App Store Top Charts Tracker (Movers & New Entries)

Track the Apple App Store top free, top paid and top grossing charts by category and country, with rank change since the last run, new entries and days in chart for every app, plus ratings, version, size and last update. Schedule it daily to see what is rising, what just launched and what dropped out.

What is the App Store Top Charts Tracker?

It is an Apify Actor that reads Apple's public chart feeds and remembers what each chart looked like last time. That makes movement visible: which apps climbed 20 places, which are new in the top 50, how long an app has stayed on the chart. Each entry is enriched with Apple's own rating and version data.

What makes it different?

• Movement, not just a snapshot. Rank change, new entries, days in chart and the apps that dropped out.
• Every category and country. Games, Finance, Health & Fitness and the rest, in any App Store country.
• Enriched rows. Ratings, rating count, current-version rating, version, size, languages, last update and release notes.
• Alerts mode. Return only new entries and big movers, so a daily run is quiet unless something happened.

What data can you extract from the App Store charts?

Field	Example
chart, country, rank	top-free, us, 3
name, developer, genre	Meowdoku!, Oakever Games, Games
rankChange, previousRank, newEntry, daysInChart	+7, 10, false, 12
ratingAverage, ratingCount	4.81, 339758
version, updatedAt, sizeMb	1.20.0, 2026-10-14T…, 374
price, currency, firstReleased	0, USD, 2026-05-19T…

A SUMMARY record lists each chart read, how many entries it had, how many are new, and the apps that dropped out since the last run.

How to track the App Store top charts

1. Pick the charts (top-free, top-paid, top-grossing), categories and countries.
2. Run it once for a baseline.
3. Create a Schedule (daily is typical) so later runs show movement.
4. Send the output to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, n8n or Zapier. Turn on Only new entries and big movers for alerts.

{
    "charts": [
        "top-free"
    ],
    "genres": [
        "Games"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "limit": 25,
    "remember": false
}

• genres: names like Games and Health & Fitness, or Apple genre ids such as 6014. Leave empty for the overall chart.
• limit: up to 200 entries per chart.
• remember: needed for rank change, new entries and days in chart. The first run for a chart has no movement yet.
• enrich: adds rating, version and size. Turn it off for the cheapest, fastest run.

How much does it cost to track App Store charts?

You pay per chart entry returned plus a very small start fee. There is no subscription.

Chart entries	Approximate cost
50	$0.075
200	$0.30
1,000	$1.50
10,000	$15

Paid Apify plans get tiered discounts, and you can set a maximum cost per run. You can try it on Apify's free plan without a card.

Who is it for?

• App publishers and ASO teams watching their category.
• Investors and analysts tracking breakout apps and publishers.
• Game studios monitoring competitors' launches.
• Journalists and newsletter writers spotting what is trending.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the data come from? Apple's public chart feeds and its public lookup API.

Why is there no movement on my first run? Movement needs a previous snapshot. Run once, then again (or schedule it).

Is the chart the same as what I see in the App Store app? It is Apple's own chart feed for the country and category, which closely matches the store's lists but can lag by a few hours.

What if Apple changes its feed? The run fails with an explicit error instead of returning empty data, and the Actor is health-checked every night.

Notes and limits

• Reads Apple's public feeds. This Actor is not affiliated with Apple.
• Charts show popularity, not revenue, except the top-grossing chart, which Apple ranks by revenue without publishing the numbers.