App Store Apps: Search, Details and Top Charts

Get clean data on any iPhone, iPad or Mac app in the Apple App Store. Search by keyword and see which apps rank for it, look up apps by id, App Store link or bundle id, or pull Apple's top free, paid and grossing charts for any country and genre. Every row has the app name, developer, rating, number of ratings, price, version, last update date, size, genres, languages, content rating, icon, screenshots and App Store link.

The actor reads Apple's own public iTunes Search and Lookup API and Apple's public top charts feeds. No login, no API key, no browser, no proxies, so runs are fast, cheap and steady.

What you can use it for

• App store optimization (ASO): see which apps rank for your keywords, in order, and track your position over time.
• Competitor tracking: watch rating, rating count, version and release notes of a list of competitor apps every day or week.
• Market research: pull the top grossing Finance or Games apps in the US, UK, Germany or Japan and compare them.
• Lead lists for app agencies: find developers in a genre with their seller name and website.
• AI agents: one clear job with simple inputs, so an agent can answer "what are the top paid productivity apps in Canada right now?"

Input

Field	What it does	Default
Search terms	Keywords to search, one per line. Results keep Apple's order, so position is the search rank	none
App ids, App Store URLs or bundle ids	Apps to look up directly: 389801252, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252 or com.burbn.instagram	none
Top charts	Top free, paid or grossing for iPhone, iPad or Mac	none
Chart genre id	Narrow the charts to one genre, for example 6000 Business, 6014 Games, 6015 Finance	all apps
Country	Two letter App Store country code	us
Results per search term	Up to 200	50
Apps per chart	Up to 100	100
Include description and release notes	Turn off for smaller rows	on
Maximum app rows	Stop after this many rows in total	1,000

You can combine searches, lookups and charts in one run.

Example input:

{
  "searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "budget app"],
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.client", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281"],
  "charts": ["top-grossing-iphone"],
  "chartGenreId": "6015",
  "country": "us",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25
}

Output

One row per app. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it through the API.

{
  "source": "search",
  "query": "habit tracker",
  "rank": null,
  "position": 1,
  "country": "us",
  "appId": 1438388363,
  "bundleId": "com.davetech.habit",
  "name": "Habit Tracker",
  "developer": "InnerGrow",
  "developerId": 1828382777,
  "developerUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/innergrow/id1828382777",
  "sellerName": "Inner Grow Limited",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "rating": 4.79206,
  "ratingCount": 147284,
  "contentRating": "4+",
  "primaryGenre": "Productivity",
  "genres": ["Productivity", "Health & Fitness"],
  "version": "2.14.23",
  "releaseDate": "2019-01-31T09:10:14Z",
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-08-15T15:18:18Z",
  "fileSizeBytes": 339836928,
  "minimumOsVersion": "15.0",
  "languages": ["EN", "FR", "DE", "IT", "JA", "PT", "RU", "ZH", "ES"],
  "iconUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../512x512bb.jpg",
  "appStoreUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit-tracker/id1438388363",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-27T08:02:11.000Z"
}

Chart rows have source: "chart", the chart name in query and the chart position in rank. Lookup rows have source: "lookup". Inputs that return nothing (an unknown id, a chart that is empty for a genre) are listed in RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key value store and cost nothing.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription, no charge for platform usage on top.

Event	Price
App row saved	$0.001 (one dollar per 1,000 apps)

Examples: the top 100 grossing iPhone apps cost $0.10. Tracking 50 competitor apps every day for a month costs about $1.50. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify and the actor stops cleanly when it is reached. Errors and apps that are not found are never charged.

Limits

• Apple publishes at most 100 apps per top chart and returns at most 200 apps per search term.
• Apple allows about 20 requests a minute from one address, so the actor spaces its calls about 3 seconds apart. A search or a batch of 100 looked up apps is one call; a chart is two. Large runs take minutes, not seconds.
• Search results follow Apple's search API, which is close to but not always identical to what the App Store app shows on a phone.
• Ratings are the country store's ratings, as Apple reports them. Reviews text is not included (use a reviews actor for that).
• Google Play is not covered.

FAQ

Do I need an Apple developer account or an API key? No. The actor uses Apple's public search, lookup and charts endpoints that need no sign in.

Which countries work? Any App Store country with a two letter code, such as us, gb, ca, au, de, fr, es, it, br, mx, jp, kr, in.

How do I find a genre id? Common ones: 6000 Business, 6001 Weather, 6002 Utilities, 6003 Travel, 6004 Sports, 6005 Social Networking, 6007 Productivity, 6008 Photo and Video, 6011 Music, 6012 Lifestyle, 6013 Health and Fitness, 6014 Games, 6015 Finance, 6016 Entertainment, 6017 Education, 6018 Books, 6020 Medical, 6023 Food and Drink, 6024 Shopping.

Can I track ranking changes over time? Yes. Schedule the actor daily in Apify with the same input and compare position or rank across runs.

Is this affiliated with Apple? No. It is an independent tool that reads Apple's public App Store data.