Ahead in app discovery

Be the answer, not the 200th listing.

App discovery has moved off the store. People ask an AI engine what the best app for something is, and the answer is built from editorial roundups, forum threads and store listings — three surfaces most app teams treat as marketing afterthoughts rather than as the retrieval layer they have become.

  • Free, no account
  • 25 queries, not one
  • Results in ~90 seconds
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What is the best habit tracking app that works offline?

For offline-first habit tracking the apps most frequently recommended are Streaks on iOS, Loop Habit Tracker on Android, and Habitica if you want the gamified approach. Your brand — not mentioned Reviewers consistently rate full offline sync and widget support as the deciding features.

Sourcesreddit.comtheverge.comandroidpolice.comproducthunt.com

Type it to see where you sit in this answer.

What we measure

The five questions your buyers ask.

Every scan generates one prompt from each cluster, shaped by what you actually sell. These are the shapes they take in apps.

  • Discoverybest habit tracking app for iPhone
  • ComparisonTodoist vs Things 3
  • Validationis this budgeting app worth paying for
  • Shortlistbest meditation apps 2026
  • Attributenote taking apps that work fully offline

What you actually get

Not a score. A list of what to do.

See the gap, not just the number.

The same twenty-five queries are scored for you and for three competitors detected from your own site. A citation rate on its own is abstract. The distance between you and the brand winning your category is not.

Competitor gap · 25 queriesIllustrative
  • Streaks19/25
  • Loop Habit Tracker14/25
  • Habitica9/25
  • You1/25

Know exactly where to show up.

Every domain the engine read to build its answer, ranked by how often it appeared. In apps that set is small and stable, which makes it a target list rather than a research project.

Cited instead of youIllustrative
  • 01reddit.com9×
  • 02theverge.com7×
  • 03androidpolice.com5×
  • 04producthunt.com4×

These are the pages the engine read to build its answer. Appearing on them is the work.

Six engines, one prompt set.

The free check runs one engine. The full report runs all six on identical prompts, so you can see which engines already recommend you and which have never heard of you — they disagree more than most people expect.

All six engines · full reportIllustrative
  • ChatGPT4/25
  • Claude11/25
  • Gemini2/25
  • Perplexity7/25
  • Copilot1/25
  • Grok3/25

What we change

Four things, in this order.

01

Listing and entity metadata that an engine can parse

Store listings are written for store search algorithms and human browsers. The description, category, feature list, and the entity linking your app to the company behind it all need to be readable as facts, not as marketing copy.

02

Placement in the roundups engines actually read

For apps the retrieved set is dominated by a small, stable group of editorial sites and community threads. The scan identifies exactly which ones are cited in your category, which turns an abstract PR goal into a specific list.

03

Use-case pages that match how people phrase app questions

Nobody asks for a 'productivity app'. They ask for an app that does one specific thing on one specific platform. Pages built around real use-case phrasing are what get retrieved for those questions.

04

Platform and pricing constraints made explicit

Free, offline, iOS-only, no account required. Constrained questions are extremely common in app discovery, and an engine can only satisfy a constraint it can verify. Stating these clearly and consistently is often the fastest win in this category.

Four phases, thirty days.

  1. 01BaselineTwenty prompts across six answer engines, five runs each, for you and three competitors. Every raw response is stored. You get a citation rate and a competitor gap that can be re-run and checked rather than taken on trust.
  2. 02DiagnosisWe map every citation back to its source and separate the three causes: entity signals the engine cannot resolve, comparison questions nothing on your site answers, and third-party domains where you are absent and your competitors are not.
  3. 03ExecutionStructured data and entity fixes shipped, the comparison and shortlist pages written, and outreach aimed at the specific domains the baseline showed being cited instead of you. Prioritised by what the data says will move first.
  4. 04Re-scanThe identical prompt set re-run at day thirty against the stored baseline. Before and after on the same queries, on the same engines, with the raw responses from both runs kept as evidence.

What you get.

  • Baseline report: 20 prompts × 6 engines, you and three competitors
  • Entity and structured data specification, ready to implement
  • Comparison and shortlist content plan, page by page
  • Ranked target list of the source domains cited instead of you
  • Day-30 re-scan on identical prompts, with the raw responses from both runs

Questions from apps teams.

No. ASO optimises ranking inside the App Store's own search. This is about being named when somebody asks an AI engine, which retrieves from the open web rather than from store search. Your listing matters as one source among several, but roundups and forum threads usually matter more.

Start with the number.

Run the free check, then tell us what you need — your result is attached automatically.

  • Free, no account
  • 25 queries, not one
  • Results in ~90 seconds

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