ACT Party: Closed Testing

About ACT Party: Closed Testing

■ You can't tell whether they ever opened your app

Google Play requires personal developer accounts created after November 2023 to run a closed test with 12 testers opted in for 14 consecutive days. Developers trade tests with each other in communities, but there is no way to know whether the other side actually opened your app. Play Console shows a count and nothing else.

ACT Party records it for you.

■ How it works, in 3 steps

1. Register your app and find someone on the app board
2. Install their app - the checklist walks you through group, opt-in and install
3. Open it once a day and the check-in records itself

■ What makes it different

- Automatic check-ins - opening and using the app is enough. No daily screenshots to take and send.
- Both directions - if your partner uses ACT Party too, you both see which days each of you opened the other's app.
- Works alone - even if they don't use it, your side is still recorded. How many days you've done, when the 14 days end, what you forgot today.
- App board - apps that need testers, in one place. Offer a trade and start.
- Party - everyone starts on the same day and finishes on the same day. Starting on scattered dates makes 14 consecutive days hard to hold.
- Karma - completion rate stays on your account, so people who install and vanish are easy to spot.

■ About the usage access permission

It is used only to see which apps were opened and when.

- Content inside apps, what you type, and your screen are never read.
- Usage of apps other than the ones you are testing is never sent to the server.
- Turning it off only stops automatic check-ins. Everything else still works.

■ Policy

ACT Party does not support rating or review exchanges. It covers only the functional testing and feedback that Google Play asks for.

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