In the world of verdicts “how could you turn your users relies on your services & how to Maximize Your Mobile App Downloads?”

The answer is- Manufacture the product of being lovable or appraisable by people.

Mobile Apps are the best way to dig out that how much your users are appreciating or admiring your services.

The prevailing wisdom is that 5 ratings work. That’s why they are everywhere. When you open an app on your Android phone, it asks you to rate it on the Play Store. Complete a ride on Uber, and you have to rate your driver. Order something from Amazon, same story. Open your inbox after a long vacation, and what’s the first email you see? A message from either your airline or hotel, requesting you to rate your experience.

Ratings are everywhere.

Let’s have a look at our daily lives.

Weekends!!! Everyone loves to hear this word and have so many planning in his or her mind.

Going to a movie is a fantastic idea. What we people do before watching any movie. We check out its ratings on IMDb- “5 Stars or Rotten Tomatoes”. You want a nice restaurant to make your tummy happy, so you check the reviews of restaurants; you find and rate them too after having your meal.

Hence, Ratings are everywhere!

“In the world where everyone is fighting to be the best, “Users Experience’ is the key tool to attain the 5 stars on the rating board.”

The Concept Behind Rating System

Star ratings are a central design feature at the core of many digital items. Ratings are relied on to ensures the quality, derive decision-making, provide feedback and much more. Ratings are also directly impacted on “How we interact with each other” influence the user experience at both ends- giving and receiving services. They form an integrated data set upon which organizations, right from lone-wolf startups to billions of holder companies, base critical business and decisions.

How Does Rating Make Sense?

I’ll explain, but let’s agree on two facts of Ratings first.

1. Ratings Have An Impact On Services Providers.
   That is one of the reasons; ratings are everywhere. Drivers on Uber do get blacklisted for low ratings. Top rated hotels on TripAdvisor kind’s sites do get ten times as many bookings as lower rated ones.
2. Users Know Ratings Have an Impact
   Ratings always attract users and always leave a curious impact on users that how can the user choose or select an app. As most of the mobile apps are known for their high ratings terminology.

“Ratings Are Supposed To Highlight How Good An App Is.”

How “5 Star Ratings” of an App is mandatory in flourishing Diverse Industries?

Now lets cover-up some industries that define “How good an app is on the basis of its Ratings.” Users always rely upon the product or the item that is mostly liked by others or rated high on the star board rating. Hence, it is quite mandatory to manage the 5 star ratings to build the trust of the users towards your brand and products.

Taxi-Booking Industry

People rate a taxi app like Uber or its services because of the routes driver take, for price fluctuations beyond their control, for slow traffic, for refusing to speed, for talking too much or too little, for failing to perform large tasks unrealistically quickly.

Hence, being a taxi mobile app owner, you can’t ditch or offend a customer in any way. Maybe your last customer has given you 5 stars, but a “Single Star” from a single customer could put you out of business.

 “Do you know- In New York, Uber delists drivers from the platform if they go below a 4.5-star average?”

On the way of Taxi-booking app development– along with making, its feature-rich make sure the services you are providing to your customers or the service your users are experiencing is overwhelming.

Collect the rivalry Taxi apps reviews and, figure out what are the complaints that users are putting over it and then try to cope up those in your taxi-booking app.

Food-Delivery Industry:

People rate Food delivery apps or services on the basis of- how fast services arrive at your doors, for the food being cold when the delivery man delivered it or whether the quantity or quality is compromised somewhere.

A single complain or least rating could destroy the reputation of the service provider along with his business.

You must be aware of the news of one of the food-delivery app company- Zomato where-

“Zomato delivery boy opens food pack eats, and seals it back. The company said sorry with a promise that the company would soon introduce ‘tamper-proof tapes’ to avoid such situations in the future.”

Zomato had faced many negative ratings at that time.

“Before delivering a chartbuster food-delivery app always mark that People always goes with the high rated app.”

Thinking to appear in the food delivery app development industry with a mind-boggling Food-delivery app then understand the market first and then have a tight eye look over the reviews and ratings and implement all the required features that your rivals are lagging.

Tour & Travel Industry:

While your travel app should provide short information about hotels, restaurants, and cafes, but what the users will believe is the ratings and reviews from other users. This feature helps in creating awareness and also helps to better the services of hotels, cafes, and other businesses.

If people are rating their stay at any hotel that would be booked via well-known tour & travel managing apps like TripAdvisor, Goibibo, etc., then, their ratings are done on the basis of Cleanliness, quality of Food, and friendliness of Staff.

The main reason that made apps like TripAdvisor gain a viral fan following is that of its review system. Therefore, in your travel mobile app, travelers should be able to review a place and share their experiences with other travelers.

The Apps are rated because of- how much those apps are flexible to users?

To start your mobile app development process for tour & travel apps, then its quite essential to look over the user prospective- data security, flexibility, quality, and availability and introducing these must-have features in your on the upcoming mobile app.

Social Networking Industry:

Social networking apps are mainly judged on the basis of- how much secrecy and security it is providing, how pleasing UI/UX the mobile app has, how easy the app is in its navigation terms. People generally rate a social media app on the above-mentioned terms.

“The very renowned or diversely using Facebook (the whole world in itself) admitted that the security breach compromised around 50 million users.”

This might could leave an adverse impact on Facebook if the popularity would not up to the mark.

Hence, before starting social networking app development– implement all the required safety & security features, which could make your user, rely on or trust your brand and also can refer the respective apps in their circle.

Let’s Conclude:

Mobile app developers and their brands are experiencing a chicken or the egg persona. Popular apps that top the charts are downloaded the most, but the popularity comes, if the apps are downloaded, to begin with. This means that businesses need to find a medium to become renowned with fewer downloads.

“High rating stuff always attracts a user towards availing it.”

Developers go beyond their bar to avail the 5-star ratings and users search the ends of the earth looking for apps that are reviewed well.

5-star ratings seriously boost the download rate as it attracts the users.

Contact us to discuss how to attain 5 Star Ratings on Mobile Apps. Send us your query on sales@ripenapps.com.

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So, it is a great time to overview the 2018 mobile app development statistics & reports, inspecting the insights & facts about the trends & market.

If we look back at the past, then in the last couple of years mobile app development & mobile apps have reshaped everything from our daily life activities to the way of communication. Mobile app development has reshaped various on-demand industries from taxi booking to the food-delivery industry.

If we talk about the statistics- statista revealed that users across the world are expected to touch the number of four million by 2020.

It can be mentioned as a significant shift from desktop to the mobile.

Here, in this article, we have cumulated must know mobile app development statistics & reports into a single list, featuring accurate reports from across the industry.

Here, in this blog, we have cumulative must know mobile app development statistics and reports into a single list, featuring facts and reports from across the industry. Read on to know the latest mobile app development stats.

Mobile Usage Report:

• Statista revealed that 61.2% of the globally mobile population accessed the internet from their mobile phone in 2018.
• According to ComScore: In 2018, users spend on average 69% of their media time on their smartphones
• Zenithmedia.com’s report says that mobile devices are expected to carry 80% of global internet practice.
• According to research, 65% of the user’s statement is that they trust the relevant mobile source when using a smartphone for analysis.

Mobile App Downloads & Usage Report:

• A survey accounted in 2016, and a number came out that worldwide mobile application market was estimated for $108,440 million, and it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.2% to reach $311,249 million by 2023.
• According to statista, there were around 2.8 million apps at Google Play Store.
• According to statista, there were around 2.2 million apps at App Store.
• In 2017, a total number of downloads were 197 billion and expected to increase around 352 billion by 2021.
• A rise of 10.8% has shown in mobile app downloads between 2017 & 2018.

Popular Categories in AppStore:

Stats mentioned below shows the most popular mobile app categories in App Stores.
Let us have a look at the most popular app categories in the Google Play Store & App Store.
As of September 2018, Gaming apps were the most popular app category with 24.86%,
Business apps were the second most popular with 9.80% of active apps.
As of September 2018, Education apps were the popular app category with 8.29%,
Entertainment apps were popular with 7.43% of active apps.

Now let’s have a look at the most used mobile app categories-
• Social Networking with 20% usage
• Music & Spotify with 18% usage

Customer Expense on App Stores & Google PlayStore:

When it comes to spending behavior of customer on App Store & Google Play Store, it grew by 22% by last year and reached $18.4 billion.
The Growth has risen-up in 2018 compared to 2017.

Conclusion:

By analyzing such an immersive growth in the mobile app industry, you must be thinking about mobile app development for your business, well, in that case, you can choose iOS, Android or both cross-platform app development and can get in touch with our mobile app developers who will assist you with their in-depth skills.

All you need to drop an email at sales@ripenapps.com and the assistance is all in the way.

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The Smartphone is the modern innovation that has changed the way of living and thought of business worldwide. Nowadays, when Smartphone users are able to receive medical assistance and get hot dines after a few screen taps, it seems obvious to count taxi service of the same comfort-ability. Here arises the need for Taxi App Development, because we bet you experienced this annoying situation when you can’t get a taxi for really long.

The people who live in the city face heavy traffic and a limited number of parking slots around the town, prefer renting cars or calling a taxi or using public transport or riding bikes rather than buying their own cars or vehicles.

What if you get your taxi at your place on a single tap of mobile? Isn’t sounds great? Well yes, this is possible via taxi-booking apps and this is the main reason why taxi booking app development now appropriately adopted like never before and seems to be the very promising direction for business to unfold in the condition of cosmopolitan cities.

Well in this blog, we’ll talk about how to build taxi booking apps, how much does a taxi-booking app like Uber cost and a few more related queries in the course of the text.

Are You Considering Developing An App Like Uber?

If yes! then Great move! Have a Glance at Uber’s success story…

Uber that has started taxi booking through the convenience of mobile application wherein people need not worry about traffic and parking space, we just have to sit back, get relaxed & enjoy the experience of the personal car without bearing the expenses of owning a personal car.

If we talk about the popularity of the Uber then…

Uber has rightly been regarded as one of the most successful billion-dollar startups in the current era. Eight years ago when Travis Kalanick & Garrett Camp founded this company in March 2009, even they wouldn’t have expected that it would turn out to be such a famous business enterprise.

According to the latest survey, the last update in September 2018 states that Uber has 75 million riders across 600 cities, covered 78 countries worldwide.

Uber’s success story motivates a lot of business startups, entrepreneurs or individuals to think about launching their startups with similar idea approaching different taxi booking app development companies to make it in real. Let’s explore the taxi booking app development process, app development cost, and see if another Uber clone would worth the cost.

Let’s Have a Close Look At Growth Rate of Taxi Booking Industry

It is quite mandatory to look over the revenue growth rate of the industry in which you are going to invest, Taxi booking industry is growing like a fire and this enables ventures to opt this field as their business to make more money & popularity.

Revenue in Taxi Sharing Industry: $59,678M in 2018.

The Annual Growth Rate: Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2018-2022) of 16.3%, resulting in a market volume of $109,050M by 2022.

User Penetration is 9.8% in 2018 and expected to hit 13.3% by 2022.

The average revenue per user (ARPU): Currently amounts to $118.28.

Higher Revenue Generated Zone: In global comparison, most revenue is generated in China (US$29,749m in 2018).

Uber App Development Guide – History, Features, Road Map & Strategy

Concept & Process Of Taxi-Booking Apps Like Uber:

Let’s have a quick look at the concept or working of Uber app so as we can understand how it works…

The app can be elaborated in simple steps as:

User Request: A user request for a taxi or cab on the basis of availability and type required.  The details are automatically sent to the nearest driver.

Driver’s End: The driver has the option to either accept the ride or decline it. If he declines it, the request will be passed to any other driver.

Tracking: User can track the car on the real-time basis and can get to know about the estimated time of arrival.

Payment: Passenger can pay either in cash or through the cashless system as per their convenience. Another good feature is passenger can estimate the total journey fare in advance.

Rating: Lastly after ride completion, the driver is rated by the passenger on the basis of certain factors.

Well, this was the concept that Uber featured in their processing. When we are talking about the app like Uber, always keep in mind that Uber and other taxi booking app use two different kinds of apps and i.e. Passenger App & Driver App.

Main Components of Uber-like Apps:

Like any other Application, Taxi booking apps have also some essential elements and Uber, like apps have three components i.e. Customer Side, Driver Side, Admin Panel.

To building Uber, like app one has to develop three apps and that are Passenger App, Driver App, and Admin App.

Passenger App Module:

As the name shows the passenger app is for users who book the taxi. Have a glance at the basic features of passenger app essentially needed.

Login Or Register: Easy to login via email, social media logins, accounts etc.

Book a Ride: An interface to set the pickup & drop location, call a taxi, select type of cab.

Contact Driver: Coordinate a pickup location by calling the driver.

Track Driver’s Location: Track the driver’s real-time location through GPS tracking.

Price Calculator: Check the estimated cost of a ride from start to end point.

Payment Option: In-app card payment via credit or debit, if not this, pay cash directly to the driver.

Cancel Booking: Customer can cancel the booking anytime in case of any plan changes.

Push Notifications: Keep your users updated on order status, expected time for taxi arrival, car model, drivers name etc.

Trip History/ Ratings and Reviews: Verify booking history, messages, ratings & reviews etc.

Driver App Module:

Simple Registration: Drivers can request a signup and add the necessary details.

Real-Time Requests: Drivers get notified for new ride requests with all the pickup details.

Accept or Decline: Drivers can accept or decline ride in the limited time frame.

Trip Information: Drivers get the pickup and drop inquiry about their passenger.

Navigation: Built-in navigation with Google Maps to give the best route and ETA information

Contact Passenger: Drivers can make calls to the passenger to clarify pick up location.

Start/End Trip: Drivers can start & end the ride to generate the automated bill.

Track Earnings: View entire job history and daily earnings.

App Owner Module:

Admin can…

• Manage customers
• Manage vehicles
• Manage dispatchers
• Trip Tracking
• Create new booking requests
• Start/End trip
• Contact passenger
• Track Earnings
• Rate Customers
• Provide help & support to passenger and driver

Features of Taxi Booking App

Registration:

Registration includes Creation of profiles & registration. Creation of user’s profile or registration is a must-have component for both driver & Passenger side of the application.

At the time of customer login, you will be focusing your concentration on attaining the data related to their phone number, email ID, or Name. The Data which you are gathering from the drivers will be a lot more extensive.

For the Driver, you may ask the photo ID, license and all necessary identification. You may also implement the rating and feedback section to enhance the customer’s satisfaction and ask them to rate the ride and behavior of the driver.

GPS-Location & Routing Functionality

Taxi booking apps developers concentrate on this three usage of the GPS facility…

Identify Device Location:

Through GPS, users don’t need to fill their details again and again. This feature enables to fetch the precise location of the user by using Map Functionality.

To Give Driving Directions:

To present driving routes including each turn, there are platform-specific APIs offered by Android & Apple iOS.

Android gives direction specification from Google maps while iOS has developed Mapkit to provide directions.

Messages & Notifications:

For the proper execution of the ride, the passenger & the driver need to be connected with each other to know each and every detail about the ride. Through this feature you can know the estimated time of arrival, send updates in case there any delays increases.

One way is calling and another way is messaging or push notifications to notify the driver and the passenger about the ride. Through this user get a popup related to their ride whether the app is running or not in the device at that time.

In-App Payment

The best selling point of Uber-like App is the ability to send and receive the payments from within the mobile app along with the advantages of viewing the ride’s cost estimated on the app screen.

To enable this feature in your taxi-booking app, you will have to make use of third-party payment gateways integrations. There are various integrations that are most commonly used by taxi booking app development companies including, Apple Pay, PayPal, Google Wallet etc.

Adding Final Stroke to the Picture – The Estimates:

Taxi app development is rather expensive. Your ambition will definitely come at the price, but there are ways out.

It always good to launch an app with the minimalistic set of features within Phase I and keep enhancing the features and functionalities within it with each upcoming version. An app like Uber as in stage today, shall cost on the higher side i.e. between 50K to 60K in USD and timeline required would be around 5 months, however, the same shall be achieved within milestones by launching it in the versions.

You shall start with a minimal prototype for around 15K to 20K in USD and this would have all the features to stand in the market and serve its users and with the time we shall enhance the same based on user response. This can be achieved in 7 to 8 weeks.

The majority of key activities depends on you, even development to some extent. There are a lot of taxi app development companies to hire across the globe. Choose those you like, opt based on estimated cost and go ahead. Make your comfortable taxi services be closer to people within reach of the hands of the user.

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