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Chart tracking

Keyword rank says where you are in search. Chart rank says where you are in the category. They move independently — an app can slide on every keyword while climbing the chart, which is exactly when you need to know which one is happening.

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In measured numbers

3lists: free, paid and grossing
200deep, in your own genre
0store credentials required
02:10 UTCread in the same nightly run

Every figure on this page is read from a code path, not written by hand — the same discipline the product applies to your own data.

What gets measured

Three separate lists, read from Apple's own public RSS feeds. No App Store Connect access, no key, no sampling.

ListWhat it ranksDepth read
Top FreeFree apps by download volumeFirst 200
Top GrossingApps by revenue, subscriptions includedFirst 200
Top PaidPaid apps by download volumeFirst 200
We look only at your own genre. The overall chart's first 200 almost never contains an independent app, so measuring it would produce a column of "not in the list" that teaches you nothing.

How it works

  1. Your genre comes from your listing. Apple publishes the app's primary category; we do not ask you to pick one, because a mismatch there would silently measure the wrong chart.
  2. Three lists per storefront, every night. The same run that measures your keywords reads the charts, so both series share a timestamp and can be read on one axis.
  3. Position is stored with its date. A day the feed failed is a gap, not a fall off the chart — the same three states the rest of the product uses.
  4. The same reading powers the public chart pages. What we measure for you is the measurement behind our open chart archive.

What you do with it

Read the other axis

A slide on every keyword while the chart climbs means the traffic is coming from somewhere that is not store search.

Compare it with keyword rank

See who is in the list with you

The chart is the one place your whole category stands in a single ordered column.

Browse the public chart archive

Find the storefront that carries you

Chart position is per country, and one market usually carries far more of it than the others.

Read what moves a ranking

What this does not tell you

What a chart rank is not

Apple publishes the order. It never publishes the volume.

Two apps at the same chart position in different genres are not doing the same business, and no outside tool can turn a position into a download count:

  • A rank is not a download number. An app at #40 in a small genre can out-earn one at #4 in a crowded one.
  • We read your own genre, not the overall list. The overall top 200 is a permanent “not in the list” for almost every independent app.
  • A failed feed is a gap, not a fall. The same three measurement states apply to charts as to keywords.

Chart position is a rank, not a download count. Apple publishes the order, never the volume behind it — and an app at #40 in a small genre can out-earn an app at #4 in a crowded one. If you want install volume you need your own App Store Connect numbers, which is a different measurement with a different connection.

What each plan includes

FreeProStudio
Chart position for your genreYesYesYes
Lists trackedFree · Paid · GrossingFree · Paid · GrossingFree · Paid · Grossing
Storefronts2All 128All 128
Chart history kept30 days365 days365 days
CSV exportYesYes

Pro is $20/month ($18 billed yearly), Studio $60/month ($54 billed yearly). Chart tracking needs no store credentials on any plan — the lists are public.

Frequently asked

Do you track the overall chart or just my category?

Your category, in all three list types. The overall top 200 is dominated by the largest publishers, so for almost every app it would be a permanent "not in the list".

Does chart tracking need an App Store Connect account?

No. Apple's chart feeds are public, so this works the same on the free plan as on Studio.

Why is my chart position moving when my keyword ranks are flat?

Because they measure different things. Chart position responds to download volume, including traffic that never touched store search — an ad campaign, a press mention, a feature placement.

Do you cover Google Play charts?

Not in the same way. Play does not publish an equivalent public ranked feed per category, so the screen says so rather than showing an empty list.

See this for your own app

Paste your store link, add your keywords. Rank, the apps above you and demand are measured every day.

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