AppTweak vs Astro (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Astro grades higher than AppTweak: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
AppTweak grades higher on features and platforms. Astro grades higher on value for money, the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
AppTweak
App store optimization and Apple Ads platform for apps and games
Astro
Mac app for App Store keyword research and daily rank tracking
Which one is for you
Pick AppTweak if
- Fits if you run store optimization for up to 5 apps on both stores and $79 a month is in the budget
- Works for teams running Apple Ads under $25,000 a month, as the campaign manager is free up to that
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to try it without a card, as the 7-day trial charges you unless you cancel
- Tight if more than one person needs a login, since Essential, Grow and Expand each include one seat
- Pricey if you follow lots of apps: Essential is $79, $99 or $149 a month for 5, 10 or 20 apps on yearly billing
- Watch out: organic installs per keyword start at Grow, $299 a month, and AI Visibility is listed under Enterprise
- Watch out: review replies, the API and download estimates are separate products with their own plans
Pick Astro if
- Fits if you're an indie iOS or Mac developer doing your own keyword work
- Works for people tracking thousands of App Store keywords who want one flat yearly price
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your app is on Google Play too, as the pages read only cover Apple's App Store
- Not for you if you work on Windows or in a browser, as it runs only on Macs with macOS 14 or later
- Watch out: ranks only update while the app is open on your Mac, and a license covers one Mac at a time
- Tight if you stay free, since the free version tracks 10 keywords without popularity or difficulty
- Watch out: billing is yearly only at $108, and suggestions come from Astro users' searches, so niche apps may get few
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAAppTweakFair | 2.2GPAAstroFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DEssential is $79 a month for 5 apps billed annually, $99 monthly, past the $49 where this category's dearest tenth starts, for one seat and 500 keywords. Organic installs per keyword need Grow at $299, and the creative explorers need Expand at $549. | B$108 a year, about $9 a month, for unlimited apps and keywords, inside this category's cheaper quarter, which runs to $10. Billing is annual only, and the license works on one Mac at a time. |
| Free plan and trial | DThe ASO tools have only a 7-day trial, and it needs billing details: the card is charged unless you cancel. The free Starter plan covers download and revenue estimates, not the ASO tools. | CThe free version tracks up to 10 keywords with daily updates, but leaves out the popularity and difficulty scores, which is most of the point. No trial is on record. |
| Features | BOver 12 keyword research tools, daily App Store volumes, rank tracking, competitors' metadata history, A/B tests and creatives, and Reporting Studio dashboards. It covers the whole job. Review replies, the API and Apple Ads management are sold as separate products. | CPopularity and difficulty scores, daily rank tracking, keyword suggestions, competitors' keywords, ratings across every country's store and a local MCP server. It does App Store keyword work fully, but that's a smaller job, and Google Play isn't mentioned. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. It's a platform of many tools priced by the apps you follow, and there are apps, competitors and keyword lists to set up before the reports mean much. | BNo rating on record. It's a Mac app you install, then you search a keyword or paste an App Store link and add your app, with no store account to connect. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects to App Store Connect, Google Play Console, Apple Ads, Zendesk and Slack, and an API is sold as a separate product. | DMac only, on macOS 14 or later, one Mac per license. It links to Apple Ads and DeepL, and its MCP server works with Claude, Cursor and VS Code. |
| Best for | keyword and creative research on both app stores | App Store keyword research on a Mac |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: AppTweak and Astro. How we grade
Price against what you get
AppTweak starts at $79 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Astro starts at $9 a month and scores 2.0.
AppTweak scores higher, and starts $70 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other app store optimization tools on the chart, none scores higher than AppTweak for less, and 4 score higher than Astro for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- AppTweak also covers reports and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| AppTweak | Astro | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $79 per month for 5 apps, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | $9 per month, billed annually ($108 a year) |
| Free plan | None | The free version tracks up to 10 keywords, without the popularity and difficulty scores. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of each product; billing details are required and the card is charged unless you cancel | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Made by | AppTweak | 28 bit S.R.L. |
| Price read from | apptweak.com | tryastro.app |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
AppTweak
- Essential, Grow and Expand each include one seat; Enterprise, priced through sales, sets a custom number.
- Prices rise with the number of apps followed: 5, 10 or 20 on the listed plans.
- The AI Visibility add-on, covering ChatGPT and Gemini only, is listed under the Enterprise plan.
- Download and revenue estimates have their own free Starter plan; the ASO tools have only the 7-day trial.
Astro
- It runs only on Macs with macOS 14 or later, and each license is active on one Mac at a time.
- It covers Apple's App Store (iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS apps); the pages read make no mention of Google Play.
- Billing is annual only, at $108 a year; refunds can be requested within 14 days.
- Rankings update only while the app is open on the Mac.
Key features
AppTweak
- Keyword research and tracking
- Over 12 keyword research tools on a database AppTweak puts at 30 million keywords in 100+ countries, with daily App Store volumes and estimated Google Play volumes.
- Competitor metadata and creatives
- See any app's metadata history, A/B tests, screenshots, icons and videos; Expand adds a searchable library of creatives and custom product pages.
- Organic installs per keyword
- From Grow, estimates how many organic downloads each keyword brings in, split into brand and generic searches, and measures the effect of keyword changes.
- Reporting Studio
- Dashboards that combine AppTweak data with App Store Connect, Google Play and mobile measurement partner data, with an agent that builds them from a prompt.
- AI visibility for apps
- An add-on that tracks how often ChatGPT and Gemini recommend your app, using 10,000 prompts localized for five markets, with the sources each answer cites.
- Apple Ads campaign manager
- A separate product for managing Apple Ads campaigns, free up to $25,000 of monthly ad spend and 4% of spend above that.
Astro
- Popularity and difficulty scores
- Popularity comes from Apple Ads; difficulty is Astro's own estimate of how hard it is to reach the top 10. Both need the paid license.
- Daily keyword rank tracking
- Keywords are re-checked every 24 hours while the app is running, with position changes and a day-by-day ranking chart.
- Keyword suggestions
- Lists keywords an app ranks or has ranked for, drawn from searches made by all Astro users, so new or niche apps may get few suggestions.
- Competitor keywords
- Paste a competitor's App Store link to see the keywords it ranks for in a chosen store, sorted by popularity and difficulty.
- Ratings across stores
- A ratings view sums ratings from every country's App Store, with daily changes, per-store counts and a chart over time.
- MCP server (beta)
- A local MCP server, switched on in Settings, lets AI assistants such as Claude, Cursor and VS Code Copilot query Astro's data.
Plans
AppTweak
Essential$79
per month for 5 apps, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
500 tracked keywords, 1 seat, 6 months of history and the keyword research tools. $99 a month for 10 apps or $149 for 20, billed annually.
Grow$299
per month for 5 apps, billed annually ($359 billed monthly)
1,500 keywords, 1 seat, 12 months of history, organic installs per keyword and long-tail keywords. $349 for 10 apps or $499 for 20, billed annually.
Expand$549
per month for 5 apps, billed annually ($659 billed monthly)
3,000 keywords, 1 seat, 24 months of history and the creative, custom product page and in-app event explorers. $639 for 10 apps or $833 for 20.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom apps, keywords and seats, all historical data, the ASO Agent, Apple Ads keyword intelligence and access to the AI Visibility add-on.
Astro
Free version$0
Up to 10 keywords with daily rank updates; popularity and difficulty scores are left out.
Single Mac License$9
per month, billed annually ($108 a year)
Unlimited apps and keywords, popularity and difficulty data, suggestions, competitor keywords, ratings analysis and translations.
Ways to pay less
AppTweak
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
AppTweak's pricing page says annual billing saves two months: Essential for 5 apps is $949 a year ($79 a month) instead of $99 a month billed monthly.
Astro
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, AppTweak or Astro?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Astro is cheaper to start with: $9 a month, against $79 a month for AppTweak. AppTweak starts at $79 per month for 5 apps, billed annually ($99 billed monthly), and Astro starts at $9 per month, billed annually ($108 a year).
Which has a free plan, AppTweak or Astro?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Astro has a free plan. AppTweak does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do AppTweak and Astro run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only AppTweak lists a web app and only Astro lists a macOS app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.