Check the acquisition promise
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Sebastian Staudt · 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.
The app seems to run a day ahead of my calendar date, as the shire calendar is supposed to be 10 days ahead of the Gregorian calendar. I wanted to use this to see the current date according to my location, which renders this app hardly helpful if it’s not matching my calendar. There’s no way to adjust it, and no way to contact the developer as it just takes you to their website with no contact information outside of Twitter (which I don’t use). Pretty disappointed.
It is a really interesting app. It’s really cool to be able to live my life a little more like the little people of old. I gave four stars because it really could do more stuff for $0.99US. I’ve gotten more from certain free apps. It’s fun and interesting though. Love it!
I get the date but the “ show more” doesn’t work.
The Shire Calendar brings a bit of Middle-earth to your iOS device and Apple Watch. It will display the current day in the calendar of the Hobbits in...