Piracy
Please use the simple steps below to check if your iPhone/iPad app is pirated or not?
a) Append your app name with ipa (for ex: tomtom ipa) and search in Google
b) Search in http://hackulo.us forum
c) Visit apptrackr.org – search with your app name
d) Visit thepiratebay.org – search with your app name
Consider yourself lucky if your app is not made available for free yet and do not panic if you find your app pirated there – you are not alone. Many individual app developers feel “falling from a cloud” reaction when they figure this out.
It is not too late, protect your app with mtikstoday.
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Statistics
mtiks is the only anti-piracy firm for iPhone/iPad apps. mtiks is focussing on providing simple data and graphic charts that are essential and meaningful. mtiks complies with all Apple standards and privacy policies and does not affect your legitimate app customers. Over a period of research and development we have identified several techniques to identify a pirated app and convert those pirate users to become your customers. We are proud to state that there is no company in the market right now that provides the ability to control piracy and to generate revenue out of it.
Early Statistics
mtiks is currently converting pirated users to real customers for lot of customers, several apps and in different categories, whether it is a game, business, lifestyle or utility app – mtiks for the first time gives you the ability to track the pirate users real time and chances to convert them as well. Few top analytics companies earlier stated that the piracy rate is less in US and high in China – and that might be based on the overall data they have. mtiks found that not to be totally true, we believe it depends on that particular single app. Our report for a health care related app proves that 60% piracy happens in USA, 18% in UK, 8% in South Korea and Canada, 6% in France.
And another sample of a utility app proves that 62% of app piracy is in US, 18% in Singapore, 11% in UK, 6% in Malaysia and 3% in Australia
Though the chunk of data that top analytics has helps themselves primarily, mtiks data helps the developer to generate additional revenue.
Conclusion
As iPhone app developers, we vouch out of our own experience that we got affected by app piracy, Apple revenue and analytic statistics never matched and several months before April 30th we started protecting our own apps after months of research and development and made a significant change in our revenue system, later is when we kept building to support more robust applications and scaled it to high level traffic on web service related apps. It is an ongoing challenging task that mtiks team face with unknown pirates, but we have the zeal, energy, knowledge and passionate about what we believe in strongly, we benefited from mtiks and we present you the same.
Announcements
mtiks opened its private beta invitations for users from July 1st. It’s completely free to use during the beta period and its already integrated with more than 35 different iPhone apps. It helps iPhone/iPad application developers to recover some portion of the money from pirated app users. Sometimes, it’s better to crash or close the app for them not to utilize the full potential of apps. It’s 2 lines of code to integrate and easy to use it. It provides a dashboard with lots of useful information to understand your users better.
Brief Overview
mtiks LLC is based in Andover, MA focusing on recovering lost iphone/ipad app revenue due to piracy. mtiks was launched on April 30, 2010 and protecting several apps in different categories and is available for app developer/company in private beta mode. There is no cost involved during the private beta period for customers and you have the ability to run the campaign anytime you like and not to mention that you can have unlimited apps in one account.
Requirements to use mtiks:
- You are close to launch an iPhone/iPad app
- You already have apps in iTunes store
- Your app is pirated and you would like to protect it.
- You are interested in protecting your app, saving resources and energy and like to recover your lost app revenue.
- You want someone to handle the overhead of fighting pirates and focus on development and marketing of your app peacefully.
How to Sign up?
Once you sign up you will find all related documents and instructions on how to integrate mtiks.
If you don’t have one, please apply for membership here.
