How are the competitors chosen?

From the app's public store listing. The run works out what the app does and who it is for, searches the storefront you selected with queries built from that profile, ranks the results by similarity and verifies every suggested package against the store before showing it.

What does a run cost?

2 credits, and the cost is shown on the tool before you start. If the run fails or finds no matching app in that country, the credits are refunded automatically.

Does it add competitors to my list automatically?

No. Every suggestion stays in the result table until you press Add on that row. Added apps go into the same comparison list the other mobvex tools use, so they are immediately available to the keyword and competitor weakness analyses.

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Competitor Discovery

Find the apps that actually compete with yours — ranked by how close they are, not by keyword overlap.

What it does

It reads the live store listing of an app you already track — description, category, features and the audience it addresses — and turns that into a short profile. With that profile it searches the storefront of the country you pick and returns up to ten apps that look closest to yours.

Every result carries a short reason for why it was suggested and, on Google Play, its install range. That keeps the list readable instead of a wall of package names: you can see whether a suggestion is a real alternative to your app or a different kind of product.

How it works

Choose one of the apps in your watchlist and the store country. The run extracts the app's traits, builds store search queries from them, ranks the candidates it finds and then checks each suggested package against the store. Suggestions whose package could not be verified are dropped, and candidates that match several apps equally are hidden rather than guessed.

You add the competitors you want, one row at a time. Nothing is written to your comparison list automatically — a suggestion you do not add disappears with the result.

Who it is for

Teams that know their own category but not yet who they are really up against: indie developers entering a new storefront, ASO specialists building a first comparison list, and founders checking whether the apps they fear are actually close matches.

It is also a way to widen a comparison list that has gone stale: run it in another country and the local alternatives show up, which is useful before a localisation push.

Frequently asked questions

How are the competitors chosen?: From the app's public store listing. The run works out what the app does and who it is for, searches the storefront you selected with queries built from that profile, ranks the results by similarity and verifies every suggested package against the store before showing it.
What does a run cost?: 2 credits, and the cost is shown on the tool before you start. If the run fails or finds no matching app in that country, the credits are refunded automatically.
Does it add competitors to my list automatically?: No. Every suggestion stays in the result table until you press Add on that row. Added apps go into the same comparison list the other mobvex tools use, so they are immediately available to the keyword and competitor weakness analyses.

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