How to Submit to AppsMamma (a $29 Kids-App Review)

AppsMamma pricing: what $29 buys here

One article. There's no card, no profile page you control, no badge or embed, no dashboard. Per the form's terms, "Reviews will be written by editorial team based on their app experience" (grammar theirs). Credit where due: the five most recent single-app reviews we sampled, published May 2025 through June 2026 and all bylined "christopher", are real, substantial articles, and their links out to the reviewed apps carry no rel attribute, so they're followed as served, with clean URLs and no tracking parameters. None of the five carries a sponsorship disclosure. And nowhere does the site say dofollow, backlink or SEO; nothing about links is promised, and the rel attribute stays theirs to change. You're buying an article on someone else's blog, full stop.

A kids-app magazine, specifically

AppsMamma is genuinely old and genuinely alive. The domain dates to February 2012, the Wayback Machine first captured it that same month (a stock WordPress install at the time) and has archived it continuously since, and the blog was still publishing every few days in July 2026. It also says plainly what it covers: "AppsMamma is an online magazine that specializes in providing information about children's apps and parenting apps." Worth sitting with, and this is our reading, not theirs: if you make a kids' app or a parenting app, that audience is genuinely on-topic. If you make anything else, you're paying for a review on a magazine whose stated specialty is a different category. Directory distribution doesn't have that problem; a listing works the same whether you sell to parents or to DevOps teams. One measurement note: appsmamma.com is not tracked on FrogDR, so no independent Domain Rating exists to quote. And beyond the 649 posts, the page sitemap lists three pages total: the homepage, the submit page and a contact page that renders the same sales content as the submit page.

The $249 arrives pre-selected

The form's one required decision is the radio labelled "Select Review Option *". Two choices: "AppsMamma Guaranteed Review : $ 29" and "AppsMamma Network Review : $ 249". Load the page and the $249 option is already checked; the selection ships in the form's HTML (checked="checked"), not something you clicked. A visitor who fills in the fields and pays without rereading the radio buys the network bundle at more than eight times the review price. The page copy sells that default hard: "Get your app reviewed on 10 different blogs for just $249. This package ensures significant exposure, enhancing your app's visibility and credibility in the marketplace." Defaults on a payment form are a designed choice, and this one defaults to the most expensive thing the form sells.

The free review that left the form

The page copy, verbatim: "You can submit your app for free and paid review service if you are a developer" (grammar theirs). Further down: "INTERESTED IN A FREE APP REVIEW? Join forces with AppMarketingPlus, a professional app marketing agency, for lead generation support and a complimentary review." Now open the form: two options, $29 and $249, no free anything. The history is in the Wayback Machine. From 2015 through 2020 the form offered "Free Review : $ 0", "Guaranteed Review : $ 15" and "Featured Promotion : $45"; sometime after August 2020 the free tier left the form and the entry price roughly doubled, from $15 to $29. The page copy never caught up, and neither did the form's own terms, which still open with "We try to publish one free review at max per day, so submissions will be kept in a processing queue." So in July 2026 the site advertises a free service its form has not sold for years, and "free" in practice means starting a conversation with a marketing agency.

Ten blogs, one Wufoo account

The $249 bundle promises ten blogs, and the page links all ten: apps400.com, game400.com, gadget400.com, apps4review.com, appsthunder.com, appsmirror.com, appslisto.com, webapprater.com, appstimes.in and appsmamma.com itself, which is one of the ten doors in its own bundle. Here's the connective tissue. AppsMamma's order form runs on the Wufoo account amp2. So does appsthunder.com's, where the radio sells "A priority review : $ 29" with its own $249 network tier pointing at the same ten names, and so does apps400.com's. Every review page we sampled carries the site's own App Marketing Services widget linking to appmarketingplus.com, and the footer reads "© 2014 – 2026. All Rights Reserved. Maintained by AppMarketingPlus." So the honest arithmetic on the bundle: $249 across ten blogs sharing one operator account is $24.90 a blog, sold from one form rather than ten independent editorial decisions. The form even expects middlemen; its "What describes you better ?" dropdown offers "I am an App Developer" or "I am an App Promotion / Marketing Agency".

Four lines of terms, then silence

The complete legal footprint of appsmamma.com is the numbered block inside the Wufoo form, unchanged since 2015. Its load-bearing lines: "Editorial Team has the rights to approve / deny any review request" (grammar and spacing theirs) and "No further communication will be done on the submission status. We update you only on the publish." Read those together as a paying customer: they can decline your request, they won't update you along the way and no sentence anywhere on the site says what happens to your $29 or $249 if a review never appears. The word refund appears nowhere. We tried /terms/, /terms-and-conditions/, /terms-of-service/, /privacy-policy/, /privacy/, /about/, /about-us/ and /disclaimer/; all eight return 404. No page names a company, an address or an email for AppsMamma itself; the closest thing to an operator identity is the footer's maintenance credit to AppMarketingPlus, an agency that bills itself as a "Leading Mobile App Marketing Agency" on its own site, and the blog's authors are first names only. For balance: both prices sit in plain sight on the form and the stack is current and maintained. The plumbing works; there's just no paper.

Same money, thirty doors

Which is the math this guide exists for. AppsMamma's $29 and Submitator's $29 plan are the same money; what differs is what the money turns into. Their $29: one review article on one kids-and-parenting-apps blog FrogDR doesn't track. Our $29: submissions to 30 directories, $0.97 a door. You pick every directory in the dashboard from a catalog of 100+ named directories with each directory's DR on screen (the catalog runs up to DR 93), Product Hunt (DR 91), Uneed (DR 74), Fazier (DR 81) and TryLaunch AI among the choices. Dofollow links are the stated focus (DR 40–90 directories), badges are installed and kept live where directories require them (which unlocks badge-gated directories like Startup Fame at DR 83, Fazier at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), the whole batch is submitted in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections are credited back as +1 and there's a 30-day money-back refund. And the pre-selected $249? Ten blogs on one operator account is $24.90 a blog. Submitator's $79 top plan is 100 directories at $0.79 a door, and $249 is more than three times our whole top plan.