Indie ASO tools, checked one by one

How this list was checked

• Every price below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 18 August 2026, in a browser, not from a comparison article.
• Where rank tracking starts is shown separately from the advertised price, because in this category they are frequently different numbers.
• Tools whose pricing we could not read are listed as unverified at the bottom, by name, rather than being padded in with a number from somewhere else.

What we could verify

One of them is gone

Applyra appears in most indie ASO lists at $9.99/month with unlimited keywords. On 18 August 2026 its domain resolves to a GoDaddy sale page: applyra.com is for sale.

We are not reporting this to score a point — a small tool shutting down is the ordinary risk of the tier, and ours is a small tool too. We are reporting it because it was still listed as live in our own market research five days earlier, and because it is exactly what a list copied from another list cannot tell you.

Two real disagreements in this tier

1 · Who holds the keys. RespectASO is open source under AGPL-3.0, runs locally, and takes your own LLM key — or a model on your own Mac — with no platform markup. Its Pro licence is a one-time $249 for a year that never auto-renews. That is a genuinely different shape from a monthly SaaS and, if data staying on your machine matters, there is no argument to have.

2 · Where demand comes from. ASO.dev surfaces Search Ads Popularity for every keyword, and it also ships an SAP Detector that tracks how that score moves over time. Building a detector for a metric's instability is an honest engineering response to a real problem — and it is also a description of the problem: the number moves for reasons that have nothing to do with your app. Storelift declines to show a volume column at all and reads demand from autocomplete instead.

Neither disagreement has an obvious winner. They are the two questions actually worth asking before you pick a tool in this tier.

Named, but not verified

These circulate in the same lists. We could not confirm their pricing today and are not printing a number we did not read:

• GrowASO — the site is live and shows a keyword tracker, but /pricing returns 404 and no price appears on the landing page.
• AstroASO, Komori, AppDrift — not checked in this round. They are frequently listed around $9–20/month; treat that as hearsay until someone reads their pages.

When we verify one, it moves up into the table with the date it was read.

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