Rules

Appgratis is deliberately simple. Here is every rule that decides where your app sits.

How ranking works

The board sorts by dollar amount, highest first. No engagement score, no editorial picks, no decay curve. If you want to move up, bid more.
Any app not yet listed can join for $5. Bids move in $1 increments and the ceiling is $999,999.
Bidding under the top amount is fine — you simply land at whatever place that amount can take right now.
Existing listings keep their amount until their owner raises it or someone passes them. When two listings hold the same amount, the newer bid takes the higher place.
Paste the same App Store link again to raise your own listing. Your position never decays on its own.
Listings are keyed by App Store id, so every app has exactly one spot. Tracking parameters, locale prefixes and affiliate tokens in the link are ignored.

Any iPhone or iPad app that is live on the App Store. Paste its apps.apple.com link, its numeric id, or search by name.
A listing shows the app you named and what you paid for the spot. Name, icon, category and rating are to be pulled from the App Store at bid time — that lookup is not built yet, so until it is, a listing shows the handle you entered rather than a placeholder standing in for it.
Apps that get pulled from the App Store may be removed from the board.
Mac-only apps, plain web links, TestFlight or other beta builds are not accepted. Those bids are refunded and delisted.

Your listing appears immediately — the board is live and there is no review queue.
The top three places get the expanded card treatment.
A position can be overtaken at any time by a higher bid. That is how the board works, and it is not grounds for a refund.

By finishing a checkout you confirm that you chose the amount yourself, understood that it buys a position on a public board rather than a product or service, and authorised the charge.
If something went wrong — a double charge, a listing that never appeared, a payment that didn't apply — get in touch first using the support address on your receipt. We resolve genuine errors quickly.
Nothing here limits rights that can't be waived under your local consumer law.