App Store gap report / Revenue

The App Store Connect app is useful. Founders still need a clearer revenue view.

A review-led look at the gap between checking App Store status and understanding the money coming from a portfolio of apps.

Preliminary → public reviews show repeated friction; this is not a market-size claim.

Observed pattern

Missing job

“What changed across all my products?”

Other reviews ask for financial reports, cross-app review queues, better sales charts and a single view across a portfolio. That is a different job from submitting a build.

This is an inference from the repeated feature requests above, not a claim that every developer has the same need.

The focused response

Revenue Bear

A private sales feed, not another publishing portal.

Revenue Bear brings App Store Connect alongside Polar, Stripe, Paddle, Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy into one iPhone view, with goal rings, widgets and gentle sale notifications.

See Revenue Bear on the App Store ↗
Boundary

What it does not claim

Revenue Bear is not App Store Connect, does not submit builds, and cannot remove Apple’s reporting delay. It is a focused companion for the daily “did we sell?” question.

Validation question

Would indie developers pay for a private, cross-platform daily sales view even if they still use App Store Connect for releases and deep reports? The useful next test is five short interviews and five real App Store Connect users trying the demo.

“I find myself frequently accessing the website to view more detailed trend stats.” — paraphrased from a public App Store Connect review.