Shopify App Store Rank Tracker

See where apps rank in Shopify App Store search for your keywords and in category listings — and how that changes over time. Each row is one app in the store's order with its rank, rank change since the last run, whether it is new in the results, rating, review count, pricing, Built for Shopify badge and developer. $1 per 1,000 ranked apps, no login, no API key.

Run it again — or put it on a daily schedule — and every row says what moved since the last run: previous rank, places gained or lost, and apps that just entered the results. Add your own app or your competitors' to Watch and every search and category also gets a summary row with their best rank and how it moved — a daily App Store SEO report from one scheduled run.

What you get

Field	What it is
search or category, source	the keyword (source: "search") or the category slug (source: "category") the row belongs to
rank	position among the apps in the store's order. Ads are not counted
previousRank, rankChange, isNewInSearch, previousObservedAt	compared with your previous run of the same keyword or category (null on the first run; positive rankChange = moved up; isNewInSearch also applies to category rows)
handle, name, url, iconUrl, tagline	the app and the one-line description the store shows
developer	the company behind the app
rating, reviewCount	the rating and number of reviews as the store shows them in the list (null for apps with no reviews yet)
pricingText	the store's short pricing text, e.g. "Free plan available", "From $23/month"
builtForShopify	true for apps with the Built for Shopify badge
totalApps	how many apps the store reports for this search or category
isWatched	true for apps you put in Watch (only present when you use Watch)

With Watch, one extra row per search or category (type: "watch-summary"): resultsRead, watchedFound, bestRank, bestRankBefore, bestRankChange (positive = moved up), the list of watched apps with their ranks, notFound for watched apps outside the results read, and a note when some are missing. bestRankBefore is the best previous rank of the apps you watch now. Summary rows are free.

With Also list ads, the paid "Ad" listings come out as extra rows with isAd: true, rank: null, adPosition and adPage — to see who advertises on a keyword. Ad rows are free and never change anyone's rank.

Use it for

• App Store SEO — track where your app ranks for the keywords that bring installs, and see the day it drops or climbs
• Competitor watch — who took the top spots this week, which new apps entered a category, who advertises on your keywords
• Market research — what ranks for a topic, how many reviews and what rating it takes, and how apps price

Input

{ "searches": ["product reviews", "email marketing"], "categories": ["marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 24, "watch": ["judgeme", "https://apps.shopify.com/loox"] }

Ranks are remembered per keyword and per category in a named key-value store in your Apify account, so the second run already shows rank changes. Schedule it (Apify → Schedules) for a daily history. Turn on Only output watched apps to pay only for your watched rows. For a categories-only run, leave Search terms empty.

Pricing

$1 per 1,000 ranked apps, plus $0.01 per run. Summary, ad and error rows are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

Notes

• Public data only: what anyone sees in the Shopify App Store without signing in, in English. The store's order can change from day to day and ads rotate — that is exactly what rankChange shows.
• Ads are never counted in rank. Each results page starts with a few paid listings, and the same app can also appear in the normal results; only the normal results get a rank.
• Shopify's own "built-in feature" cards (for some keywords the store shows one such card, e.g. "Abandoned checkout recovery", above the apps) are not apps and are skipped: not ranked, not returned, not charged. Rank 1 is the first app, the same way the store numbers it.
• Up to 100 apps per search or category (about 20-24 per page). isNewInSearch is only true or false for ranks the previous run also read; if you ask for more results than last time, apps deeper than the previous run's last rank get null.
• Categories need the most specific category: use the slug or URL of a page like apps.shopify.com/categories/marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews. A parent category such as marketing-and-conversion-upsell-and-bundles has no ranked list: you get a free error row that lists its sub-categories to use instead.
• developer is not shown in the store's lists, so it is read from each app's own page (about 1.5 seconds per new app, one at a time to stay under the store's rate limit; remembered for 30 days, so scheduled runs are fast). It is null for an app whose page could not be read in that run and is filled in on the next run. Turn Read developer names off for the fastest run; the field is then left out.
• pricingText is the app's own listing text, so a few apps show it in another language (e.g. "$9.90/Monat").
• rating and reviewCount are null for apps with no reviews yet. The rating is the rounded figure the store shows; for the exact star-by-star breakdown use the reviews Actor below.
• isWatched is only on rows when you use Watch; search only on keyword rows and category only on category rows.

To read the reviews behind an app's rating, with the exact star-by-star breakdown, see Shopify App Reviews Scraper.

For AI agents

{"searches": ["product reviews"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 10} returns the top 10 apps with rank, rating, review count, pricing and developer. {"categories": ["marketing-and-conversion-customer-loyalty"], "watch": ["smile-io"]} adds a summary row with the watched app's best rank. Rows have type: search-result (add isAd: true for ads), watch-summary or error.

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