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Setting Up a Category Ranks Alert for a Mobile App

Appfigures scans the App Store's and Google Play's top charts hourly and can alert you when your app or a competitors' rank changes in any country so you can react quickly.

Create a new alert

  1. Log in to your Appfigures account
  2. Head into the Alerts Hub
  3. Click on +Add alert and select Rank Change
  4. Alert conditions:
  • Apps: One or more apps to watch from your tracked list, including your own from a linked account or tracked directly, basic competitors, or premium competitors.
  • Countries: The countries to watch. Can be one specific country, several countries, or all countries the app is available in.
  • Devices: For the App Store, the device to watch: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV.
  • Rank type: The list to watch (Grossing or Paid/Free)
  • When rank rises above: The threshold above which to alert. Example: Set this to 5 to get an alert when an app rises from #10 to #3.
  • When rank falls below: The threshold below which to alert. Example: Set this to 50 to get an alert when an app drops from #35 to #60.
  1. Give your alert a name so you can identify it easily later
  2. Choose whether you want the alert to arrive by email or to a Slack channel.
  3. Click Create alert

You're all set!