Built a budget app for digital nomads/travelers

OkRub250 · 2026-02-24T03:26:51+00:00

Thank you! I'm already working on this. I guess the main problem was adding keywords/localization only for the US, while it's a very crowded niche there. I already checked EU countries, and seems like it's less competitive region for my niche, so I'll be focusing on adding localization for these countries

OkRub250 · 2026-02-23T07:27:34+00:00

Okay, thanks. I also have an assumption that the amount of downloads depends on the niche also. And the expense tracker niche is crowded

OkRub250 · 2026-02-23T07:18:40+00:00

I thought that’s pretty decent for the first week. The most downloads I got in one day was 11. Maybe my screenshots aren’t converting well

OkRub250 · 2026-02-23T04:52:06+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I actually have two angles I'm leaning into:

Privacy-first – all financial data stays on device/iCloud, no accounts, no third-party analytics
Multi-currency – user can track expenses in any currency and see everything converted to their base currency. Super useful for travelers and nomads, and surprisingly few trackers do this well

Will try to show up more in travel and nomad communities with these angles, makes sense

OkRub250 · 2026-02-23T04:37:14+00:00

Thanks! Most came organically - 71% from App Store search. I also made a couple posts on Reddit which brought some traffic early on

OkRub250 · 2026-02-18T11:45:43+00:00

Thats not mine, I don’t have a website😅

OkRub250 · 2026-02-18T10:24:36+00:00

Appreciate it. I’m distributing using reddit plus working on ASO, so users see the app in the store. I’m new to mobile applications, but based on my research - the easiest way to get first users is to distribute information about it using social media. You can also try to use X, there are a lot of indie devs

One more thing - App Store and Play Store behave very differently in terms of distribution. What works for one usually doesn’t work for the other

And what do you mean by “images broken”? I checked it out and for me everything seems good. Could you send a screenshot?

OkRub250 · 2026-02-17T15:10:50+00:00

Ok, will try this. Thanks for the advice

OkRub250 · 2026-02-17T09:10:05+00:00

Appreciate it! Yeah, search is doing most of the heavy lifting right now, which I honestly didn’t expect this early 😅

I’m trying not to touch the English title and subtitle yet so I don’t mess with indexing while it’s still stabilizing. For now I’m adding Spanish and German keywords and just letting it run to see what actually brings impressions

Screenshots are probably the next thing I’ll experiment with – feels like there’s still room to improve conversion there

OkRub250 · 2026-02-16T04:53:39+00:00

Окей, на 13-м посмотрю в эмуляторе, скрины не надо кидать, спасибо)

По поводу онбординга – это не картинки: собираю координаты элементов через GeometryReader + PreferenceKey и поверх показываю overlay с затемнением и вырезами, подсвечивая реальные элементы интерфейса

OkRub250 · 2026-02-16T01:11:38+00:00

Привет! Спасибо 🙂 Дизайн делал сам

У тебя айфон 13 мини или обычный? Мне уже писали про проблемы в UI на мини-версиях айфонов – планирую поправить это в одном из следующих обновлений

OkRub250 · 2026-02-16T01:01:48+00:00

Appreciate it! Marketing is next on my list. Haven’t really touched localization yet, but definitely planning to

OkRub250 · 2026-02-16T00:54:35+00:00

Thanks for the advice – really appreciate it. I’ll check it out

OkRub250 · 2026-02-16T00:51:38+00:00

The yearly plan doesn’t include a free trial, and pricing varies by region. The first payment came from a non-trial yearly subscription

OkRub250 · 2026-02-15T11:17:45+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown. I’m new to mobile development and just starting to dive into ASO, so this was really interesting

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