Rating and reviews from within an IOS app [duplica

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Direct “rate in iTunes” link in my app?

It's possible to let the user rate or write a review from within my app ?, or my only option is to prompt a message asking my user to rate the app ?

In-app purchases can be rated ?

Someone told me that when an app was erased, it was possible to ask the user to ask rate the app, but that feature was removed in IOS4. It's this true ?, the SDK provides me any support to do this kind of stuff ?

thanks !

Answer 1

Lot of apps use Appirater (written by Arash Payan) for Rating. It is extremely customizable and free. You can do lot of customizations by changing settings. eg. Prompt user to rate only if he has had your app for 7 days and has used it at least 5 times.

I have blogged about the same here as well: http://iostipsntricks.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/how-to-get-people-to-rate-your-ios-app/

Answer 2

The best you can do is a direct link to the review page in iTunes. So you ask them to rate the app and supply a button that takes them directly to the reviews page. See this previous StackOverflow answer.

Rate on delete used to be built into the operating system and forced upon everyone. It's now been removed. Many of us consider this to be a good thing, since the implicit question was "what do you think of this app, given that you don't want to keep it?".

EDIT: iOS 6 came out after this answer was first posted; Apple has added SKStoreProductViewController which allows you to show the iTunes page for any product directly inside your app. So you can remove the step that jumps out to an external display.

Answer 3

All the rating features are aspects of iTunes/AppStore applications, or in the case of the rate-app-on-delete-app part of iOS itself. There is nothing you can do to get the same functionality in your application... Other than perhaps use a rating system totally outside of the iTunes system.

Answer 4

You can prompt the user to rate your app or leave a review, and if they agree (press the OK button or whatever), then you can open a URL that points to your App on the App Store. On an iOS device, iTunes links should open the correct part of the App Store, and the user can rate / review from there.

To get a URL that links to your app, you can copy it from the iTunes Connect interface in the Manage Your Applications section.