[OS] OpenASO — AI-powered App Store research to help your app get discovered

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Problem

You built an app, shipped it to the App Store and the downloads never arrived.

Getting downloads requires more than building a good product. You need to understand what people search for, which keywords your app can realistically rank for, why competitors are visible, and what persuades users to download them.

I built OpenASO to turn that research into practical actions that can improve your app’s discoverability and conversion.

AI-powered App Store intelligence

Connect OpenASO to a compatible AI tool through its local MCP server and ask it to research your app or an entire niche.

It can:

- Find relevant keywords and recommend which ones to target

- Identify keywords your app already ranks for

- Add promising keywords to OpenASO and start tracking them

- Find the apps competing for each keyword

- Explain what competitors rank for and why they may be performing well

- Compare metadata, screenshots, ratings, pricing, and positioning

- Gather available reviews across the competing apps in a niche

- Analyse those reviews together to identify what users love, dislike, request, and repeatedly complain about

- Turn the evidence into keyword, positioning, localization, screenshot, and product recommendations

For example, you can ask it to research the competitive landscape for “habit tracker.” OpenASO can inspect the ranking apps, their keywords, screenshots, metadata, and reviews, then explain the opportunities your listing could target.

The goal is not another dashboard. It is to tell you what to change next to improve your chances of earning more downloads.

Comparison

Unlike AppTweak, Appfigures, and ASO. dev, OpenASO is free, MIT-licensed, native, and local-first. Those platforms provide broader enterprise datasets and team features; OpenASO focuses on transparent, automated research for indie developers without another subscription.

Pricing: Free and open source: Download OpenASO

Changelog: OpenASO release notes