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AppKittie vs Sensor Tower
Both figures below were read from each vendor’s own pricing page, September 5, 2026 for AppKittie and August 21, 2026 for Sensor Tower. We sell an App Store tool of our own and it is not in this table.
| Feature | AppKittie | Sensor Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month | Not published custom annual contract |
| Pricing model | One plan, 3 seats and 5,000 API credits included | Annual contract, negotiated per customer |
| Stores | App Store and Google Play | App Store and Google Play, plus market data |
| Free option | Free plan (10 app searches a day, no keyword tools) | No |
| API and agent access | MCP server and REST API, metered by credit | Enterprise API |
| Delivery | Web app | Web 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
Trying it. AppKittie: free plan. Sensor Tower: none. A permanent free plan and a trial that expires are not the same offer.
- 02
Scripting and AI access. AppKittie: mcp. Sensor Tower: api.
- 03
Price. AppKittie publishes $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month; Sensor Tower publishes nothing and quotes on request.
- 04
Who each is built for. AppKittie sits in the mid-market tier and Sensor Tower in the enterprise 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 Sensor Tower does well.
- The deepest market estimate set in the industry, going back years across both stores.
- Ad intelligence, audience data and cross-market analysis no indie tool attempts.
- The data investors and large publishers actually cite when sizing a market.
- Account management, onboarding and custom reporting as part of the contract.
Ours, for the record
There is a third option.
Both cover Google Play, which ASO Studio does not. If your app is iOS only, $59/yr a year covers unlimited apps and keywords on a native Mac app, and you can score your listing free first.
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