iPhone specific review sites
I’m starting to think about marketing, PR, and what not for my iPhone game, so I’m trying to come up with a list of iPhone specific sites that might be appropriate targets for press releases and/or advertising. Since I have a game, game specific iPhone sites are even better.
It also occurred to me that other developers might be gathering this information, so I thought I’d post what I’ve found so far here. I got the idea from MobileOrchard.
General iPhone Sites
- AppCraver
- 148Apps
- App afari
- Apple iPhone Apps
- iPhone Application List
- NativeiPhoneApps
- iPhone Apps UK
- apptism
- What’s on iPhone
- iPhone Alley
- got apps?
- iPhone Footprint
- Zym Blog
- RazorianFly
- iGames
- touchtip
- iPhone Journal
- iPhone in Canada
iPhone Game Specific Sites
Note that these sites do reviews, sell advertising, and/or have a place to submit an app for listing. I’m not including sites that do general iPhone reporting, but wouldn’t be appropriate for PR or advertising.
If you know of others, please feel free to leave links to them in the comments.
12 Responses
On Dec 20th 2008 05:52 pm, Denis said:
freshapps
I had very little traffic from this site even though I created an entry there for my app on Nov 4th.
http://www.freshapps.com/wallet-password-manager/
On Dec 20th 2008 05:55 pm, Groover said:
iPhone Alley is good, so is “got apps?”, but my personal favorite is touchtip.
- groovin8r
On Dec 20th 2008 05:55 pm, Denis said:
Also, http://www.ilounge.com/ – all about iPhone. I think they have a lot of traffic.
On Dec 20th 2008 05:56 pm, Denis said:
Lastly, http://www.applethoughts.com/
I know nothing about it, except that these are the same folks who do smartphonethoughts.com, pocketpcthoughts.com etc.
On Dec 20th 2008 06:47 pm, Arron said:
Hi Andy,
I’d just like to post to say thanks very much for the shout out (RazorianFly).
We really appreciate any and all recognition of the effort and work we put into the blog on a daily basis.
Thanks,
Arron
On Dec 21st 2008 09:13 am, Joanne Hall said:
http://www.pda-247.com/iphone.shtml. This site covers all mobile but with a good area for the iPhone.
On Dec 22nd 2008 01:08 am, Chris said:
TUAW iPhone came to be in my top RSS sites years ago not just because of Jailbreaking but also because the top toolchain developers were reported on. It now is 99%(?) sanctioned App Store news. TUAW is an everything-Apple site, but offers both iPhone and “not iPhone” feeds. http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/
AppShopper is another great site. It’s the raw, green, raining “The Matrix” display of App Store activity: new apps, updates, pricing changes, etc. It was all I could do to keep up with the “everything” feed. I gave up after a week. http://appshopper.com/
Caveats: I read RSS titles, then summaries, so ads rarely pop up. When I do hit a site itself, Flash ads had become so prevalent that I use Safari AdBlock to stop their annoyance and bandwidth wasting.
On Dec 23rd 2008 02:02 am, GotApps.com said:
Thanks for mentioning us in the list, we love to review great apps! Thanks!
On Dec 24th 2008 07:18 pm, Tim Haines said:
Andy, shoot me an email and I’ll share a google doc with you.
Tim.
On Dec 29th 2008 09:34 am, Zym Blog said:
Thanks for mentioning the Zym Blog! We always look forward to more people checking out our reviews.
Thanks!
On Feb 6th 2009 05:02 am, Wolfgang Steiner said:
Hi Andy,
thanks again for another great article. The links you posted will be of great help for me when trying to make my own app (http://www.jiyuka.com) known to the world! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your game!
Wolfgang
On Apr 23rd 2009 07:19 pm, Lloyd Hannesson said:
Great list! You forgot http://theportablegamer.com it’s a portable game specific website with a heavy slant towards the iPhone.
I also do a fully iPhone game focused podcast called the Touch of Gaming – http://touchofgaming.com/ — would love to hear from any developers out there!
Thanks,
Lloyd Hannesson
Host of The Touch of Gaming Podcast