Competitor tracking
App Store competitor tracking,with the evidence attached.
Confirm your competitors once. Appfox keeps reading their listings, reviews, rankings, prices, and releases, keeps collected observations as history, and tells you when something moved and when.
A competitor snapshotis out of date the day you take it.
Most founders check competitors by opening their store pages when they remember to. That gives you a snapshot with no history: you see today's price and today's screenshots, but not that the price changed twice this quarter or that the subtitle was rewritten after a big update.
Market data tools answer a different question. They estimate downloads and revenue for the category, which can help compare a category. To investigate a specific listing or price change, you also need dated observations of the competing app.
Competitor tracking should be append-only and specific: who is in your market, what changed on their listing, when, and what their customers said about it.
From a store URLto a living market.
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Discover candidates
Discovery runs across store search, similar-app relationships, and overlapping review language. Low-confidence candidates are never added silently.
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Confirm the set
You keep or remove candidates and label each one direct or adjacent. The market scope stays editable.
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Save collected observations
Listings, prices, ratings, review counts, and releases are stored against history. Nothing is backdated from today's listing.
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Detect what moved
A price change, a new entrant, a rank acceleration, or a rating movement is detected with a threshold and a minimum sample.
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Read it on Today
The finding appears with the evidence: the before and after listing, the dates, and the reviews that followed.
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Compare complaints
Competitor reviews are grouped into the same themes as yours, so you can see where they are weak and where you are.
What competitor trackingis intended to include.
- Confirmed direct and adjacent competitors in an editable market scope
- Listing, price, rating, and release history for every competitor, append-only
- Newly discovered apps scored for similarity before they are suggested
- Metadata and pricing comparisons across the set
- Tracked App Store search queries with current and previous rank
- Competitor review themes with exact counts next to your own
What Appfox refusesto claim about competitors.
- That provider estimates are verified downloads or earnings. Read the source and scope before drawing a conclusion.
- That newly discovered means newly launched. The two are distinguished.
- That a periodic search is an exhaustive census of the market.
- That an in-app purchase indicator is a verified subscription offer.
App Store competitor tracking,common questions.
Something else? Email us from the contact page and a person will answer.
How many competitors can I track?
Does Appfox estimate competitor downloads?
Can I track competitors before I have an app?
Which stores are covered?
Private beta
Watch your market while you build.
Confirm your competitors once. Every change after that is kept as history.
Invitations are sent by email.