I just found out about this site and thought it was a good idea so I will be contributing to it: App Store Review Time NOTE: This is not my site, I just thought it was a good idea and is probably the most common question devs ask about. Obviously the calculated avg review time is only as good as the submissions it gets so if there are any devs out there (that use twitter) feel free to contribute if you want. The more the merrier
I was going to make a site that did exactly this ages ago. I even bought the url approvaltimes.com. I was going to let willing developers send a copy of the apple ITC emails to a specific address and then it would track the reviews. Turned out setting up another users in ITC gave too much access so I canned the idea. I'm glad to see someone has come up with a way though.
why not use the official numbers? the little box shifted around alot over the last 2 years.. i found it here again.. https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/#expect you need to have a account to see it tho..
The problem with those figure is it is not an average time for submission, and is often not updated, it was still showing figures for early November at New Year.
Well i dont follow it as close as you by faar but thoose are still official numbers taken by thousands of review processes a week, not a handfull indie devs who send their data to a website.. So i rather stick to average older data thats official. At the end the average review time was around 7 days for a long time know.. So i'm not even shure why one need perfectly accurate data on something thats entirely dependent on the product you send in.
Hey Thanks for posting this TinyTechnician, I made the site and really appreciate you spreading the word I was aware of the official apple stats, but there were a couple of reasons I did it anyway. As far as I am aware, Apple does not provide any stats for the Mac app store (although they may in the future). But also, I can do a bit more with the data than Apple publish, for example I added some graphs to the site today to allow people to drill down into the data a little. Not sure what else I am going to add but there are possibilities. It won't be a completely accurate value (it was intended only to be a guide figure really) because as mr.Ugly said it depends a little on the type of app but hopefully it will be useful to some people. Cheers Dave
@Runloop um, you feel stupid? Well I feel really stupid because I cannot even find the review times. Can a dev in the US confirm there is a review time on the link @mr.Ulgy sent? The only numbers I see are the "Percentage of iOS submissions reviewed within the last 7 days" stats. Well I didn't even know that existed so thanks for the link @mr.Ulgy It doesn't give a review "time" though so I don't really find it helpful to know that 78% of apps have been reviewed in the last 7 days (they could have been "waiting for review" for weeks).
I think those are what he was referring to, they are useful but as you say do not show the actual times. I think my site can go hand in hand with it though. After all, more data = good!
I like the idea and since I have an app update in review I'll be adding to the review time avg once I get approved Sinecure Industries stated they just do a twitter poll whenever they care to know the "going" review time. Obviously they have awesome and responsive followers (props for that). Indie devs just starting out though, 1) might not use twitter (yet) or 2) might not have a follower count to get an immediate "going" review time poll...so the site will definitely be a resource to them. Besides, I think any dev forum I've been to has the uber "review time" thread in it. Glad I can just go to a site now instead.
