App Store Competitor Finder — similar apps & mobile app competitor analysis

App Store Competitor Finder turns one iOS app into its full competitor set and a ready app competitor analysis table. It collects the apps Apple shows as similar ("You might also like"), the top apps for your keywords and, optionally, the developer's other apps — then compares every competitor with your app on rating, rating count, price, in-app purchases, update frequency, app age and tracking.

Use it for mobile app competitor analysis, competitor app research before a launch, app market research for a category, or schedule it to get alerts when competitors ship new versions or change prices.

What you get

For your app (role: "seed") and every competitor (role: "competitor"):

• Basics: name, developer, category, price, website, content rating, size, App Store URL.
• Traction: rating, rating count, 1-5 star ratings histogram, and sizeRankInSet — where the app stands in the set by number of ratings.
• Monetization: has in-app purchases, number of listed IAPs, cheapest and most expensive IAP.
• Activity: current version, last update date, daysSinceUpdate, first release date.
• Privacy: tracksYou — whether the app declares data used to track you.
• How it was found (foundVia): similar, keyword:meditation, same-developer — apps found several ways are the closest competitors.
• Comparison with your app (comparison): ratingDiff, ratingCountRatio (2.04 = twice as many ratings), biggerThanSeed, priceDiff, updatedMoreRecently, olderApp.

Quick start

{
  "apps": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/headspace-sleep-meditation/id493145008"],
  "keywords": ["meditation", "sleep sounds"],
  "country": "us"
}

Output example

Real records (Headspace vs its competitors, 29 Oct 2026, shortened):

[
  { "role": "seed", "name": "Headspace: Sleep & Meditation", "rating": 4.84, "ratingCount": 973794, "sizeRankInSet": 2, "iapCount": 10, "iapMaxPrice": 94.99, "tracksYou": false },
  {
    "role": "competitor",
    "name": "Calm",
    "rating": 4.77,
    "ratingCount": 1991079,
    "sizeRankInSet": 1,
    "iapCount": 10,
    "iapMaxPrice": 79.99,
    "tracksYou": true,
    "foundVia": ["similar", "keyword:meditation"],
    "comparison": { "ratingDiff": -0.07, "ratingCountRatio": 2.04, "biggerThanSeed": true }
  },
  {
    "role": "competitor",
    "name": "Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "ratingCount": 448538,
    "sizeRankInSet": 3,
    "foundVia": ["similar", "keyword:meditation"],
    "comparison": { "ratingDiff": 0.06, "ratingCountRatio": 0.46, "biggerThanSeed": false }
  }
]

Output format = Flat gives vsSeed_ratingDiff, vsSeed_ratingCountRatio, ratings5Star… columns for a competitor matrix in Google Sheets.

Use cases

• App store competitor analysis in minutes instead of a day of copying App Store pages.
• Find competitor apps and similar apps for any app — yours, a client's, or an acquisition target.
• Positioning: who is bigger, who is better rated, who charges more, who updates more often.
• Competitor monitoring: with Only new or changed competitors a daily run reports new entrants and competitors that shipped a new version or changed in-app purchases.
• Agencies & investors: a repeatable competitor matrix per client or per category.

Schedule it, get alerts, use it as an API

• Schedule: in Apify Console open Schedules, pick this Actor and run it daily (or hourly). Every run is compared with the previous one automatically.
• Slack alerts: paste a Slack incoming webhook into Webhook URL and choose Slack message. You get a readable digest at the end of each run.
• Zapier, Make, n8n, your backend: choose JSON webhook format, or call the Actor through the Apify API and read the dataset.
• Google Sheets / Excel: set Output format to Flat and export the dataset as CSV or XLSX, or connect the Google Sheets integration.
• AI agents (MCP): the Actor works as a tool in Apify's MCP server; the output schema is stable and every record carries schemaVersion.
• Run summary: each run stores RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store (saved, charged, requests, warnings).

Pricing

$1 per 1,000 competitor records (your app counts as one record). A competitor set of 20 apps costs $0.02.

FAQ

Where do the competitors come from? Apple's own "You might also like" list for the app, the top App Store search results for your keywords, and (optional) the developer's other apps.

How many competitors will I get? Usually 10 similar apps plus keywordDepth per keyword, minus duplicates, capped by Max competitors per app.

Which competitors are the closest? The ones in foundVia more than once (similar and ranking for your keyword).

Can I compare competitors in several countries? Run one country per run (the set of similar apps differs by country), or schedule several runs.

Do I need an API key? No.

App Store toolkit

Seven Actors on one engine, same input style and output conventions, made to be scheduled together:

Actor	What it answers
App Store Scraper	Everything about an app: details, 1-5 star ratings histogram, in-app purchase prices, privacy labels, app events, competitors
App Store In-App Purchases Scraper	In-app purchase and subscription prices in 100 countries side by side, in USD
App Store Competitor Finder	The full competitor set of an app, compared field by field
App Store Privacy Labels Scraper	What apps track and collect, for apps, searches and whole top charts
App Store Top Charts	Who is in top free / paid / grossing per country and category, and who moved since yesterday
App Store Keyword Rank Tracker	Where your app ranks for each keyword, keyword difficulty, Apple search suggestions
App Store Ratings Tracker	How people rate your app right now: new ratings per day and their average, 1-2 star share, version impact

Also for Android: Google Play Download Count (exact installs) · Google Play In-App Purchases & Price Tracker · Google Play Similar Apps & Competitors · Google Play Data Safety Scraper · Google Play Developer Email & Contacts

Changelog

• 1.0 (Oct 2026) — Similar apps, keyword rivals and same-developer apps, comparison with the input app, size rank in the set, IAP, update and tracking data, change monitoring, Slack and JSON webhooks.