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Find your real competitors. Track every move.

Connect your app. GrowingApps finds the competitors that matter and tracks their rankings, metadata, releases and growth.

Competitive ASO and mobile app market intelligence for teams managing live apps without a dedicated analyst.

4M+ apps across both stores · 11K+ semantic niches · refreshed daily
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Personal onboarding during private beta.

Finch ▲ +2.4%/wk Habit Trackers ▲ +1.1%/wk · 21K apps Fabulous ships “Sleep Coach” NICHENonogram ▲ overtakes Sudoku · installs/wk KW“sleep sounds” ▲ overtakes “white noise” Do It Now ▲ +1.8%/wk MILESTONERelaxing Jigsaw crosses 320M installs 312 apps removed from the stores today !ANOMALYSleepy Sounds Pro · 3.9 → 4.6 in 3d Focus & Calm ▼ −0.6%/wk RANKWaze regains #1 for “truck gps” Duolingo ▲ +0.9%/wk DEV1,214 developers shipped their first app this week KW“receipt scanner” ▲ overtakes “expense tracker”
Why GrowingApps

The market around your app, continuously mapped.

GrowingApps connects Google Play and App Store data into a continuously updated market model for independent developers and small studios making ASO and product decisions.

01

Actual competitors, not category neighbours

Semantic matching connects products by meaning, audience and use case—in a couple of seconds from a store link or full idea.

02

A history of movement, not a snapshot

Track rankings, metadata, releases, installs, ratings and reviews over time to see direction and anomalies.

03

One competitive set across the workflow

The same market powers monitoring, keyword gaps, review intelligence and niche research.

04

Evidence a small team can act on

See what changed, where space is opening and which ASO or product decision deserves attention.

02 — Semantic market intelligence

Every cluster is a market you can measure.

GrowingApps clusters apps by what they do and who they serve, then measures each niche by size, concentration, growth, quality, new entrants and neighbouring markets.

Google Play market map11K+ semantic nichesRefreshed nightly
Google Play market mapdrag · zoom · click a niche
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06 — Review intelligence

Turn competitor complaints into your product advantage.

GrowingApps groups thousands of reviews from your real competitor set into recurring strengths and pain points—so you know what to build, what to defend, and what not to copy.

Opportunity · build

Reliable offline mode

Users repeatedly ask for habits and streaks to work without an account or connection.

13 explicit asks at one leader alone
Risk · avoid

Aggressive paywalls

Negative mentions rise immediately after trials end or basic tracking moves behind premium.

2 clear + 3 mixed competitor signals
Expectation · defend

Streaks are table stakes

Users reward streak visibility across the category — and punish the one leader whose streaks break on a technicality.

praised at 5 of 8 leaders
Public example · Habit Trackers4,800 recent reviews · 8 apps
Finch Habitica Forest Fabulous HabitBull Do It Now TickTick Loop Habits …more
What users reward
Streak tracking…
Home-screen widgets?…
Offline mode?…
Virtual pet / companion…
Where competitors disappoint
Paywall pressure???…
Sync reliability?…
Notifications & reminders???…
Ad pressure??…
 praised  fine  pain or missing ? mixed signals
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07 — Your weekly market loop

Your market won’t stand still. Neither should your plan.

GrowingApps keeps competitor, keyword and review signals current, then ranks next actions by evidence.

01 · Observe

Watch the right market

Apps, developers, niches and keywords share one watchlist.

continuous
02 · Explain

Understand the movement

Connect rank changes to releases, metadata edits, ratings, reviews and new entrants.

daily signals
03 · Decide

Choose the next action

Prioritize attainable keyword gaps, product weaknesses and market shifts.

weekly brief
04 · Measure

See whether it worked

Measure visibility and rank after each metadata, release or product change.

week over week
Example week · signals collected automatically

Fabulous repositioned its title around “habit & self care”.

metadata

“rain sounds for sleep” gained demand while results stayed fragmented.

keyword

Three young apps entered your semantic niche with rising review velocity.

market

Your brief connected the changes and ranked the actions by evidence.

brief
Next actions · evidence attached
Act nowkeyword + competitor gap

Test “rain sounds for sleep” in the short description

Demand is rising, no leader owns the exact phrase, and your app already ranks for adjacent terms.

Watch3-app movement

Monitor the new “deep sleep” positioning

Competitors are changing metadata, but rank gains are not yet consistent enough to copy the move.

One connected watchlist AppsDevelopersSemantic nichesKeywordsReviews
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Your real competitors. Found in a couple of seconds.

Paste a Google Play or App Store link—or describe an idea. GrowingApps matches products by audience, intent and use case.

  • 01Paste a store link or describe the complete idea
  • 02Match by meaning across Google Play and the App Store
  • 03Create the watchlist used by tracking, keywords and reviews
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01 — Start with an app or an idea
Paste a public store link. GrowingApps resolves the app and finds competitors by product meaning, audience and use case.
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05 — Keyword opportunities

Find the keywords competitors haven’t locked yet.

Turn your competitive set into an ASO plan: see where rivals rank, where your app is absent and which growing queries are attainable.

growingapps · keyword gapPlay corpus · refreshed daily
Connected to your market
Example workspace · Your app vs. real semantic competitors
Your app 18 competitors en-US
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4 reachable gaps found Demand exists, competitors rank, and your example app is absent or still outside the top 20.
Keyword Volume Difficulty Top-5 installs Your rank* Competitor gap Regime Opportunity
title wording wins — a name can rank token matched word by word semantic installs decide, renaming buys nothing brand demand belongs to a product vacant no top-30 title carries the phrase
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04 — Always-on competitive intelligence

Know what changed — and whether you should care.

GrowingApps records ranking, metadata, release, rating and growth changes across your app, its competitors and semantic niche—then separates actionable shifts from routine noise.

Watchlist · 6 competitors
Fabulous changed its title 2h ago
“Daily Routine Planner” → “Habit & Self Care”Metadata
Headspace entered the top 10 yesterday
“sleep meditation” · #16 → #8 · visibility risingRank +8
Rating anomaly detected 3d ago
Sleepy Sounds Pro · 3.9 → 4.6 in 3 days · +400 five-star reviewsSuspicious
Workspace · your app
Your app sleep & relaxation last 7 days
KeywordPosition7 days
sleep sounds7↑ 5
white noise for sleeping12↑ 2
rain sounds24↓ 6
deep sleep music31—
niche · 320 apps you rank 14 by installs 3 new entrants this month 1 rating jump worth a look
Weekly briefSleep & relaxation portfolioLast 7 days
+8%search visibility
14keywords improved
3competitors changed metadata
4opportunities found
Worth acting on: “rain sounds for sleep” is growing while the top results remain fragmented.
Worth watching: two competitors added “deep sleep” to their titles after ranking gains.
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03 — Research mode

When a signal raises a question, query the whole market.

Combine installs, age, growth, category and niche openness to investigate the live catalog.

Conditions
Installs
Bound the audience size from either side.
App age
Fresh releases or old-timers.
Growth shape
Steady climb, takeoff or slowdown.
Genre
Games, apps — or one Play category.
Competable niche
Skip markets locked by giants and OS features.
Group
Nest conditions and switch AND / OR.
Query · all conditions must hold
Drag a condition here — or just click one on the left.
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Installs a day
Download speed, not just the total.
Rating
Score above or below your bar.
Rating trend
Score climbing or sliding over time.
Monetization
Free or paid, purchases, ads.
Last update
Actively maintained — or abandoned.
Niche cluster
Everything inside one cluster on the map.
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Any app. Any developer.

Follow individual apps or entire publisher portfolios. See new releases, metadata changes, ranking moves and emerging competitors without rebuilding your watchlist by hand.

FAQ

Independent developers and small studios managing live apps without a dedicated research team. Idea validation is supported; ongoing competitive monitoring is the core workflow.

GrowingApps connects metadata, estimated installs and growth, ratings, reviews, search rankings, keyword demand, developer portfolios and semantic niches into one market view.

Keyword tools start with a phrase. GrowingApps starts with an app and its competitive market, then evaluates keywords alongside competitor behavior, niche structure, historical movement and review signals.

GrowingApps maintains a continuously updated historical view of the app market. Change metrics are calculated from comparable observations, and every result states the measurement period.

The catalog is monitored continuously. Fast-moving and newly released apps are refreshed more often; dormant apps less often. Growth metrics state the period between measurements.

During private beta, request a demo with your app or idea. We onboard each team personally; public pricing will follow once plans are finalized.

Google Play and the App Store on the US storefront, with search demand collected in eight languages. Additional countries are planned.

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GrowingApps research

What the app market is showing us.

Short analyses built from the same app histories, search rankings, reviews and semantic niches used inside GrowingApps.

Each piece turns a market movement into a practical ASO, product or opportunity decision.

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Top 100 by installs · live database · opens Google Play