Done-for-you services
Delivered by the founder, using AppDrift's own platform: live per-market keyword research, AI metadata and localization, screenshots, and publishing to both consoles. No retainer, no commitment — one package, one price, one finished listing.
Founder-delivered · 4 slots per month · From $490
The packages
Both are delivered end-to-end with the same platform you could subscribe to — you're buying the outcome instead of the dashboard.
One app, live in 10 markets — written, designed, published.
5 business days turnaround · 4 slots/month · Full refund if we can't deliver the scoped work
The full worldwide rollout, with per-market keyword research.
5 business days turnaround · 4 slots/month · Full refund if we can't deliver the scoped work
The math
Typical 2026 market rates for getting a listing professionally written, localized, and shipped — so you can judge the price with open eyes.
| Option | Typical 2026 market rate | What you actually get |
|---|---|---|
| ASO agency retainer | $2,000–$15,000 / month | Ongoing management with 3–6-month commitments — built for enterprise portfolios, overkill for one launch. |
| Freelancer one-off | $1,500–$4,000 | A single engagement where vetting, tooling, and quality are your risk to carry. |
| Human translation alone | $0.07–$0.14 / word | ≈ $2,000+ for a 40-locale metadata set — translated words, zero keyword research, nothing published. |
| AppDrift service | $490 / $1,990 fixed | Written from live per-market keyword data, published to both stores, reported after 30 days. |
Market-rate figures are typical published 2026 rates for ASO agency retainers, freelance engagements, and professional human translation. No specific vendor implied.
How it works
The exact workflow the product runs — with a human making the judgment calls at every step.
Tell us about your app, audience, and target markets in the form below. Connect your consoles through AppDrift's standard flow — or choose copy-paste file delivery instead.
For every target market we pull live store autocomplete and score keyword difficulty from the current top 10 — real searches in that storefront, not a stale keyword database.
Metadata written from that research, localized per market, plus a screenshot set built from an existing AppDrift template.
Published through AppDrift to the App Store and Google Play, then a 30-day rank report on what actually moved.
The research method is public: try the free keyword difficulty checker we run for every market, or read the 604-check difficulty study behind its scoring bands.
The honest fine print
FAQ
Teams and founders launching or localizing an app who want the listing done, not another tool to learn. The professional market has a floor you may be under: agencies typically want $2,000-15,000 a month with multi-month commitments, and vetting a freelancer is a project in itself. If you have one app and a launch date, a fixed-price package is the sane middle. If you'd rather do it yourself, the AppDrift subscription gives you the exact same tooling self-serve.
Access to your app on App Store Connect and/or Google Play Console through AppDrift's standard connect flow — the same tenant-scoped connection every AppDrift account uses, revocable any time. Prefer not to connect your consoles? We deliver everything as copy-paste-ready files per locale instead, and you publish on your side. Beyond access: a short intake form about your app, audience, and target markets.
A subscription is self-serve software: you run the metadata generation, translation, and publishing yourself from $9.99/month. A service package is one-time and done-for-you: the founder runs the full workflow for you using the same platform and hands over the finished, published result with a 30-day rank report. No retainer, no ongoing commitment — and every deliverable is produced with the product itself, so what you're buying is real platform output plus expert judgment, not a black box.
No — and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Rankings depend on competition, category, download velocity, and store algorithms nobody outside Apple or Google controls. What we guarantee is delivery of the scoped work: metadata written from live store data, localization into your target markets, publishing to both consoles, and an honest 30-day rank report showing what moved.
5 business days from the moment we have intake details and store access. To keep that promise real, we take a maximum of 4 packages per month — when slots are full, you get the next month's slot, told upfront.
If we can't deliver the scoped work, you get a full refund. Simple as that. (A rank outcome you hoped for is not scoped work — see the rankings question above — but written, localized, and published deliverables are.)
Tell us about your app. We reply within one business day with slot availability and next steps — no sales call unless you want one.
Most ASO services are sold as agency retainers — typically $2,000–15,000 a month with three-to-six-month commitments. That model exists because enterprise portfolios need ongoing management. But if you're launching one app, or taking a working app into new markets, you don't need a retainer; you need the listing written, localized, and live. That's what this service is: a fixed-price package delivered by AppDrift's founder using the platform's own AI metadata generation, metadata translation, and store publishing — the same tools you could subscribe to, driven by someone who runs them every day.
Every deliverable starts with live research in each target market: what people actually type into the App Store and Google Play there, and how hard each keyword is to rank for, scored from the current top-10 results. The method is public — the free keyword difficulty checker is the exact scorer used in delivery, and its behavior across 604 live checks is published in the iOS vs Android difficulty study. You can audit the methodology before you pay for it.
Professional human translation runs $0.07–$0.14 per word — roughly $2,000+ for a 40-locale metadata set — and buys you translated words with zero keyword research and nothing published. Our localization is AI translation informed by live per-market store searches, which is the honest trade for store metadata: the keywords locals actually search matter more than literary polish. We state that plainly rather than implying a room of native linguists, and for in-app content we'll tell you to hire humans.
If you'd rather drive yourself, everything used in these packages is available self-serve from $9.99/month. The service exists for teams that want it handled: intake, research, writing, localization, screenshots, publishing, and a 30-day rank report — capacity-capped at four packages a month so turnaround promises stay true. Request a slot in the form above, or contact us with questions first.