The eleven Shopify App Store rank trackers, in one table. Pricing, MCP, GA4, Partner API, named founder, and which owners also publish Shopify apps. Re-verified 11 November 2026 and sourced.
The Shopify App Rank Trackers, Compared: 11 Tools (Updated November 2026)
Updated 11 November 2026 — every row re-verified against the vendor's own site. Four priced plans moved in two weeks and one new free MCP tier landed; the summary of what changed is a section below.
If you sell a Shopify app, you have a decision to make before you even open the dashboard: whose number do you trust? The App Store doesn't publish keyword rank, so every tool in this list rebuilds it a different way, with a different pricing shape, a different owner behind it, and a different conflict of interest to disclose or not. Our side-by-side of rank trackers on /compare stays current; this post is the dated, sourced snapshot.
We built one of these tools, so this comparison is not neutral in the "we have no opinion" sense — we have one, and we tell you where it lives. It is neutral in the stricter sense: every row below cites the vendor's own site, every claim is dated, and where a rival beats us we say so. If a column reads "Site did not say," it is because the vendor did not publish it as of 11 November 2026; please take that as more honest than a guess.
The eleven rank trackers in the Shopify App Store ASO shelf, as catalogued by the independent directory watchfor.tools:
| Tool | Pricing (USD/mo) | Free plan | Chrome ext | MCP | Partner API | GA4 | Founder named | Publishes competing Shopify apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BestAppify site | $0 / $29 / $99 | Yes, no card | No | 59 tools, write-capable | Yes | Yes | Yes — Mohammadreza Zakeri | No |
| Ranksy site | $39 / $89 · 50-seat lifetime deal live Nov 2026 | No (7-day trial) | Yes, free forever | 1 server | Yes, 4-min sync | Yes, via BigQuery export | Partial — "Goran" (first name) | Site does not say |
| Rankbase site | $49 / $99 | No (14-day trial) | Site does not say | 1 server | Site does not say | Required — OAuth read-only | Yes — Farid Movsumov | Yes — Craftshift (per founder bio) |
| AppstorePulse site | $0 / $49 / $99 | Yes — 1 app, 3 keywords | Site does not say | Read-only, Pro tier only | Yes | Explicitly positioned against GA4 | No — "Built by Shopify Partners" | Yes — Wide Bundles (per watchfor.tools) |
| AppJubilee site | From $29 | Free audit tool, no plan | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | GA4-dependent (per their own copy) | Yes — "Nick D" | Same owner as StoreCensus (per watchfor.tools) |
| SAMI site | $8 | No (3-day trial) | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | No | Site does not say |
| LetsMetrix site | $0 / $19 (Pro) / $49 (Studio) | Yes — 1 app free tier | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Let's Metrix LTD only | OmegaTheme portfolio (per watchfor.tools) |
| AppNavigator site | Site does not say | Public index, no account | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Ablestar LLC | Yes — Ablestar publishes several Shopify apps |
| Becketto site | Site does not say | Free rank history, no account | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Yes — Beckett Oliphant | Yes — Affilitrak (per watchfor.tools) |
| Applora site | $0 / $49 | Yes — 50 credits/mo, incl. MCP | Site does not say | 15 tools (per their GitHub), read-only | Site does not say | Site does not say | No | No — "independent" per site |
| SASI site | Was free (Mantle) | Still responds; status uncertain | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | Site does not say | By Mantle | Mantle wound billing down 30 Sept 2026 |
Every row re-checked by hand against the vendor's own public site on 11 November 2026 (first published 28 October 2026). Column definitions: Free plan is a recurring free tier, not a time-boxed trial. Chrome ext is a public extension in the Chrome Web Store. MCP is a Model Context Protocol server for Claude, Cursor or similar agents. Partner API means the tool reads revenue from your Shopify Partner account. GA4 means the tool connects a Google Analytics 4 property to attribute installs to keywords. Founder named is a human name on the public site, not a company name. Publishes competing Shopify apps is the owner — or an obvious sister company — selling an app in the same marketplace they also claim to measure neutrally.
What changed since October
Four priced plans moved and one free MCP tier landed in the two weeks after this post first went up. If you were comparing on price, the paid entry point to this market is now almost half what it was at the end of October.
- Ranksy — 50-seat lifetime deal (Nov 2026). Pay once for the Starter tier forever. The deal is 14 days and the seats cap it. Their standing monthly ($39 / $89) and the no-free-plan policy are unchanged. If you were going to buy Ranksy anyway, the lifetime option is cheaper than two years of Starter.
- LetsMetrix — Pro is now $19, Studio is $49. Pricing is now on the page. That is the cheapest paid tier in this market. We priced our own comparison next door at /vs/letsmetrix — on price and on the standing feature list, LetsMetrix is ahead of us at the entry tier; we are ahead on Partner revenue, named human owner and MCP.
- AppJubilee — Starter dropped from $49 to $29. Same plan shape, one app. Confirmed on their pricing page; we track the move on /vs/appjubilee.
- Applora — free MCP tier. 50 credits a month, no card, read-only. Still the only competitor that ships MCP on a free plan. Our MCP has write actions and sits alongside the Partner-revenue read; the /mcp-stack page is where we keep our tool list and change log.
- Us — the /pulse page. We added a public, dated App Store volatility board at /pulse. Ranksy still beats us on how long they have been collecting rank history; /pulse at least makes our daily movement checkable from outside the dashboard.
- Us — the neutrality line. We moved the "we publish no Shopify app" claim out of the footer and onto a dedicated /neutral page with the sentence we would actually defend if challenged. Five of the ten alternatives on this page publish Shopify apps; one page saying we do not seemed worth owning.
The two trust problems the market still hasn't solved
Conflict of interest. Five of the ten alternatives in this list — Rankbase, AppstorePulse, LetsMetrix, AppNavigator and Becketto — are run by people or companies who also publish Shopify apps. That is not a smear; it is a disclosure that the directory flags on each entry, and in most cases the founders are open about it. It still matters, for one practical reason: a rank tracker that watches apps its owner is in business against decides what shows up in a "popular keywords" explorer and what doesn't. We publish no Shopify app of our own; neutrality is the cheapest thing we can offer, and the market leaves it on the table.
Anonymity. Four of the eleven — Ranksy (first name only), AppstorePulse ("Built by Shopify Partners"), LetsMetrix ("Let's Metrix LTD") and SAMI (nobody) — do not put a human founder on the public site. That is their call. For a buyer handing over a Partner API key, which carries revenue data, it is a datapoint worth having in the open.
Where the alternatives are honestly better than us today
Ranksy publishes a dated, free App Store volatility index on every page of its marketing site and has been collecting rank history longer than we have. Rankbase has 365 days of history, a years-published changelog of listing changes, and native Slack notifications; we send email. AppstorePulse ships a free listing audit with PDF export that is better packaging than our equivalent. Applora puts its entire dataset behind no signup and has published Agent Skills on GitHub, which is a form of distribution we have not matched. If your use case lands squarely in one of those, pick that tool. We would rather you buy the right one than the one you regret.
Who should pick what
- You already have GA4 and want install-click attribution per keyword: Rankbase, Ranksy or AppstorePulse. All three run live on real properties with named customers.
- You want to spend $8 and look up keywords your app already ranks for: SAMI. It does one thing and it is the cheapest.
- You want the dataset open to an AI agent with no login: Applora, then us. Both ship MCP; theirs is read-only and open, ours has 59 tools including write actions.
- You care about neutrality and a named owner — and you want it to work before you have GA4 or Partner API set up: BestAppify. We publish no Shopify app and the data comes from our own App Store crawl, so a brand-new app has data in it on day one.
- You want a free lookup with no account to answer one question today: AppNavigator, Becketto or SASI. Nothing to buy.
This post compares rank trackers, the tools app vendors use. Merchants shopping among apps have the opposite question — "what else could I use instead of this one?" — and we now answer it in a sister surface, one page per top app: see Klaviyo alternatives for the format.
If this list missed a tool, mis-stated a price, or something changed after 11 November 2026, mail business@bestappify.com and we will update the row and date it. Our own entry in the watchfor.tools directory already carries a correction we filed about our own catalogue count. We would rather be corrected in public than wrong in print.