Check the acquisition promise
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Jonathan Smets · iOS
Explore the ad evidence, study the storefront, and build your next acquisition hypothesis.
01 / Creative research
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Explore apps with direct store-link matches. Compare their hooks and formats without assuming the same approach works here.
Browse observed advertisers ↗Store rankings and revenue estimates describe market context. They do not establish ad spend, conversions or ROAS.
Review the market context ↗02 / Storefront & product
Study the product story and store experience behind the acquisition funnel.
03 / Market context
Keep revenue, downloads and store rankings separate from advertising performance.
This is the only app I can find that does what I needed and actually works properly. This receipt scanner app will take a picture of a receipt, then output an excel file that contains each item with (mostly) correct and logical layout - each item on its own row and cost in it's own column. The output isn't perfect, and the main two things it messes up for me are produce cost (where my store at least lists the per-item or per-pound cost as a separate line) and savings (which also gets its own line). For my purpose (comparing costs of specific grocery items across different stores) this means some extra manual work to get the useful prices and trim rows that aren't actually items. My main complaint outside those understandable limitations: the app does not offer any functionality for free, not even scanning a single test receipt. I took a gamble on buying credits before feeling confident it would even work for my use case. I would recommend that the developer offer a way to scan a very limited number of items for free, perhaps without allowing copy/export, just so people can be sure it'll work for them before paying. I don't know what recurring costs are involved with the app, but assuming scanning happens locally and is free for the dev, you could even allow free scanning in general and just paywall the export features.
Smart Receipt Scanner allows the users to scan receipts with the following objectives: - Line items and their amounts - Total amount - OCR result of t...
| Name | Price | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5 credits | $0.29 | One-time |
| 10 credits | $0.69 | One-time |
| 20 credits | $1.00 | One-time |
| Subscribe: 200 credits / month | $2.99 | Monthly |
| 100 credits | $3.19 | One-time |