RespectASO is a Mac app for App Store keyword research, free to use, with Pro features from 139 PLN. AsoBeast tracks keyword rankings on the App Store and Google Play every day on its own servers, so your history has no gaps when your Mac sleeps. It costs $10 a month for your whole team, or nothing if you self-host it.
Written by the AsoBeast team. RespectASO facts come from respectaso.com, its docs and its GitHub repository, checked on .
Short answer
Pick RespectASO if you want free App Store keyword research that never leaves your Mac. Pick AsoBeast if you also sell on Google Play, want ranks checked every day whether your Mac is on or off, and want alerts, review replies, an API and an MCP server for the whole team, from $10 a month. AsoBeast is AGPL-3.0 with every feature. RespectASO’s free edition is AGPL-3.0 and its Pro code is not public. On the App Store, AsoBeast tracks 175 storefronts and RespectASO 175.
You want both stores tracked for you every day, from any browser, for $10 a month.
You research App Store keywords alone on a Mac and want it free, with the data kept on that Mac.
Side by side
AsoBeast Indie against RespectASO Free and Pro. RespectASO prices Pro in Polish złoty, VAT included; AsoBeast prices are in USD before tax. Where RespectASO does not publish a detail, the table says so.
| Feature | AsoBeastIndie from $10 a monthRecommended | RespectASOFree, Pro from 139 PLN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| Entry plan | $10 a month or $100 a year | Free; Pro is 139 PLN for 3 months or 279 PLN for 12, paid once |
| Next plan up | $99 a month for 50 apps | None |
| Free trial | 7 days free, card required | No trial; the free edition has no time limit |
| Seats | Invite members at no extra cost | One user, no accounts |
| Open source | AGPL-3.0, every feature | AGPL-3.0 free edition; Pro code is not published |
| Where it runs | ||
| App | Web app in any browser, hosted or self-hosted | macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon; free features also in Docker |
| Daily checks | On AsoBeast servers, with nothing for you to keep running | On your Mac while the app runs, or on your own Docker server for the free features |
| Rank tracking | ||
| Apple App Store | Included | Included |
| Google Play | Included | Not included |
| Countries | 175 App Store storefronts, 225 Google Play locations | 175 App Store storefronts |
| Daily rank tracking | Included | While the app runs |
| Rank depth | Position 200 | Not published |
| Ranking history | A year of daily ranks | Length not published; up to 13 months for rivals, on Pro |
| Keywords | ||
| App Store popularity | Apple’s weekly popularity where Apple publishes it, a fitted model elsewhere | Its own estimate, or Apple’s weekly values through your Apple Ads key |
| Keyword difficulty and suggestions | Included | Included |
| Downloads | Measured, from your App Store Connect and Play Console reports | Estimated for each rank position |
| Monitoring | ||
| Competitors | 10 per app | Up to 10 rivals in 3 countries, on Pro |
| Alerts | Webhook or email, formatted for Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and Google Chat | One daily Mac notification, on Pro |
| Reviews | Ratings, reviews and AI reply drafts, posted to the App Store and Google Play | A weekly AI summary of rivals’ complaints, on Pro |
| ASO audit and ranked to-do list | 17 rules on every plan | ASO readiness score, on Pro |
| Integrations | ||
| REST API | 40,000 requests a day on Indie | Not included |
| MCP server | 37 read tools and 7 opt-in write tools, hosted | 32 tools on your Mac, on Pro |
| AI | 200 AI calls a month included | Your own API key or a local model, on Pro |
| Keyword export | CSV and JSON | CSV |
| Project | ||
| Releases in October 2026 | 9 | 4 |
| Try it free | ||
Where AsoBeast wins
AsoBeast is built for apps on both stores and for teams who share one account across Windows, Linux and Mac.
Track the same keywords on Google Play in 225 locations and on the App Store in 175 storefronts, side by side. RespectASO covers the App Store only, and its FAQ says Google Play may come later.
AsoBeast Cloud checks every keyword each day on its own servers. RespectASO’s Mac app checks while it runs, and its docs say the days your Mac was off stay blank. Its Docker version can stay on, without the Pro features.
AsoBeast is a web app, so a teammate on Windows or Linux sees the same rankings, and members cost nothing extra. RespectASO keeps one user’s data on one Mac.
Rank drops, competitors overtaking you, competitor listing changes, top chart entries and new reviews reach Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram and Google Chat by signed webhook, or arrive by email. With drop confirmation on, a dip that recovers by the next check sends nothing.
Every plan includes a REST API with 40,000 requests a day and a hosted MCP server with 37 read tools and 7 opt-in write tools, so Claude, Cursor or Codex can read your rankings from anywhere. RespectASO has no API, and its 32 MCP tools run on your Mac with Pro.
17 rules read your ranks, listing and competitors and turn them into tasks ranked by the gain each one is worth. After a listing change, AsoBeast shows how your ranks moved 7, 14 and 28 days later.
Open any keyword to see the top 50 apps of that day’s search, with icons and movement since the last check, plus keyword ideas from your metadata, search suggestions, similar apps, competitors, seasonality and reviews.
AsoBeast is AGPL-3.0 with no open core, so the hosted service runs the code you can self-host. It shipped 9 releases in October 2026 to RespectASO’s 4, whose Pro features are not in its public repository.
On every plan
Indie, Ultimate and the 7-day trial all include these, with nothing extra to buy.
Write a reply or let AI draft it, then post it to the App Store or Google Play from the review itself. Connect the store once and stop copying replies into two consoles.
Connect App Store Connect or Play Console and your store visits, downloads and conversion sit beside your rankings, so you see whether a climb turned into installs.
Google Play orders its results by the country a search comes from. AsoBeast Cloud runs the proxy pool that checks each market for you, so there is nothing to buy or configure.
Free, paid and grossing charts by country and category, with the day’s climbers, fallers and new entries, and your own apps and competitors marked.
Where RespectASO wins
RespectASO is made by Respectlytics, which also sells privacy-first app analytics. For a solo iOS developer who wants keyword research on a Mac, it costs nothing and needs no account.
Keyword research, difficulty scores, daily ranks for your own app and CSV export cost nothing, with no account. The free edition searches 3 keywords at a time. AsoBeast Cloud is a paid service after its trial, and only the self-hosted version is free.
RespectASO stores everything in a local database, and the free app talks only to Apple and GitHub. Self-hosted AsoBeast keeps data on your own server with no telemetry, but AsoBeast Cloud stores it on ours.
RespectASO estimates daily downloads for each rank position and scans all 175 storefronts for the country where a keyword is easiest to win. AsoBeast measures downloads from your own store reports and suggests markets from your listing’s languages.
Pro is 139 PLN for 3 months or 279 PLN for 12, paid once, and nothing renews by itself. When it ends you keep the free features and your data. Pro AI can run on a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
Switching
Bring your keywords with you. Your RespectASO research stays on your Mac.
In RespectASO, export your keyword research as CSV, or copy the keywords you track for your app. Keep the countries you track them in.
Start the free trial and paste your App Store link. AsoBeast imports the listing and starts tracking the keywords in your metadata.
Paste your keywords, up to 200 phrases at a time, and choose the countries to track them in.
Every feature from the first minute.
Questions
RespectASO is a Mac app for App Store keyword research that keeps everything on your computer, free, with Pro features from 139 PLN. AsoBeast is a web app that tracks keyword rankings on the App Store and Google Play every day on its own servers, to position 200, with alerts, review replies, a REST API and an MCP server, from $10 a month or free to self-host.
Yes, if you publish on Google Play, work in a team or want rankings checked while your Mac is off. AsoBeast covers both stores, checks every keyword to position 200 every day and sends alerts to your team’s chat. If you are a solo iOS developer who wants free research that never leaves your Mac, RespectASO suits you, and you can run both.
No. RespectASO covers the iOS App Store only, and its FAQ says Google Play support may be added in the future. AsoBeast tracks Google Play in 225 locations today, and AsoBeast Cloud supplies the proxies Google Play needs to check each country, so you don’t set any up.
RespectASO is free, and Pro is 139 PLN for 3 months or 279 PLN for 12, paid once, with no automatic renewal. AsoBeast Indie is $10 a month or $100 a year for 5 apps and 1,000 keyword markets on both stores, Ultimate is $99 a month, and self-hosting is free with every feature. AsoBeast’s 7-day trial starts on a card with every feature, and cancelling before day 7 costs nothing.
Not in the Mac app. It checks while the app is open, in the window or the menu bar, and its docs say the days your Mac was off stay blank in the history. Its Docker version can run on a server that stays on, with the free features only. AsoBeast Cloud checks every day on its own servers, so there is nothing for you to keep running.
Yes, on Pro. RespectASO’s MCP server has 32 tools and runs locally on your Mac. AsoBeast’s MCP server is hosted, so it works from any computer, and has 37 read tools and 7 opt-in write tools on every plan and the trial, with no per-call fees.
Its free edition is open source under AGPL-3.0. The Pro features need a paid license and their code is not in the public repository, and the Docker version runs the free features only. AsoBeast is AGPL-3.0 with no open core: every feature the hosted service runs is in the repository, free to self-host.
RespectASO’s app needs macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon, and Windows or Linux users can run its free features in Docker. AsoBeast runs in any browser on any system, and the self-hosted version runs with Docker on any Linux server.
Yes. Export your keyword research from RespectASO as CSV, then paste the phrases into AsoBeast, up to 200 at a time, and pick the countries to track them in. Ranking history does not transfer, so AsoBeast starts building yours from the first daily check.
The AsoBeast team. Every RespectASO fact was checked on respectaso.com, its docs and its GitHub repository on 5 November 2026, when its latest release was v3.1.2 from 14 October 2026. If something has changed, write to support@asobeast.com and we will correct it.
Import the same app, add the same keywords and compare the two every morning. The trial runs 7 days and costs nothing.
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