Badges for Apple Watch apps

What it says

• Every published app.
• If your app works away from the phone. It says so while your listing does.
• From the day your first launch is booked.
• While your week runs.
• With 10 upvotes or more.
• First place in your latest launch.
• Second place.
• Third place.
• Launched in the first week. It stays, unless a later launch reaches the top three.
• Any other finish.

What you get

• A sign on your own site that your app is here, with what it does on the wrist and its launch record one click away.
• While the badge is on your site, your app page's link to your website is a followed link with a verified tick. Without the badge it is nofollow.
• Visits from that link show up in your own analytics as coming from Launch on Watch.

How it works

1. Once your app is published, copy your badge from your dashboard: HTML, Markdown or a plain text link.
2. Paste it on your app's website, where a visitor can see it. Beside your App Store button works best, because that is where people are deciding. It doesn't need to be on every page.
3. Press “Check my site”. We look at the HTML your server sends for one page: your website link, or the page you name. Then we look again every week.

The small print

• The badge is optional. Your page stays public without it.
• You choose how you link. If your site marks outside links nofollow, the badge still counts.
• Followed links are never for sale. A paid launch or a sponsored spot does not buy one, and sponsored spots are always labelled.
• If the badge goes missing we email you and give it a week before the link goes back to nofollow. A moderator can also remove a followed link from a site that breaks our guidelines.