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sensortower.com

47 pointsdiziet13 comments

Very nice, from what I can see.

Is this only targeted for authors of apps, not consumers? Because I'm a little confused by the sign-up requirements for viewing more data, but with the restriction on sign-ups for authors of apps:

> Please add an app before continuing

> If you haven't released an App, add your closest competitor instead

> If we can't find your App, paste the iTunes id or URL of the App

On the surface, this seems like anyone could benefit from this data. But if it's meant to just be for authors, seems like a lot of missed opportunity.

Or am I misunderstanding the whole point?

That's a great point. The tools are more oriented towards people who make apps or market them (or need to have stats/data about the apps). We do power via API access consumer sites that surface this data for users, but we leave it up to them.

So, I just signed up. I have a trivia game I just launched and I'm trying to boost downloads and IAPs (downloads are actually pretty good).

I really like what I see but I'm trying to understand where I get my $35+/mo of value. What do review analysis & search ranking do for me (that I can't get by just browsing the app store)? How do I convert the data you give into more downloads?

I don't mean any of this as a knock. Your product looks great and I'm willing to put my money behind tools that will help my app.

One reliable way to get users on the app store is to pay for advertising based installs, which for free apps end up costing $1-2 per user. At 35/month, if the app store visibility optimization tools and analysis helps you get more downloads. Plus the app planning intelligence, product feedback, researching competitors -- it all saves time.

You could sit down with a notebook and tally where you rank for things every day, but you'd quickly spend much more time on it than the monthly fee is worthwhile.

I'm a paying customer. IMO most analysis is useless. I use it to track my own rankings and competitors, as well as some keyword research.

It looks useful....IF your app is already a success and has massive downloads/reviews. For those who only get a review every few days(guessing 95% of apps), how does your service provide value?

The idea is to help developers optimize their app's presence in the app store and get more downloads (hence get more reviews). We've had many indie developers use our product (even the free version) and increase downloads dramatically (3-4x).

This has been my experience. I 8x'd by downloads by using this site. They've got excellent analytic tools for determining which keywords are important in your market.

EDIT: Responding to grandparent, I only get a review every few days, and I have less than 200 reviews. Nevertheless, this report did provide some interesting insight. Too soon to tell if I'll be able to translate it into a valuable decision. But I like that sensortower has been innovating on ways to analyze your data.

Very cool. While you can see (with some mouse-overs) how each version does, I think it's important enough to give it its own section (average rating per version, biggest + an - comments, etc.). Also, keep the touch devices in mind; hiding data under mouse-overs is a nono in this day and age.

I like how you can clearly see shifts in opinion in the small graph at the top of the page. The light grey bars indicating the new releases could be a little easier to see though. I was almost going to suggest that as a feature before noticing.

The simplicity of data representation is impressive

This is a nice missing tool for app developers. Only if I had enough reviews...

wow, really valuable data/service

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