Your app is invisible in the store search that should have found it.

The App Store and Google Play are different search engines with different rules, yet most listings are pasted into both unchanged. We rewrite each listing for how that store indexes, then test the creative that turns views into installs.

Get an ASO listing audit
  • Impressions

    Your keyword set never separated iOS from Play Title and subtitle carrying no ranking weight Wrong category, so you compete with the wrong apps

  • Conversion

    Screenshots that describe the app instead of selling it First three lines of the description wasted on the company Ratings and replies left unmanaged

  • Retention

    Installs that churn in week one Store promise not matching the first session Crashes surfacing in reviews before they surface in your dashboard

  • What we commit to

    Separate keyword research for each store A new description version A/B tested every month A monthly report covering visits, installs, retention and crashes

What ASO actually decides

Two numbers determine whether an app grows from the store itself: how often your listing is shown for a search, and how often that view becomes an install. Every task in ASO moves one or the other. Keywords, title, subtitle and category move impressions. Screenshots, the opening lines of the description, the rating and the way reviews are answered move conversion.

Treating the two as one job is why most listings are optimized for the wrong half. An app that ranks for a hundred keywords and converts at two percent is a worse business than one that ranks for thirty and converts at eight.

Setup, in the first weeks

  • Access granted to App Store Connect and to the Google Play Developer Console.
  • Account set up on the professional ASO tooling, so ranking and keyword data is tracked from a baseline rather than reconstructed later.
  • Keyword research for iOS.
  • Keyword research for Google Play, run separately.

What we optimize, store by store

  • App title for Android, and app title for iOS, written for each store rather than shared.
  • Keyword filter and mapping for Android.
  • Keyword filter and mapping for iOS.
  • Google Play short description — the highest-leverage 80 characters in the whole listing.
  • Google Play long description, written to be indexed as well as read.
  • iOS store description, written for the reader, since it is not carrying ranking weight.
  • Category placement, checked against where your actual competitors sit rather than where the app was first filed.
  • Deep linking and indexing, so store content is discoverable from web search as well as from inside the store.

What happens every month

  • One A/B test on a new description version, aimed at conversion rate rather than ranking. One variable at a time, or the result tells you nothing.
  • Reviews and ratings analysis, with the recurring complaints separated from the noise and handed to whoever can act on them.
  • Retention recommendations, including the store media, because the fastest way to fix week-one churn is usually to stop the listing promising something the first session does not deliver.
  • Category ranking analysis, tracked as a position rather than a feeling.
  • 15 backlinks per app per month, pointing at the store listings and any web landing page, which supports discovery outside the store and in AI answers.
  • A monthly report covering app visits, installs, retention and crashes.

The metrics we report, and the ones we ignore

We report store visits, installs, install rate from visit, keyword positions per store, category rank, retention and crash rate. Crashes are on that list deliberately: they are a marketing metric as much as an engineering one, because they arrive in your reviews first and your rating is a conversion lever.

We do not report total keyword count, and we do not treat a rise in impressions as a result on its own. An impression that does not convert has cost you a slot in a search someone else could have won.

The difference that costs you a store

The App Store and Google Play do not rank the same way

This is the most expensive assumption in app marketing, and it costs you one of your two stores every time. Same app, same market, two entirely different amounts of room to rank.

App Store (iOS)
Google Play
Indexed text you actually get
App Store (iOS)160 characters in total — a 30-character app name, a 30-character subtitle and a 100-character keyword field.
Google Play4,110 characters — a 30-character title, an 80-character short description and a 4,000-character long description.
Keyword field
App Store (iOS)A hidden field the user never sees. Comma separated, no wasted spaces, and a word already used in the name should not be repeated in it.
Google PlayThere is no keyword field. The description is the keyword field.
Is the description indexed?
App Store (iOS)No. It ranks nothing, so it is written for the person who has already opened the page.
Google PlayYes, all 4,000 characters. It has to be written to be read and to be indexed at the same time.
How repetition is treated
App Store (iOS)A repeated word is a wasted character. Apple combines your indexed terms into phrases for you.
Google PlayNatural repetition across the short and long description reinforces a term, up to the point where it starts reading badly.
Store-side A/B testing
App Store (iOS)Product Page Optimization, run inside App Store Connect.
Google PlayStore Listing Experiments, run inside Play Console.
What a listing change costs you
App Store (iOS)The name, subtitle and keyword field only change with a new app version, so a listing update waits on App Review.
Google PlayListing text can be edited on its own and goes live quickly, so you can iterate faster.

160 indexed characters against 4,110. That single gap is why the keyword research is run twice, the mapping is kept separate, and the two listings end up saying the same thing in two completely different shapes.

How ASO is bought

An audit is a one-off. A rebuild of the listings is a one-off. Keeping two stores competitive is not, so it is a retainer.

ASO Audit

Find out what the listing is losing

  • Separate keyword research for iOS and Google Play
  • Listing audit against both stores’ ranking rules
  • Category placement check against real competitors
  • Reviews and ratings analysis
  • Conversion review of screenshots and opening copy
  • A prioritized fix list your team can implement

One-off. Credited against a rebuild if you go ahead.

Most chosen

ASO Retainer

Two stores kept competitive

  • Everything in the audit, run as a baseline
  • App title and keyword mapping for both stores
  • Google Play short and long description
  • iOS store description
  • One description A/B test every month
  • Retention recommendations, including store media
  • 15 backlinks for the app per month
  • Monthly report: visits, installs, retention, crashes

Monthly. Per app. Minimum three months, because one A/B test proves nothing.

Listing Rebuild

One-off, no ongoing commitment

  • Keyword research and mapping for both stores
  • Titles, subtitles and all descriptions rewritten
  • Category and deep-linking recommendations
  • Handover document so your team can maintain it

One-off. Ongoing testing and reporting are quoted separately.

The people who run your migration

The team
Beshoy Adel Head of SEO and GEO

Beshoy Adel

Monika Gabriel Senior SEO Specialist

Monika Gabriel

Reem Sameh Senior Full-Stack Web Developer

Reem Sameh

Keroles Mousa Head of PPC

Keroles Mousa

Tasneem Moustafa SEO Specialist

Tasneem Moustafa

Shadi Milad Link Building Specialist

Shadi Milad

Aya Kandil SEO Specialist

Aya Kandil

Marina Magdy SEO Content Writer

Marina Magdy

Questions we get asked about ASO

Keyword ranking changes usually appear within two to four weeks of a listing update, because both stores re-index quickly. Conversion changes are faster still: an A/B test on screenshots or the opening lines can produce a readable result in a week or two if the app has traffic. What takes longer is compounding — better rank brings more views, more installs improve the ranking signals, and that loop needs a few months to be worth measuring.

Yes, to App Store Connect and to the Google Play Developer Console. Without them we cannot see the search terms your listing is already found for, cannot run a store-side A/B test, and cannot read the crash and retention data that explains a bad rating. We work at the access level you are comfortable with, but a read-only account limits the work to recommendations you would then implement yourselves.

No, and treating it as one job costs you one of the two stores. iOS ranks from a hidden 100-character keyword field plus the app name and subtitle, and mostly ignores the description. Google Play has no keyword field and indexes the short and long descriptions directly. The same text in both places leaves Play with nothing to index and wastes the iOS keyword field on words already in the title.

It matters more, not less. Paid installs land on the same listing as organic ones, so conversion rate applies to the traffic you paid for. A listing converting at three percent instead of six is doubling your cost per install before a single creative is tested. ASO is also what stops the paid budget from being the only thing holding the app up.

They do two things. They help the store listing and any web landing page surface in ordinary web search, which is where a large share of app discovery starts. And they build the entity — the app, the company, the category — that AI assistants draw on when someone asks for a recommendation rather than typing a store search.

We can, and it changes the shape of the engagement. You get the research, the mapping, the rewritten copy and the test plan as documents, and their team ships it. It works, but the feedback loop is slower and the A/B testing cadence usually slips, so we would set expectations on timing accordingly.

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