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Looking for an Appfigures alternative?
Appfigures has a free Starter plan; competitor tracking starts on Boost, from $349.99/mo billed annually. Compare it with AppGazers, free during beta.
AppGazers is a free-during-beta Appfigures alternative for researching competitors: rising apps, banded revenue and download estimates, keywords, reviews and public ads. Appfigures is the better fit if you want analytics for your own apps, keyword rank tracking or Apple Ads intelligence; its free Starter plan covers your own apps, and competitor tracking starts on paid tiers.
At a glance
| Decision point | AppGazers | Appfigures |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Researching other people’s apps before and after you build | Analytics for your own apps plus ASO, keyword tracking and app intelligence |
| Free option | Free during beta after Google sign-in | Free Starter plan for your own apps, without competitor tracking (checked October 6, 2026) |
| Competitor tracking | Save any number of competitors to Your apps for alerts | 0 competitors on Free, Monitor and Optimize; 5, 10 or 25 on Boost (from $349.99/mo billed annually); unlimited on Amplify ($999.99/mo billed annually) |
| Estimates | One stated month (August 2026 as of October 6, 2026) with P10–P90 bands; not country-level | Downloads and revenue estimates by country, updated daily, per its Knowledge Base |
| Owned-app analytics | Not included | Consolidated downloads, revenue, subscriptions, ad spend and payouts |
| Keywords and Apple Ads | Popularity, difficulty and opportunity by country; no Apple Ads data | Keyword rank tracking, competitor keywords and competitors’ Apple Ads keywords |
| Ads creative | Meta EU/UK commercial ads plus Google Ads Transparency creative | Apple Ads intelligence; ad-creative research is not listed on its pricing page |
What Appfigures does well
Appfigures started as analytics for your own apps, and that is still its strongest layer. Its plans consolidate downloads, revenue, subscriptions, ad spend and payouts across stores, track rankings, featuring, ratings and reviews, and let you reply to reviews. The free Starter plan connects five of your own apps.
It is also a mature ASO toolkit. Paid plans track keyword rankings (daily on the entry tier and hourly on higher tiers, per its plan table), suggest keywords, show which keywords competitors rank for, and reveal competitors’ Apple Ads keywords. Its homepage reports 4.4 million apps and 2.2 million keywords tracked.
Appfigures explains its estimates openly. Its Knowledge Base says its AI models are trained on real download and revenue data from hundreds of thousands of apps that share data with it, with a double opt-out so training data never leaks as an estimate, and that it estimates most apps by country with daily updates.
Where AppGazers fits
Competitor research is the job AppGazers is built for, and it is free during beta. On Appfigures’ pricing page, the Free, Monitor and Optimize plans list zero tracked competitors. Boost adds them: $349.99 a month billed annually ($399.99 billed monthly) for 5 competitors, rising to $649.99 a month billed annually ($899.99 monthly) for 25. In AppGazers you can save any competitor to Your apps and get alerts for chart moves, review spikes, new or stopped ads and estimate shifts.
AppGazers also starts from the whole market, not your account. You can sort 5.4 million listings by rising or trending, filter by category, release date and estimate range, then open a developer’s portfolio to see every app AppGazers tracks for that developer and its advertiser accounts.
And it connects estimates to creative. AppGazers shows the Meta commercial ads delivered in the EU and UK and the Google Ads Transparency creative for the same competitor, which explains part of how an app grows.
What AppGazers does not replace
AppGazers is not an analytics product for your own apps. It does not import App Store Connect or Play Console data, consolidate payouts, track subscriptions or reply to reviews.
It also does not track keyword ranks hourly, show competitors’ Apple Ads keywords, or produce country-level revenue estimates. If those are weekly needs, Appfigures’ paid plans fit better, and you could run both: Appfigures for their own apps, AppGazers for the market around them.
Same app, both tools: Strava
AppGazers estimated August 2026 gross in-app spend for the Strava iOS listing at about $21.6M, with an 80% band of $10.1M to $54.8M, and downloads of about 2.9M (1.5M to 6.4M). The Google Play listing was estimated at about $7.6M ($3.1M to $17.9M) with about 2.8M downloads and a lifetime install bracket of 100M+. Figures as of October 6, 2026.
AppGazers also links 107 active ads to Strava in its Meta and Google ad data, with Meta EU reach of about 8.3M. Appfigures’ plan table lists download and revenue estimates on Boost and Amplify (and on its higher Market Intelligence plans), so if you have one of those, pull the same month there and compare the figures.
Appfigures pricing in 2026
As displayed on appfigures.com/pricing on October 6, 2026, per month billed annually (monthly billing in brackets): a free Starter plan for up to five apps; Connect at $7.99 ($9.99), which includes five connected apps and $1.99 per extra app; Monitor at $35.99 ($44.99) with 100 keywords; Optimize at $119.99 ($149.99) with 500 keywords; Boost at $349.99 ($399.99) with 1,000 keywords and 5 competitors, or $649.99 ($899.99) with 25 competitors; and Amplify at $999.99 ($1,399.99) with 2,500 keywords and unlimited competitors. A separate Market Intelligence tab starts with Scout at $499.99 billed annually ($599.99 monthly).
Appfigures’ FAQ says its free trial needs no credit card, unlocks Optimize features and falls back to the free plan when it ends.
How to switch from Appfigures
Most teams do not need to leave Appfigures entirely. Move the research half and keep what runs your own apps.
- Keep Appfigures, or your store consoles, for your own downloads, revenue and review replies.
- Add competitors to AppGazers Your apps instead of paying for a higher competitor tier.
- Rebuild your keyword shortlist with country-level difficulty and opportunity scores.
- Use the AppGazers MCP server if you want an AI assistant to run the comparisons.
Frequently asked questions
Does Appfigures have a free plan?
Yes. Its pricing page describes a free Starter plan that connects up to five of your own apps. Competitor tracking is not included on the free plan.
How much does Appfigures cost?
On October 6, 2026, billed annually, its pricing page showed Connect at $7.99/mo, Monitor at $35.99/mo, Optimize at $119.99/mo, Boost from $349.99/mo and Amplify at $999.99/mo. Billed monthly, the same plans were $9.99, $44.99, $149.99, from $399.99 and $1,399.99. Market Intelligence starts with Scout at $499.99/mo billed annually or $599.99 monthly.
How accurate are Appfigures estimates?
Appfigures says its models are trained on real data from hundreds of thousands of apps that share it, and that it has made more than 100 major model updates. Any estimate is still a model, so compare ranges across sources for apps you know.
Is there a free Appfigures alternative for competitor research?
AppGazers is free during beta and lets you save and monitor competitors, compare modeled revenue and download bands, check keywords and read reviews and public ads. It does not include analytics for your own apps.
Does AppGazers track keyword rankings?
AppGazers stores keyword rank history for the keywords it collects and scores popularity, difficulty and opportunity by country. It does not offer hourly rank tracking for a list you upload, which Appfigures’ paid plans do.
Does AppGazers cover Google Play?
Yes. It covers about 3.5 million Google Play listings alongside 1.9 million App Store listings as of October 6, 2026, including Play lifetime install brackets.
Official sources reviewed
- Appfigures pricing — Plans, monthly and annual prices, Boost competitor tiers, keyword and competitor limits, estimate entitlements, free trial FAQ; checked October 6, 2026 in a real browser.
- Appfigures official website — Products and scale figures; checked October 6, 2026.
- How Appfigures estimates downloads and revenue — Estimate method; article updated March 25, 2026.
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