I spent 10 years as an engineer at Apple working on macOS and iOS, and the last 8 as an indie developer with 20+ apps on the App Store for myself and clients. AppTraction is the tool I wish I’d had when I started building my own apps.
Most iOS and Mac devs that I talk to agree that Apple’s App Store Connect website is slow, confusing, and buggy. There’s a lot of useful data there, but the clunky site makes it really hard to make sense of. AppTraction brings your sales, analytics, ratings, and reviews to your Mac, and then tells you what matters.
I won’t get into all the app features here, you can find those on the website, but it has some interesting capabilities so please check them out.
Some background on the development process: AppTraction started as a straight port of the App Store Connect website to a native Mac app, and for about two months that’s all it was. Having the analytics data cached and instant was fantastic, but it still required a lot of time and expertise to interpret. At that point I tried connecting Claude directly to the structured data via MCP, and the results were pretty astonishing. Right away it caught that Apple had featured my apps in Australia and the UK, which I’d been totally oblivious to. It also explained that my bread baking app’s sales decline (which I knew about) wasn’t a problem with the app at all, but a recurring seasonal slump, which is evidently typical for baking apps in the summer. That’s when the Insights tab, which now looks for things like these automatically, became the main view of the app.
The AI runs on your existing Claude Code or Codex subscription (or OpenRouter). AppTraction uses the CLI you already have, so there are no API fees and no API keys to expose. A bundled, read-only MCP server lets the AI query your data with real tools rather than a pasted dump, and you can point your own AI at it.
Privacy: AppTraction was designed with privacy in mind from day 0 so there’s no account, no ads, and your App Store data is stored only on your Mac. AI requests go straight from your Mac to your AI provider, under your account, and my servers never see them.
Pricing: It’s free for 14 days, then $6.99/month, $39/year, or $99 lifetime. Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later. (No ASC key handy? There’s a demo app with sample data to play with.)
I’d love to hear any feedback, and happy to answer questions of course.