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Know which App Store searches your app can win
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Sextant - Know which App Store searches your app can win

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Sextant is a Mac app that shows which App Store searches your iOS app can win. It pulls the searches people really type, straight from the App Store, has Jev judge each one for your app, and gives you popularity, difficulty and your chance to rank.

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Everton, a Senior iOS Engineer and indie app developer from Brazil. 🇧🇷 I launched my first iOS app back in 2017, and I've been hooked on building apps ever since! What started as a hobby eventually became my career. I've spent the last several years working as a full-time iOS Engineer for large companies while building and launching my own apps on the side. Today I'm full-time indie. Throughout this journey, App Store Optimization (ASO) has always been my main strategy for acquiring users. I've spent years experimenting, making mistakes, and figuring out how App Store search works and what actually helps apps rank higher. Then, when TypeSafe launched Jev, its AI decision model, I immediately thought of the perfect use case: What if I could use AI to evaluate keywords based on actual search intent, rather than relying on popularity scores alone? I combined what I'd learned about ASO with Jev and built a small prototype in my terminal. After using it on my own apps for a few weeks, I was genuinely impressed with the results! Initially, I had no intention of turning it into a product. I was just scratching my own itch. But the more I used it, the more I realized other indie developers could benefit from it too. That's how Sextant was born! 🚀 Sextant is a native macOS app that helps developers make smarter, data-driven ASO decisions. Instead of just throwing hundreds of keywords and metrics at you, Sextant helps you understand which searches are actually relevant to your app, how competitive they are, and where you have a realistic chance of ranking. With Sextant, you can: - Discover keywords based on real App Store searches and competitor data. - Understand search intent using AI-powered relevance scoring. - Find opportunities by comparing keyword popularity, difficulty, and relevance. - Analyze competitors and discover where they're outranking you. - Build an ASO strategy with actionable suggestions for your app's title, subtitle, and keyword field. - Track your rankings and performance to see how your optimizations are working. - Explore new app ideas and discover opportunities before writing a single line of code. My goal with Sextant is simple: make ASO less about guessing and more about making informed decisions. I've been building this as a developer who actually needs and uses the tool, and I'm excited to finally share it with the community! You can check it out at I'd love to hear your feedback, especially from fellow indie developers. What has been your biggest frustration with ASO? Is there anything you wish existing tools did better? Thank you, and happy building!