Sergey Kondukov

Getting approved by Apple takes a month for me because they keep rejecting it with the reason "Feels too much like Launchpad," but then I ve finally got approved, and LaunchMe was released on 1st November.

Early time that impacted release
While I worked on LaunchMe I posted about it on Threads, Reddit, TikTok and YouTube. In first month of sharing process i've got about 1-1.5M views combined and after opened TestFlight testing i've got 2150 submissions to test the app. But because of TestFlight bug only 50% was successfully installed, and other half was asked for code by TestFlight even it was Public Invite. Anyway I've got a lot of early users who helped me a lot with finding bugs and improvements of LaunchMe.
Result of firs 2 weeks after release (no marketing yet, only my community and search on AppStore)
- 1180 app downloads with 38% Conversion Rate from viewed product page
- 92 sales for $767
- #143 in top Utilities USA AppStore, #59 in Thailand (I was there about week)
I think result is so good and I proud of it because Conversion Rate is pretty high for this category and its about 7-8%.
Now im working on marketing and some updates to improve product.
Thanks for reading!

LaunchMe is a macOS 26 Tahoe app launcher.
While Apple removed Launchpad from new OS, LaunchMe bring back same experience and a lot of customization features such as:
Features

• Widgets: Photo (JPG, PNG), GIF, Calendar. (Supports transparent background)

• New Widgets soon: Text, Time, Animation, Countdown, Music. More settings

• Page with Categories

• Custom layout - place icons anywhere in grid like on iPad or Iphone

• Switch between themes - Liquid Glass and Flat design themes

• Dynamic Wallpaper with support of system Light / Dark themes

• Live wallpaper (MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV)

• Add any folders from your computer for fast navigation to your files

• Customize folders (files) with colors, icons, images

• Hide app titiles

• Change icons size

• Set custom key shortcut to invoke LaunchMe

• Hide apps you don t need

• Turn on / off blur effect for custom wallpaper (Looks great with contrast Live Wallpaper)

• Clear Colored icons (Designed by LaunchMe for most of popular apps with Liquid Glass or transparent background and colored icons that automatically adapt to system dark/light.

• Custom icons - set your PNG, JPG as icon for any app with Glass or transparent background