Awesome! Apple is featuring Faceover in the spotlight section of the iPad App Store for a few days now! Thanks to this prime placement, Faceover jumped as high as #2 for iPad photography, the 40s for iPhone photography and in the 50s for all paid iPad apps. There have now been over 2500 downloads. I think if I can just maintain the visibility and get the app in front of people it should continue to do well.

In other news, I submitted an update today that fixes several things and improves on th...
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I checked Faceover's ranking on the App Store tonight. It's up to number 13 for iPad in the Photography category and number 80 for iPhone Photography. I've sent a few review request emails out to different app review sites but no bites there yet. I'm pleasantly surprised with the iPad ranking but I really want to get the ranking up on the iPhone side. I think some of the upcoming features will help do that. We'll see!

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On its second day in the App Store yesterday, Faceover had 125 downloads. 69 were from from the US and the rest were scattered around at least 20 different countries. Also when I checked iTunes this morning I was delighted to see that the Gods at Apple have chosen to spotlight Faceover in the New and Noteworthy section within the photography category.

Current ranking within the photography category is 16 for iPad and 107 for iPhone. I'm expecting it to jump higher tomorrow from the great adver...
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I got the approval email from Apple's app review team yesterday around noon. Faceover was in the App Store within a few hours after that. This morning I saw that there were 44 downloads in the first half day of release--40 in the US, 2 in Mexico, 1 UK and 1 Canada. Of course, one of those downloads was my own but I think 44 is a good start. I can work with that.

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Rejected! The app review team rejected Faceover because one of my screenshots was "objectionable". Apparently the screenshot of my sister in her "Arab man" Halloween costume is not appropriate for all ages. Isn't that funny? Fortunately they didn't reject the app itself so I just had to remove the screenshot and reply back to their email. After that you'd think the app would be approved, right? Nope. The status changed back to "In Review". :)

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It's been 7 days and about 5 hours and my application status just changed from "waiting for review" to "in review". Supposedly the "in review" part of the process takes about 24 hours so I might have an app ready for sale tomorrow!

Last night I worked on a Faceover bug that has really been bothering me. The problem is that whenever part of the image is copied, the visual quality of the copy degrades slightly. This is especially noticeable for low resolution images. After spending two or three ...
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Yes, here I am six and a half days after submitting Faceover with iTunes Connect still showing "waiting for review". They haven't even started reviewing it yet! Oh well, when I submitted Lexify last year it took a total of nine days so maybe it'll still be done before then. <sigh>

Since I'm blogging anyway...here's an Obama Faceover:


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It's really exciting to submit an app to the store. Of course, it's much more exciting when it actually gets approved. I submitted Faceover, my new app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, to the App Store a couple days ago and can't wait until I can actually tell people it's ready to download!

Faceover is a really fun app for editing photos of faces. By copying, pasting, resizing, rotating, flipping and swapping portions of photos, you can make some amazing (and amazingly funny) pictures. I got t...
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