# AsoBeast

> AsoBeast is an App Store Optimization (ASO) tool and keyword rank tracker for the Apple App Store and Google Play. It checks keyword rankings daily to position 200, tracks competitors, listing changes and reviews, and turns the history into a to-do list ranked by impact. Plans start at $10 a month after a 7-day free trial with no card. The software is open source (AGPL-3.0) and can also be self-hosted for free.

AsoBeast is built for indie developers, small studios and agencies with a portfolio measured in apps rather than hundreds. It reads public store data and Apple’s published search popularity, and needs no App Store Connect or Play Console access. Every popularity and difficulty score carries its source, formula version, capture date and confidence. It does not estimate downloads or revenue.

Plans:

- Indie $10 per month or $100 per year: 5 apps, 1,000 keyword markets, 10 competitors per app, All 175 App Store and 225 Google Play countries, 200 AI calls a month, REST API and MCP server, CSV and JSON export
- Ultimate $99 per month or $990 per year: 50 apps, 10,000 keyword markets, 25 competitors per app, All countries, 900 requests a minute, 2,000 AI calls a month, REST API and MCP server, CSV and JSON export
- Free trial: 7 days with Indie limits and 25 AI calls, no card, nothing charged or deleted when it ends
- Self-hosted: free, unlimited apps and keyword markets, no rate limits, AI calls unlimited unless you set a monthly cap
- One phrase tracked in five countries counts as five keyword markets, so 1,000 markets can be 1,000 phrases in one country or 200 phrases in five.

Facts:

- Stores: Apple App Store (175 storefronts) and Google Play (225 locations)
- Rank checks: daily, depth 200, null means checked and not found
- Action Center: 15 deterministic rules with evidence and deep links
- MCP server and REST API: included on every plan and the trial, with no credits or per-call fees
- Alerts: rank drops, top 10 and top 3 milestones, first rankings, competitor overtakes and listing changes, by signed webhook or SMTP email, formatted for Slack and Discord
- Change impact: how rankings and visibility moved 7, 14 and 28 days after each listing update
- Billing: plans are sold through Link, a Stripe affiliate and merchant of record; prices in USD before tax
- Telemetry: none in a self-hosted install, where every outbound integration stays off until configured

Questions:

- **What is AsoBeast?** AsoBeast is an App Store Optimization (ASO) tool for the Apple App Store and Google Play. It checks your keyword rankings daily to position 200, tracks competitors, listing changes and reviews, and turns that history into a to-do list ranked by impact, so you always know what to fix next. Plans start at $10 a month after a 7-day free trial with no card.
- **How does the free trial work?** Create a workspace, confirm your email and paste a store link. The trial runs for 7 days with Indie limits (5 apps and 1,000 keyword markets) and 25 AI calls, and needs no card. First rankings usually start arriving within minutes and the action queue fills in over the week. When the trial ends nothing is charged and nothing is deleted.
- **How much does AsoBeast cost?** Indie is $10 a month or $100 a year for 5 apps and 1,000 keyword markets. Ultimate is $99 a month or $990 a year for 50 apps and 10,000 keyword markets. Both include every feature, the API and the MCP server, with no per-seat pricing, plus 200 or 2,000 AI calls a month. Prices are in USD before tax. Self-hosting is free.
- **Is AsoBeast an alternative to AppTweak or Sensor Tower?** For indie developers and small teams, often yes. It covers daily keyword rank tracking, competitor monitoring, keyword research, audits and reviews on both stores from $10 a month. It does not estimate downloads or revenue, and it is not built to replace a large commercial suite that tracks hundreds of apps.
- **How does AsoBeast compare with other ASO tools?** Our roundup of the 10 best ASO tools puts AsoBeast and 9 others in one table, compared on entry price, stores, rank depth, API, MCP server, open source and self-hosting. Every fact about another tool comes from that tool’s own site or docs and links its source with the date it was checked.
- **How do I track my app’s keyword rankings on the App Store and Google Play?** Paste your store link into AsoBeast. It imports the listing, starts tracking the keywords in your metadata and checks every tracked keyword once a day in each country you add, down to position 200. Each check records your position and your competitors’ from the same search, and a keyword outside the top 200 shows as not found rather than zero.
- **Where do keyword popularity and difficulty scores come from?** From store data and Apple’s own numbers, with the formulas published in the docs. On the App Store, popularity is Apple’s weekly search popularity for the terms Apple publishes, its most searched in each genre, and a model fitted to it for the rest. On Google Play it combines how early the store suggests a phrase with the rating counts of the apps ranking for it. Every score shows its source and confidence, so you know how far to trust it.
- **Do I need an App Store Connect or Google Play Console account?** No. AsoBeast reads public store data, so you can track any app, including your competitors. It never asks for store credentials or an ASO vendor API key. The one private field it uses, the iOS keyword field, is one you paste in yourself.
- **Which app stores and countries does it support?** The Apple App Store (iPhone and iPad apps) in 175 storefronts and Google Play (Android apps) in 225 locations. An app is imported once and each keyword carries its own country, so one listing can be tracked in many markets. Listing snapshots and reviews follow the app’s home market.
- **Can I connect Claude or another AI agent?** Yes, on every plan including the trial, with no credits or per-call fees. AsoBeast ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 27 read tools and 5 opt-in write tools. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Codex and Gemini CLI are documented, and Settings writes the setup command for you with a read-only token. The write tools appear only for a write-scoped token you choose to mint.
- **Where does my data live?** Your workspace lives on AsoBeast’s servers under the privacy policy at asobeast.com/privacy, which names every provider that receives data. Store requests go out through a datacenter proxy provider, and you can export everything as CSV or JSON at any time.
- **Can I cancel, and what happens to my data?** Cancel from the billing portal in Settings or from your Link account at link.com; it takes effect at the end of the paid period. Afterwards the web app keeps every read and export working, and nothing is deleted. We handle refunds case by case, and Link, which sells the plans, can refund within 60 days of a purchase.
- **Can I self-host AsoBeast?** Yes. AsoBeast is open source under AGPL-3.0 with no open core, so a self-hosted install runs the same code as the hosted service, with every feature. You run Docker Compose on your own server and handle upgrades and backups yourself; the hosted service does all of that for you.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://asobeast.com): who it is for, features, MCP server, pricing, FAQ
- [Pricing](https://asobeast.com/pricing): plans, every enforced limit, billing FAQ
- [Self-host](https://asobeast.com/self-host): Docker Compose install in four commands, open source licence, cloud versus self-hosted comparison
- [MCP server](https://asobeast.com/mcp): the 27 read tools and 5 opt-in write tools, client setup and MCP FAQ
- [Free ASO tools](https://asobeast.com/tools): Free ASO tools that run in your browser, with no signup: the App Store keyword rank tracker, App Store keyword field checker, and App Store listing audit.
- [Free App Store Keyword Rank Checker and Tracker | AsoBeast](https://asobeast.com/tools/app-store-keyword-rank-tracker): Check where your iPhone app ranks for up to 10 keywords in any of 175 App Store countries, to position 200. Free, no signup, runs in your browser.
- [App Store Keyword Field Checker (100 Characters) | AsoBeast](https://asobeast.com/tools/app-store-keyword-field-checker): Check your App Store app name, subtitle and 100-character keyword field against Apple’s rules: repeats, plurals, spaces and filler words. Free, no signup.
- [ASO Score Checker: Free App Store Listing Audit | AsoBeast](https://asobeast.com/tools/app-store-listing-audit): Score any App Store listing out of 100 on its title, screenshots, ratings, updates and description, with fixes ranked by the points they add. Free, no signup.
- [Best ASO tools](https://asobeast.com/best-aso-tools): 10 ASO tools for the App Store and Google Play compared on price, stores, rank depth, API, MCP and self-hosting, with every vendor fact dated and linked.
- [ASO tool comparisons](https://asobeast.com/alternatives): Head-to-head comparisons of AsoBeast with Astro, AppTweak, Sonar, Appfigures, Sensor Tower, and ASO.dev, each with dated, linked sources.
- [Astro ASO Alternative: AsoBeast vs Astro (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/astro): Astro is a Mac app for App Store keywords at $9 a month, billed yearly as $108. AsoBeast adds Google Play, 175 storefronts, competitor alerts and a web app.
- [AppTweak Alternative From $10: AsoBeast vs AppTweak (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/apptweak): AppTweak starts at $99 a month for one seat. AsoBeast tracks App Store and Google Play rankings daily, with alerts, API and MCP on every plan from $10.
- [Sonar ASO Alternative From $10: AsoBeast vs Sonar (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/sonar): Sonar starts at $29 a month and its trial needs a card. AsoBeast tracks App Store and Google Play ranks daily from $10, with webhook alerts and no card.
- [Appfigures ASO Alternative: AsoBeast vs Appfigures (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/appfigures): Appfigures keyword tracking starts at $44.99 a month, competitors extra. AsoBeast tracks both stores daily with competitors included, from $10 a month.
- [Sensor Tower Alternative: AsoBeast vs Sensor Tower (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/sensor-tower): Sensor Tower prices each plan per customer through sales. AsoBeast tracks App Store and Google Play keywords daily from $10 a month, 7 days free, no card.
- [ASO.dev Alternative From $10: AsoBeast vs ASO.dev (2026)](https://asobeast.com/alternatives/aso-dev): ASO.dev tracks App Store keywords from $29 a month per seat, billed yearly. AsoBeast tracks App Store and Google Play daily from $10 a month, no card to try.

## Docs

- [Documentation](https://docs.asobeast.com): installation, concepts, guides, operations and the API
- [Quickstart](https://docs.asobeast.com/quickstart): run AsoBeast with Docker Compose and import a first app
- [Pricing and limits](https://docs.asobeast.com/legal/pricing): the limits as enforced by the code
- [MCP server](https://docs.asobeast.com/mcp/introduction): 27 read tools and 5 opt-in write tools for AI agents, read-only by default
- [REST API](https://docs.asobeast.com/api-reference/introduction): every endpoint, generated from OpenAPI

## Optional

- [Hosted service](https://app.asobeast.com/register): start the 7-day free trial
- [Source code](https://github.com/AsoBeast/asobeast): AGPL-3.0, no open core