We ship apps

As indie devs, we built the app intel platform we always wanted

11 years reviewing App Store apps

Since 2015 we have shipped apps for ourselves and for clients.

Every launch began with the same research: which niches pay, who owns them, what they charge, the differentiation opportunities. We read the reviews, pulled ads, and talked to founders.

Tens of thousands of apps later, that research is Appaloma, updated daily.

2015our first app shipped
50,000apps over $5k a month
4,000+niches, three levels deep
100,000+successful ads

The only library of its kind

01

Apps best suited for indie devs

Corporations, hospital portals, and appliance remotes stay out. What remains is competition an indie can beat.

02

Every niche researched and scored

Demand, crowding, rising, ad pressure, and how much of the niche is new.

03

The full file on every app

Every ad it runs and how long it ran, full screenshot sets, paywalls and prices, and reviews sorted worst first.

Niches no chart shows you

Alarm clocks split more than a dozen ways: solve a puzzle, walk across the room, count push-ups, dock the phone, take a real phone call, and more.
Travel journals branch a dozen ways: maps that fill in as you go, countries you colour in, routes animated into a flyover, every plane you have flown, and plenty more.
A thriving range of sudoku variants: cats, otters, and bunnies in place of numbers, killer and samurai grids, KenKen, YouTube channels selling their own puzzle packs, and more.
AI companions come in every shape: a friend to vent to, anime casts, historical figures, boyfriends and girlfriends, kids’ tutors, roleplay stories that write themselves, and more.
Screen-time blockers with a price of entry: pray, read a verse, do push-ups, answer a study question, talk an AI coach into it, get a friend to approve the unlock, and plenty more.
Surveillance detection runs deeper than one scan: hotel-room sweeps, lens finders, EMF meters, who is on your Wi-Fi, detectors for smart glasses, and more.
Sleep splits far past white noise: fan-only apps, brown noise generators, snore recorders, bedtime stories, binaural beats, sensory toys, ASMR triggers, and more.
Skincare runs a rich set of niches: label scanners, selfie skin scores, acne trackers, batch-code checkers, pregnancy-safe lists, planners for the products you already own, and plenty more.
Trucking is a stack of niches: load boards in the cab, DOT logbooks, IFTA fuel tax, small-carrier dispatch, truck-stop showers and parking, pilot-car escorts, and more.

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