AppViz charts all your app store sales reports for you, and for a huge time saving it logs in to iTunes Connect for you and downloads them automatically. An added bonus (assuming you can stomach reading them) is that AppViz will download all your app reviews too! AppViz charts new downloads, upgrade downloads, all downloads, and sales revenue. Graphs can be plotted by different date ranges and for different countries, and it converts everything to your own currency. AppViz doesn’t currently support multiple iTunes Connect accounts, but there are work-arounds and the feature will be added soon. I’d like to see it handle the financial reports a bit differently to make it easier to reconcile with payments from Apple. Highly recommended.
AppSales Mobile is similar to AppViz, but its for your iPhone! AppSales source code is in Google Code right now, download with SVN and pop it on your phone with a debug build. Great distribution model for us developers! It’s a fantastically designed app, squeezing lots of charts onto the phone without anything ever look squeezed. Charts and reports show daily or weekly sales revenue with drill down by product or country. AppSales does have one big drawback, it is oriented around revenue from paid apps. It will show download number for free apps mixed in with the overall report data, but it doesn’t include downloads in the line graphs, they are revenue only. (Back in the day I used to use AppSales for the mac, but it’s no longer being distributed or updated.)
My App Sales is another sales stats checker for your iPhone, but unlike AppSales it reports and charts both free and paid apps. Reports are broken down by day and week, with your account totals and app by app too, showing new downloads, update downloads, refunds, and sales revenue for paid apps. From the reports screen you can drill down to see that data country by country. The app will chart your data by sales revenue or downloads by day or week. My App Sales is the work of Oliver Drobnik, and he’s still maintaining and actively marketing the app.
MajicRank and AppRanking scan iTunes servers and figure out apps ranking in iTunes stores around the world. As well as top 100 free and top 100 paid, the app stores have top 100 free and paid for each app category and game sub category, all of which can be browsed on the app store available on the iPhone and Touch themselves. I was very surprised to learn that Hit Tennis is in the top 100 paid sports games even in many countries including the USA, and its even in the top 100 paid games in a few countries around the world. This is really encouraging, and moves up the next release of Hit Tennis in my priorities. MajicRank is the first of the sales stats tools to record ranking data over time and graph it. Graphing ranking data alongside sales data and your calendar of marketing actions is very powerful for understanding how to tune your marketing plans to make the most from your apps. If you’re not sure about what all the different ranking lists are, read: app store top 100 rankings explained.
Mobclix shows app rankings on their site, with graphs. They are charting top 100 popularity free and paid combined, for the USA app store (so their numbers won’t match MajicRank’s numbers). Go Imangi!
AppStore Clerk is a simple utility that parses daily and weekly download reports and shows you the data in an easy to read table, showing new downloads and updates.
Heartbeat is a fully featured subscription website that features everything in all the tools above mixed with crash reporting, analytics, and a whole lot more. When I sell my millionth app I’ll try it :-).
AppStatz is another online solution to check out, though it’s still in private beta. (thanks @shanev). AppStatz – let me in your beta :-)
Drop me a line and tell me about the tools you use.
Very cool summary. I’ve only ever used AppViz so far. I’d love to see this post updated if you get into the AppStatz beta or if you get to use Heartbeat.
thanks!
Great summary!
I use AppViz on a daily basis and I would highly recommend it.
As for AppRanking, unless your app is in the top 100, it’s of very limited use.
If your app is outside of the top 100, it will show you that, but nothing else!
Cheers
Graham
Here is another one:
https://www.appfigures.com
It’s online and it’s free. I haven’t tried it yet because I don’t like the idea to do such things online but it does look good.
Cheers
Andreas
I’ve been using http://www.appfigures.com and its pretty good. It imports reports automatically and even sends me an email every morning with sales and downloads data. You should definitely add it to the main list.
Another vote for AppFigures, which has the killer feature (for me, anyways…) that you can configure the email reports to go to the particular people you’re publishing a particular set of applications for.
I use AppViz on my mac but MyAppSales on the iPhone. The good thing about MyAppSales is that as well as doing the job of providing sales analysis, statistics et.c it comes with the source code and is being updated on a regular basis.
Hi,
Do any tools show ranking for OVERALL Top Free or Paid beyond 1-100 rankings?
Mobclix does it by category, but I don’t see anyone who does for ALL free/paid apps that fall out of the top 100.
Thanks,
Brook
I’d also recommend http://www.applyzer.com as a necessary tool for any iPhone dev’s arsenal. It records your apps’ ranks beyond the top 100, interesting to see what your app does in the netherworld ;-)
Great article by the way, thanks!
Also you mention MajicRank doing graphing – I haven’t been able to find this feature.
is there any way to track the number of downloads of a foreign app?? in the beginning one could see how many times an app was downloaded but at the moment this is not possible in the App Store anymmore…
I bought AppViz, but I would not buy it today. The application is frozen in time. All suggestions ever sent to the developer are answered using a standard pre-written message, suggesting one day the function would be implemented, but in fact, nothing ever changes… AppViz lacks a lot of functionality.
AppViz 1.7 handles rankings along with many new features. It also integrates with Applyzer.
Try new application for tracking ranks of youy applications in AppStore- AppStore Ranks. You can find it on http://positiveteam.com/appstoreranks/
We’ve just released a sales report forwarding service called Mary Apps. (http://www.maryapps.com/)
We use it everyday (er, since it’s all automatic, enjoy the luxury) to have the daily sales report sent out by email to ourselves and our collaborators. Since we have a geologically and organizationally distributed team, this simple service is working greatly for us.
Please give it a try, or at least say hi to the mascot sheep, Mary =)
We’re going to take a look at the tools in the article for inspiration. Feedbacks are greatly welcomed.
Try the free app ranking monitor application from the http://www.theblueplum.com.
It gives you app rankings from other iTunes stores – not just from the US store.
Great post. You did however miss PositionApp™ http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/positionapp/id347069524?mt=8 which is an app that allows you to see the top300 of all iTunes charts and catergories in all countries along with 6 months historic charting data.
AppFigures for me. Although I do also use AppViz, but mainly for getting reviews.
Thank you for the overview.
I use AppViz on a daily basis and I would highly recommend it.
I have recommend Distimo.
http://www.distimo.com/
I have tried AppViz in the past and found it great, however Distimo is cooler.