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Visualizing iTunes Connect / App Store Sales Data
Posted in Life on November 3rd, 2009 by Xin

Every iPhone developer cares about their data on iTunes Connect, but Apple just made a very catastrophic offer. Don’t be fooled by the beautiful trending up icons on iTunes Connect page, all you can get from it are just plain CSV files. But it also leaves opportunities for 3rd party developers to innovate on visualizing these CSV files.

AppViz

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Price: $29.95, 30-day free trial
Download: http://www.ideaswarm.com/products/appviz/

This Mac application can download all your sales data (including historical), and render them into beautiful and readable charts. And you can check your app’s User Reviews from all countries in one place. Not all options on the market are able to fetch historical data, I’m really wondering how they did it. It’s absolutely worth $29.99.

AppStore Sales

Price: $19.95, 14-day free trial
Download: http://positiveteam.com/

If you search for AppStore Sales in Google, you’ll barely find this application, this name is just too general. But actually this app can download your recent data from iTunes Connect, and turns out very nice charts. Its UI design is sleek and native, it can render your sales number on a world map, really nice feature. Though you can import CSV files on your HDD to render historical numbers, AppStore Sales 1.6.2 is unable to fetch historical data, so AppViz is a clear win on this important feature.

Both applications provide powerful ranking charts, while AppViz can download more detailed data from APPlyzer.com, which is a non-free service, but you can check if your app is in top 1000 in any category or country.

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