Capability file 05

Track every keyword your appranks for, in every country

Enterprise ASO suites price indie developers out and estimate what Apple already measures. MetaRun tracks your keyword rankings per storefront, watches them hourly with an autonomous sentinel, mines your reviews for keyword ideas, and pulls real search impressions from App Store Connect instead of guessing.

Where does Nutrio rank for ai calorie tracker this morning?

Rank 4 in the US, up 3 overnight. The Sentinel logged two rival listing changes. Full report ready.

01 · Execution
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    Track keywords per country

    Rankings are per storefront: rank 3 in the US says nothing about Germany. Track any term in any territory and get live rank checks against the real App Store search index, plus autocomplete mining to discover the terms users actually type.

  2. 02

    The Sentinel watches hourly

    An autonomous scan runs every hour: rank moves of five or more places, top-10 entries, top-200 exits, and rival listing changes become findings in your feed. It reports and never acts; deciding what to do stays yours.

  3. 03

    Mine reviews and rivals for ideas

    Review mining extracts the phrases your users praise and complain in (metadata-gap candidates included), and rival scans diff competitor listings against their last snapshot, so you see the keyword moves behind their rank moves.

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    Read Apple's measured truth

    MetaRun provisions App Store Connect's search analytics: real impressions, product-page views, and per-territory conversion, split search versus browse, with a spike detector that flags likely featuring. Estimates are where ASO starts; Apple's own numbers are where it should end.

Nutrio app icon

Nutrio: AI Calorie Tracker

4.6· v1.15.3 · app.nutr.io

Live listing
us storefront · 30d
ai calorie tracker3#4
food scanner2#9
macro tracker5#18

⟢ Sentinel: browse impressions up 210% with search flat. That pattern is featuring: check the Today tab.

Live specimen: Nutrio's rank trajectory

02 · Briefing

ASO tooling sized for indie developers

The established ASO platforms are built and priced for publishers with portfolios: hundreds of dollars a month for dashboards you will use twice a week. What an indie developer needs is narrower and sharper: know where you rank, know when it changes, know why, and know what to edit. That is the whole product here.

Because tracking lives inside MetaRun, findings connect directly to action: a keyword you discover can go into a locale's keyword field, a rival's new subtitle can prompt yours, and every resulting edit ships through the same preview-and-confirm pipeline as the rest of the platform.

The Sentinel: monitoring you do not have to remember

Rank checking is a habit that dies two weeks after you build it. MetaRun's Sentinel is an hourly autonomous scan across every keyword and market you track: significant moves, threshold crossings, and competitor listing changes become deduplicated findings, so a bad morning shows up as three items, not three hundred alerts.

The Sentinel deliberately only reports. Nothing it finds writes to your store; it feeds you and MILO the situation, and changes remain staged, previewed, and confirmed by you. Autonomy in observation, never in mutation.

Estimates versus Apple's measured search data

Most rank trackers estimate popularity and traffic from scraped signals, because that is all an outside tool can see. Apple actually publishes the truth to developers who ask for it: the App Store Connect analytics reports carry real search impressions, page views, and conversion per territory, split by search versus browse discovery.

MetaRun provisions and reads those reports for you (the first data lands a day or two after enabling, which is Apple's pipeline, not ours) and folds them into the same workspace as your tracked ranks. A browse-traffic spike with steady search is usually featuring; the detector flags it so you notice the day it happens.

03 · Specs
Sentinel rank scans
Hourly
Storefronts trackable
175
ASC search analytics, not estimates
Real
Review + rival keyword mining
Built-in
Keys envelope-encryptedPreview before every writeOne-tap revert
04 · Comms

Frequently asked questions

How do I check what keywords my app ranks for?

Track the terms you care about per storefront and MetaRun runs live rank checks against the App Store search index, keeping a snapshot history. Apple's search analytics then show which queries actually drove impressions, which catches terms you never thought to track.

How often are keyword rankings updated?

The Sentinel scans hourly, which is faster than most tools' daily refresh. You can also run a live check on any keyword at any moment for an on-the-spot answer.

What is a good keyword ranking on the App Store?

Top 10 is where meaningful traffic lives, since most users never scroll past the first screen of results; top 3 captures the bulk of taps. Below rank 200 you are effectively invisible for that term, which is why the Sentinel treats top-200 exits as findings.

How do I find keywords for my app?

Three built-in sources: autocomplete mining (what users actually type), review mining (the vocabulary your users use, including gaps missing from your metadata), and rival scans (the terms competitors just added). Together they generate candidates you validate with tracking.

Can I see real search impressions instead of estimates?

Yes. MetaRun enables App Store Connect's search analytics reports and aggregates real impressions, product-page views, and per-territory conversion. Apple takes a day or two to produce the first reports after enabling; after that it is measured data, not modeling.

What is the difference between search and browse traffic on the App Store?

Search traffic comes from typed queries; browse traffic comes from editorial placements, charts, and Today-tab featuring. A browse spike while search stays flat almost always means Apple is featuring you somewhere, and MetaRun's detector flags exactly that pattern.

Do I need a $500-a-month ASO tool as an indie developer?

No. Enterprise suites earn their price on portfolio management and ad intelligence. For ranking, discovery, competitor watching, and real Apple data on your own apps, MetaRun's ASO workspace is included in plans priced for individual developers.

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