5 credits per run

App Competitor Discovery

Discover who really fights for the same searches as your app, based on store results rather than an assumed list.

Privacy and cost

This tool uses paid live data. A run costs 5 credits, only charged when it succeeds. Recent identical requests are served from a cache, which keeps costs and prices low.

No subscription required for credits.

How it works

Choose the store and country and paste the app (URL, id or package name).
The tool derives a few search phrases from the title, subtitle, description and category (brand removed) and runs the store search for each.
It groups the apps that keep coming back: number of searches they appear in, best rank, average rank and relevance; on Google Play it adds the "similar apps" list.

Example

For a meditation app in the US storefront, the tool shows the derived phrases, then the apps appearing in several of those searches with their best rank, rating and rating count.

What the result means

A competitor here is an app that ranks on the same phrases as yours. Relevance adds points for every search where it ranks well: it is a co-ranking signal, not market share or download counts. The phrases come from your own metadata.

Common problems this tool helps with

Discovering competitors you had not thought of but who capture your searches.
Building the competitor list to feed other tools (comparison, keyword gap).
Telling direct competitors (several shared searches) from mere neighbours.
Spotting publishers that hold several slots on your phrases.

Frequently asked questions

How are the search phrases chosen?

They come from your app's title, subtitle, description and category, without the brand name. They are displayed so you can judge their relevance.

Why does Apple have no similar apps?

Apple does not expose a similar-apps list in its public APIs, so the tool relies on search rankings.

Is relevance market share?

No, it is a co-ranking score: the higher an app appears in more shared searches, the more relevant it is.