What is Appleak?

Appleak is an app intelligence tool that shows what competitors are using to grow on the App Store and Google Play: the ads they run, the videos and creators promoting them, and what their users say. You ask in plain words, and the answer comes with the evidence it rests on.

By Appleak · 18 Oct 2026

In short

What it is: research on apps and app markets, asked in plain words, on the web at appleak.app.
What it reads: both app stores, four ad registers, six social platforms and the web.
Who it is for: indie developers, small studios and the people who market their apps.

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Appleak in one paragraph

Appleak (appleak.app) is a web-based app intelligence tool for the App Store and Google Play. You type a question about an app or a kind of app, and it reads the stores, the ad registers, social platforms and the web to answer it: a verdict from an app’s reviews, the ads it runs and for how long, the creators and videos about it, its estimated revenue and where it charts. Each answer shows what it was built from, so you can check it.

What it does

The ask box: One box that reads your question and opens the page that answers it.
Trending now: Apps, videos, creators and ads that are moving today, by category.
App teardown: Everything about one app on one page.
Research report: One direct answer about one app, with the evidence under it.
Comparison: Two or three apps side by side, measured the same way.
What changed: What is different about an app since it was last read.
Category report: A question about a whole market, answered from thousands of reviews.
Growth research: Where to put your first marketing effort, and in what order.
App coach: A coach for your own app, with a plan for the week.
MRR tracker: Your monthly recurring revenue, where it is heading and what moves it.
Reviews Intelligence: Pull any app’s raw reviews with exact filters, and export them.
Review search: Search every review on file for a word or a phrase.
Ad Search: Which apps in a category advertise, and the ads they run.
Influencer Search: Creators who already post about your kind of app, checked one by one.
Creator outreach: A board for the creators you are contacting, with a drafted message for each.
Top charts: The stores’ own top charts, and which of those apps advertise.
Rising apps: Apps released in the last 30 days that are already charting.
UGC videos: Creator videos about apps, each matched to its app, with its views.
Research lab: Writes hooks, scripts and ad copy from what Appleak has read.
History: Every report, teardown and search you have run.
Buyer Signals: People talking about your brand, a rival or a keyword, sorted by what they want.
Market Watch: Follows apps and tells you when they move.
My apps: Connect your store account and see your real figures beside the estimates.
Saved Searches: The reports, teardowns, research and videos you chose to keep.

Where its data comes from

Stores: App Store, Google Play
Ad registers: Meta Ad Library, TikTok Ads, Google Ads, Apple Ads
Social platforms: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, X
The web: Google, Perplexity, The open web

It reads public information: store listings and reviews, ads in public ad registers, and public posts. Reviewers’ names are not kept. If you connect your own App Store Connect or Google Play account, your figures are shown to you alone unless you choose otherwise.

Who uses it, and for what

Indie developers deciding what to build, from what users of existing apps complain about.
Marketers writing ads, from the hooks and angles rivals keep paying for.
Founders looking for creators who already post about their kind of app.
Small teams following rivals’ prices, ratings, versions and ads without checking by hand.

What Appleak does not do

No ASO keyword research or keyword rank tracking.
No library of onboarding flows; paywall screens are shown one app at a time, inside an app analysis.
No exact revenue or download counts for other people’s apps: revenue is an estimate, and installs are a modelled range.
It does not post, message or send anything for you. Drafts are for you to send yourself.
It keeps no copies of other people’s videos or ads; it shows them where they are.

How it is priced

Looking around is free. The paid plans are Pro $75/month and Business $99/month, bought online with no sales call. Most of Appleak reads free sources; a few searches read paid ones and cost credits, and the price is always shown before anything is spent.

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Questions

Is Appleak free?

Looking around is free. Running searches is part of the paid plans, Pro $75/month and Business $99/month. A search that costs credits shows its price first.

Does Appleak work for Google Play apps?

Yes. It reads both the App Store and Google Play.

Is Appleak an AI tool?

It uses AI models to read reviews and write answers. The figures come from the sources it reads, and each answer shows what it was built from.

How is Appleak different from Sensor Tower or Appfigures?

Sensor Tower is enterprise market intelligence on a custom yearly contract; Appfigures is strongest at tracking your own apps and ASO keywords. Appleak is for researching a market and its marketing: the ads, creators and reviews behind any app. The comparison pages go through each in detail.

Where can I learn how each tool works?

The help manual at appleak.app/help explains every tool, with the steps to use it.

Ask it something about your market.

One question. The reviews, ads and creators behind the answer.

show me ads for budgeting apps