Apple App Store Search Scraper: apps, ratings, prices and rank

Type a search and get App Store results as rows, in the order Apple ranks them: app name, developer, star rating, rating count, price, category, age rating, version, release dates, description and link. Up to 200 apps per search, in any country's store.

You pay per app delivered.

What you get

Field	Example
rank	1
name	WhatsApp Messenger
sellerName	WhatsApp Inc.
rating / ratingCount	4.68 / 18,764,696
formattedPrice	Free
genre	Social Networking
contentRating	12+
version	26.40.77
currentVersionReleaseDate	2026-10-12 (last update)
bundleId	net.whatsapp.WhatsApp
url	App Store link

Sample output

{
  "searchQuery": "whatsapp",
  "rank": 1,
  "trackId": 310633997,
  "bundleId": "net.whatsapp.WhatsApp",
  "name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "sellerName": "WhatsApp Inc.",
  "price": 0,
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.68343,
  "ratingCount": 18764696,
  "genre": "Social Networking",
  "contentRating": "12+",
  "version": "26.40.77",
  "releaseDate": "2009-05-04T02:43:49Z",
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-10-12T12:34:26Z",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997?uo=4"
}

Quick start

1. Type search phrases into Search phrases, one per line ("budget tracker", "meditation").
2. Pick a Store country (us, gb, de...). Ratings, prices and ranking follow that store.
3. Set Max apps per search and click Start.

The default input searches "whatsapp" in the US store and runs as-is.

Use cases

• App store optimization: see who ranks for your keywords and where you sit, then rerun weekly to track movement with rank.
• Market research: list every app in a niche with its rating count, a rough stand-in for its size.
• Find apps nobody has updated in years with currentVersionReleaseDate. They're often easy to beat.
• Compare the same search across countries.

What happens when something goes wrong

Apple's search is fuzzy, so even a junk phrase can return a few apps; you pay for whatever Apple sends back. A phrase with no results returns 0 rows and isn't charged.

Pricing

Pay per app delivered, plus Apify's small start fee per run. Set a maximum cost per run and the scraper stops at your limit.

FAQ

Why do results stop at 200? Apple's search never returns more than 200 apps for one phrase. Split broad searches into narrower ones.

Does it get reviews? No. This tool returns the app listing and its rating summary.

Why is price 0 for paid-looking apps? Many apps are free to download and charge inside the app. price is the download price only.

Something broke? Open an issue with the search phrase and country. I answer within a day.

Limitations

• Search results only; you can't paste app links here.
• Rank is Apple's, as returned at run time. It shifts through the day.

Export or use as an API

Download any run's results from the Storage tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

To call it from your own code, send your input to Apify's API and get the rows back in one request:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/leathered_latch~apple-app-store-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN

It also plugs into Make, Zapier and n8n through Apify's integrations, and AI agents can find and run it through Apify's MCP server.

Your responsibility

How you use the output is your call, and so is the legal side of it. Copyright still covers any text or images you republish. The source site's own terms apply too. If you're unsure about a use, check with a lawyer first.

If you own content that shows up in these results and want it handled differently, open an issue on the Issues tab. We answer within 14 days.

Data source and credit

Every row comes from the Apple App Store, through Apple's public iTunes Search API (Apple Inc.). We don't own this data, and we don't take credit for it. The app listings belong to the app developers.

This tool reads only what Apple shows to any logged-out visitor. No logins, no private data. Each row keeps a link back to the page it came from (the url field), so you can check any result and credit the source when you use it.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple. All names and trademarks belong to their owners.

Changelog

• 0.1 First release.