What this means is that 78.6% of people felt that Clash of Clans couldn’t be a better app, and 3.5% of people felt that it couldn’t possibly be any worse. On the other side of things, 449 people gave it a 1-star rating or 3.5% They have 12,790 ratings across all versions (all the numbers in this post are for all versions).
They have an average rating of 4.5 stars, in a system where 5 stars are pretty much impossible. Clash of Clans is as of writing the top grossing app in the App Store. They’re not terrible (I thought we’d ease into this whole terrible review post) but they’re not great.įor a little bit of perspective, let’s look at what positive reviews in the app store look like. Naturally, their reviews in the App Store… aren’t great. Then – wait for it – they can send you a yo back. The whole idea is that you can send a push notification to your friend that says yo.
Available across all platforms and free to download, it’s emphasized distribution over, well, actually doing anything. Yo is the ridiculous app that gets all the attention. We’re going to look at Yo, Yik Yak, and Snapchat and try and uncover the secret to their unpopular success. This post is going to explore three apps that do NOT have good reviews but are enormously successful anyway. Convention wisdom says that without good reviews, we’ve got nothing. Conventional ASO theory holds that reviews are critical to an app being ranked well in the App Store, and some companies will go as far to pay people to give their app high positive reviews. We’re constantly told that for an app to be successful, you had better have some good reviews. Does an App Need Good Reviews to Be Successful?