list of most important review sites & blogs

[VIC20]

I'm currently creating a list of iphone sites & blogs for the sending PR & promo codes. I'll post my list later in this thread.
It does not make sense if people always waste their time by searching for something that can be discovered by using google anyway.

I will use alexa to sort this list by it's US traffic ranking.

I would have personally loved to see such a list but I haven't found it. Seems most people does not like to share their lists. If anyone wants to contribute to the list please PM me and I'll check alexa for the links you send me to include them in the ranking. Maybe it would be good for the community if this list could be made sticky when it's finished.


Edit:

TobyLeon made a Google Document containing all the sites mentioned here plus many many more, sorted by alexa rank, complete with contact information - see also this post: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/480...l=1#post467779

Google Document:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...uthkey=CLWGyl4

[OXYGEN]

148Apps (www.148apps.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 8,328

App Chatter (www.appchatter.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, and provides a developer-managed profile for your releases. See their submissions guidelines here, and manage a profile from here.
Visits/day: 322

App Podcast, The (theapppodcast.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, but you must pay them for the privilege ($25-$100/review). You can find their submission guidelines here. You will need a video of your app in order to submit it for review and hosting on their video channels.
Visits/day: 3,773

App Safari (www.appsafari.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. See their submissions guidelines here.
Visits/day: 17,245

App Store Apps (www.appstoreapps.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. No guidelines, but contact them about a review here.
Visits/day: 7,187

AppCraver (www.appcraver.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, and also conducts developer interviews. See their submissions guidelines here.
Visits/day: 10,412

AppRater (www.apprater.com)
Lists and “reviews” iPhone applications, but requires link sharing from participating developers. Details here.
Visits/day: 7,269

AppShopper (appshopper.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, and doesn’t openly list their submission guidelines. You can try contacting them at arn@appshopper.com
Visits/day: 27,479

Apptism (www.apptism.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, including previewing those that haven’t yet been released. See their submissions guidelines here.
Visits/day: 19,121

AppVee (www.appvee.com)
Gives *video* reviews of iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. See their submissions guidelines here.
Visits/day: 7,379

Apple iPhone Apps (appadvice.com/appnn)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 9,890

Apple iPhone School (www.appleiphoneschool.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games from both the App Store and Cydia. No public submission guidelines, but you can contact them here.
Visits/day: 17,342

Art of the iPhone (artoftheiphone.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. No public submission guidelines but you can contact them here.
Visits/day: 5,290

iPhone Application List (iphoneapplicationlist.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here, although they do ask for a reciprocal link in exchange for a review.
Visits/day: 9,867

iPhone App Review (www.iphoneappreview.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 3,959

iPhone App Reviews (www.iphoneappreviews.net)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. The site allows you to publish promo codes with your review as well. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 5,145

iPhone Game Network (www.iphonegamenetwork.com)
Reviews iPhone games, including Ad-Hoc distributions. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 4,819

iPhone Game Reviews (iphone-game-reviews.com)
Small review blog for iPhone games, you can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 469

iPhone Games (iphonegames.com/reviews)
Small review blog for iPhone games, you can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 538

iPhone Footprint (www.iphonefootprint.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here, and request a review here.
Visits/day: 7,865

iPhone World (www.iphoneworld.ca)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, as well as publishes press releases. You can contact them about app submissions here.
Visits/day: 10,318

NativeiPhoneApps (www.nativeiphoneapps.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 761

Slide to Play (www.slidetoplay.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 8,882

App Theater (www.apptheater.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their contact details here.
Visits/day: 970

Touch Arcade (toucharcade.com)
Excellent review site for iPhone and iPod touch games. You can find their submission guidelines and other useful information here.
Visits/day: 44,474

MoDoJo (www.modojo.com)
Promtional site for mobile games allowing you to submit reviews, maintain a profile, and so forth. You can find details here.
Visits/day: 4,823

Touch Reviews (touchreviews.net)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games, as well as several additional promotional tools. You can find more details here.
Visits/day: 2,183

Buy me an iPhone (www.buymeaniphone.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch applications and games. You can find their contact details here.
Visits/day: 18

What’s on iPhone (www.whatsoniphone.com)
News and reviews for the iPhone. You can find their contact details and submission information here.
Visits/day: 6,763

Pocket Gamer (www.pocketgamer.co.uk)
Reviews games on various mobile platforms including the iPhone. See their submission guidelines here and check out the iPhone developer forums here.
Visits/day: 3,017

iPwn Games (www.ipwngames.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod touch games. You can find their submission guidelines here. They also offer personal blogs to game developers here.
Visits/day: 5,344
For some general review tips you’ll find an instructive post over at mobile orchard: http://www.mobileorchard.com/five-ti...phone-reviews/

UPDATE: Additional sites recommended by friendly internet commenters:

APPera, The (www.theappera.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 3,719

AppGamer.net (www.appgamer.net)
Reviews iPhone and iPod games. You can find their contact details here.
Visits/day: 979

Touch my Apps (www.touchmyapps.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod applications and games. They also do interviews with artists, developers, etc. You can contact them here.
Visits/day: 2,262

Portable Gamer, The (www.theportablegamer.com)
Reviews portable games, including iPhone games. You can find their contact details here, and a their iPhone game submission form here.
Visits/day: 2,269

appVersity (www.appversity.com)
Reviews iPhone and iPod applications and games. You can find their submission guidelines here.
Visits/day: 2,605

AppModo (www.appmodo.com)
Reviews mobile applications and games, including the iPhone. They also do interviews with artists, developers, etc. You can find their contact details here.
Visits/day: 6,394

Tags: iPhone, Self-Promotion

[aNTeNNa trEE]

If this list is something that people would find truly useful I will Sticky it when it's more fleshed out.

[EricJ]

To add to the list:

iWorth It App Reviews (www.iworthitappreviews.com)
iPhone app/game reviews and developer interviews.
Visits/day: unknown

[PancakeCircus]

thanks.. this is real helpful

[cheezorg]

Nice list!

[maystorm]

If this list is something that people would find truly useful I will Sticky it when it's more fleshed out.

hi,

i think thats a good idea!
greets, thomas

[VIC20]

Yes please make it sticky!

Here comes my list so far...

ENGLISH sites:

Sorted by Alexa Traffic rank:

http://www.appguide.com (Macworld)
http://www.tuaw.com 1,608
http://toucharcade.com 3,770
http://www.tipb.com 4,400
http://appadvice.com/ 9550
https://www.appstorehq.com / 11,300
148apps.com 11,650
appsafari.com 12,767
http://www.appcraver.com/ 15,866
http://appmodo.com 20,000
http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/submit-iwidget/ 20,000
http://www.iphonealley.com 20,000
http://www.slidetoplay.com/ 27,000
http://www.apptism.com/ 26,000
http://iphonelife.com / 29.000
http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/ 32,000
http://touchreviews.net/ 31,000
http://www.whatsoniphone.com/ 33,000
http://ifonereviews.blogspot.com 44,000
http://touchmyapps.com 47,000
http://KRAPPS.com
http://theappera.com/ 48,000
http://artoftheiphone.com/ 50,000
http://appvee.com/ 53,000
http://www.iphoneappreviews.net/ 64,000
http://www.appstoreapps.com/ 73,000
http://www.iphoneappreview.com
http://www.appsmile.com 102,000
http://appgamer.net 109,000
http://www.alliphoneappsreview.com/promote-your-app/ 119,000
http://www.slapapp.com/ 127,000
http://www.iphonegamerblog.com 132,000
http://nodpad.com/ 153,000
http://appstruck.com 153,000
http://www.touchgen.net 188,000
http://www.razorianfly.com 196,000
http://www.appversity.com 191,000
http://www.iphoneappindex.com/
http://www.apprater.com/ 217,000
http://brutalgamer.com 220,000
http://theportablegamer.com/ 227,000
http://www.appchatter.com/ 280,000
http://www.nativeiphoneapps.com/ 422,000
http://www.tapcritic.com 435,000
http://appaddict.net 555,000
http://ititothemes.wordpress.com 614,000
http://iphonegames.com/ 877,000
http://www.apptheater.com/ 886,000
itunesgames.net 906,000
http://www.ipwngames.com/ 961,000

no regional traffic data or traffic data from other countries only:

http://ifanzine.blogspot.com
http://thumbspree.com
http://averageapper.com
http://www.appsized.com
http://www.applesauceblog.com
http://lifeinlofi.com/
iphoneapppodcast.com
http://www.iphonefootprint.com
http://leimobile.com/
http://www.iphoneappsgallery.com
http://pocketfullofapps.com/
http://indieappolis.com/requestreview/



GERMAN list (but no austrian, or swiss sites included)
Not sorted by traffic rank, but already picked out the email addresses from the contact pages!

Some are large sites, others are the web version of print magazines, and there are also a lot of iphone related blogs listed.

IMPORTANT: some of these addresses are not related to the domain name of the blog, so don't get confused when you try to check out what's behind the email address.

A few (1-3) emails not working anymore but I forgot which ones.

Please convert the (a t) and (d o t) with text edit. I had to do this because on most contact pages they were protected, it would be unfair (spam) to post the addresses in another way.

news (a t) mactechnews (d o t) de
oliver (d o t) krueth (a t) macup (d o t) com
pr (a t) macnews-gmbh (d o t) de
ifun (d o t) de (a t) gmail (d o t) com
redaktion (a t) macwelt (d o t) de
pr (a t) macnotes (d o t) de
computer356 (a t) gmail (d o t) com
news (a t) iszene (d o t) com
info (a t) appleunity (d o t) de
info (a t) macpodcast (d o t) de
info (a t) appletrend (d o t) de
guenther (d o t) robert (a t) gmail (d o t) com
nicholas (a t) aboutmacs (d o t) de
info (a t) apptests (d o t) de
maddin (a t) ipodmod (d o t) de
anton (a t) apfelpower (d o t) de
info (a t) computerwissen (d o t) de
webmaster (a t) admartinator (d o t) de
mail (a t) youmac (d o t) de
christian (d o t) domke (a t) apfelcenter (d o t) de
marcel (d o t) nuernberger (a t) apfelcenter (d o t) de
info (a t) macinplay (d o t) de
redaktion (a t) textlab (d o t) de
info (a t) macnewsblog (d o t) de
info (a t) fliks (d o t) com
info (a t) application-store (d o t) net
apps (a t) appsblog (d o t) de
presse (a t) iphone-notes (d o t) de
weidenhaus (a t) me (d o t) com
info (a t) podcast (d o t) de
apfelservice (a t) apfelportal (d o t) de
webmaster (a t) macuser (d o t) de
info (a t) ipod-forum (d o t) de
reichstamm (d o t) michael (a t) mac (d o t) com
info (a t) iphoneblog (d o t) de
info (a t) games4mac (d o t) de
info (a t) apfelmag (d o t) com
redaktion (a t) apfeltalk (d o t) de
blog (a t) searchmetrics (d o t) com
redaktion (a t) appfuchs (d o t) de
takeo (a t) macbug (d o t) de
info (a t) loadblog (d o t) de
info (a t) mobiload (d o t) de
pressemeldung (a t) chip (d o t) de
wir (a t) sueddeutsche (d o t) de
presse (a t) arktis (d o t) de
info (a t) produki (d o t) de
info (a t) 4players (d o t) de
oliver (a t) stoer (d o t) de
mailkontakt (a t) AppDates (d o t) com
daniel (d o t) kral (a t) me (d o t) com
info (a t) kai-grotjohann (d o t) de
redaktion (a t) pcgames (d o t) de
daniel (a t) fiene (d o t) tv
info (a t) jens-stratmann (d o t) de
eive (a t) esportive (d o t) net
info (a t) h2 (d o t) de
onlinered (a t) computerbild (d o t) de
info (a t) bestofapps (d o t) de
paddy (a t) neunzehn72 (d o t) de
info (a t) screen-online (d o t) de


I would love to see a spanish, italian and french list!

[Mudloop]

http://www.atulo.net
Brazilian site

http://macosworld.ru/
Russian site

[VIC20]

http://www.crazymikesapps.com US T
raffic rank: 75,384

[technicat]

I had good reviews on SlapApp and MacLife - http://slapapp.com/ and http://maclife.com/ - and a blog interview on AppBoy - http://appboy.com/

[synapsemassage]

It does not fit into this list but I think it also fits into planning of marketing strategies. Apple's ranking algorythm.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/20...-algorithm.php

Maybe this list could be extended to a helpful collection of infos related to marketing? Collecting related links to useful posts in this forum would be already a helping hand. Might be a time saver. All this marketing stuff kills so much time, that will be better spend in making our games better. IMO.

blogs/review sites
iphone4ever.eu (1800 vistors a day)
iphone-daily.de (1050)
apfelnews.eu (8062)
blog.appsfire.com (2322)

[VIC20]

I have heard of another way how the ranking works and from what I saw during the last 4 days while being featured in germany it seems to be real:

It looks up for sales during the 168 hours:
last 24 hours: x4
24-48 hours: x3
48-76 hours: x2
76-96 hours: x1
96-120 hours: x1
120-144 hours: x1
144-168 hours: x1
The sum of this divided by 7

I was featured in germany at 20:00 on thursday and got about 90 sales in the 4 hours till 24:00 - since friday I always see a kind of stabilization in the rankings after 20:00 (except on saturday when an important soccer match was on TV)

[synapsemassage]

Where did you hear these numbers? Are your sales dropping at soccer matches?

Here some other interesting numbers. You can scroll down beyond the comments for the transcript.
http://www.slideshare.net/HandyGames...nalysis-022009

[VIC20]

yes, they dropped at the day of the soccer match compared to the day before and after - but we should move out of this thread to discuss this To keep the thread more clean.

[Mani]

I'm hoping to continue to grow a community-driven marketing approach where developers are able to review and discuss each other's games and Unity work to increase their brand equity.

http://infiniteunity3d.com is currently Alexa ranked 245,248 and encourage peer reviews. We had right under 45,000 pageviews to the main site last month.

We're in the process of reorganizing the site content to make it more findable and hope to help developers and their products get seen by "the right person".

Let me know if there's any way that we can help devs marketing their apps.

[blue2fox]

Just a piece of advice, for anyone who is planning on paying iPhone Toolbox to do a review, I wouldn't recommend it. I paid the $25, to get my game reviewed on http://iphonetoolbox.com/ but I was quite disappointed with the results. There was no actual review. They just took what I already posted on iTunes, and posted it on their website. A whole bunch of other websites do that for free.

When I asked them to write a review, I submitted additional pictures, a youTube link, and a promotional code for them to actually try my game. None of which they seemed to use. The only thing I got out of it was that my game was posted on the front of their Apps page.

[Mani]

@bluefox2
If you want to log into infiniteunity3d.com we can help you write your own review and propagate it around the web.

[meanstreak]

This is probably a crazy question but...

Does anyone know how to find the mailing addresses for some of the iPhone review sites? None of them seem to list mailing addresses on their sites, but I suspect many of them have PO boxes at least for receiving press packs, etc.

[AetherRepublic]

Last night, I went through and submitted to most of the sites in these posts. I didn't submit to 10 or so because they didn't seem to fit my app or I couldn't find contact info. (I didn't keep track of the ones I didn't submit to or I would have posted a list.)

One thing I did that was really helpful was to create a 'Letter to Reviewers' page on my site. This allowed me to send rather short emails with only a hook paragraph, promo codes, and a graphic. This was much faster than drafting an email and attaching a pdf or doc.

For the sites with a submission form, I gave them a description and forwarded them to the letter. Pretty much just like in the emails.

For an example, check out my 'Letter to Reviewers' here.