AppScout

App Store downloads, revenue & widgets

5.0•1 review•

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App Store downloads, revenue & widgets

5.0•1 review•

36 followers

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See your App Store numbers without opening App Store Connect. AppScout shows downloads, revenue, MRR, and more in Home and Lock screen widgets. Dive deeper with detailed charts, breakdowns, multi-app views, and filters in the app. There’s no sign-in. Just add your App Store Connect key, and AppScout fetches the reports directly from Apple. The key never leaves your iPhone. AppScout has no backend, tracking, or data collection. Your credentials and reports stay private on your device.

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Hey Product Hunters! I’m Andrew, a designer and iOS developer. I built AppScout because checking my app numbers every day was a pain. I know many developers feel the same. You sign in to App Store Connect just to check downloads or MRR. I wanted the daily check-in to be frictionless. AppScout became the fastest way. You just look at your home screen or lock screen widget. And when you want more detail, you can open the app for charts, breakdowns, filters, and combined views across all your apps. During beta, I realized people didn’t want to send their credentials to a third-party backend. Totally fair. So, I pivoted to a private iOS app by dropping the backend. Now it talks directly to Apple, safely keeps the key in your iPhone keychain, and refreshes in the background, so you don't need to open your app every day to refresh the data. Turns out, it never really needed a backend. I’d love your feedback on the widgets, setup experience, and maybe which metrics you’d like to see next.

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23d ago

Dropping the backend was the right call, and the keychain detail is the part that will actually earn trust with this crowd. Two things from the other side of that decision, since you asked about setup.

First, the key's role. App Store Connect will happily let someone generate an API key with App Manager or Developer access, and the Analytics Reports endpoints answer that key with a 403 while everything else about the key looks fine. It cost me an embarrassing amount of time to work out that the fix was Admin, because Apple's error doesn't say so. If AppScout can catch that specific 403 and say "this key needs Admin access" instead of surfacing a generic failure, that's the difference between a five minute setup and someone quietly deleting the app.

Second, freshness. Apple's analytics reports aren't live. You request a report and instances land on their own schedule, which in my experience is closer to two days than to this morning. A chart absorbs that fine, because a chart has an x-axis. A lock screen widget doesn't. A single number on a lock screen reads as "now" by default, and with no backend and only opportunistic background refresh, that number could also just be a stale render the OS never got around to updating. Does the widget stamp what it's showing? Can a user tell "Apple hasn't reported yet" apart from "your phone hasn't refreshed"? Those are two different disappointments and only one of them is your fault.

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21d ago

Hunter

@narek_keshishyan Thank you Narek for such deep feedback. I appreciate it a lot!

1. Team access keys. During the beta, the app was using Analytics Reports that required Admin access. The errors didn't describe it well if you use a different access level. After some user feedback and occasional missing days on charts, I switched to Sales Reports, which allowed me to drop the key access level from Admin to Sales and Reports. Users appreciated it much more so I kept this solution. And it gave a more reliable data source without missing days on charts.

2. Data freshness. This is true, and it's not currently clear what's the most recent day on the chart until you open the app and scrubble to the very end. I'm still figuring out how to make it obvious for users without many design compromises.

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21d ago

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I’ve been using AppScout since day one. As a designer, I’m pretty picky about the apps I use, and AppScout is one of those products that’s simply enjoyable to use.

The new widgets are also fantastic. I added several of them to a single Smart Stack, so I can quickly check the metrics I care about just by swiping through the widgets, without even opening the app.

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22d ago

Hunter

@dmitriychuta I'm happy that this project can be appreciated and used by such an experienced designer & developer as you!

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21d ago

Subo

Congrats on the launch, Andrew! AppScout looks really polished, and bringing the key numbers directly to the Home and Lock Screen is such a smart idea. Love the privacy-first approach too. Will become a staple for me.

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21d ago

Hunter

@niclas42 Thank you Niclas! I'm happy that the initial idea worked out and the app can live on your home & lock screens.

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21d ago

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