ASO Studio
AppKittie vs Sonar
Both figures below were read from each vendor’s own pricing page, September 5, 2026 for AppKittie and August 21, 2026 for Sonar. We sell an App Store tool of our own and it is not in this table.
| Feature | AppKittie | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month | $189 a year on Indie, Agency $99 a month |
| Pricing model | One plan, 3 seats and 5,000 API credits included | Tiered by number of apps |
| Stores | App Store and Google Play | App Store and Google Play |
| Free option | Free plan (10 app searches a day, no keyword tools) | Not listed |
| API and agent access | MCP server and REST API, metered by credit | REST API, CLI and MCP server |
| 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. Sonar: none. A permanent free plan and a trial that expires are not the same offer.
- 02
Price. Sonar starts at $189 a year on Indie, Agency $99 a month; AppKittie at $588 a year billed yearly, or $79 a month.
- 03
Who each is built for. AppKittie sits in the mid-market tier and Sonar 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 Sonar does well.
- Both stores in one dashboard, with no second subscription for Android.
- A proper developer surface: REST API, a native CLI and an MCP server on every plan.
- Being on the web, so it works from any machine rather than only a Mac.
- A cheaper annual entry price at $189 for the Indie plan if you need the Android half.
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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