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50 Great
App Ideas
to start building your app empire
Youve seen the success stories, and youre ready
to write your own. Its time to make your app
empire a reality.
So youre ready
First order of business is to come up with some
killer app ideas to get this machine moving. This
is where it all begins! Then all of a sudden it hits
to dive into the you like a brick app developer brain freeze.
app business... easy. Like were struck with 1,000 Aha! moments
every day.
The App Empire and Amazing.com development teams have put together a list of App Models,
Hit Development Categories, and loads of App Ideas for you to steal.
We do our best to lay it all out there, from start to finish, in hopes that any driven app
entrepreneur takes an idea and MAKES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. We will never ask for a penny or
shred of recognition.
Some of these ideas will be off-the-wall and others will be pretty straightforward. No matter what,
they are all ideas that we believe in and would do ourselves if there were 200 more hours in a week.
Before starting any project, make sure its well thought-out with wireframes, and most
importantly, a set budget. Do your research and remember successful apps arent born overnight.
Get ready to put in some work and be prepared to tweak and refine.
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5 Models
with Huge Payouts
Mobile devices are Anytime youre doing
1 changing the way people 4 content marketing or
search for, find and youre providing value
purchase products. The through education
ecommerce shopping experience can subscription information and content,
be integrated into users make it a subscription.
daily lives like never Dont make your app a
before. one time thing.
Big retailers dont want to miss out on this new People want to be in the know with certain
opportunity. categories like Finance, and will gladly shell
Create an app with branding in mind. Promote out a couple bucks a month for some good
something like a fitness app to get exposure, information.
and then market your code to similar brands. Subscription apps focus on gating content so
users are motivated to subscribe.
Marketing databases Start with a Lite version and offer tons of
2 for apps have options for people to buy and become
unbelievable value, members. Constantly remind users that they
marketing are extremely lucrative can upgrade and make it really worth their while.
and high in demand.
database Databases is what Both Fortune 500
happens behind the 5 companies and mom-
scenes. Also known
and-pop businesses are
as the backend. Its where data is and where looking to increase their
information is stored. The analytics are in the
backend. Email addresses are captured in the
branding presence in the mobile
space.
backend. The processes that are coded into
apps happen in the backend. There are dozens
Use marketing databases to collect emails, of companies that
create custom user experiences, and to get offer cheap services to create mobile apps for
maximum value out of your customers. companies, but none of them do it well.
What if you were the person who developed a
killer app template that could be customized
Youve probably heard
3 about skinning by
to other businesses.
Apps play a key role in alerting customers
now. While its not as of promotions, events and special offers. We
lucrative of a model as
skinning it was 2-3 years ago,
know a developer who had early success with a
bartender game and was later able to brand it
taking a successful app to liquor distributors.
and improving it is a
winning ticket!
When you remove all the tricks and hacks that might have worked in some cases, it always
comes back to Business Fundamentals.
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10 Categories
to Consider
1 games
The most popular app category. Our guilty pleasures and a great way to make consistent revenue.
2 lifestyle
Health, fitness, and everything else you can read in an airplane magazine.
3 entertainment
Amuse, inform, and distract users from their day to day lives.
4 business
Apps focused on occupation, profession, trade and financial sectors.
5 personalization
Customize a users device with trendy widgets.
6 education
What better reward than to develop apps to educate others. Power moves!
7 utilities
Develop helpers that make smartphones even smarter.
8 navigation
GPS all day!! Determine positions, routes and track locations.
9 productivity
Apps dedicated to producing information, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs,
digital, music and digital video.
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6 city parking finder 11 taxi liar
Losing patience finding parking? Parking Get all the statistics about your taxi ride.
apps have been incredibly successful and Did the driver take the right route?
lucrative in major cities in LA and SF.
Was the driver faster or slower than
Most dont last forever, but crush it while predicted?
theyre alive.
Now you know not only if your driver was
shady or not, but if the driver deserves a tip.
7 shaky blackjack
Call us lazy, but we are tired of pressing, 12 after hours
flicking, and swiping. Shaky blackjack
solves that problem. Shake left for hit, or After last call, it can be difficult to find
right for stay. anything open especially in a different city.
We want an app that would show clubs and
eateries that are open after hours.
8 order
If youre like us, you eat all over the
place. The problem is remembering
13 shaky camera
if that steak was overcooked or Ever tried to take a selfie but you cant hold
undercooked. Now you can document the camera and reach the buttons at the
EXACTLY what you like or dont like same time? Problem solved!
about your favorite eats!
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16 Food Recylcer 22 Clothes + Weather Advise
Keeps track of food you throw out so you We dont quite understand weather reports,
can manage grocery purchases better. especially when traveling. But we do
understand clothes. Clothes Weather Advisor
17 Log My Trip solves the problem!
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28 Reverse Image Finder 34 Alarm Pod
Searches images on the web and Social Wake up to your favorite podcast!
Networking sites and tells you who and Automatically downloads your favorite
where they were uploaded. podcast and allows you to use it as an
alarm.
29 lock
We admit, we use our phones more
35 Class Clown
than we actually should. iLock disables Upload, comment, and vote on the best
all functionality of your phone so you yearbook photos.
cannot use it for X amount of hours.
Emergency Contacts of course will
remain enabled. 36 Bike Alarm
Use simple tracker stickers to keep an
30 Bar Line & Cover eye on your bike. Place the sensor on
your bike and let the app take care of the
Dont waste your night in line! Bar Line rest!
will give you estimates of bar and club
lines + their covers.
37 Easy Ship
31 Mail Man Tracker Calculate the size, weight and location
for packages.
Know exactly when that birthday card
from Grandma will arrive.
38 Walk the VR Dog
32 jump Time to let the dog out! Your VR Pet will
remind you when to go for a walk or run
Are you like us and watch tons of sports? and track your exercises.
Weve always wanted to know our vert.
iJump measures how high and how far
users can jump. 39 rps
Rock-Paper-Scissors with the iWatch.
33 Game Center Tracker Take it a step further and define
consequences for losing...
Tracks and shows Game Center stats for
all games you are playing. Also alerts
when a record has been beaten. 40 Hide-A-Con
Have an app you want to keep
secret? Hide-A-Icon does just that by
applying generic bland icons to chosen
applications.
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41 Ripe 47 Stockgram
Quickly find out if fruit if ripe and ready Take and upload pictures to a free
on the fly! Search and browse fruits license community. Pictures can be
and get helpful tips for picking the best shared, downloaded and used for any
produce. purpose.
46 Go to Sleep App
App that puts all open applications on
sleep mode until the user presses the
home button. Saves battery life.
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Thank you
for reading!
We wish you all the best and hope that this has helped you
get a major jumpstart on creating your hit app.