Android App: No way I cannot earn $1/day

[ShutMyCatUp]

Welcome to this humble beginning.. or the last stop at this journey if I fail miserably, who knows.

I have developed a language learning app. It only has optional incentivised video ads. It is published. It is set up with AdMobs.

Then I screwed up 3 days ago. I set up Google Ads and got 250 downloads from Baghdad. I am an OK developer, and an awful first timer at promoting my stuff. I fixed the country setup for my ads, waiting for new results to roll in.

The plan? Get out of app graveyard by getting some early paid downloads and organic ratings, then focus on ASO, later on roll out new apps. I am hopeful I can close this thread soon and start a new journey with a higher goal. But for now, let's start growing from $0/day.

Who's with me?

 

[kavo]

I can support you from the app graveyard being an owner of an app with 250k downloads and earning 0.01-0.05$/day.
The key is not to have 95% uninstalls. Hope you can do it jedi!

 

[N1ckG2]

Who's with me?

I am with you and I know you will succeed. Ask me anything you want and I will try my best to help. Good luck!

 

[Mankar Camoran]

with what you built the app ? android studio or flutter ?

 

[NobleGuyHere]

good luck man

 

[ShutMyCatUp]

I can support you from the app graveyard being an owner of an app with 250k downloads and earning 0.01-0.05$/day.
The key is not to have 95% uninstalls. Hope you can do it jedi!

Oof. Did you get those installs organically? Do you have an idea why you ended up with so many uninstalls?

with what you built the app ? android studio or flutter ?

I am using React Native and Expo Go. I mostly do JS/TS dev anyway.

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I was away for Easter and expected some results to roll in but my bid for EU + US + Canada was too low.
I got 940 Impressions, 45 Clicks and 7 Installs. Not a lot, eh? Increased my bid just now.

In the meantime I am posting daily on TikTok. I am creating short 9:16 videos of flashcard collages. It sucks because TikTok's UI covers some of my content, so lots of room for improvement there. I get 200 views and 10 likes per post. Plan is to make the format and visuals better to have more people engage with it. Once that's done I'll start boosting posts.

Lastly, I am in a debate with myself. My app has lots of gamification and I want to expand on that even more. I launched the app in the Education category. It may be better to switch it to a game instead of an education app. Guess I'll do that if I reach dead-ends everywhere.

 

[bonzo90]

Good luck on this journey will be following along. is it a free app with a membership type of thing?

 

[kavo]

Oof. Did you get those installs organically? Do you have an idea why you ended up with so many uninstalls?

I created this app to be in my Android dev portfolio, but spent 30$ on ads, and mostly in India cause it was the cheapest . Understood that ads were not my thing and then forgot about the app, though I still use it for myself (it's a music app with some features I consider pretty cool).
Then, in a year, I figured out that Google Play added it to some recommended or idk how it works and it started getting 500-1000 installs per day. But also almost the same amount of uninstalls.
There were two reasons I guess: the app did not work for India XD (that most install came from), and I was pretty late to recognize it to release a fix. Then it just dropped and I haven't bothered about it since.

 

[Elvlin]

I created this app to be in my Android dev portfolio, but spent 30$ on ads, and mostly in India cause it was the cheapest . Understood that ads were not my thing and then forgot about the app, though I still use it for myself (it's a music app with some features I consider pretty cool).
Then, in a year, I figured out that Google Play added it to some recommended or idk how it works and it started getting 500-1000 installs per day. But also almost the same amount of uninstalls.
There were two reasons I guess: the app did not work for India XD (that most install came from), and I was pretty late to recognize it to release a fix. Then it just dropped and I haven't bothered about it since.
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lol maybe you should fix it to work on india. that is wasted opportunity

 

[tuli]

Good luck! I wish you all the best!

I can support you from the app graveyard being an owner of an app with 250k downloads and earning 0.01-0.05$/day.
The key is not to have 95% uninstalls. Hope you can do it jedi!

That's a bit low

 

[paisawaisa]

Wish you luck for $1 per day as start.

 

[ShutMyCatUp]

First things first, still not earning a cent!

Made more noob mistakes. I boosted my TikTok for followers only to learn that I cannot select the countries I want to appear in; it is limited to my local country, which is semi-crap. On the bright side, I have improved the video format I post daily, so I will keep using TikTok since this time span has been too short to come to any conclusions. May or may not boost for website visits, I don't want low quality traffic on my landing page.

Google Ads is slow. It gets me 5 installs a day ever since I updated the targeted countries. I have doubled my bid a few days ago because of this, and guess what - still 5 installs per day. Not sure why Google does not want to take my money.

So I set up a different Google Ads campaign today targeting search keywords for my app, instead of just getting app installs blindly. Fingers crossed.

For the time being, I am developing some improvements for the app, hoping that the few people who use it now find it good.

This will be a long journey.

 

[NobleGuyHere]

First things first, still not earning a cent!

Made more noob mistakes. I boosted my TikTok for followers only to learn that I cannot select the countries I want to appear in; it is limited to my local country, which is semi-crap. On the bright side, I have improved the video format I post daily, so I will keep using TikTok since this time span has been too short to come to any conclusions. May or may not boost for website visits, I don't want low quality traffic on my landing page.

Google Ads is slow. It gets me 5 installs a day ever since I updated the targeted countries. I have doubled my bid a few days ago because of this, and guess what - still 5 installs per day. Not sure why Google does not want to take my money.

So I set up a different Google Ads campaign today targeting search keywords for my app, instead of just getting app installs blindly. Fingers crossed.

For the time being, I am developing some improvements for the app, hoping that the few people who use it now find it good.

This will be a long journey.

keep going bro , good luck

 

[NobleGuyHere]

First things first, still not earning a cent!

Made more noob mistakes. I boosted my TikTok for followers only to learn that I cannot select the countries I want to appear in; it is limited to my local country, which is semi-crap. On the bright side, I have improved the video format I post daily, so I will keep using TikTok since this time span has been too short to come to any conclusions. May or may not boost for website visits, I don't want low quality traffic on my landing page.

Google Ads is slow. It gets me 5 installs a day ever since I updated the targeted countries. I have doubled my bid a few days ago because of this, and guess what - still 5 installs per day. Not sure why Google does not want to take my money.

So I set up a different Google Ads campaign today targeting search keywords for my app, instead of just getting app installs blindly. Fingers crossed.

For the time being, I am developing some improvements for the app, hoping that the few people who use it now find it good.

This will be a long journey.

and make social media accounts insta twitter facebook because why not, extra downloads always good

 

[ShutMyCatUp]

Signing in, am still alive.

All time earnings: $0.18

Got 3 updates out for the app this week, one adds a new feature, the other improves visuals a lot, and the last adds Firebase Analytics.

The visuals is important because the Play Store and landing page screenshots simply did not look compelling before. They are still not great, but good enough that they probably no longer repel people.

Needless to say Analytics is also a huge improvement so I know what users are up to in the app and what features they use the most. Not only this, but I can also optimise the App Install campaign for In-App actions and give Google's machine learning more data on what conversion matters to me the most.

Speaking of the devil, I've been learning something new about Google Ads every day, and instead of working on the Search Keyword campaign, I'm trying to optimise the App Install campaign first.

And now, the ugly: I have absolutely zero organic traffic to my store page, so I've tweaked my texts a bit to include more keywords. This is not a disaster for now, since I still have plenty of ideas and other things to improve.

 

[SmartLabs]

Goodluck and hope you achieve your goal!

 

[tuli]

Signing in, am still alive.

All time earnings: $0.18

Got 3 updates out for the app this week, one adds a new feature, the other improves visuals a lot, and the last adds Firebase Analytics.

The visuals is important because the Play Store and landing page screenshots simply did not look compelling before. They are still not great, but good enough that they probably no longer repel people.

Needless to say Analytics is also a huge improvement so I know what users are up to in the app and what features they use the most. Not only this, but I can also optimise the App Install campaign for In-App actions and give Google's machine learning more data on what conversion matters to me the most.

Speaking of the devil, I've been learning something new about Google Ads every day, and instead of working on the Search Keyword campaign, I'm trying to optimise the App Install campaign first.

And now, the ugly: I have absolutely zero organic traffic to my store page, so I've tweaked my texts a bit to include more keywords. This is not a disaster for now, since I still have plenty of ideas and other things to improve.

Also, try AppMetrica

 

[iaskquestions]

Goodluck OP wish you best.

 

[ShutMyCatUp]

So... the ads are bringing in new users slowly but steadily, and the app also gets 2 organic installs daily which is a new thing. Earning a few cents every day too. Would love to fast forward this one month from now, I am curious where it is going, but I cannot do much actively on the project except wait for ranking.

Because of this and my impatience, I developed a new app earlier this week which is pending review now. It is a casual and simple time killer word game, I have enjoyed playtesting it, so I am positive there will be others who find it fun too.

While waiting for the review, I started a third app. Also a game, albeit a bit more complex and expecting to finish it by the end of this week.

Having multiple apps was not really part of the original plan, but now the idea is that I enter May with 3 apps published. Willing to spend the same amount on advertising all 3, then see which is winner. And I do enjoy making apps, so I'll probably release something new every month.

 

[xGODx]

So... the ads are bringing in new users slowly but steadily, and the app also gets 2 organic installs daily which is a new thing. Earning a few cents every day too. Would love to fast forward this one month from now, I am curious where it is going, but I cannot do much actively on the project except wait for ranking.

Because of this and my impatience, I developed a new app earlier this week which is pending review now. It is a casual and simple time killer word game, I have enjoyed playtesting it, so I am positive there will be others who find it fun too.

While waiting for the review, I started a third app. Also a game, albeit a bit more complex and expecting to finish it by the end of this week.

Having multiple apps was not really part of the original plan, but now the idea is that I enter May with 3 apps published. Willing to spend the same amount on advertising all 3, then see which is winner. And I do enjoy making apps, so I'll probably release something new every month.

Good luck with your journey , how much did u spend on google ads and how much u made?