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Finding similar apps

Four ways to reach the apps that sit next to the one you are reading, and what each neighbourhood actually means.

There is no single "similar apps" button. There are four different neighbourhoods, and they mean different things. Pick the one that matches the question you are asking.

You want	Go to
Apps competing for the same searches	Rivals, on the ASO tab
Apps beating this one on one specific search	Expand that keyword row
Apps on the same shelf	The category crumb, or the Categories page
Apps at a similar commercial level	The Apple chart around its rank

Rivals: who it meets in search

Open the ASO tab on a case file and scroll to Who it meets in search.

A rival is an app that keeps appearing in the same collected Apple searches as this one. That is a behavioural definition, not a category one. It surfaces apps that genuinely compete for the same intent, including ones filed under a different shelf.

Each rival in the list shows:

Shared keywords, how many collected searches both apps appear in.
Ahead on / behind on, how those shared searches split.
Best position, the rival's best observed position across those shared searches.

Expand a rival to see Shared keywords directly beneath its row: this app's position, the rival's, and the gap. The gap is positive when this app sits above the rival on that search, and reads tie when they are level.

If the rival has its own case file, Open profile takes you there. If it does not, the panel says "Not in the catalogue yet" rather than linking nowhere.

Up to 12 rivals are listed. All the counts are over shared keywords only, so a rival that meets this app on three searches is measured on three searches.

Rivals appear only after search results have been collected for the app. On a case file with no collected ASO coverage, the panel is empty and the ASO tab offers Request data, which starts a background collection of Apple searches around the app's title.

Apps in ranking: the neighbours on one search

In the keyword table on the ASO tab, click any keyword row to expand it. Apps in ranking lists the apps that appeared for that search, in position order, with the app you are reading highlighted.

This is the tightest possible neighbourhood: the exact set of apps a person saw when they typed that phrase, on the day it was collected. Any app in the list that has its own case file is a link.

When Apple returned more results than are stored for that snapshot, the heading says how many of how many are shown.

The shelf: same category

Two routes into a category:

The category crumb above a case file, or the category chip in a chart row, opens the Apple chart for that shelf. That gives you the shelf ranked by position.
Apps → Categories lists every shelf in the catalogue snapshot with how many apps sit on it. Picking one opens the catalogue filtered to that category, ordered by how many people rated each app.

Category is the store's own classification, so it is broad. It answers "what else is filed here", not "what else competes with this".

The chart: same commercial level

From a chart row, clicking the rank opens that app's rank history; going back to the board shows you the apps immediately above and below it on the same chart, on the same day. For grossing charts in particular, that is a useful peer set: apps holding a similar position on the same shelf, in the same storefront.

Tracking a competitor

When a rival is worth following rather than just reading, track it. In the ASO workstation, the Competitors panel lists the apps that keep meeting your tracked app in search, and each one can be tracked in place. Once tracked, you can run a keyword gap against it and its movement shows up on Home.

For agents

The API and MCP profile expose a stored similar-listings read, get_similar_competitors, at GET /v1/competitors/{platform}/{storeId}/similar. It returns the same paginated listing envelope as the competitor list, taking an optional cursor and limit. It is a stored read: it never triggers collection.