Rules

AppBonk is one leaderboard for iOS apps. You pay to stand above everyone else, and everyone else can pay to stand above you. These are the rules that decides what your money buys.

Last updated 23 August 2026

01How ranking works

  • Your bid is your rank. The board is ordered by bid, highest first. Nothing else moves you up — not how long you have been listed, not how good the app is.
  • The minimum bid is $5.
  • Matching a price does not beat it. When two bids are equal, whoever got there first stays above. Bid $73 against an app already at $73 and you land underneath it.
  • Rank is never fixed. It is worked out from the live board every time the page loads. Yours falls the moment someone outbids you, and no notice is given.
  • You can raise at any time. Paste the same link, name a higher number, and you move up. There is no ceiling and no auction close — the board runs continuously.

02What you can list

  • Any app on the Apple App Store, identified by its apps.apple.com link. Nothing else can be listed.
  • You do not have to own it. Putting a friend’s app on the board is allowed and expected. If you are the developer and you want it gone, see section 05.
  • One listing per app. The same link always resolves to the same entry, so a second bid raises the existing listing rather than creating a duplicate.
  • The details come from Apple. Name, icon, screenshots, developer and category are pulled from the App Store and cannot be edited here. Change them at the source and the board follows.

03Payment

  • Payments run through Stripe. AppBonk never sees or stores your card details.
  • A new listing costs the full bid. Raising one costs only the difference — go from $40 to $65 and you are charged $25, not $65.
  • The price is set here, not in your browser. The app is re-read from Apple and the current price from our records before anything is charged.
  • Your bid goes live when Stripe confirms the payment, not when you are redirected back. If you close the tab after paying, the bid still lands.
  • All amounts are in US dollars.

04Refunds

  • A live bid is not refundable. You bought the position and you hold it until someone pays more.
  • Being outbid is not a fault. Your rank falling is the board working as described in section 01, and is not grounds for a refund.
  • One case is always refunded in full: if someone raises the same listing between you starting checkout and your payment completing, your bid is rejected and the charge is returned. Nothing is listed and you are not left short.
  • Removing a listing does not refund it. Whether you asked for the removal or the developer did, money already spent is not returned.
  • Anything not covered here, write to info@huddlesai.com and we will sort it out.

05Removing a listing

  • If you develop the app, you can have it removed. Email info@huddlesai.com from an address connected to the app or its developer account and we will take it off the board. There is no charge and no argument.
  • If you paid for the listing and want it down, email the same address. As above, the bid is not refunded.
  • We may remove anything without notice — an app pulled from the App Store, or a listing that puts the board at legal risk.

Questions about any of this go to info@huddlesai.com.