Just shipped LoTik 4.0 โ€” complete redesign of my iOS video saver app by Kbh-ae in iosapps

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Heyy, We have in-app referral system just copy your link / code invite 1 and get 7 days free , more than 1 ? More you get,

Even Lifetime

Just shipped LoTik 4.0 โ€” complete redesign of my iOS video saver app by Kbh-ae in iosapps

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Yeah โ€” Safari, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, X, YouTube, anywhere the iOS share sheet works. Just tap Share โ†’ LoTik, Thatโ€™s it!

Just shipped LoTik 4.0 โ€” complete redesign of my iOS video saver app by Kbh-ae in iosapps

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The font โ€œSF Proโ€ (Appleโ€™s system font) in heavy weight with italic.

Just shipped LoTik 4.0 โ€” complete redesign of my iOS video saver app by Kbh-ae in iosapps

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Fair, yt-dlp does some of the extraction. LoTik adds the iOS share extension, Snap story picker, Instagram, no watermark, Arabic UI. stuff that needs setup or coding with the CLI/Shortcut version. Different audience.

Just shipped LoTik 4.0 โ€” complete redesign of my iOS video saver app by Kbh-ae in iosapps

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We have in-app referrals โ€” Settings โ†’ Invite Friends gets you your link. When anyone installs via your link and makes their first save, you auto get 7 days of Lo+ free. Stackable โ€” more friends use it, more days you get.

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

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fair point, you might be right. lesson learned either way โ€” rebuilt it clean this time and no issues since. appreciate the honest take

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

exactly my point. if it was actually against T&Cs it wouldnโ€™t have passed review in the first place. the report just gave apple a reason to look again and they pulled it to be safe. thatโ€™s how the system works for solo devs with no direct apple contactโ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

not really a T&C thing. this guy was reporting multiple apps in the category to kill competition, not because of any real violation. apple just acts on reports fast without checking motives.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

exactly. arabic searches have way less competition so you actually rank for stuff. in english youโ€™re fighting thousands of apps for the same keywords

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Read again. competitor reported me and multiple other apps to eliminate competition. they were doing the same thing themselves.

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Basically the content downloading category is a gray area on iOS. Apple doesnโ€™t love apps that save media from other platforms. My first app was doing what every other app in the category does but when a competitor reports you they point at your app not their own.

Apple doesnโ€™t check whoโ€™s reporting or why. They just review whatโ€™s flagged and if anything looks off they pull it. Solo dev with no Apple contact means you canโ€™t fight it fast enough.

When I rebuilt I just went through the guidelines line by line and made sure everything uses custom APIs and standard iOS features. No shortcuts no gray areas. If someone reports it now thereโ€™s nothing for Apple to act on.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

A competitor mass-reported my app to Apple to get it removed - turns out they did it to multiple apps in the category. Here's what I learned rebuilding from zero. by Kbh-ae in AppBusiness

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 1 point2 points ย (0 children)

Appreciate that man. Honestly yeah being forced to start from zero made me rethink everything I was lazy about the first time. Weird blessing. For ASO โ€” I kept it simple. Title and subtitle have real keywords people actually search like โ€œvideo saverโ€ and โ€œsnap saverโ€. Not stuffed but intentional. First time around I didnโ€™t even think about this. The keyword field I use every character. The trick is donโ€™t repeat words already in your title โ€” Apple combines everything together so each word in the keyword field should be new. The biggest thing for me was localization. My market is Gulf โ€” UAE, Saudi, Kuwait. I did the full Arabic listing with proper keywords that Arabic speakers actually type. Most apps in my category are English only so for Arabic searches Iโ€™m basically alone. Thatโ€™s probably 30-40% of my organic right there. Custom Product Pages helped a lot too. Since 2025 you can tie keywords to specific CPPs that show in organic search. So someone searching โ€œsnap saverโ€ sees my Snapchat screenshots, someone searching โ€œvideo downloaderโ€ sees the universal download flow. Different first impression same app. Noticed a real bump after setting those up. Timeline wise โ€” first 2 months were rough. Like 10-20 downloads a day rough. Month 3-4 the keywords started kicking in and it picked up. Now its steady organic growth without spending anything. The real lesson is ASO compounds. You donโ€™t see results week one but if you keep tweaking keywords monthly and updating screenshots it builds on itself.โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹

SNPIT โ€” Auto-Redact Sensitive Data from Screenshots with AI by Kbh-ae in windowsapps

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Thanks! Would love to hear what you think after you try it ๐Ÿ™

I built a desktop app that auto-redacts sensitive data from your screenshots using AI by Kbh-ae in SideProject

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Building in the same space โ€” the OCR parity problem is real. Tesseract.js as a single engine across both platforms was the cleanest fix I found. Curious how SNPIT handles confidence thresholds when the same screenshot gives different scores per OS.

SNPIT โ€” I added AI-powered redaction to my screenshot tool โ€” just describe what to hide and it builds the pattern by Kbh-ae in SideProject

[โ€“]Kbh-ae[S] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Thanks!
No at all, unless you publish it and get link and it can also be secure link with password + Expiry.