ASO Studio
AppKittie vs Astro
Both figures below were read from each vendor’s own pricing page, September 5, 2026 for AppKittie and August 21, 2026 for Astro. We sell an App Store tool of our own and it is not in this table.
| Feature | AppKittie | Astro |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month | $108 a year, billed annually |
| Pricing model | One plan, 3 seats and 5,000 API credits included | One flat plan, unlimited keywords and apps |
| Stores | App Store and Google Play | Apple only, 60+ countries |
| Free option | Free plan (10 app searches a day, no keyword tools) | No free plan listed |
| API and agent access | MCP server and REST API, metered by credit | Built-in MCP server (beta) |
| Delivery | Web app | Native Mac app |
The short version
What the choice actually turns on.
Only the rows where these two genuinely differ. Everything they answer the same way is left out, because it cannot decide anything.
- 01
Stores. AppKittie covers the App Store and Google Play; Astro is App Store only. If you ship on Android this decides it before price does.
- 02
Trying it. AppKittie: free plan. Astro: none. A permanent free plan and a trial that expires are not the same offer.
- 03
Where it runs. AppKittie: web. Astro: mac app.
- 04
Price. Astro starts at $108 a year, billed annually; AppKittie at $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month.
- 05
Who each is built for. AppKittie sits in the mid-market tier and Astro in the indie tier, which usually matters more than any single feature.
In its favour
What AppKittie does well.
- Ad creative intelligence no indie ASO tool carries: the live Meta and Apple Search Ads creatives an app is running, how long each has been live, and estimated spend broken down by country.
- An organic video library across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts, with the creators posting them, which is a whole growth channel that keyword tools do not look at.
- An onboarding and paywall library, so you can read the exact flow a paying app ships rather than guessing at it.
- A database of over 4,500,000 apps across both stores that you can filter by revenue, downloads, growth and launch date, which is the right tool for choosing what to build before there is anything to optimize.
- A documented REST API next to the MCP server, with credit costs published per endpoint, so a script on a server can read the same data an agent does.
- Being on the web, so it works from any machine and any operating system rather than only a Mac.
In its favour
What Astro does well.
- Broader Apple coverage: tvOS, watchOS and Mac apps as well as iPhone and iPad.
- More storefronts, at 60-plus countries, with daily ranking updates and historical charts.
- Built-in DeepL translation, which matters a lot if you localize into many languages.
- A mature, well-liked product with a longer track record than ASO Studio has.
Ours, for the record
There is a third option.
If neither shape of bill fits, ASO Studio is $59/yr a year flat for unlimited apps and keywords, App Store only, with a free App Rating check that needs no account.
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