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AppMetric version 1.14.0 has been released.

New

• Settings window with a "Launch at login" toggle.
• Updated app icons for Liquid Glass.

Improvements

• Faster and more stable updates: parallel requests with backoff during rate limits, while respecting the daily quota.
• Popovers now adapt to their content.
• Improved date formatting in charts.

AppMetric version 1.13.0 has been released. Now on Swift 6, I've slightly tweaked the UI and removed the popover opening on launch (except for the first launch) — I concluded that it was rather annoying, especially if the app launches automatically after a reboot. Also added localization for several new languages.

An update for AppMetric, version 1.12.0, has been released. I've been working on it in my spare time. What's new in recent versions:

• Apple reviewers, for some reason, don't like OAuth authorization via Safari anymore, so I had to redo it using an embedded window with WKWebView. I hope that in the next SwiftUI, its own WebView will finally appear, so I won't have to use a wrapper anymore.
• Added a button for quick access to app statistics on the Appmetrica website.
• Added viewing of statistics as charts — both for each individual metric and all metrics combined. All this just 7 years after one of the users requested adding charts :)
• Added interface translation into several languages. Fortunately, with the help of AI, it has become very easy.

Updated AppMetric for macOS — a client for Yandex's AppMetrica service.

• Fixed an error where selecting today's date would not update when the day changed.
• Added formatting for metric numbers (depending on the system language and region).
• Minor fixes.

I’ve updated AppMetric for macOS — a client for Yandex’s AppMetrica service. The previous version, sadly, stopped working when they changed their response format.

From what I’ve been able to figure out, I was using something undocumented in their response. And judging by the current API responses, that was the number of crashes. Unfortunately, I had to remove it and replace it with the number of devices.

Since I finally got my hands on it, I decided to bring it up to date. Reworked everything in SwiftUI, but had to wrap the popup itself in good old NSPopover, because MenuBarExtra from SwiftUI is far too limited. Maybe I’ll get around to writing a separate post about it. While I was at it, I migrated everything to Swift Concurrency and SF Symbols. The catch is that it now requires macOS 13+, but I assume the people who find it useful keep their Macs up to date too. And, of course, finally — native Apple Silicon support.

The update went through review today and is available for download. In the future I’d like to add per-day/per-week charts.

I had read mentions before that the Mac App Store is dead. About a month ago I hacked together my informer for Yandex AppMetrica and uploaded it to MAS. I started watching the charts (not for long, admittedly). In fact, there were 2 purchases at launch (I even know who both were from). The result surprised me.

Immediately first place in the Business category in the Russian Mac App Store. Of course, it is nice when your icon decorates the list of categories.

Still, just 2 purchases say that people really buy and download very few apps in the Mac App Store. Maybe free ones get downloaded more, but paid ones definitely do not. At least in Russia. It is nothing like the App Store for iOS apps. On top of that, the app reached 8th place in the store's overall top chart.

So it is not about the category. In other countries, apps are probably bought more often, but in Russia it is very little. Then again, piracy is much more widespread on macOS than on iOS, because there is no jailbreak hassle involved. That is probably why people here do not buy very often.

Over a couple of evenings I made a simple macOS informer that shows app stats from Yandex AppMetrica. It lives as an icon in the status bar:

• Shows a list of all apps from AppMetrica.
• Displays the number of users, sessions, and crashes for today.
• Automatically refreshes stats in the background.