Mango 5Star for visionOS PressKit

Here you can find Mango 5Star's promotional assets dedicated to visionOS. For the general press kit, see here.

What is Mango 5Star?

Mango 5Star is an app that exclusively displays 5-star reviews of your apps. You can create as many mini windows as you want on visionOS, and put them wherever in your space.

Why? As developers, we all know how a random 1-star review can ruin our day or even week. By only displaying 5-star reviews, Mango 5Star can constantly remind us there are more positive aspects to focus on.

Fact sheet

Features

  • Apps and podcasts: It supports 5-star reviews of apps and podcasts on Apple platforms.
  • Review list: You can view the list of 5-star reviews of your apps and podcasts.
  • iCloud sync: Your added apps and podcasts are synced with iCloud.
  • Review Filters: You can filter reviews by languages, and countries and regions.
  • Mini Windows: You can create as many mini windows you want, resize them, and put them anywhere in your virtual space.

visionOS App Icons

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visionOS Screenshots

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What is the story behind Mango 5Star?

On July 6, 2019, I was listening to EP 56: The Happiest Customer of the Independence podcast. Curtis pitched this app idea:

A mac app, that will sit in your menu bar. You can feed it your iTunes connect information. And it will go to your ratings, pull random 5-star rating every however many hours. And have like kind that those motivational quote things, but have in your wallpaper.

After hearing it, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. As developers, we all experienced those 1-star ratings that ruin our day or week. We humans are bad at ignoring them. We fail to remind ourselves that there are more important 5-star customer ratings out there. So I immediately created the Xcode project and started implementing. On the next day I sent the hosts @eataduckimust, @parrots, @jellybeansoup a demo. I got great feedbacks and launched the first version in two weeks. I later then released 5 updates to improve it.

I didn't expect other huge updates to the app. Until one day after 2020's WWDC, I realized that this app is now viable after the introduction of iOS 14 home screen widgets. So the iOS version was born.

Fast-forward to 2024, I'm very looking forward to using Apple Vision Pro myself. Of course, I have to make at least one of my apps available on day one. Since visionOS doesn't support widgets, the ideas is that you can create as many windows as you want. I hope developers like me can find it useful when working in Apple Vision Pro.

Any questions?

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me.