Astro
a genuinely cheap native mac aso app for ios developers
excellent value for solo ios devs and one of the few tools shipping an official mcp beta — but it's mac-only, ios-only, and made by a micro-vendor, so scope your expectations accordingly.
astro is a native macos app (macos 14+) focused entirely on the apple app store: keyword research with difficulty scoring, daily rank tracking with history, competitor keyword extraction, worldwide review monitoring, apple search ads coverage across 60+ regions, and deepl-powered keyword translation, with unlimited keywords and apps on a flat plan. it launched at #1 product of the day on product hunt in september 2023, and it documents an official mcp server (beta) plus a prompt library — a real, verifiable agent signal that most tools its size don't have.
the honest scope: it is mac-only and ios-only (no google play), and it is built by a micro-vendor (28 bit s.r.l., san marino, founder matteo spada), which is concentration risk. it has no a/b testing and no apple ads management. within those bounds it is genuinely useful and genuinely cheap — a small, focused tool, not an enterprise contender. we confirmed the price live at $9/mo / $108 a year against third-party sites that misreport it as $99.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- aso tools
- pricing
- $9/mo ($108 billed annually)
- website
- tryastro.app
excellent value for solo ios devs and one of the few tools shipping an official mcp beta — but it's mac-only, ios-only, and made by a micro-vendor, so scope your expectations accordingly.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.