AppKittie Keyword Difficulty

Analyze one App Store or Google Play keyword and get difficulty, popularity, traffic, competition, and top-ranking apps.

This Actor is designed for ASO research, keyword planning, app idea validation, and quick opportunity scoring before you write metadata or build a new app.

What Can This Actor Do?

• Analyze one keyword for Apple App Store or Google Play.
• Return keyword popularity, ranking difficulty, app count, and traffic score.
• Include up to 10 top-ranking apps for competitive context.
• Support country-specific storefront analysis.

Common Use Cases

• Find ASO keywords with meaningful traffic and manageable competition.
• Compare keyword opportunities across app niches.
• Inspect which apps already rank for a keyword.
• Build keyword shortlists for app titles, subtitles, descriptions, and metadata.
• Run lightweight keyword checks from agents or automation workflows.

Input

Required:

• keyword - The keyword to analyze.

Optional:

• country - ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 storefront country code. Defaults to US.
• source - apple_mobile or google_mobile. Defaults to apple_mobile.
• includeTopApps - Whether to include top-ranking apps.
• topAppsLimit - Number of top apps to include. Capped at 10. Use 0 for a compact payload.

Example

{
  "keyword": "meditation",
  "country": "US",
  "source": "apple_mobile",
  "includeTopApps": true,
  "topAppsLimit": 10
}

Output

The Actor writes one typed JSON record to the default key-value store under OUTPUT. It does not write dataset rows.

{
  "data": {
    "keyword": "meditation",
    "country": "US",
    "source": "apple_mobile",
    "popularity": 72,
    "difficulty": 64,
    "appsCount": 247,
    "trafficScore": 81,
    "topApps": [
      {
        "appStoreId": "123456789",
        "source": "apple_mobile",
        "title": "Example Meditation App",
        "icon": "https://...",
        "developer": "Example Studio",
        "reviews": 120000,
        "score": 4.8,
        "rank": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

Limits

The Actor analyzes one keyword per run. topApps is capped at 10 items.

Notes

• No proxy configuration is required.
• No AppKittie API key is required in Actor input. The Actor uses AppKittie's managed API connection internally.
• Scores are directional ASO intelligence and should be used for comparison and prioritization.