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Is there a way to put a hyperlink into an app description on the App Store ?

Jeff
over 3 years ago

The question tells the story.

Any way to do this, or is the only option to put the whole address in the description ?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Jeff
    Jeff said:
    Upgrades to the formatting that's supported in the App Store would be a real improvement, allowing much more professional looking app descriptions.

    I'll share a trick I discovered which at least allows you to indent text (so you can create indented lists.sections, for example).

    Normally the app description form will remove excess whitespace (e.g. at the beginning of a line), but if you copy a unicode non-breaking space (e.g. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00A0) and paste it into the app description, it will *not* be removed.

    IIRC, this works with Chrome and not Firefox.

    I also like to use unicode box drawing characters instead of hyphens when I want to create a dividing line between sections of the description, so there's no gaps between characters.

    But yes, it would be great if markdown and/or a rich text editor was supported.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Jeff
    Jeff said:
    allowing much more professional looking app descriptions.

    Speaking of professional-looking app entries in the store, I'm pretty sure that the app store still has the bug that if you upload a non-square app icon, instead of cropping it to square, the store squashes it to a square, which makes it look terrible.

    e.g.

    This is basic stuff imo, and I mentioned it years ago, but like a lot of non-critical bugs, I'm sure it'll never be fixed.

    I mean either you:

    - prevent users from uploading non-square images

    or

    - give them the opportunity to crop images to a square aspect ratio

    or

    - auto-crop

    The CIQ store already has a rep for being full of unprofessional / hobbyist content, and things like this don't exactly help. (But to be fair, most end users are looking for fully-featured apps from big corporations.)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to nonparametric
    nonparametric said:
    Off topic, but do people ever donate? (Ratio of downloads to donations?) I started developing as a hobby and don’t like the idea of having to deal with paywalls, refunds, angry customers, etc so just putting an optional donate link seems appealing.

    It doesn't cost you any to have a donation link. I've managed to get a few donations. Nowhere near enough to make it "worth while".

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    I develop apps as a hobby, and don't expect to get rich based on them.  While I may not get as many donations as I might with an app that "expires" after 24 hours and requires an unlock code, the donations are from real users that actually like the app.  I regularly get donations in the $5-$10us range.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    I have an app and a widget that mostly do the same thing. There's probably some overlap of people installing both.

    The total downloads are about 10,000. I have gotten donations for a total of, maybe, $70 (less than $100).