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10 Apps for a Fun and Safe 4th of July Weekend
The unofficial kick-off to summer is finally upon us. No matter how you choose to celebrate this Independence Day, we’ve created a list of our 10 favorite apps to have fun and stay safe this weekend, and throughout the summer. …
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A Tale Of Two Languages: What One Middle School Class Learned While Developing An App
It’s always great to hear from our members, but when a Middle School teacher told us how her class uses appFigures to track downloads from an app the students built, we were thrilled. Many engineers will confess that they wish …Read
Happy Birthday appFigures: Today We’re Turning Five
Today marks a huge milestone for us. Exactly five years ago we started building appFigures as a weekend project. No business plan, no launch party, just a useful tool we really needed to track our downloads. It was 2009 and …Read
Google Play Update
12:24pm est – We’re seeing new reports for the missing days as well as yesterday being imported right now. Earlier this week we started noticing reports from Google Play were coming in later than usual. Then, on Wednesday, reports stopped …Read
Happy Data Privacy Day 2014!
Privacy is central to our philosophy here at appFigures, so when Data Privacy Day became an international day of awareness, we got really excited. If you don’t already know, Data Privacy Day is a global effort to empower people to …Read
Reminder: Annual iTunes Connect Shutdown
It’s that time of the year again when iTunes Connect goes silent for a week. If you haven’t gotten the official email, here’s the gist: Between Saturday, 12/21 and Friday, 12/27 iTunes Connect will be down for its official holiday …
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iOS + Mac Ranks Are Now Stable
A few weeks ago Apple made some changes to its network. These changes prevented our ranks aggregation platform from getting hourly ranks consistently for some countries. After a few weeks of intense work and several major updates to our platform …
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Something Is Wrong With iTunes Connect Today
Update (3/18 6pm est): It looks like iTunes Connect has been fixed. The spikes have been removed and the downloads now match the raw reports. Earlier today we started receiving reports about differences in data between iTunes Connect and appFigures. …
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It’s Time for iTunes Connect’s Holiday Shutdown
It’s that time of the year again when iTunes Connect goes silent for a week. If you haven’t gotten the official email, here’s a reminder. The blackout starts Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 and ends Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Some things …
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Service Outage
As of 5:20pm EST (Oct 31) we are back online! Good morning everyone. Hurricane Sandy blazed through NYC last night and unfortunately the aftermath includes some crucial network infrastructure that’s powering the appFigures platform. Here’s what’s going on. We’ll keep …
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