TestTrack

A new personal Google Play developer account cannot apply for production access until twelve testers have kept the app installed and opted in for fourteen continuous days. Finding twelve people alone is hard, so developers form groups and test each other's apps. TestTrack is where that group keeps score.

You open the apps, the app records that you did, and every owner sees their own fourteen day grid. Nobody has to chase screenshots in a WhatsApp thread.

One button walks the whole day

Press start and TestTrack opens each app your group owes today, about twenty seconds each, then moves to the next on its own. Leave the phone alone until it hands control back. What used to be twelve manual launches and twelve manual screenshots is one run.

Real time on screen, not just a launch

Play counts an app being used, not an app being opened. TestTrack reads how many seconds the one app it is checking was actually in the foreground, straight from Android's own usage statistics, so a visit that was really two seconds cannot be reported as a full one.

Proof nobody can fake

A screenshot lands at a moment inside the visit that you are not told in advance. Predictable timing would make opening an app and waiting for the flash enough to pass, which would make the record worthless to the group depending on it. Every shot goes into a folder in your own Google Drive, and the file is yours to delete whenever you like.

The fourteen days, at a glance

Every tester by name down one side, the fourteen days across the top, reported in green and missed in red. As the owner of an app you can see who turned up, who is drifting, and where a day is about to break your run.

Cohorts, not a free for all

Testers come from one Google Group, and membership is confirmed on Google's servers rather than taken from the phone's word. An administrator places each submitted app into a cohort, and the fourteen days start once the cohort is full. Your record of finished runs, removals and turned down submissions follows you, which is what makes a group willing to trust a stranger with their own deadline.

Reminders while the day is still open

If you still owe apps in the evening, your phone raises a reminder built from data it already has. Decline the permission and everything else works the same.

Honest about two serious permissions

TestTrack needs usage access to measure real screen time, and screen capture to take proof shots. Both are explained in full before you install, both are limited to the app being checked and the round you started yourself, and Android shows its own capture indicator the whole time a round runs. There is no advertising library and no third party tracker in the build, and the source is public so every claim can be checked.

TestTrack is free, and there is nothing to buy.