App Store keyword search lookup
See which apps come up for a keyword in 46 countries, how many ratings they have and whether your app is among them. Your browser asks Apple’s public iTunes Search API directly.
Results come from Apple’s public iTunes Search API. Its order is close to, but not the same as, what people see in the App Store app, and it is not personalized. Treat positions here as approximate. Apple limits how often the API can be called, so wait a little if a search fails.
How to read the results
Look at the top ten
Most installs from a search go to the first few results. If the top ten are full of apps with tens of thousands of ratings, a new app will struggle to break in. Searches where the leaders have a few hundred ratings are much easier to win.
Check relevance
If the results are unrelated to the keyword, the App Store has little to match against. A relevant app with that phrase in its name or subtitle can often rank quickly.
Compare countries
The same keyword can be crowded in the United States and wide open in Germany or Japan. Switch the country to find markets where your app can reach the top faster.
Then measure over time
A single lookup is a snapshot. ASOcelot saves every check, shows how your position changes after each release, and, with Pro, adds Apple Ads popularity so you can see how popular each phrase is compared with others.