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 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

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.

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.

Now some graphs

All the graphs are from the amazing AppViz software that is just essential for all iPhone developers. This would be probably the first cost I have to cover from the Rivals sales.

And before you begin bashing me, I acknowledge that the input data to the graphs is not of important value and statistically unreliable, but this serves as a good starting point and is directly comparable to results 6 months from now.

So, first up is the geographical layout of the sales – as you can see most of the sales come from US, but the rest is distributed between 6 countries so I do not believe they are related to each other, which is a good thing.

Rivals sales geography

Next graph shows daily sales numbers for the app.

Rivals daily sales numbers

And the last graph is a good one to end this post with. It shows sales trend, which is very promising. (OK, ok, I know I am flattering myself here, but who else should do it if not me.)

Rivals sales trend

If you have read this far and haven’t yet checked out the features then have a go, or head directly to AppStore to buy a copy. This will sure help my sales.

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

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.

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.