App Intelligence · App Store and Google Play in one run

Search both stores, pull the top charts by country, look up any app by id, URL or bundle id, and get the full details (ratings and counts, installs, price, version, release and update dates, content rating, in-app purchases, developer contact). Then the part nobody else does: every app comes with its twin on the other store, matched by title and developer with a confidence score, so you can compare an app's iOS and Android presence side by side. No login, no proxies, pay per app. The first 25 apps each month are free for every account.

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What you get

One app item per app, store and country. A real row from the US "top free" chart, shortened:

{
  "store": "google-play",
  "country": "us",
  "source": "chart",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "category": "all",
  "rank": 2,
  "appId": "com.openai.chatgpt",
  "title": "ChatGPT",
  "developer": "OpenAI",
  "developerId": "OpenAI",
  "developerUrl": "https://openai.com",
  "developerEmail": "support@openai.com",
  "rating": 4.78,
  "ratings": 64896914,
  "reviewsCount": 1952880,
  "histogram": { "1": 2127661, "2": 668224, "3": 1699700, "4": 5263590, "5": 55137739 },
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "genre": "Productivity",
  "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 1000000000,
  "version": "1.2026.282",
  "released": "Jul 25, 2023",
  "updated": "2026-10-11T18:40:12.000Z",
  "contentRating": "Everyone",
  "androidVersion": "8.0",
  "adSupported": false,
  "offersIAP": true,
  "iapRange": "$8.99 - $200.00 per item",
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/…",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openai.chatgpt&hl=en&gl=us",
  "twinStore": "app-store",
  "twinAppId": "6448311069",
  "twinTitle": "ChatGPT",
  "twinDeveloper": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC",
  "twinRating": 4.83,
  "twinRatings": 11377787,
  "twinUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
  "twinConfidence": 0.87,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-17T16:02:41.512Z"
}

App Store rows carry the same fields where Apple publishes them (no install counts, but ratingCurrentVersion, minOs, sizeBytes, languages); source is search, chart, lookup or twin. Plus one free summary item per run and a free error item for ids that exist in neither store or charts that are unavailable.

What it can do

Job	Google Play	App Store
Search by keyword, per country and language	up to 100 results per query	up to 200 results per query
Top charts per country	top free, top paid, top grossing, overall or by category (GAME, FINANCE, …)	top free, top paid, overall (Apple's public feed has no category filter)
Look up apps	package name or store URL, with "similar apps" on request	numeric id, store URL or bundle id
Full details on every row	ratings histogram, installs, version, dates, IAP range, developer email and site	ratings, current-version rating, version, dates, size, minimum OS, languages
Twin on the other store	iOS twin for every Android app	Android twin for every iOS app

Twin matching scores title similarity (60%), developer similarity (40%) and a bonus when both developers link the same website; matches below 0.55 are left empty rather than guessed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	string[]	–	Search terms, run in each store and country.
appIds	string[]	–	Package names, App Store ids, bundle ids or store URLs.
charts	string[]	–	top-free, top-paid, top-grossing (Google Play only).
chartCategories	string[]	–	Google Play categories for the charts; empty = overall.
chartSize	integer	50	Apps per chart, up to 200.
stores	string[]	both	google-play, app-store.
countries	string[]	["us"]	Two-letter store countries; everything runs once per country.
language	string	en	Language of Google Play titles and descriptions.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	20	Results per search query, store and country.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Full details for apps from searches and charts.
findTwins	boolean	true	Match each app's twin on the other store (both stores selected).
includeSimilar	boolean	false	Google Play "similar apps" for apps looked up by id.
includeDescription	boolean	false	Full description text (long).

At least one of searchQueries, appIds or charts is required. An app that appears in several sources (a search and a chart, say) is returned once per store and country, from the first source that found it.

Pricing

Try it free. The first 25 apps each calendar month are free for every Apify account, with nothing to enter: the actor keeps count in a small key-value store in your account (free-slice-app-intelligence) and charges only from the 26th on. The free results are real results you keep; the counter resets on the first of each month.

Pay per event: $0.0018 per app (app), that is $1.80 per 1,000 apps, 40% under the most used app-search actor on the Store. Twin matching, summary and error records are free. Apify plans above Free get an automatic discount on every event (10% to 40%).

Run	Apps	Cost
One keyword, both stores, 20 results each, with twins	40	$0.07
Top 100 free apps, both stores, 5 countries, full details	1,000	$1.80
Look up 500 competitor apps with their twins	500	$0.90

Apple's Search API allows about 20 calls a minute per address, so App Store work is rate-limited inside the actor: searches and twin lookups on large runs take a few minutes rather than seconds. Chart details are batched (100 apps per call), so charts stay fast.

Example tasks

Ready-made configurations you can open, copy and run as they are:

• Top free apps on App Store and Google Play, with their twins: the top 25 free apps of both US stores with full details and each app's twin on the other platform.

Run it from your code

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('agentsgearbox/app-intelligence').call({ searchQueries: ['budget tracker'], countries: ['us', 'gb'], maxResultsPerQuery: 20 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const a of items.filter((i) => i.type === 'app')) console.log(a.store, a.country, a.rank, a.title, a.rating, a.ratings, a.twinTitle, a.twinConfidence);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient(token=os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("agentsgearbox/app-intelligence").call(run_input={"charts": ["top-free"], "chartSize": 50, "countries": ["us"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if item.get("type") == "app":
        print(item["store"], item["rank"], item["title"], item["installs"], item.get("twinTitle"))

cURL

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/agentsgearbox~app-intelligence/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"appIds":["com.whatsapp","https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1232780281"],"countries":["us"]}'

For AI agents

Give your agent hands. "Which apps compete with X, how are they rated, and do they exist on both platforms?" becomes one tool call instead of two store searches, dozens of page fetches and a guess at which Android app is the iOS one. A human analyst spends half an hour on a ten-app comparison; this actor returns it in under a minute for a few cents.

• MCP, this actor only: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/app-intelligence to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client (with your Apify token), then ask for "the top 20 free finance apps in Germany on both stores with ratings and their twins".

• MCP, all agentsgearbox actors: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/telegram-channel-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper,agentsgearbox/substack-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-news-scraper,agentsgearbox/brand-name-generator,agentsgearbox/ai-readiness-audit,agentsgearbox/company-lookup,agentsgearbox/app-intelligence,agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper

• No Apify account? This actor is eligible for Apify's agentic payments: an agent can buy a spend-capped token through agi.apify.com (x402, MPP or Skyfire) and call the API directly.
• Prices are per result and known in advance; missing apps and unavailable charts come back as free error records instead of failed runs.

Reading the results

• installs exists only on Google Play (Apple does not publish downloads); use ratings to compare popularity across stores.
• twinConfidence of 1 means identical title and developer; 0.6 to 0.85 usually means the same app with a differently worded title; below 0.55 nothing is returned.
• source: "lookup" rows have no rank; chart rows carry chart, category and rank; search rows carry query and rank.
• Dates come as the stores give them: ISO timestamps for Google Play updates, Apple's ISO dates, and Google Play's human-readable released string.

Limitations, stated plainly

• Apple publishes no install or download numbers and no category filter on its public chart feed; top grossing exists only on Google Play. Asking for an App Store category or grossing chart adds a free error row that says so, and the Google Play side of the request still runs.
• App Store search is fuzzy on Apple's side: a nonsense or very rare query can still return loosely matched apps instead of nothing. Check title and developer before trusting a hit.
• Google Play has no official API; details come from the store's web pages through a maintained open-source parser and may need a same-day fix when Google changes the page. Our daily platform test catches that.
• Reviews are a separate job: use our Google Play Reviews Scraper for review text; App Store reviews are not covered here.
• Apple's Search API rate limit (about 20 calls a minute per address) bounds how fast large App Store searches and twin matching can run.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
Fewer App Store results than requested	Apple returns at most 200 per query and fewer for narrow terms	Expected
twinTitle: null	No app on the other store scored 0.55 or higher	The app may be exclusive to one platform; check manually if it matters
Error not found in this country's store	The app is not published in that country	Try the app's home country
Slow run with many App Store twins	Apple's rate limit	Run fewer queries per run or disable findTwins for bulk pulls

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