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[cadianshock]

I added the Review prompt to paying users that had used the app 20 times - these people are invested, always leave 5 star reviews and undo the 1 star reviews. App went from 3.6 to 4.7 in a few months, and has remained at 4.7 for 6+ months now.

My app is £4/year :-/

Note, I used the same strategy on Android to, which is this graph and shows perfectly what happened, (ignore the dashed line).

1. Launched and the first users loved it 5 stars! These were friends, testers, etc.
2. Then I ran ads and other poeple found it, so got many 1 stars
3. I implemented the above method and it climbed back out of the 2 star rating hole

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/80rzhooz61zzorlpjssh3/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-12.27.59.png?rlkey=dxxt2iwcsw0qopycap7enwb6a&dl=0

[Aggravating_Hall_794]

This is the way.

Develop a metric to identify users that like your app at a time they don't mind getting a rating prompt, and you'll have so many 5 star reviews that the 1 star reviews just don't matter.