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I got tired of opening four ad dashboards every morning, so I built one

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I run a handful of small Android apps on the side. The code is the fun part. The part that quietly wore me down was the reporting.

My ad income lands in a few different places — AdMob, AdSense, and mediation networks like AppLovin and Unity. Every morning I'd open three or four dashboards, log into each one, line up the dates, and add the numbers in my head just to answer one dumb question: how much did I make yesterday?

So I built AdDeck to answer that on one screen.

What it does

  • Connect once with a read-only OAuth scope, and it merges every network's revenue: today's total, a per-app ranking with each app's day-over-day change, and the month-to-date trend.
  • Tap any app for its own dashboard — earnings, a 7-day trend, and the metrics that actually drive decisions (eCPM, CTR, fill rate).
  • A home-screen widget shows yesterday's number without opening the app. This is the part I use most.

Two things I refused to compromise on

Read-only. The OAuth scope only reads revenue reports. AdDeck can't change your account settings or touch payouts, and you can revoke access anytime from your Google account. When you're asking someone to connect their ad accounts, "what's the worst this app can do?" has to have a boring answer.

No backend of mine. A lot of tools like this pull your data into their own servers and process it there. AdDeck doesn't. The numbers go from the ad networks straight to your device, and the math happens on-device. Nothing routes through a server I control — which means I have no way to look at your revenue, and I'm not sitting on a pile of other people's earnings data.

Where it's at

It's free and Android-only for now. Early, honest state: it does the merge, the per-app drill-down, and the widget well; the network list is still growing.

If you run apps across multiple networks, two questions I'd love answers to:

  1. Which ad network should I support next?
  2. If the widget could show exactly one number, which would you want — yesterday's earnings, month-to-date, or progress toward a target?

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eltacrew.addeck

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