When I started selling apps on the App Store, I was surprised to discover that App Store Connect doesn t show where your app ranks across countries. Most ASO tools can do this, but they re often expensive and overloaded with features that many indie developers simply don t need. And they can t send these updates in real time. Instead, they often send daily or weekly stats by email.
I wanted something simpler. A place where I could open my app and immediately see the results of my marketing: which countries it s ranking in, where it s growing, and how those positions change over time.
Softorino 💻📲
@dmitriychuta 175 countries with alerts on is the bit I'd worry about tbh. Small stores are so thin that an app can jump 40 places on like 6 downloads, so if every wobble pings me I'd have it muted by Tuesday.
How do you decide what counts as a significant jump, and can I set that myself? Curious about Mac especially, those charts are way thinner than iPhone so I'd expect them to be noisier.
Toplify
@yelyzaveta_kibets Thanks for the great question! The app won’t bombard you with notifications.
We track ranking changes for every app, and you’re right that apps ranking in many countries can generate a lot of activity. We call these changes “Events.” All Events are processed on the server, and AI selects only the single most important one to notify you about, or it may decide not to send anything at all, even if dozens of Events occurred.
With this approach, an app can be ranking in dozens of countries and moving gradually without generating any notifications. You’ll only hear about meaningful events, such as a jump of 50+ positions or entering the charts in a completely new country where the app has never ranked before.
You can also customize which types of Events you want to track and disable the ones you don’t need.
And if you’re tracking competitors, for example, you can turn off their notifications entirely and receive Push notifications only for your own apps.
Softorino 💻📲
@dmitriychuta Ok the retroactive 2 weeks on first add is a really nice touch tbh, most tools start you at zero and make you wait. Did the 2 week window come from storage costs, or did longer history just not prove useful?
Toplify
@yelyzaveta_kibets Well, both are true. But initially, we did limit it to two weeks because of the huge amount of data. Imagine storing every ranking change in every country for every app on the App Store. For example, a single game can have up to four separate rankings in each country: two category rankings, plus the overall ranking and the overall games ranking. We do plan to extend the history to one month once we grow a bit more 💪
Softorino 💻📲
@dmitriychuta Four separate rankings per app per country, yeah ok, that adds up terrifyingly fast. Makes sense as a starting point, rooting for the one-month history.
Softorino 💻📲
@dmitriychuta Four separate rankings per app per country, yeah ok, that adds up terrifyingly fast. Makes sense as a starting point, rooting for the one-month history.
Softorino 💻📲
@dmitriychuta Ok that's a smarter design than I expected tbh, AI picking the one thing worth saying beats me fiddling with a threshold slider. And muting competitor pushes while still tracking them is exactly how I'd use it.
One thing I'd want as the marketing person though: when the AI decides not to tell me anything, can I still see what it skipped somewhere in the app? Like a quiet log of all the Events. During a launch week I report numbers to the team, and "the AI didn't think it mattered" is a scary answer if someone asks why we missed a dip haha.
Congrats on #1 by the way, watching this climb all day was fun.
Toplify
@yelyzaveta_kibets Well, it’s hard to miss anything here because the AI simply chooses one notification to send, while all the other data is still there. You can open the app and see the full history for every country and category. At the moment, we store two weeks of history. So even if you add your app for the first time right now, you’ll immediately see its history for the past two weeks.
Been using Toplify for my own apps and really like how simple it makes tracking rankings across different countries. The ranking alerts are especially useful because I don’t have to keep checking the charts myself. Great tool for indie developers. Congrats on the launch, @dmitriychuta!
Toplify
@artsvit Artem, thank you for the feedback! I’m glad Toplify is useful for your apps. I built it primarily with indie developers in mind, since ASO services are often too expensive for them. That’s why I tried to make Toplify free for new and growing apps.
Netlify
Big congrats on the launch! Tracking global App Store rankings in real-time gives indie hackers and growth teams such a clear edge. Love how focused and high-utility this is for mobile devs. Wishing you tons of momentum today!
Toplify
@thisiskp_ Thanks for the feedback! As an indie developer, I initially built this service to solve my own problem, and then scaled it into a standalone product for everyone. I think it’s a must have for developers, especially those just starting out.