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Start peeking in 4 steps
Find an app, open its case file, read the evidence, and track it so changes come to you.
Download Markdown ↓Four steps take you from an empty screen to an app you are following. Each one links to the guide that goes deeper.
1/ Find an app
Press ⌘K on a Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows, or / anywhere you are not already typing in a field. The search spotlight opens. Type a name.
Results come from the catalogue as you type. Arrow up and down to move through them, Enter to open the highlighted app, Escape to close. Clicking a result works too.
You can also browse instead of searching. Apps in the sidebar opens the Apple charts. The switch at the top right of that page moves between Leaderboards, Search and Categories. Categories lists every shelf in the catalogue snapshot with how many apps sit on it.
If nothing matches, the spotlight tells you plainly that no app by that name is in the catalogue. It does not guess.
2/ Open its case file
Picking a result takes you to /apps/ios/<store id>.
The top of the page is the app's identity: icon, name, developer, rating with the date of the store lookup behind it, and chips for category, price, age rating, release and update dates, and its best observed chart rank. View listing opens the app on the App Store.
Below that are five tabs: Overview, Paid ads, Organic, ASO, and Listing & about. Overview is where you land.
Open a case file walks through every panel.
3/ Read the evidence
Start with This month at the top of Overview. Downloads leads, with revenue, store ratings and chart rank beside it. Each one shows the latest collected value, the change since the previous observation, and the date behind it.
Two things to hold on to while you read:
- Downloads and revenue are estimates, derived from ratings movement and grossing rank. They are not measured downloads and not a calendar-month total.
- A dash means nothing has been collected for that metric, not that the value is zero.
Scroll on for what is new this month versus last, the keywords the app ranks for, its store screenshots, and strips of the stored ads and organic posts tied to it.
How to read the evidence covers source dates, estimates and unknowns in full.
4/ Track it
Open ASO in the sidebar and use Track another app. Type the name, pick the app, and choose whether it is yours or a competitor.
Tracking is what makes the product come to you. Once an app is tracked, PeekPanda collects Apple search results around it, and Home starts showing what moved: the searches your app climbed or slipped on, the rivals sitting ahead of it, and the newest ads and posts around your case. You can track up to 25 apps.
You can also track a rival straight from the workstation. In the Competitors panel, any app that keeps meeting yours in search can be tracked with one click, and compared keyword by keyword.
Tracking a competitor is separate from saving content. In Organic Content and Paid Ads, Save keeps an individual post or ad, and the Saved filter brings your selections back.