Tools & Resources Every Mobile App Developer Should Know About
We’ve talked to over 350 mobile app ventures and developers from over 80 countries in the past 12 weeks since we launched LinkTexting on ProductHunt. These are the tools and resources we think every Mobile app Developer should be cognizant of while building and launching their app.
ThunderClap
Gather your supporters and broadcast your announcements on their social networks. Launch tool.
LinkTexting
Landing page tool to get more downloads. We built this in house and it has grown quickly among mobile app web pages.
Branch.io
Branch makes the same powerful referral system available both on the web and in your apps.
We can’t praise Branch enough. It’s just dead simple.
Testmunk
A great tool for testing your mobile app on many types of iOS and Android Devices.
LinkTally
Find out how many times your website or blog post is getting shared across different social networks.
iOS Dev Weekly
Subscribe to a hand picked round up of the best iOS development links every week. Curated by Dave Verwer and published every Friday. Free.
r/iOSProgramming + r/androiddev
Both of these subreddits provide easy access to tens of thousands of mobile app developers. You can post questions, share product, talk technical, and groove with other people just like you who are building apps.
BetaList
So when you launch your beta, it makes a lot of sense to be on BetaList. Pay the money and get listed!
MockUPhone
An easy tool for grabbing mockups of iphones and ipads. Really useful for landing page imagery.
Untorch
This is a kickass way to get more referrals. It’s a bit pricey but worth every penny. At the same time, it shouldn’t be abused.
Proto.io
Proto.io is the perfect tool for any non-technical founder looking to mock up a prototype quickly.
Idea Squares
Before you dig into building a weekend project, use ideasquares to find out who else has come up with the idea or similar ideas before.
UserVoice
UserVoice integrates easy-to-use feedback, helpdesk, and knowledge base management tools in one platform. It’s a must have for any landing page.
Crashlytics
Find out when your user experience gets ungepatched, mixed up, and broken.
DakWak
Translate your landing page into 150 languages. Get more traffic in more languages.
Segment
Integrate tons of analytics platforms without having to make front end engineering changes.
HelloBar
HelloBar is the perfect tool if you have a pervasive call to action across the entire website.
GoodUI
This is a solid way to benchmark and measure the quality of your landing page. If you can meet 50% of the standards on GoodUI.org your landing page is pretty damn good by mobile app developer standards.
IXDChecklist
This is a great way to gauge the guts of your product. Are they built with the best standards in interaction design? Use IXD Checklist to find out and benchmark your app against viable standards.
UX Project Checklist
This tool is monstrous but worth a quick read.
UX Check
Use this chrome extension to validate the UX of your multi-platform web app. It’s a perfect tool designed for heuristic evaluation. Even though it is new, we’ve heard good things.
KnowEm
Choose a name that has strong digital viability and network effects. Knowem tells you what names are and are not available on over 300 social networks in seconds. It also indicates domain name availability. This tool couples well with Panabee, a brainstorming tool.
