Review Times For Mac

Usually, developers are the ones that think about other people’s needs while giving their absolute best to meet those needs by providing the world with useful software solutions.

If you are an OS X or iOS developer, then you surely must be accustomed with the feeling of waiting while your app is being reviewed by the team behind iTunes Store and the Mac App Store.

Before we begin describing this application, you must know about the existence of appreviewtimes.com, a website that specializes in keeping track of the average App Store review times for new iOS and OS X applications.

Designed to offer a much faster way to view the period of time until your app will be reviewed, Review Times is an unobtrusive and lightweight OS X application that displays the calculated review times for both Apple’s software stores.

Basically, the team behind the website gathers data from other developer that post their latest review times on Twitter and App.net using the #macreviewtimes and #iosreviewtimes hash tags, driven by a commendable need  to provide useful information for all developers around the world.

Of course, all data displayed by Review Times is retrieved from the trustworthy appreviewtimes.com website, but the main advantage for using it is that, now, you can effortlessly access it from within OS X’s status bar with a simple click on its item.

Being built around Twitter, the application enables you to submit your own application review times by simply clicking the pigeon shaped button in order to send a tweet. Within the app’s Preferences menu, you can setup the application to login at startup, and also to display Notification Center notification when changes appear in the review times.

If you are waiting for your iOS or OS X application to be approved by Apple’s review team, if you need a very fast way to view the average review times, or if you wish to contribute with your own apps' review times, then surely Review Times should be able choose your Mac’s status bar as its home.