How do you prompt the user to rate your iphone app without waiting for them to delete the app?

Question

I am referring to the popup window that asks the user to submit a review/rating.

I know it can be done since the Aardark app does it...it asks several times in fact! (Almost too spammy.) But there has to be an API to trigger the rating request? Google is giving me no love on this one.

Answer 1

I would check out the Appirater project that Arash Payan has put together.

Pretty much handles the checking and displaying of the "rate my app" prompt, and brings the user right into the review portion of your app on the App Store.

It's a very clean, and elegant way to provide that minimum barrier so that your users are more likely to submit reviews of your app.

Hope this helps...

Answer 2

I have written about a way to open right into the review panel of the App Store.

http://www.memention.com/blog/2009/09/03/Open-Reviews.html

The actual code part if called through a button press could look like below

- (IBAction)gotoReviews:(id)sender {     NSString *str = @"itms-apps://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa";     str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?", str];      str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@type=Purple+Software&id=", str];      // Here is the app id from itunesconnect     str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@289382458", str];       [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:str]]; }