# Ascope review (2026): is it worth $7.50 a month, billed yearly?

> Mac app that tracks App Store keyword ranks daily in 50+ countries

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Ascope is a Mac app that checks where an app ranks in App Store search every day, to the top 200 results, in more than 50 countries. Each keyword shows Apple's own popularity score from Apple Search Ads, a difficulty score and the day's change. Rankings and keywords are stored on the Mac, and a local MCP server lets AI assistants read and edit the tracked list.

- **Category:** App Store Optimization (ASO)
- **Made by:** TURKA Yazılım ve Danışmanlık Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
- **Website:** https://ascope.app
- **Runs on:** macOS
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're on Windows or need Google Play, as it's a Mac app for the App Store only.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Ascope is a paid product, starting at $7.50 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro | $7.50 per month, billed yearly ($9.99 billed monthly) | $89.99 a year. Unlimited apps and keywords, daily ranks in 50+ countries, popularity and difficulty, suggestions and the MCP server. |

Read from https://ascope.app/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ascope before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 25% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Ascope's pricing page lists Pro at $89.99 a year, or $7.50 a month, against $9.99 billed month to month. Source: https://ascope.app/pricing

## Key features

- **Daily rank tracking:** Each keyword is checked once a day in the top 200 App Store results, in any of 50+ countries, with the change since yesterday and full history.
- **Apple popularity scores:** Shows the 5 to 100 popularity score Apple reports in Apple Search Ads, refreshed at most every five days, with marked estimates where Apple has none.
- **Difficulty and keyword ideas:** A 0 to 100 difficulty score from the ratings of apps already ranking, and related searches with popularity and difficulty filled in.
- **Competitors from Apple's own picks:** Pulls the You Might Also Like row from the App Store, with download and revenue estimates for iPhone apps, and tracks any of them in one click.
- **Local MCP server:** A server on the Mac lets Cursor, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex or Gemini CLI read rankings, research terms and change what is tracked.

## Good for

- Indie iPhone and Mac developers tracking their own keywords
- People who want ranking data kept on their own Mac
- Tracking the same keyword across several countries side by side

## Worth knowing

- It runs only on Macs with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, and one license is active on one Mac at a time.
- It covers the App Store only (iPhone and Mac apps); Google Play is not tracked.
- There is no free plan or free trial; instead there is a 14-day money-back guarantee.
- Rankings update once a day only while the app is running.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Ascope is a Mac app that checks your App Store keyword ranks daily to the top 200 in 50+ countries, with Apple's own popularity scores, for $7.50 a month billed yearly. But it's Mac only, it doesn't touch Google Play, ranks only update while the app is running, and there's no free plan or trial to find out if it suits you.

- **Value for money: B.** Pro is $89.99 a year, $7.50 a month ($9.99 month to month), inside this category's cheaper quarter, for unlimited apps and keywords. It's one plan with everything in it.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial. A 14-day money-back guarantee is the only safety net, and that isn't a trial.
- **Features: C.** Daily ranks to the top 200 in 50+ countries, Apple's popularity scores, difficulty, keyword ideas, competitors from the You Might Also Like row and a local MCP server. It covers App Store keyword work only; Google Play isn't tracked.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. It's a Mac app you install, paste the license key into and add your apps and keywords to, with no server to run.
- **Platforms and integrations: D.** Mac only, on macOS 14 or later, one Mac per license. It reads Apple Search Ads popularity, and its MCP server works with Claude, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ascope's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among app store optimization tools

- Ascope's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 4 of the 42 other app store optimization tools we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 39 of 42) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $7.50 a month, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 1 of the 33 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/app-store-optimization

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Ascope you would be making keyword rankings and popularity scores from both app stores, gathered every day. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 35 of the 42 other app store optimization tools grade higher. It costs $90 a year.

- You could not: Keyword rankings and popularity scores from both app stores, gathered every day.
- You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results.
- You could not: A real app for macOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Apple Search Ads, Claude and Cursor among them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Apple Search Ads, Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI

**Tags:** App store optimization, Keyword research, Rank tracking, Local-first

## Alternatives

- [Astro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/astro): Mac app for App Store keyword research and daily rank tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ascope-vs-astro)
- [RespectASO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/respectaso): Open-source Mac app for App Store keyword research, with AI Pro tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ascope-vs-respectaso)
- [ASO.dev](https://toolgpa.com/tools/aso-dev): App Store Connect manager with unlimited ASO keyword tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ascope-vs-aso-dev)
- [ASOTool](https://toolgpa.com/tools/asotool): Keyword research and rank tracking for App Store and Google Play. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ascope-vs-asotool)
- [Sonar](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sonar): ASO keyword data and rank tracking that AI agents can use over MCP. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ascope-vs-sonar)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://ascope.app/pricing
- https://ascope.app/
- https://ascope.app/app-ranking-tracker
- https://ascope.app/aso-keyword-research

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ascope
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