If you want to make money with a mobile

app, but you're not utilizing all the

tools available to you today, you are

wasting your [music] time, money, and

energy. And frankly, you're getting

crushed by all the competition who are

leveraging these tools because they give

you such a big advantage. So, in this

video, I'm going to be showing you the

exact tech stack that I use to scale

Puff Count to 45k per month in recurring

revenue and my latest app posted to over

150k [music]

per month in revenue. I'm going to be

breaking down exactly why these tools

are important [music]

and how anyone can use them to build a

successful app in 2026. [music] And by

the way, I curated this list so almost

every tool is completely free to start

and cost only scales [music]

as you scale. Plus, in the end, I'll be

revealing a platform that top apps are

using [music] to get thousands of

creators and influencers to post about

their products without paying anything

upfront. [music] Let's get into it. Here

we have it, the ultimate mobile app tech

stack. We're going to be breaking down

all these tools very briefly for you and

each tool is broken down into its

different phase. All the phases you will

need to build a successful mobile app.

We have the research phase, the UI

design phase, the development phase, the

optimization phase, and of course, the

marketing and scaling phase, which is

the most important for building a

successful mobile app. So, let's get

into it. First things first, of course,

the legal and business setup. It's very

important to keep in mind that you can

launch your app under an LLC. You can do

it under your individual name, but

launching an launching your app under an

LLC will give you much more flexibility

when you're making business moves in the

future. And on top of that, it will

protect you against any claims against

your business. It will protect protect

your personal name. So, to set up an

LLC, I like to use Doola. Doola is great

because not only will they help you set

up an LLC, but they will also take care

of your bookkeeping and your taxes if

you want. On top of the legal and

business setup, Apple and the Android

store will also require you to have a

website with a terms of service and

privacy policy. Termly is the best way

to auto generate these.

You answer a couple questions about your

product and they will auto generate

terms of service and privacy policy that

you can use on your website to get

approved in the App Store. Now that we

got the boring stuff out of the way,

let's move into the research phase of

the tools. Sensor Tower, one of the most

important tools, will allow you to spy

on your app competition and see exactly

how many downloads and how much revenue

any app in the world has made in the

previous month. Use this as a tool as

you are validating your app ideas. If

there are other apps in the space making

a ton of money, it's probably good that

you are entering the same space. We also

have Google Trends. Google Trends is

very valuable for searching up keywords

related to your app. For example, let's

look up quit vaping here. We can look at

the worldwide search volume for this

specific phrase, quit vaping. It's up

into the right. Use Google Trends as a

way to validate search intent for the

problem or the topic that your app falls

under. Phase one and all the tools under

it is the research phase. The research

phase is very important for validating

your app idea, making sure that people

want what you're building, and also

validating that there is demand for your

product. All these tools will help you

validate your idea, demand for the

product, and the marketing angles that

you can take for your app. Next we have

Flippa and Acquire. Flippa and Acquire

are marketplaces where people are buying

and selling app businesses. So you can

go onto Flippa or Acquire and you can

see all of the apps being sold

currently. Here's a QR code reader that

made it $11 million in the last year and

they're selling this product for $30

million. Storage cleaner, you can scroll

through here all day long and you can

see other apps that are succeeding and

looking to be sold. You can see how much

they've been selling for. You You even

get a deep dive into their analytics.

It's crazy that this exists, but you can

leverage this in your market research.

Next, we have viral ad library. This is

a tool where you can look at other apps

top performing marketing videos. You can

filter by platforms or by categories,

and you can see all of these apps most

popular organic and paid ads content. On

the Facebook ads library, you can see

all the active ads that your competitors

may have right now. This is an absolute

cheat code. And spoiler alert, they're

not running these ads because they're

not profitable. No company is spending

money consistently on ads that aren't

profitable. So, this is your market

research for your paid ads right here.

TikTok also has a very nice ads library.

Very similar to Facebook, you can filter

by countries, by ad types, and you can

search in keywords related to your niche

to see the top performing ads here.

TikTok also has a separate website

called the top ads. Very similar, but

it's a little bit less granular, and you

can see general categories here, and you

can see the top ads in each category.

Another hidden gem by TikTok

is their creative insights. You can type

in different keywords and hashtags, and

you can see how popular these certain

keywords are over time. This is a very

good place to be watching for new viral

trends. Next, phase two, UI design. The

design, the quality, the look and feel,

the user experience of your product is

so very important. If your product feels

premium, if it feels clean, if it's easy

to navigate, if there's a good user

experience, the conversion rate will be

much higher on your product. People will

trust you more. They will be more likely

to spend money if your product looks and

feels top tier. Very important. Of

course, if you've been watching the

channel, you know what I'm going to say.

99designs. On this document, I have a

coupon code. You can get $20 off your

first design contest. You can launch

design contests for your products and

get dozens, if not hundreds, of

different designs, and you only pay for

your favorite one. This is by far the

best way to get high-quality

professional app designs done. Then we

have paywall screens. This tool will

allow you to spy on the top-performing

paywalls of any app. If you type in any

app here, you can see their exact

paywall, you can see how much revenue

each app is making, and you can even see

the different price points that they are

AB testing.

Use this to study the top-performing

paywalls in your space and replicate

these. Then we have screens design that

will allow you to spy on top app

onboardings. This is one of my favorite

tools because you can find any app on

the store. Again, you can see exactly

how much money they're making, how many

installs they've driven, and you can see

every single one of their screens inside

of the app. This is Airbnb. This is

their entire using user onboarding. This

is every single screen inside of their

app. What you can also do is you can

take these screens and you can copy them

over to Figma to take further

inspiration from these designs.

They have a nice little video feature

here. You can walk through and watch a

video of their entire onboarding and all

the screens inside of their app. Screens

design is a tool that you should be

using. UX Pilot is an amazing option if

you want to design your product with AI.

You can even upload wireframes or

sketches here, and AI will build out

these designs. Stitch is another amazing

option. Stitch by Google is another

amazing option if you also want app

designs here. Stitch is cool because you

can upload files, you can upload a

website URL. Stitch will build user

interfaces with AI. And this again is a

tool by Google, so you know it's going

to be top tier. The final AI design tool

that I recommend is Uizard, and again,

you can use this to build your app user

interface with AI. Figma is a tool that

we use at Posted every single day, and

this is the hub for all of our designs.

As you can see, we have our entire app

broken down in Figma screen by screen.

And Figma is an amazing tool because

once you have the designs in here, you

can drag and drop these simple elements

and you can build additional screens on

your own. Figma is a tool that can be

used by anyone once you have a core

design in here. And finally, a great

resource to use when you're thinking

about your user experience or user

interfaces is growth.design.

This website has amazing case studies on

user psychology. They have a UX design

course, a user interface design course,

and ultimately a bunch of useful

resources and case studies around top

apps in the space. Moving on to phase

three, development. Building your app,

making it come to life.

The first thing, of course, that you

need is an Apple developer account. You

will use App Store Connect to manage all

of your apps, and of course, you might

be using Xcode to develop and deploy

your apps. ChatGPT, no explanation

needed there. That is your personal

assistant. But one tool that people

sleep on a lot is the pre-order feature

that Apple has launched. You can move

your apps into pre-order before they're

finalized. You can send pre-orders to

your app, and the day that your app

launches, all those pre-orders will turn

into installs. Another underutilized

tool by Apple is their small business

program. If you apply for the App Store

small business program, instead of Apple

taking 30%, they will only take 15%

of your total app revenue. This is so

very important for any small developer

out there. And as long as you're under

$1 million in annual sales, you can

apply and you will be approved to this

program, and you will save on 50% of the

Apple App Store fee. If you're not doing

this as a small developer, you

absolutely need to be enrolled here.

Upwork is a platform where you can find

and hire talented freelancers,

designers, really anybody that you need

in your business.

I've used Upwork extensively, and I have

met and worked with some incredible

incredible freelancers who still work on

my team today. A cheat code with Upwork,

I always like to hire from Eastern

Europe. It's lower cost than US

development talent and they still

produce very high quality code. So, if

you need something done that you don't

have the experience for, use Upwork.

Framer has amazing templates here that

you can pick from to build a very clean

mobile app landing page for your app. If

you go to ThemeForest, you can actually

browse through and purchase pre-built,

fully developed app templates. And you

can customize these and build off of

them. Cloud Code, of course, the number

one tool used by developers right now to

write code with AI. And of course,

Cursor, also a top tool used to write

code with AI. You have Firebase, which

is the best and kind of the standard

back-end for most mobile apps. And

Firebase is definitely the best option

and the most widely used tool for a

back-end database. They handle user

authentication, they handle analytics,

they even handle push notifications. So,

as you can see, we use Firebase to send

push notifications to all of our users.

Firebase is also connected to Google

Analytics, so you can track events here

and you can run Google Ads more

effectively. Next, of course, we have

Roark, which is the best-in-class vibe

coding tool right now. Roark, and

especially Roark Max, will one-shot MVPs

of mobile apps and you can ship them

directly into the App Store. We can take

a look here, I built this recipe builder

on Roark and what we can do is we can

publish directly to the App Store, we

can test on our device, we have full

access to the entire code base here, and

we can even export to GitHub. So, if

you're vibe coding, you're building an

MVP, Roark is the go-to. Next, phase

four, one of the most important phases

of actually scaling your app, the

optimization phase. Here, we're going to

focus on the revenue and subscription

analytics. Of course, the number one

tool to AB test paywalls is Superwall.

You can AB test paywalls and now

onboarding flows without pushing updates

to the App Store. I use Superwall

extensively when we were scaling Puff

Count. We tested hundreds of different

paywalls to find the optimal pricing and

wording to maximize our LTV. And again,

they just launched their onboarding flow

tool where you can AB test onboarding

flows along with your paywalls all in

one tool without shipping any updates.

Next, we have RevenueCat which will give

you subscription and revenue analytics.

This tool is very important for tracking

all of your revenue events and it will

give you very important tools like your

customers lifetime value. Next, we have

a couple different options here for

mobile measurement partners, an MMP. MMP

is very important when you start to

scale on paid ads because they will send

the events from your app back to the

paid ads platform. With iOS 14 and the

privacy updates, you cannot do this on

your own. You need to implement some

sort of MVP. There are three main

options here for MVPs. You have

AppsFlyer, you have Adjust, and also

Branch. AppsFlyer is the one with all

the bells and whistles. This is the

enterprise solution. It is also the most

expensive. This is what we used at Puff

Count. Adjust is another good option and

of course, you also have Branch. All

these will essentially do the same

thing. They will help you track your app

installs, where those installs are

coming from, and feed those deeper

events back to your ad platforms like

Meta or TikTok ads. And next, of course,

we have Amplitude. Amplitude is a very

flexible software so you can build

certain dashboards for whatever types of

events you need inside of your app.

Amplitude or any product like it is an

absolute must when you're focusing on

retention inside of your app. You can

build KPIs. You can build charts and

dashboards to understand what your

highest spending users or your highest

retaining users are doing inside of your

product. And now, phase number five, the

most important phase of building and

scaling a successful app business, of

course, the marketing and scaling phase.

Marketing is 95% of the success of any

mobile app because if you can't get

eyeballs, if you can't get impressions

on your app, you will never be

successful. Now, before we get into the

marketing and scaling phase, I want to

emphasize how closely this aligns with

the research phase. As you remember in

the research phase, we're looking at the

Facebook ads library, the TikTok ads

library, TikTok top ads, viral ad

library. That is how you're going to

figure out what type of content to

create and what type of marketing angles

you should be taking. Once that is ready

for you though, one of the most

underutilized tools in the entire space

is ManyChat. This tool is an absolute

cheat code when you are marketing on

Instagram. When you are marketing on

Instagram, ManyChat will auto DM anyone

who comments on your reel. I know we've

all probably seen those reels where the

person goes, "Comment XYZ word and I

will send you something, the link to the

product, whatever it is." You can do

that too with ManyChat and I promise you

will drive higher conversions and you

will boost the engagement of every

single one of your posts if you use this

tool. I'm using ManyChat extensively on

my personal Instagram, one that I use to

promote my products, and as you can see,

every one of my videos has a super high

number of comments. And that is because

we are saying, "Comment some keyword"

and then we'll DM the commenters some

sort of link. This is the easiest way to

drive real conversions and additional

engagement to your videos. Every comment

is a positive signal for Instagram so

they will push your content further

because you are getting more engagement

on your product. If you haven't checked

out ManyChat, highly recommend you do

it. It is an absolute cheat code. Next,

we have Tweet Hunter. Tweet Hunter is an

X automation tool. You can draft and

schedule tweets using this tool and you

can also send auto DMs using Tweet

Hunter. If you are not leveraging

Twitter and Tweet Hunter to grow not

only your personal brand but your

product, you are missing out big time.

Over the last year on Twitter alone,

I've pushed 43 million impressions,

530,000

profile visits, and I've grown to over

40,000 followers on my Twitter account,

on my X account. And my X account is

basically driving people to my current

app, my current product. So, every

profile visit, every impression on my

tweets matters and this is driving an

insane amount of customers to my

product. Start leveraging Twitter, start

leveraging Tweet Hunter. And then next,

of course, we have the paid ads

platforms. We have TikTok ads, Meta ads,

and Snapchat ads. I highly recommend you

start with either TikTok or Meta first

and then once you scale on one of those

platforms then you can expand to the

rest. But I shouldn't have to explain

these TikTok ads, Meta ads, and Snapchat

ads. Use these to amplify the reach of

your content. When you find organic

pieces of content that perform well for

you and your products or your mobile

app, run them as paid ads. Simply run

your best performers as paid ads and you

will grow so much faster. I have a

detailed paid ads guide on my channel,

so go check that out. I'll drop it in

the description or something and I'll

show you exactly how to set up effective

paid ads campaigns. Next, we have

Beehiiv. This is by far the best email

newsletter and automation tool. Whether

you're building a waitlist for your

products or you are using email for

remarketing, Beehiiv is by far the best.

As you can see, this is our latest

mobile app posted. We have 26,000 email

subscribers here. And the way we

leverage this is we send newsletters,

but we also have automations. We have a

welcome sequence automation where we're

educating our app users on how to best

use the app. And this runs on autopilot

in the background. So, we are able to

nurture and educate each and every

single one of our app users on how to

use our product best. This automation

has a bunch of different steps and it

has been very effective in activating

our app users. Next, we have Snabbtik

and InDown. These are very useful tools

if you need to download TikTok videos

directly from your profile or Instagram

Reels directly from your profile. You

can use this to download your TikToks

and then post them on Instagram, post

them on X, post them on YouTube Shorts,

whatever it may be. Useful tools if you

need them. Next, we have App Follow.

This is a very useful tool because you

will be able to track not only your ASO,

but your app store ratings. You can

track how your app is ranking for

certain keywords, you can track your

competitors' keywords, and you can also

automate and reply to your app store

ratings. App Follow is completely free,

so there's no reason you shouldn't have

this set up. You just connect it to your

App Store Connect account, you can see

all of your analytics here. As you can

see, we are using App Follow to track

our ratings over time and you can see

the overall displayed rating, globally.

You can break it down by country, as

well. Very useful to see how updates are

affecting your App Store rating. Next,

we have Appify. This tool is a little

bit more in the weeds, a little bit more

technical, but very, very useful if you

need anything automated. On Appify, they

have the store, which has pre-built

automations, pre-built scraping tools,

pre-built lead generation tools.

Basically, anything you can imagine is

already automated and exists on Appify.

So, you can run any of these scrapers or

any of these automation tools, and you

can get some interesting automations

built. Last, but not least, of course,

we have Posted, the easiest and fastest

way to get real content from real

creators. On Posted, you can get started

for free, and you can launch creator

campaigns for free, and you only pay if

those creators get you results. Right

now, we are running a CPM campaign where

we are paying creators a $10 flat rate

and a $1 CPM, and we have pushed over

200,000 views, we've gotten 300 videos

submitted, and as you can see, we can

even track deeper analytics. We're

tracking our Firebase analytics for

first time open. So, we're actually able

to track our views against our first

time opens, and you can customize these

charts here and understand exactly which

content and which creators are driving

the biggest results for your products.

This is all on autopilot. We just

launched the campaign, and the content

flows in automatically. So,

if you're looking for creator content,

this is the place to go. That was my

ultimate tech stack, every single tool

that I use to actively build, market,

and scale every single one of my mobile

apps. If you watched this far, drop the

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next one. Peace.