App Masters · Mar 30This Budgeting App Makes $400K a Month
Its top charts, filtered to finance and sorted by grossing, were used to find YNAB and similar apps. It was also used to check keyword traffic.
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App Annie
An app market data platform, formerly App Annie, with top charts and keyword data.
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- Mine top-grossing charts to find proven categories and recent launches▶ 1:41About 30 of the top 100 top-grossing US business apps were scanner apps, and a scanner app ranked number two in grossing.App Masters · This Photo Scanner App Makes $300K a Month
- Find app ideas in the top-grossing chart of a sub-category▶ 3:37Clients using this method built apps in games, entertainment and utilities/productivity that now earn from about $10K to $200K a month.App Masters · App Ideas to Make Money - The Proven Method 2022
- Estimate market size from competitor revenue in Sensor Tower or App Annie▶ 8:14Sensor Tower revenue figures are described as pretty close to real revenues.App Masters · Do This Before Building Your App (Part 1) - App Startup Series
- Be suspicious when nobody else is building your idea▶ 8:47Market research of this kind once cost thousands of dollars and is now available through these tools.App Masters · Do This Before Building Your App (Part 1) - App Startup Series
- Model a new app on the top earner plus the newest breakout in the category▶ 11:00In the scanner app space, a recent launch had found success doing things differently from the top app.App Masters · Side Hustle App Marketing Strategies
- Read one and two star reviews to find what users hate in competing apps▶ 3:55App Masters · App Store Screenshots: How to Write Killer Sales Copy to Increase Downloads
App Store and ASO5
- Pull competitor ranking keywords from AppAnnie's ASO keywords view▶ 11:35This surfaced 'apps to help you sleep' as a ranking keyword the team had not thought of.App Masters · App Store Optimization in 2021 - Keyword Research (Part 3/6)
- Mine competitors' ranking keywords with App Annie and paste them into a spreadsheet▶ 1:23He pulled keywords like 'sleep sounds', 'relaxing sounds' and 'sound machine' from Relax Melodies, a leading sleep sounds app.App Masters · Keyword Research Tools for App Store Optimization
- Pull competitor keywords from ASO tools to decide what goes in name and subtitle▶ 2:15He analyzed 163 keywords across Scribd and its competitors.App Masters · ASO Audit of Scribd an App for Unlimited Audiobooks, Books & Magazines
- Mine your positive reviews for phrases to use in screenshot copy▶ 5:14Reviews of Sleep Cycle about not knowing you snore and being woken at the right moment match the app's own screenshot messaging.App Masters · App Store Screenshots: How to Write Killer Sales Copy to Increase Downloads
- Set up App Annie reviews for fast screenshot research▶ 4:37App Masters · App Store Screenshots: How to Write Killer Sales Copy to Increase Downloads
Experimentation and analytics3
- Use competitor tools to find top-grossing categories and app ideas▶ 1:13Filtering finance showed QuickBooks, MileageIQ and YNAB near the top, and Every Dollar at number six with a very high revenue to download ratio.App Masters · This Budgeting App Makes $400K a Month
- Find fast-rising competitors by filtering top grossing apps by release date▶ 11:48Gene cited an app ranking in the top 100 grossing business apps within two months of launch.App Masters · Side Hustle App Marketing Strategies
- Filter reviews to favorable ones from the past year and show 50▶ 3:12The tool's defaults show only ten reviews from the past month.App Masters · How to Write A Killer App Description
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App Masters · Mar 30App Masters · Aug 10This Photo Scanner App Makes $300K a Month
Its top charts filtered to US business apps show about 30 of the top 100 grossing are scanners. It lists the keywords an app ranks for without typing them in.
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- Infer whether a competitor's downloads are paid or organic from its keyword ranks▶ 5:13Ranks of 8 and 21 on key terms, plus ads on YouTube and six other networks, point to paid-driven growth.
- Mine top-grossing charts to find proven categories and recent launches▶ 1:41About 30 of the top 100 top-grossing US business apps were scanner apps, and a scanner app ranked number two in grossing.
App Masters · Apr 12App Ideas to Make Money - The Proven Method 2022
A free account gives access to the US top-grossing charts, where you filter by category to find niches with revenue. It is one of the two tools used to validate an idea.
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App Masters · Mar 1Do This Before Building Your App (Part 1) - App Startup Series
Its free account lets you browse top charts by category, such as productivity, to judge market potential. Data like this once cost thousands of dollars in market research.
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- Estimate market size from competitor revenue in Sensor Tower or App Annie▶ 8:14Sensor Tower revenue figures are described as pretty close to real revenues.
- Be suspicious when nobody else is building your idea▶ 8:47Market research of this kind once cost thousands of dollars and is now available through these tools.
App Masters · Jan 20App Store Optimization in 2021 - Keyword Research (Part 3/6)
Its ASO keywords tab is the only tool giving data on keywords a competitor already ranks for, such as 'apps to help you sleep'. Sorting by rank and repeating across competitors feeds the keyword file.
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App Masters · Sep 7Side Hustle App Marketing Strategies
Gene uses its release dates to spot apps in the top 100 grossing of a category that launched only a couple of months ago, such as one in Business. He downloads them to compare features and pricing.
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- Model a new app on the top earner plus the newest breakout in the category▶ 11:00In the scanner app space, a recent launch had found success doing things differently from the top app.
- Find fast-rising competitors by filtering top grossing apps by release date▶ 11:48Gene cited an app ranking in the top 100 grossing business apps within two months of launch.
App Masters · Apr 20Keyword Research Tools for App Store Optimization
Lists every keyword an app ranks well for, so a competitor like Relaxed Melodies gives a ready pool of ideas to copy into a spreadsheet. It also shows keywords your own app ranks poorly for.
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App Masters · May 2ASO Audit of Scribd an App for Unlimited Audiobooks, Books & Magazines
It shows a competitor's top keywords for free, while traffic data costs extra. It was used with Sensor Tower and Mobile Action to analyze 163 keywords.
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App Masters · Feb 9App Store Screenshots: How to Write Killer Sales Copy to Increase Downloads
Its review tab lets you filter by country, show 50 or 100 rows and search for words like love. Exporting reviews is a paid feature, so a teammate can copy and paste them instead.
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- Mine your positive reviews for phrases to use in screenshot copy▶ 5:14Reviews of Sleep Cycle about not knowing you snore and being woken at the right moment match the app's own screenshot messaging.
- Set up App Annie reviews for fast screenshot research▶ 4:37
- Read one and two star reviews to find what users hate in competing apps▶ 3:55
App Masters · Nov 15How to Write A Killer App Description
Its free reviews page is the tool used to read competitor reviews. Set it to the past year and 50 reviews instead of the default 10 reviews from the past month, and filter to favorable or critical.
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