If you publish on the Shopify App Store, you already have a "dashboard." It just lives in five browser tabs.
Tab one: the Partner Dashboard — installs, MRR, payouts. It tells you what happened. Not why.
Tab two: the App Store search bar. You type your category once a day and count down to your listing. Did you move? You can't tell unless you remember yesterday's number.
Tab three through six: every competitor you watch. You check their pricing page, then their listing page, then their reviews. You copy-paste anything that changed into a Google Sheet. Three months later your sheet is a graveyard of "they raised pricing, when?" notes with no dates.
This is the actual job of running a Shopify app, and nobody tools for it.
What we wanted
A Sensor Tower for the Shopify App Store. Sensor Tower lets iOS and Android developers see every install number, every rating change, every keyword move, every pricing edit, on every competitor — historically. It costs $39,000 a year and pays for itself the first quarter for any real app studio.
Nothing like that existed for Shopify. Closest we found:
- The Partner Dashboard — your own data only, no rank, no competitors, no reviews.
- Various "spy" tools that scrape App Store search results but stop at the listing page.
- Multiple paid review-summarization tools that don't know what a Shopify Partner is.
So we built it. AppScope is one dashboard for your rank, your installs, your MRR, your reviews, your competitors' pricing and listing edits, your category trend, and the changes that drove all of it.
What's actually in the box
- 12,000+ apps tracked across every public category in the Shopify App Store, refreshed every 12 hours.
- 7,800+ unique partners indexed — searchable, ranked, sortable.
- 1.3M+ reviews indexed and (for paid plans) AI-summarized by Claude into theme clusters: feature requests, pain points, sentiment over time.
- Your Partner API data — installs, uninstalls, gross + net revenue, MRR, churn — pulled directly when you paste a token.
- Alerts — email and in-app — for rank changes, new 1-star reviews, competitor pricing edits, and launches in your category.
What we deliberately didn't build
- A scraper for merchant data. We never touch merchant accounts. The Partner API pulls your own aggregate revenue, not individual orders.
- A "AI replies to your reviews" tool. Plenty of those exist and they make every app sound the same.
- Custom dashboards / drag-and-drop builders. Two hours of "let me configure my widgets" is what kills these tools. We picked the screens that matter and shipped them.
Where we're going
This is a launch post. AppScope opens at $14.99/month for three apps and $24.99/month for unlimited. We have a free tier for one app, forever, because the product should sell itself the moment you paste your slug.
The roadmap that's actually shipping in the next 90 days:
- ASO score with concrete fixes per listing field (not vague advice).
- Cross-category competitive comparison reports — pick two apps, get a one-screen diff.
- Public partner profiles (you can already see them, but we're making them prettier).
- Slack and Discord webhook alerts for the Unlimited plan.
If you ship even one app on apps.shopify.com, start free. If you want to talk to me before signing up, the founder reads every email.
— Harish, building AppScope at Binary Chakra