Ultra Retro Game Soundboard
Ultra Soccer Match Soundboard
Ultra Big Celebration Soundboard
Word Owl’s Word Search – First Grade

Top 5 Countries for Downloads

United States
India
United Kingdom
Philippines
Canada

Top 5 Download Months

January
February
March
August
May

In 2015 I had to rearrange my app schedule a couple of times to become more realistic, but I made sure to work on apps that I really wanted to release in 2015 that I could given the lack of time I had. Every month I write a sort of progress report of what I accomplished and worked on in the previous month and what I plan on working on in the future. Instead of going into detail of the apps I worked on in 2015 in this post I’m just going to put a link to every monthly progress report along with a note of the main apps I wrote about in that post.

January (Ultra Soccer Match Soundboard), February (Crunchy Numbers Math Arcade, Word Owl’s Word Search, Ultra Retro Game Soundboard), March (Professor Piggy Bank, Crunchy Numbers Math Arcade, Quiz of Medicine), April (Crunchy Numbers Math Arcade), May (Crunchy Numbers Math Arcade, unfinished relaxation app), June (unfinished relaxation app), July (unfinished relaxation app, several minor updates, Survive in Hyperdrive), August (Motivational Quotes to Inspire, RX Quiz of Pharmacy), September (Word Owl’s Word Search Halloween Edition, RX Quiz of Pharmacy), October (Word Owl’s Word Search Halloween Edition, RX Quiz of Pharmacy), November (Word Owl’s Word Search Third Grade), December (Word Owls Word Search Third Grade & Christmas editions)

In 2016 I plan on releasing only a few apps due to my increasing time constraints, but thankfully now given the situations I’m in I’ll be able to focus more on creativity and less on monetization. For me developing apps has always been an outlet were I can be in total control of my own work and create something that’s truly unique. In 2016 I plan on taking more time on updates and new app developments to insure what I release is exactly what I want to do within my skill set without compromising anything because of lack of time. One of the greatest feelings is creating something and having random people all over the world use it and find the item you created useful and/or fun depending on what it’s purpose is. I hope I can continue to do that in 2016 and continue building upon this little indie mobile app empire I seem to have created. In 2016 I’m going to also try to increase marketing of old and new apps. One of my disappointments in 2015 was the lack of creating promo media, and other forms of advertisements that I didn’t do for my apps. That needs to change, because you can make something really neat and fun and/or useful but if nobody knows about it they can’t find out how great it is for themselves and possibly others.

One more thing. Most people who download my apps don’t leave reviews which I consider a good thing because people in general are quicker to talk about their dislike of something they didn’t enjoy instead of talking about something that they’re satisfied with. However, I do want to highlight some of the great customer reviews some of my apps received in a collage I put together below. I’ll also post a couple of links and images for professional reviews that were written about my apps below the customer review collage. Thank you to the people who wrote these great reviews on both avenues and thank you to everyone who download my apps, I truly hope you enjoyed them. Until next time ∞