Getting users to rate your ap highly

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• OZApps Guru

  November 2013

  search for Appirater, which for some reason always read as apPirater to me. This is the iOS version of what you are after, I had written some code for C*SDK and is even used in GoNinja by Haptic Games for the same, I removed it from my GitHub due to some uncivilised users at C*SDK. there were a couple of spin offs from that code and it is also in-built into the new C*SDK versions.
  
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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2013 Accepted Answer

  In context of Gideros you can use AppRater:
  https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/AppRater

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• Platypus Member

  November 2013

  Regarding prompting the user:
  
  I recommend ( making a product so incredible that users will feel compelled to inform others, and) including a clearly labelled button on the home screen (and nothing more).
  
  For example:
  
  PLAY!
  Options
  Credits
  Rate App
  
  I strongly recommend against employing pop-up alerts. Those kinds of obstructions/annoyances during use might make the user hate the app if they were previously sitting on the fence.

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• Mells Guru

  November 2013 edited November 2013

  The numbers say (and it's be proven) that popups convert very well and users who dislike it are a minority (but they are vocal that we sometimes overstimate their number).
  
  I would personally not hesitate to ;
  - use popups
  - ask directly on the "level cleared! you got 5 stars!" screens because this is when users are rewarded, have a good feeling about themselves (thanks to the app) and will be most likely to reciprocate.
  
  
  
  

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• chipster123 Member

  November 2013

  In context of Gideros you can use AppRater:
  https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/AppRater

  this is exactly the item I was trying to recall. thanks!

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  November 2013

  i had seen one game which was giving in app purchase for free if user rates the game 5 stars obviously there is no way to track this so they are just giving it on clicking of rate button and i had seen very good amount of positive ratings even some are 5 star with bad comments unfortunately i dont remember name of that game
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  November 2013

  @hgvyas123 but this will not be tolerated by Apple policy if you submit it to Apple market

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• phongtt Guru

  November 2013

  @ar2rsawseen if you "segment" users and "offer" such thing after a certain period of play sessions, it can't be caught ) (and it should be good in term of design also)

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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