Mobile App Revenue & Competitor Analyzer

How much money does any iOS app make? Estimate downloads and revenue for any App Store app, benchmark it against its direct competitors, and profile the developer's entire portfolio — in seconds, at $1 per 1,000 app reports.

No login. No API key. No browser scraping. Paste an App Store link or app ID and get a structured report you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull via API.

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Why this Actor

App-intelligence platforms (Sensor Tower, data.ai, AppMagic) lock these numbers behind $400+/month subscriptions. This Actor rebuilds the same estimated layer from public store signals — honestly, with bands, confidence levels and a stated methodology on every number — and adds something they don't have: the store's own competitor recommendation graph for every app.

Perfect for: app developers, UA/growth teams, ASO specialists, investors doing due diligence, and indie makers validating a niche before building.

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Two modes

analyze — full app intelligence

Pass one or many apps (ID or URL, mixed). Each returns a full report. Pass 2+ apps and you also get a free comparison leaderboard ranking them by estimated downloads.

{
    "mode": "analyze",
    "targets": ["284882215", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997"],
    "country": "us"
}

search — keyword / ASO research

Find the top apps ranking for any keyword, each with estimated downloads and revenue attached. Spot underserved niches: high-download apps with poor ratings are opportunities.

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchTerms": ["budget tracker", "meditation"],
    "maxSearchResults": 25,
    "country": "us"
}

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What you get per app

💰 Revenue & traction (estimated)

Field	Description
estimates.downloadsBand	lifetime downloads: low / mid / high
estimates.revenueBandUsd	lifetime revenue band in USD
estimates.confidence	high / medium / low — based on signal strength
estimates.methodology	one sentence naming exactly which signals drove the estimate
estimates.caveats	what this number is NOT (real revenue is private to the developer)
chartPositions	current position in top-free / top-paid charts

📱 Product & maintenance

Field	Description
rating, ratingCount	store rating and total ratings
price, isFree, hasInAppPurchases	monetization model
version, releaseDate, lastUpdateDate, daysSinceUpdate	update cadence — stale apps with big install bases are acquisition targets
genre, contentRating, fileSizeMb, screenshotCount, iconUrl	listing metadata

🏆 Competition & portfolio

Field	Description
competitors	up to 8 direct competitors from our recommendation graph — each with rating, price and estimated downloads
developerPortfolio	every other app by the same developer, with stats
portfolioRollup	developer-level totals: app count, combined estimated downloads & revenue

⚖️ Comparison record (free, 2+ apps)

recordType: "comparison" — a leaderboard of all analyzed apps ranked by estimated downloads, with leader/trailer callouts. Never billed.

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How estimates work (and how honest they are)

Downloads are modeled from the app's public rating count using industry rating-rate ranges (0.5–2% of downloaders rate), cross-checked against chart position when available. Revenue = price × downloads for paid apps, or a blended ads/IAP lifetime-value coefficient for free apps.

Every estimate ships as a band with confidence and methodology — not fake-precision point numbers. Real revenue and download counts are private to the developer and Apple; no tool has them, and we don't pretend to.

Use cases

• Competitor research — how much does the #1 app in your niche actually make? Who else is coming for you?
• Niche validation — search a keyword, look for apps with big downloads and <4.0 ratings: unmet demand
• Acquisition scouting — filter for apps with huge estimated downloads but daysSinceUpdate > 365: abandoned money-makers
• Investor due diligence — verify a pitch deck's download claims against public-signal bands
• Portfolio analysis — paste one app, get the developer's entire business profiled

Input reference

Field	Description
mode	analyze (default) or search
targets	App Store URLs (apps.apple.com/.../id123456) or numeric app IDs
searchTerms	keywords for search mode
maxSearchResults	apps per keyword, 1–50 (default 25)
country	two-letter store code (us, gb, de, …) — affects ratings, charts, pricing

Empty input runs a free demo lookup.

Output

One dataset record per app (JSON / CSV / Excel / API / webhook / n8n / Zapier). Failed lookups are returned with success: false and are never billed.

Pricing

Pay per app report — $1 per 1,000 reports on paid plans. See the Pricing tab. The comparison leaderboard is always free.

Notes

• iOS App Store only in v1 (Google Play inputs get a free pointer to the iOS twin)
• Estimates are estimates — bands with stated confidence, not measurements