The AppStore changed Digital Delivery world: while the AppStore is a great service to consumers (daily releases, updates) it represents a huge source of revenue as well for small/big developers.
So, let’s focus on developers: how can they organize their iTunes Connect sales reports? Is there a software which helps tracking app sales? Sure, more than one indeed.
In this roundup I’ve collected 15 of the best softwares to manage iTunes Connect data. If you know more, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
Enjoy!
First, there are four main kinds of software:
Mobile;
Desktop;
Online ;
Utilities.
Mobile
App Sales Mobile allows you to download your sales reports with a single tap. You can download both weekly and daily reports which will be updated to your currency.
You can check your daily stats as well, together with revenue percentages and geo location.
App Sales is an open source project, give it a try.
It seems App Sales Mobile, but it’s not open source.
Pretty expensive, indeed.
“Unfortunately due to section 3.3.7 of the SDK Agreement I will never be permitted to sell this app on the App Store unless I rip out it’s heart and usefullness. But you can purchase a license to look at the source code, compile it yourself, put it on all the devices you like. For just $15 you can do anything you like with the source, just not sell it or use in any other way commercially.”
MyAppSales was rejected by Apple due to section 3.3.7 of the SDK Agreement violation (read developer’s words on his blog) but you can still purchase the source code on dev’s website.
And it’s absolutely worth the purchase.
MyAppSales has many features: all of your data are stored in iPhone Keychain while internet communication are encrypted via SSL protocol, so you don’t have nothing to worry about. Then, unlike App Sales, this app can download weekly and daily reports of both paid and free apps and you can check your total or single-apps revenue.
Not to mention downloads, updates and refunds sections.
Other features:
- A variety of charts help you to discover trends;
- Built-in web server for importing and exporting single reports or bulk in ZIP archives;
- Transfer your SQLite database for backup or to analyse the data yourself;
- All amounts conveniently converted into your favorite currency.
Mac Apps
Available both in a trial and paid version, Sales Report enables you to drag & drop your report files into the application interface. Data are sorted “smartly”, using weekly reports if daily are missing and without doubling content. It shows a very simple and clear interface with charts and period stats.
Surely better than Clerk.
25 $
Just like Sales Report, you have to drag & drop the text files you have downloaded from iTunes. Too simple and too expensive.
A freeware app based on text files, it only provides weekly and daily reports. It support more than one application.
Let’s talk about the best desktop app to track appstore sales, Appviz. This app has a lot of cool features: you can choose to display an overvire dashboard or switch to graphs, reports and (this is really cool) users’ reviews. You can also check your total revenue, total sales and upgrades.
Other features:
- 44 currencies supported;
- Geo Comparison;
- Data are stored on your local drive.
Online Services
HeartBeat is no doubt the best online service to analyze reports, dedicated both to single developers (Mini plan) and big companies (up to 20 apps, Pro plan). It has a great list of features,such as live usage stats,balances, crash reports and app trends. See screenshots below for more deatils.
All plans come with a 30 days free trial.
Still in private Beta.
Still in Beta, seems very similar to HeartBeat which, in my opinion, it’s better, anyway.
Utilities
&
Two python scripts to view iTunes Connect Data.
Another little app, written in Php.
View reports and formats them for Numbers and Excel.
A droplet to manage your text files.
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That's what EeKay said 1 year ago:
Nice article. In my quest for a good stats app i found Appviz the best. I used the trial but since i didn’t get payed by uncle Steve yet, i’m not going to spend a dime on supporting/stats apps
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I’m using the AppSales mobile app and i like it.
When i get my paycheck i for sure am getting myself Appviz also because it shows all comments from all buying countries
grtz
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That's what urbancowboy said 1 year ago:
appFigures added rank tracking and reviews from all over the world – pretty cool.
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That's what Bert said 1 year ago:
Nice article, I’ve been playin with AppViz for the last week or so. I quite like it but with low numbers it kinda struggles to figure out what one and zero are.
I’m going to go and play with some of the others, but I kinda figure that if AppViz meets your needs then why look else where.
Thanks,
Bert
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That's what urbancowboy said 1 year ago:
Bert – you should try appfigures.com, its more intuitive and has more features than appviz. I personally like that its fully automatic and sends me reports by email every morning – a long way from having to log into the slow itunes connect
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#6
That's what Jack said 1 year ago:
Hey, thanks for the great round up.
Here’s one more: MyAppSales.com
Automatic downloads, animated graphs and a great price.
-Jack
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#7
That's what sergey said 1 year ago:
You forgot sales tool – AppStore Sales. Powerful application for monitoring sales in AppStore
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#9
That's what FF said 10 months ago:
Cool. How about the online service http://www.Kukapp.com?
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#10
That's what Steve said 9 months ago:
Nice post. Does anyone know of a similar tool for other platforms? Specifically BlackBerry.
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#11
That's what Ralf said 9 months ago:
And salesgraph, which is free: http://www.licensekey.net/salesgraph
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#12
That's what ento said 7 months ago:
We’ve just released a sales report forwarding service called Mary Apps. (http://www.maryapps.com/)
We use it everyday (er, since it’s all automatic, enjoy the luxury) to have the daily sales report sent out by email to ourselves and our collaborators. Since we have a geologically and organizationally distributed team, this simple service is working greatly for us.
Please give it a try, or at least say hi to the mascot sheep, Mary =)
We’re going to take a look at the tools in the article for inspiration. Feedbacks are greatly welcomed.
[disclosure] this is a cross post and a shameless self advertisement!
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#13
That's what Powergeek said 2 months ago:
There is a new player, AppStar from Damabia. You can found it here http://www.damabia.com, looks very good!
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#14
That's what name said 1 week ago:
ok im out,
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