AppTally

Let's be real for a moment.

If you are developing mobile apps targeting Google Play Store, and tried out AppTally, you wouldn't find any real use for the tool.

You can find the exact download count of any android app, and that's about it.

But if you want to track how fast an app is growing or track if there has been any download spikes, then you need to track the download count data over a long period of time.

Today we fix this.

You can now sign up for free on AppTally Tool and start tracking your apps(or your competitor's apps😌). Here's how:

1. Sign in to AppTally

You can either sign in with Google(preferred), or can try out the platform by signing in as a guest.

2. Enter the app name(or Play Store link)

You can type in your app name, or paste a Google Play Store link and click Search

3. Start tracking download progress

You can see the basic app metadata, along with the current downloads, growth trends, average daily downloads(over past 2 weeks).

If it's a new app then you can start tracking, and the system will automatically fetch the download count every 24 hours.

What's next?

For now focus will be on improving loading speed and making the backend queries more efficient.

The next feature planned for AppTally is User Review Sentimental Analyser. Basically for an app, you can find the pain points the users are facing by fetching the play store reviews and doing an AI analysis.

Ported to Next.js

I originally started building AppTally in React.js.

But soon I realised the current version will be just the free tool along with the landing page, blogs etc.

So SEO is very important and a quick research in Reddit made me realise that if SEO is important then we have to choose Next.js. So ported the app over to Next.js by following the official guide.

Note: If you are primarily vibe coding(like me) avoid changing frameworks using AI, because most of the time it messes up everything. Just follow the official guide manually. Even if it takes some extra time, it will be must better than debugging the messed up version.

Blog using Sanity

Again went to Reddit to search for best way to implement blogs in Next.js and Sanity came up more often in discussions.

I depend on Reddit to get useful insights like this, because we can find unbiased real developer feedbacks on such tools.

I tried out a few templates and finally decided to stick with the official Clean Next.js x Sanity template.

Even though I knew about the concepts of headless CMS, it took me some time to wrap my head around how Sanity works. Like how we have a Studio which we can edit according to our requirement and publish it to access it remotely.

I also edited the blog listing and blog detailed section to look more aligned with our current theme. Inspirations were taken from The Dan Koe Letters like the alignment and font.

My First Article

I wrote the blog in half an hour and you can find it here: How to See Exact Number of Play Store Downloads of any Android App?

It is focused on my primary long tail keywords. I had done SEO keyword research using Keyword Surfer. Added the site to Google and Bing Webmaster along with the sitemaps for faster indexing.

I am not looking to write any articles soon, just wanted to get this article out. But I will write if something comes up and I can write it in under 30 mins.

Now focus is back on shipping the main tool which shows download history. I am already late by 1 week according to my roadmap.

Ever wondered how many downloads an Android app really has?

Google Play Store milestones (10k+, 100k+, 1M+) are vague. If you want to track daily or weekly growth of your competitors, it's useless.

Introducing AppTally: Track the exact download count of android apps in Google Play Store

Right now AppTally is a free tool(no need to login or anything) and you can see the current download count.

But we are also storing this count and refreshing the data every 24 hours. By May 2nd week, we will be shipping an update which shows download history of added apps along with useful insights like growth percentage etc.

If you want to track your app or spy on competitors, head to Apptally.net and add the app.

Also checkout our roadmap to see upcoming features!