01Two different jobs
| The job | Storelift | Sensor Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Daily keyword rank for your own app | The product | Included |
| Self-serve signup, no sales call | Built for it | Not offered |
| Published price you can check first | $0, then $20/mo | Quote only |
02What Sensor Tower is actually for
Sensor Tower's six modules — Store, Ad, App, Audience, Market and Usage Intelligence — are built to answer questions about a market or a competitor, not just your own listing: how big is a category, what's a rival estimated to earn, where is their ad spend going. That's a modeling problem across millions of apps, and the pricing reflects the modeling, sales, and data-licensing cost behind it, not a per-seat SaaS subscription.
Storelift reads one thing across App Store and Google Play — where a listing sits in real search results, and who sits above it — and whatever it derives on top, like a rival's install or revenue band, carries the arithmetic that produced it. That is a measurement you can check, at a price you can read before you sign up.
Frequently asked
Does Storelift give install or revenue estimates like Sensor Tower?
Not at that scale. Sensor Tower models a whole market from panel and scraped data. Storelift derives two things about one rival at a time — monthly installs and, where the chain stays tight, a revenue band — and prints the arithmetic on screen. On Google Play the install figure is Google's own count rather than a model. Market size, ad spend and audience panels are not built.
Can I try Sensor Tower without talking to sales?
Not based on published information. Every module and tier requires a quote and an annual contract; there's no self-serve signup or public price list to check first.
Which one should an indie developer or small team pick?
If you need modeled market-size or competitor-revenue numbers before entering a category, Sensor Tower's estimate models are the actual product you're paying five figures a year for. If what you need day to day is your own app's keyword rank, that's a self-serve free tier elsewhere.
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