App store optimization tools
Tools that help mobile app developers research keywords, track App Store and Google Play rankings, analyze reviews and competitors, manage listings, and find app ideas or get their apps discovered.
Built for: Indie mobile app developers
Projects since May 04
120
Different builders
117
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-11%
AI is the core
8.3%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (59%), mobile app (14%), developer tool or library (8.3%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS, r/chrome_extensions
Latest
- ARK-Store for GitHub — Lists public GitHub repositories with Android apps and lets users discover and install them.“ARK-Store for GitHub Android app”
- StoreFast — Publishes Microsoft Store app updates in one step, auto-translating release notes and forwarding certification and review alerts.“Looking for 5 Microsoft Store devs to try a tool I built for publishing updates”
- Lists alternative apps for apps that have stopped working, so users can find replacements.“I don't know how to drive visitors to my website”
- Starquill — Connects to App Store Connect and Google Play, groups app store reviews into recurring problems, and sends alerts plus drafted replies.“I kept missing 1★ reviews on my own apps, so I built a tool to read them all for me Solo dev from Kyrgyzstan: launched my first SaaS today after Stripe wasn't even an option here”
- Shipside — Submits iOS apps to App Store Connect from the command line, including status reports, dry-run checks, metadata and screenshot uploads, and review submission.“I turned my iOS submission pipeline into a product: Shipside — ship apps to App Store Connect from the CLI”
- Hindsight Clean History — Gathers business reviews from Google Maps, Play Store, App Store and CSV files, groups them into themes, and stores per-business memory so weekly analyses compare against past weeks.“Building a Review Gatherer That Feeds Hindsight Clean History”
- Apppeers — Matches app developers for mutual store review exchanges, verifying each app's store listing and tracking completed deals and likes or dislikes.“Why and for who I made a service for exchanging app reviews”
- Play Store ASO Tweak — Adds app install counts, daily install estimates, release and developer details, keyword analysis and metadata views directly on Google Play pages.“I built an ASO research extension for Google Play”
- google-play-scraper — Fetches public Google Play data such as app details, reviews, search results and top charts through a TypeScript library.“google-play-scraper 1.3.0 released!”
- WarpLink — Provides deep linking, install attribution, and real-time link analytics for mobile apps through SDKs and a REST API.“I built WarpLink: deep linking, install attribution, and analytics for mobile apps, without the enterprise invoice”
- Storewake — Gives AI assistants access to an iOS app's App Store rankings, metadata, revenue, subscriptions and Apple Ads data through an MCP server.“Storewake - Connect your AI assistant to your app's rankings, revenue and Apple Ads data”
- Questline RPG — Tracks an app's real-time sales and trials and sends alerts, presented as an RPG-style loot box that fills with revenue.“I built a RPG-style lootbox that fills with my app’s actual sales because refreshing App Store Connect wasn’t giving me enough dopamine.”
- Greypaint — Tracks updates for Mac apps across multiple distribution sources and shows how each app should be updated.“Greypaint: A Mac app updater with support for Homebrew, Sparkle, GitHub, and the App Store”
- appfoyer — Scans a mobile app's repo to draft store-required privacy policy, support, and account deletion pages plus app-ads.txt, and hosts them on a subdomain.“Shipped my first SaaS and I think I picked the wrong audience. Would a vibe coder pay for this, or just build it themselves?”
- Mindphor — Aggregates app store reviews and competitor feedback into one dashboard and surfaces sentiment trends, issues, and alerts.“I built something that lets you see what your app users are really trying to tell you”
- RejectProof — Scans an iOS .ipa build in the browser and reports likely App Store rejection causes with guideline references and fixes.“I built a tool that scans your .ipa and tells you exactly what Apple will reject, before you submit”
- UdonBoost — Lists iPhone apps in a directory where builders can submit their apps for discovery.“I just launched a directory only for iPhone apps called UdonBoost”
- Sends a trial-gated app launch update covering early user, trial and cancellation numbers and asks for feedback on the access model.“335 users in 3 days, 70 trials, but 30 already cancelled so far, would love feedback on my early numbers”
- Appalize — Researches app store keywords, compares competitor listings, and helps prepare and apply metadata and screenshot changes.“I built Appalize to connect keyword research with the next app listing update”
- asograde — Scores app store title and subtitle keywords by search popularity and difficulty, and shows which apps already rank for them.“ai made building apps easy, distribution is the actual moat now”
Most discussed
- Lists alternative apps for apps that have stopped working, so users can find replacements.“I don't know how to drive visitors to my website”
- Testara — Scans an iOS app build or GitHub repo for App Store rejection risks and returns a readiness score with AI-generated fix prompts.“My SaaS just made its first $33. I paid myself $13, and a friend threw in $20 for morale. Honestly? It works.”
- OwnYourMac — Curates a directory of native, local-first Mac apps that are free or one-time purchase and need no subscription for core features.“Miss when Mac apps were just one-time purchases?”
- FindUpApp — Lists mobile apps in a searchable directory organized into deep, multi-layered categories so niche apps can be discovered.“My app got 0 downloads because store search buried it. So I built FindUpApp.”
- appfoyer — Scans a mobile app's repo to draft store-required privacy policy, support, and account deletion pages plus app-ads.txt, and hosts them on a subdomain.“Shipped my first SaaS and I think I picked the wrong audience. Would a vibe coder pay for this, or just build it themselves?”
- cws-featured-badge-skill — Audits a Chrome extension against Web Store Featured and Established Publisher badge criteria and outputs a prioritized fix list.“I took Google's Featured Badge article and converted it into a Skill that took my Chrome Extension from 691 users to 3400+ users within 7 days”
- Shares a playbook for producing faceless TikTok carousels that rank in search to drive mobile app downloads.“I'm getting 1k+ monthly downloads of my mobile app from faceless TikTok carousels - here's the method”
- AppScout — Lets people discover web and mobile apps through a feed that surfaces one app at a time.“Software Startups before they become profitable”
- Asks for early distribution advice for a newly launched consumer iOS app.“Launched my B2C app 2 days ago. Is posting 3–5 TikToks a day the right early distribution path?”
- toppaid.lol — Ranks App Store app listings by paid bids, with taps forwarding to the real App Store page with campaign tracking.“I built a pay-to-rank leaderboard for iOS apps. My payment processor rejected me for “advertising.” I rebuilt the entire payment system in a day.”