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Ruben Vermeersch
Ruben Vermeersch

Reputation: 1943

How do you count your iOS app install base?

At Flow Pilots, we'd love to keep track how many people install and use our apps. We make apps for enterprise customers so these apps may be in the AppStore but they may also use enterprise deployment.

How do you count users? Can you track installs / reinstalls / updates?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6015

Answers (2)

Peter M
Peter M

Reputation: 7513

For some reason Apple doesn't provide these stats. I have no idea why as they are probably the key stats that people want to see.

There are two main ways that I know of obtaining those stats:

  1. Log into iTunes connect every week and manually record those stats and add them up yourself. (see App Store Reporting Instructions)
  2. Buy an app (iOS or OSX) that does 1. for you, and will keep track of the total stats.

I've never done #2, but there are several Apps around that do this.

Upvotes: 5

tilo
tilo

Reputation: 14169

One way to do this (you should clarify this with your customers if this is ok for them) is to send data to your server. Just keep track of the session count (or even put a single value to your NSUserDefaults) and application version and you should be fine:

  • Install: session count is 0, send a "hello" message to your server (server stores device ID)
  • Reinstall: same as "Install" (server recognizes that the device id already exists)
  • Update: application version is not the same as on last startup, send a "update" message to your server

Upvotes: 2

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