AppKittie vs Peekly (2026): Features, Pricing and a Free Option

AppKittie vs Peekly: the short verdict

Choose Peekly if captured paywalls matter to your research or you want the lower annual price; its yearly plan was shown at $20 a month on October 6, 2026, and it offers a free account to look around. Choose AppKittie if you want its ad spend tracker, a viral-video library across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts, and API credits included in the plan.

Both are paid, single-plan products aimed at indie builders hunting for app ideas, and both rely partly on modeled estimates. If your work is mainly finding competitors, comparing estimated size, reading reviews and studying public ads, a free tool may cover it; see the AppGazers section below.

What AppKittie offers

AppKittie’s site lists revenue and download estimates, a winning ads library, an ad spend tracker by country, a viral videos library spanning TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts, an onboardings library, an ASO keyword tracker, a review tracker and global rankings, across a catalog it describes as more than 4.5 million apps. The plan includes 5,000 API credits a month and says you can connect ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants.

Pricing on October 6, 2026 was a single plan at $79 a month, or $49 a month billed yearly. We did not see a free plan or trial on its pricing page.

What Peekly offers

Peekly’s site lists discovery and rankings across more than 150 countries, estimated revenue and downloads, an ads library with run duration, estimated EU reach and target countries, captured paywalls, onboardings, organic TikTok, Reels and Shorts, an ASO keyword explorer, an AppTracker with alerts and a studio leaderboard. It describes its coverage as more than 370,000 apps, 520,000 ads and 11,000 paywalls.

On October 6, 2026 its single plan was shown at $29 a month billed monthly, $24 a month billed quarterly or $20 a month billed yearly, each next to a struck-through list price ($59, $49 and $41), with a free account that has limited access. Discounts can end, so confirm the price at checkout. Peekly’s methodology page says its estimates come from third-party market-intelligence estimates or its own model, and its pricing and homepage FAQs say they draw notably on Sensor Tower figures.

Where they differ most

Monetization screens: Peekly captures paywalls as well as onboardings, while AppKittie lists onboardings. Ads: both have ad libraries; AppKittie adds a spend tracker by country, Peekly shows estimated EU reach per ad. We did not evaluate the accuracy of either, and the pages we reviewed did not describe a reproducible spend or reach method.

Price and access: Peekly was cheaper on every billing period we saw and lets you open a free account; AppKittie is a straightforward paid plan. Developer access: AppKittie includes API credits and AI-assistant connections; the Peekly product, pricing and methodology pages we reviewed did not document API or MCP access.

A free option: where AppGazers fits

AppGazers overlaps with both on the core research loop: find apps across the App Store and Google Play, compare modeled downloads and gross in-app spend with 80% bands, check chart history, read reviews by country and version, explore keyword difficulty, and inspect public ad creative. Its ad coverage is Meta ads delivered in the EU and UK plus Google Ads Transparency Center creative. It has a free plan after Google sign-in, Basic and Pro plans with a 14-day free trial, and a remote MCP server for AI assistants on every plan.

It does not have paywall, onboarding or organic social video libraries, and it does not model ad spend at the creative level as a headline feature. If those datasets decide your research, AppKittie or Peekly is the better fit. Our separate AppKittie and Peekly alternative pages, linked below, compare each one with AppGazers in more detail.

Same question, three tools: a quick test

Run one niche through each tool before paying. Pick a category you know, find five growing apps, and record what each tool gives you for those same apps.

• Does it find the same five apps, on both stores?
• What period and range does each revenue estimate show?
• How many of the apps have ads, paywalls or organic videos captured?
• Can you export or query the results for your notes or an AI assistant?

Official sources reviewed

• AppKittie pricing — Plan price and included features; checked October 6, 2026.
• AppKittie home page — Feature list and catalog size claim; checked October 6, 2026.
• Peekly pricing — Discounted and struck-through list prices, free account and data-source FAQ; checked in a browser October 6, 2026.
• Peekly home page — Feature list and coverage claims; checked October 6, 2026.
• Peekly methodology — How Peekly describes its estimate inputs; checked October 6, 2026.
• AppGazers product facts — Plans, data definitions and limits.