You shipped en-US, maybe added Simplified Chinese for the China storefront — and Taiwan plus Hong Kong still see English or a mainland-flavored page. Traditional Chinese is a separate App Store Connect locale with its own indexed fields, not a character swap from zh-Hans. This page covers why US and EU indie apps miss zh-Hant, what goes wrong when you OpenCC a China listing, and how AppLocale rewrites store copy for Taiwan and Hong Kong while keeping your English product voice. Operator guidance only — no ranking guarantee, not legal advice, and not investment advice.
A common path for US and EU indie apps: launch in English, add Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) when China traffic shows up, and stop. Taiwan and Hong Kong buyers then hit one of two bad outcomes — an English-only product page that reads foreign, or a zh-Hans localization that Apple may surface with mainland wording (软件, 视频, 信息) and keyword habits that do not match how users search in Taipei or Hong Kong. Neither is a Traditional Chinese listing. Storefront availability for Taiwan and Hong Kong is separate from language rows: confirm both territories are enabled under Pricing and Availability, then add a Chinese (Traditional) localization in Connect — it does not inherit from zh-Hans or en-US automatically.
App Store Connect lists Chinese (Traditional) as a distinct localization row — not a variant of Simplified Chinese and not a regional toggle inside one Chinese row. Taiwan and Hong Kong share the zh-Hant script in Connect, but buyers search with different loanwords, payment vocabulary, and category nouns. Each locale row carries its own title, subtitle, keywords, description, promotional text, What’s New, and screenshot sets. Search indexes zh-Hant fields independently from en-US and zh-Hans. If the Traditional row is empty, Apple falls back to another language — usually English — and you lose indexed zh-Hant terms entirely.
OpenCC and similar tools convert characters (软件 → 軟體, 网络 → 網路) but do not rewrite for Taiwan/Hong Kong ASO or buyer expectations. Problems that survive conversion:
Character conversion is a starting point for engineers, not a storefront-ready listing. AppLocale writes zh-Hant copy from your English source (and existing zh-Hans only as reference), not as an automated script output.
Both territories pull from the same zh-Hant localization row in Connect today, but user search behavior and payment context diverge. Taiwan Search skews toward local terms and mixed English product names; Hong Kong buyers often tolerate more English in the title but still expect Traditional body copy and IAP labels. US/EU indie apps that never localized beyond en-US leave money on the table in two high-ARPU Chinese markets without touching mainland compliance questions. You do not need a separate app — you need a filled zh-Hant row that reads native on the product page and indexes terms buyers actually type.
Human rewrite — not OpenCC, not a machine translation dump. We improve clarity from your existing copy. We do not promise rankings, invent reviews, or fabricate traffic numbers.
Paste-ready Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant) fields for App Store Connect: title, subtitle, keywords, description, and keyword notes with rationale — written for Taiwan and/or Hong Kong storefronts while keeping your English product voice. Delivered to the email on your Stripe receipt within 24 hours.
Within 24 hours after Stripe payment. You receive files you can paste directly into App Store Connect localization rows.
Your live App Store listing URL, your current English listing copy, target locales (Taiwan and/or Hong Kong), and any deadline. Reply from the email address on your Stripe receipt — we fulfill to that Stripe email.
$79 one-time via Stripe checkout. No subscription. Seller is Fortune Insight, LLC.
OpenCC handles character conversion but not Taiwan/Hong Kong search vocabulary, payment terms, or ASO keyword habits. zh-Hant is a separate Connect locale with its own indexed fields — a converted zh-Hans row reads mainland on a Taiwan or Hong Kong product page.
No. We improve clarity and search intent from your existing copy. We do not promise keyword position, search rank, or download growth on any storefront.
Not a machine translation dump, not an OpenCC script, not an icon redesign, not paid ads, not ranking guarantees, not QuantRadar, and not investment or legal advice. We do not invent reviews, ratings, or traffic numbers.
AppLocale — Traditional Chinese listing rewrite
$79 one-time
Buy AppLocale on StripeDelivered within 24 hours after we receive the items above. We fulfill to the email on your Stripe receipt.
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