Rivals hits 1000

Rivals downloaded 1000 times

Today I am pleased to announce that Rivals.app has been downloaded more than 1000 times and the growth has been quite steady.

The bump in the middle is when Rivals went free and several bots tweeted about it.

I want to take a moment to thank all users who have downloaded and are using Rivals. I have a few ideas about the app, but lack the time to implement them. But don’t despair – eventually the new features will come.

If you dont have it already, grab your copy right from the AppStore.

AppStore link

Rivals goes free

Rivals on sale

To celebrate the announcement of iPad, Rivals app is now available in the AppStore free of charge, until the launch of iPad compatible version with fully redesigned and designated UI for both platforms.

Note: The current version is actually compatible with iPad already, but the new version will take advantage of new features of the iPad and updated OS on the iPhone, as well as totally new features like Facebook and Twitter connection.

Go grab your copy and update later to new features for free:

AppStore link

Rivals ranked #57 in sports

In Poland App Store Rivals is ranked #57 in sports category. Though I believe that this derives from the overall low sales in this category in Poland.

But nevertheless it is nice to see rankings at all for an app second week on sale.

UPDATE: 12.01.2010 Rivals was ranked in top #25 in Hungary.

An App a day…

Rivals

Keeps Rivals on the way

After iTunesConnect resumed from Xmas holidays, it greeted me with a very nice sales report: Rivals app has been selling almost two copies a day for the last week and overall 1.2 copies a day since launch. Compared to this post, the overall revenue for the first month would be even less, but I do not have a $32,000 hole to fill – I developed this as a hobby and from my free time and all other costs were covered by an investor (this includes the iPhone Developer enrollment fee). So all revenue I get from this is practically pure profit (split with that investor) and if it pays for another year of enrollment, for me to develop more apps and acquire experience, all the greater. So I am very happy to see even these numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Rivals on sale at AppStore

Rivals on sale

Rivals is now available in AppStore.

Rivals is a personal score and history keeping app for tennis, squash, table tennis and several other two-player games  with similar scheme – matches consisting of games and optionally of sets (Rivals is rules-agnostic and supports all games that fall into this category). If you want, you can even mix different games.

During the holiday season Rivals is on sale – grab it before the end of the year.

AppStore link: Rivals

Rivals.app delayed

Rivals

I am sorry to announce that Rivals.app is going to be delayed because Apple rejected the first binary for containing private API. This was unexpected for me because I truly did not notice these calls were not listed as Public API.

Now I have submitted new binary and it is currently waiting for review again.

Stay tuned.

Rivals in review

Opponent view

Rivals is now in review at the AppStore. I keep you posted when there are updates.

Rivals in brief

Play tennis, squash or table tennis against your friends and Rivals keeps score of all your matches with full history. It even tracks your closest opponents you have hard time beating so you know who is your Archrival.

For more information read on at Rivals page.