Hi everyone 👋

I’m John. I spent 10 years as a senior engineer at Apple working on macOS and iOS, 2 years at Airbnb, and the last 8 as an indie dev, shipping 20+ apps for myself and clients. Along the way I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to distribute, market, and grow an app. AppTraction is the tool I wish I’d had when I started building my own apps.

Why I built it

Talking with other iOS and Mac developers, the one thing it seems we all agree on is that App Store Connect is frustrating, slow, and hard to make sense of. AppTraction fixes all of that.

What makes AppTraction different

It’s a fast native Mac app, not a website. Once your data is downloaded, everything is cached and instant.
It’s an “AI-first” app. A powerful AI sits behind many of AppTraction’s main features. It reviews and improves your listing, writes reports, and answers questions about any chart, table, or report.
Insights, not just data. AppTraction also proactively monitors your apps for issues and raises them as actionable “Insight cards”. With my own apps, it’s already caught several things I would have missed for months.
It uses your existing Claude or Codex subscription (or OpenRouter), so no pricey API fees.
Privacy focused: No data sharing, no ads, no key leakage, and your data never leaves your Mac. Our privacy policy: https://apptraction.dev/privacy

🎁 For the Product Hunt community: get 50% off with code HUNT50.

I’m still learning about what indie devs want to see from AppTraction and I plan on iterating new features and updates quickly, so I’d love to hear your feedback. What works for you? What’s missing?