ASO StudioWhat AR measures
Four market signals, weighted by our own model and scored against your category rather than the whole App Store. All four are things the market has done, not boxes a listing can tick. The findings in your report are how you move them, but the findings themselves do not affect the score.
- 74
Audience
Installed base against your category's leaders
- #34
Standing
Your best position in its charts
Momentum
How fast you are gaining ratings
Quality
How good your ratings are, weighed by how many
Is this Apple's official app rating?
No. Apple publishes no score like this, and nothing here comes from your App Store Connect account.
App Rating is ASO Studio's own measurement, built entirely from public App Store data: an app's lifetime rating count, its star average, its chart position and how fast it is picking up new ratings.
It is scored against the leaders in the app's own category rather than against every app in the store, so a strong score in a small category and a strong score in a large one mean the same thing about the app's standing where it actually competes.
What is a good App Store rating score?
75 and above is leading its category. 55 to 74 is a strong position, 35 to 54 is established with room to climb, and 15 to 34 is emerging. Below 15 the app is hard to find, which almost always means too few ratings for the store to surface it rather than anything wrong with the app itself.
How is the App Rating score calculated?
Four components, weighted. Audience is the largest at 40 percent, because rating volume relative to the category leaders is the strongest single signal of whether an app has been found. Momentum is 25 percent, chart standing 20 percent, and rating quality 15 percent. Quality is smallest on purpose: a five-star average across nine ratings is not market strength, and the score says so.
Is the App Rating checker free?
Yes, completely, and there is no account to create. Search any app on the App Store, get its score, and read the four components behind it. The paid product is the Mac app that does keyword research; the checker is not a trial of it.
Can I check a competitor's app?
Yes. It works on any app in the App Store, yours or anyone else's, because everything it reads is public. Checking two apps in the same category side by side is the fastest way to see what the gap between you actually consists of.
Why is my app's score low?
Almost always rating volume. Audience is the heaviest component, and an app with a few dozen ratings scores low against category leaders holding tens of thousands no matter how good it is. That is a discoverability problem rather than a quality one, and it is what App Store Optimization exists to fix.
How often is the score updated?
Each check reads live App Store data, and an app's page here is re-measured rather than frozen, so a score you saw last month is not the score today. The date the figure was measured is printed on every result.