6 Essential Elements for a Top-Selling Mobile App

The app developers and resellers can maximize their revenues by launching new apps, and upgrading their existing apps on a regular basis. But mobile app developers face constant challenges to meet the frequently changing choices and habits of modern users. Nowadays, many mobile apps access the user’s personal data and contact list. So the developers have to explore new options to gain the trust and confidence of the mobile app users. In addition to attracting the users, the app marketers also need to concentrate on creating a base of loyal users.

 

Many companies launch mobile apps at regular intervals to generate more revenue. But one must accept the fact that each and every app cannot become a top-seller. Only a negligible percentage of the combined app figures go viral. However, each app developer and reseller can always observe the top-selling mobile apps, and try to find out what makes them special. At the same time, the developer must keep in mind certain qualities that make an app a best-seller.

 

What Makes a Mobile App Hugely Popular

  1. Consistency and Reliability: Each user loves a mobile app that delivers consistent performance. After developing the app, it must be tested under the most extreme conditions to ensure that performance-wise, it is consistent and reliable. Most top selling apps are also popular due to effectiveness in saving battery, and consuming minimum CPU. If your mobile app crashes or hangs during use, it will fail to impress the users. So you must test the mobile app thoroughly to deliver reliability and consistency in performance.

  2. Compatibility with Popular Mobile Operating Systems: There is a direct connection between a mobile app, and the type of mobile device used by the user. For instance, you can make an app more popular by making it compatible with several mobile platforms. However, you have to develop different versions of apps to target individual mobile platform. It will further make it easier for the app to avail the specific features and traits offered by each mobile platform. When you test the app for each mobile platform, it will offer the most efficient UI to the end-users. However, you must eliminate certain features that fall outside the mobile platform framework, and may make the end users uncomfortable while using your app.

  3. Reduced Loading Time: When a user launches a mobile app, he wants to start accessing it immediately. Normally, a loading time more than five seconds will have a negative impact on your app’s popularity. It is always important to minimize the loading time by reducing the amount of data and media files required to start the app up. However, you can keep the users engaged simply by showing a message that the app is being loaded. Such messages will stop them from being impatience, and wait for some more time to use the app properly.

  4. No Interruption or Disturbance: Each user wants to use the mobile apps without any types of interruptions. So your app freezes or crashes during use, it will not become popular. You must keep the general UI thread active and open to improve the user experience. Before launching the app, you must test it thoroughly to ensure that it is not crashing or hanging up on a regular basis. If the general UI thread takes more time to run, you can always consider running a secondary thread. Many mobile operating systems also allow developers to separate threads. You can avail the specific feature of your OS to make a mobile app that rarely crashes, hangs up or freeze.

  5. Engaging and Entertaining the User: You mobile app will become successful, only when the users access it frequently. In addition to attracting new users, you must concentrate on certain features to keep the existing users engaged and entertained. The app must offer a set of distinct and innovative features to the users in order to make a task or activity much simpler for them. Also, your app must offer some additional features and benefits lacked by similar apps available in the marketplace. The special feature will keep the user engaged, and encourage him/her to use the app again and again.

  6. Minimum Ads: Many resellers generate revenue through ads. So they fill the free version of the apps with ad banners, and promotional links. Despite getting you revenue, the ads often have a negative impact on the users. Many users even avoid using mobile apps full with ad banners. Instead of stuffing ads, you must concentrate on getting more revenue by increasing the app sales. You can even consider launching paid apps that allow users to perform tasks without viewing any ad banners.

 

These essential qualities still do not guarantee that your mobile app will become a best-seller. But these elements will surely help you in developing user-centric mobile apps that will get favorable reviews and user ratings. Needless to say, the quest for an efficient mobile app development company becomes challenging.

 

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