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App Annie alternatives

App Annie has been gone twice over: it renamed itself data.ai in February 2022, and Sensor Tower bought what was left in March 2024 and absorbed it. The name still gets searched because for a decade it was the app economy's default dashboard — and because nothing free ever quite replaced its Store Stats.

So “App Annie alternative” really means: which of its jobs do you miss? Find the row below that matches and ignore the rest.

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2010Founded; free Store Stats becomes how the industry browses ranks and charts.
2021Settles SEC charges — $10M — that confidential customer analytics fed its public Intelligence estimates; the SEC's first action against an alternative-data provider.
2022Renames to data.ai.
2024Sensor Tower acquires data.ai.
2025The platform is fully merged away; “App Annie” survives only in old blog posts and search habits.

If you miss the Intelligence estimates

The estimate business — competitor downloads, revenue, usage — lives inside Sensor Tower now, with the merged panels behind it. It is enterprise-priced (most reported contracts $30k–$150k/yr). AppMagic is the mid-market path to comparable estimates. Nothing credible is free here: modeling store-wide downloads takes paid panel data, and vendors claiming otherwise are guessing.

If you miss Store Stats

The free thing App Annie was loved for — look up an app, see its ranks, browse charts by storefront — is the slice openaso serves free, plus what 2010-era App Annie never had: keyword demand from Apple's own Search Ads popularity index, listing audits computed against Apple's real matching behavior, review pulls, labeled revenue bands, and managed daily tracking. It is built as an MCP server and CLI — the version of Store Stats your AI agent can use.

The jobs, then and now

Browse ranks & charts freeApp Annie moduleStore Statswhere it lives in 2026openaso (charts, rank, app) — free API, MCP, CLI
Competitor download/revenue estimatesApp Annie moduleIntelligencewhere it lives in 2026Sensor Tower (enterprise) or AppMagic (mid-market)
Keyword research & trackingApp Annie moduleKeyword toolswhere it lives in 2026openaso free; AppTweak or MobileAction for full paid suites
Own-app analytics in one placeApp Annie moduleConnectPluswhere it lives in 2026Appfigures, or App Store Connect directly
Market reports & benchmarksApp Annie moduleIntelligence reportswhere it lives in 2026Sensor Tower's State of Mobile series

Questions people actually ask

What happened to App Annie?

It renamed to data.ai in February 2022, was acquired by Sensor Tower in March 2024, and the platform was fully absorbed by 2025. It no longer exists as a product.

Is App Annie still free?

No — the free Store Stats died with the platform. For free rank and chart browsing today, openaso serves the same public data over an API that your agent, a script, or a curl call can use.

Why did App Annie pay the SEC $10 million?

In September 2021 it settled charges that it used confidential analytics data from app companies in its public estimates after promising not to, and misrepresented its controls to trading-firm customers. It was the SEC's first enforcement action against an alternative-data provider.

What's the closest thing to old App Annie today?

For the paid Intelligence side, Sensor Tower — same panels, same team lineage. For the free Store Stats side, openaso — free, per-storefront, agent-first.

if the free slice is your slice

openaso is free in early access — 500 tool calls a day, no card. Connect it to Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client, or call the JSON API directly.

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