📱 App Store Top Charts Tracker

🚀 Compare App Store top charts across countries in one run. Top apps, publisher concentration, and freshness - not a single-market top-20 dump.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-07-11 · 📊 8 fields per country · Built on Apple's official marketing-tools feed (no key)

🎁 Try it free: the free Apify plan returns up to 10 results per run - enough to see the output quality. Any paid Apify plan unlocks full-size runs.

Give it a list of countries and it pulls Apple's official Top Free (or Top Paid) App Store chart for each, then computes how concentrated the chart is (unique publishers among the top apps) and how fresh it is (apps released in the last 30 days) - so you can see India's or Brazil's chart landscape without opening the App Store five times.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
App marketers, ASO consultants, investors/analysts, competitive intelligence teams	Cross-market app landscape research, competitor monitoring, launch-market selection, ASO strategy

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📋 What this Actor does

• Fetches Apple's official Top Free/Paid chart per country you list
• Counts unique publishers among the sampled apps (chart concentration signal)
• Flags apps released in the last 30 days (chart freshness/volatility signal)
• Returns the #1 app, publisher, and a ranked sample list

💡 Why it matters: a chart dominated by 5 publishers tells a very different story than one with 20 different publishers - concentration is a market signal raw rankings don't show.

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🎬 Full demo

🚧 Video walkthrough coming soon - the Quick Start below takes under 3 minutes end to end.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
countries	string	(prefilled)	Comma-separated ISO country codes, up to 10
chart	string	top-free	"top-free" or "top-paid"
maxResults	integer	20	Apps sampled per country (5-100)

Example: Compare 5 major markets

{ "countries": "us, gb, jp, de, br", "chart": "top-free", "maxResults": 20 }

Example: Paid-app landscape in two markets

{ "countries": "us, gb", "chart": "top-paid", "maxResults": 30 }

⚠️ Good to know: country codes are lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (e.g. "us", not "US" - though the Actor normalizes case for you).

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📊 Output

Each country returns 8 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or consume via the Apify API.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
country / chart	string	us / top-free
appsSampled	integer	20
topApp / topPublisher	string	ChatGPT / OpenAI OpCo, LLC
uniquePublishers	integer	18
newInLast30DaysCount	integer	0
sampleApps	array	["ChatGPT", "Threads"]
generatedAt	string	2026-07-11T00:01:07Z

📦 Sample record

{"country":"us","chart":"top-free","appsSampled":20,"topApp":"ChatGPT","topPublisher":"OpenAI OpCo, LLC","uniquePublishers":18,"newInLast30DaysCount":0,"sampleApps":["ChatGPT","Threads"],"generatedAt":"2026-07-11T00:01:07Z"}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🏆	Concentration, not just rank. Publisher-diversity and freshness signals, not a raw top-20 list.
🌍	Multi-country in one run. Compare up to 10 markets side by side.
⚡	Built on Apple's official feed. No scraping, no key - stable and durable.
🔁	Automatic retries. Transient failures retry with backoff.
💳	Pay per result. No subscription. A typical 5-country run costs about $0.035.

📊 Turns 5 manual App Store checks into 1 ranked table.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ App Store Top Charts Tracker (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Any country, up to 10 per run	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Browsing the App Store manually	Free	One country at a time	Live	🐢 Manual, one by one
ASO SaaS platforms	$50-300+/mo subscription	Broad	Live	🐢 Sales call + onboarding
Manual copy-paste	Free	Current session only	One-shot	🐢 Hours of clicking

Pick this Actor when you want a ranked, multi-market chart view without a subscription.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the App Store Top Charts Tracker page on the Apify Store.
3. ✏️ Set your input. List your countries - or just press Start, the prefilled example works.
4. 🚀 Run it. Watch results stream into the Dataset tab.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - or pipe them anywhere via the Apify API.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

• App marketers: scout which markets have the least concentrated (most winnable) charts.
• ASO consultants: back a market-entry recommendation with real chart data.
• Investors/analysts: track which publishers dominate mobile in which regions.
• Competitive intelligence: monitor competitor app rank across your target markets.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

• 🎓 Research & academia - mobile market studies, digital economy research.
• 🎨 Personal & creative - content research for an app-review blog or newsletter.
• 🤝 Non-profit & civic - track public-sector app adoption (e.g. government apps trending).
• 🧪 Experimentation - prototype an app-market dashboard on real data.

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🔌 Automating App Store Top Charts Tracker

Node.js (apify-client on NPM):

const { ApifyClient } = require('apify-client');
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('saint_person/app-store-top-charts-tracker').call({ countries: "us, gb, jp", chart: "top-free", maxResults: 20 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python (apify-client on PyPI):

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('saint_person/app-store-top-charts-tracker').call(run_input={"countries": "us, gb, jp", "chart": "top-free", "maxResults": 20})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items

📚 Full Apify API documentation

Apify Schedules triggers this Actor on any cron interval - daily for a standing multi-market chart watch.

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🧠 Use via MCP (for AI agents)

App Store Top Charts Tracker is directly callable by any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others) through Apify's hosted MCP server - no custom integration code needed.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/sse?actors=saint_person/app-store-top-charts-tracker",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Once connected, just ask your agent something like: "Use the App Store Top Charts Tracker Actor to tell me which of these 5 countries has the most fragmented top-apps chart."

📚 Apify MCP server docs

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• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

It calls Apple's official marketing-tools top-charts feed per country, then computes publisher diversity and recent-release counts across the sample.

Does this cover Google Play too?

Not currently - Google doesn't publish an equivalent official, unauthenticated top-charts feed. This Actor is Apple App Store only.

What does "uniquePublishers" tell me?

A lower number means fewer companies dominate that market's chart (more concentrated/competitive at the top); a higher number means a more fragmented, open chart.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval.

⚖️ Is this data legal to collect?

This Actor only collects data that is publicly accessible via Apple's official feed. No login, no bypass of access controls.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs.

🔁 What happens if a run fails?

Transient errors retry automatically with backoff. If a run still fails, the log explains exactly why.

🆘 What if I need help?

Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab.

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• MCP

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🆘 Help & custom requests

• 🐛 Something not working? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab.
• 🛠️ Need a custom feature or a different data source? Open an issue describing what you need.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.