What's New at AppDrift
New features, improvements, and fixes shipped by our team. We build in public and ship fast.
September 2026
Reviews Show Your Full History, the Store's Rating and Each Review's Market
iOS review sync now follows App Store Connect's pages instead of stopping at the first 200 reviews, and Google Play reviews are read from your app's own market in that market's language instead of the US store. Every review is labelled with the market it came from. The headline rating is the store's own rating; the average of your synced written reviews is shown separately, because far more people rate an app than write a review. The Reviews page also says when it last checked.
Track Keywords in Your App's Own Country and Language
The add-keyword dialog now lists all 60+ storefronts we track, including more Arabic-speaking markets, and starts on your app's store country instead of the US. Store searches run in that market's language, so difficulty scores and keyword ideas for non-English keywords reflect local results. A Store country control on each app page moves tracked keywords to the right market and clears history recorded in the wrong one.
Verified Email Before Connecting a Store
Uploading or replacing App Store Connect or Google Play credentials, and adding your own AI provider keys, now requires a verified email address. Store keys are encrypted before they are stored and cannot be downloaded back from AppDrift. Screenshots, keyword research and removing a key stay available without verification.
Use AppDrift From Claude or Cursor Without npm
The MCP server now installs straight from appdrift.co with an API key from the Developers dashboard. Your AI assistant can read tracked ranks and your Action Plan, generate or translate listing text, and apply accepted fields to an editable draft; it never publishes to the stores. API access is included on paid plans.
AI Screenshot Campaigns From Your Real App Screens
Describe your app and add 3–8 real screens: AI writes the captions and story order and builds an editable screenshot campaign for 5 tokens. Your screen images are not sent to the AI model, and every page stays editable in the screenshot editor.
A One-Screen Dashboard, and Action Plan and Store Monitoring by App
The dashboard home is now a single board: your key numbers in one row, with this week's apps and your plan side by side. Action Plan and Store Monitoring switch apps with tabs that show each app's store icon, and Store Monitoring states whether monitoring is running and when it last checked your listing.
August 2026
Difficulty & Popularity Beside Every Tracked Keyword
The keyword tracker now shows a 0-100 difficulty score (Easy / Moderate / Competitive / Very hard) and a popularity score next to every tracked keyword — the same scorer behind our free difficulty checker and the iOS-vs-Android difficulty study. Keywords added before scoring existed are backfilled automatically the next time you open the tracker, Keyword Ideas show demand alongside difficulty, and Autopilot keyword pushes carry their difficulty so you can see which wins are cheap. Included with keyword tracking on every paid plan, at no token cost.
July 2026
iOS Reviews Now Sync From App Store Connect
Apple retired the public customer-reviews feed, so iOS reviews now sync directly through your App Store Connect API key — the same connection you already use for publishing. You get your latest reviews with country info, and every one of them can be replied to in one click because we store Apple's real review IDs.
Publish Review Replies Without Leaving AppDrift
AI-drafted review responses can now be published straight to the App Store (via App Store Connect) or Google Play (via the Play Developer API) — no more copy-pasting into store consoles. Google caps replies at 350 characters and only accepts replies to recent reviews; we surface both honestly.
Store Monitoring Alerts That Actually Fire
We overhauled alert evaluation: iOS apps are now monitored even before their first store sync, rating-drop alerts compare against a week-old baseline instead of a 4-hour snapshot, listing-change detection is a default rule on every app, and a 3-day cooldown prevents alert spam.
New Apps Start With Keywords Already Tracked
Add an app and AppDrift now seeds up to 3 tracked keywords automatically — derived from your app's name and validated against live store search suggestions, with first rank positions checked within minutes. No more empty tracking page.
More Reliable Daily Rank Updates
We found and fixed a scheduling bug that could pause daily keyword rank refreshes after deploys, added hard timeouts so one slow store response can't stall a run, and built an internal watchdog that alerts us the moment any data pipeline goes quiet.
Live Local Keyword Research in Every Generation
Metadata generation and translation now research each market before writing: live App Store and Google Play search suggestions from that locale's storefront — the exact phrases users there type, in demand order — are woven into titles, subtitles, keyword fields and descriptions. Your German listing gets what Germans actually search, not a literal translation.
Keyword Ideas: Real Search Discovery
The keyword tracker now suggests what to track next: live store-autocomplete queries seeded from your existing keywords and app name, with difficulty scores where known. One click to start tracking.
Keyword Optimize Grounded in Live Searches
One-click keyword optimize now pulls the real related searches around your target keyword from the store's own autocomplete before rewriting — and rank freshness is shown right on the tracking page.
ASO Autopilot: Weekly Action Plan
Every Monday, a prioritized to-do list per app built from your live data: page-one keyword pushes, rank-drop responses, review tasks, competitor moves, localization gaps. Top actions arrive in your weekly digest.
One-Click Keyword Optimize
AI rewrites your title, subtitle, and keyword field around a target keyword — review the before/after diff, apply to your draft version, sync. Charged only on success.
Impact Reports
Every metadata sync now gets a before/after verdict: average tracked-keyword rank 14 days before vs after, with top movers named.
Multi-Locale Keyword Unlock
Apple indexes bonus locales' keyword fields in your primary storefront (like Spanish (Mexico) in the US). One click fills them with expansion or localized terms — extra indexed characters most listings waste.
Create iOS Versions In-App
No more round-trip to App Store Connect: create a new editable version from the Versions page and start editing immediately.
Screenshot Caption Ideas
Free AI caption suggestions in the screenshot editor: benefit-led lines for the text shoppers read first.
Free Keyword Difficulty Checker
Score any App Store or Google Play keyword 0-100 from live data — see who ranks and whether you can beat them. Free, no sign-up.
March 2026
Keyword Density Checker Tool
New free tool to analyze keyword frequency and density in your app descriptions. Spot overused keywords instantly.
Release Notes Generator
Generate professional release notes from templates for bug fixes, feature updates, major releases, and performance improvements.
February 2026
Competitor Watch
Compare your app metadata side-by-side with competitors. Analyze ASO scores, keyword gaps, and language coverage differences.
ASO Score Health Audit
Instant ASO Score grading for your app listing. Evaluates title, subtitle, description, keywords, and localization coverage with actionable recommendations.
Improved AI Translation Quality
Upgraded translation models for better handling of technical terminology, brand names, and context-specific phrasing across all 40+ languages.
App Title Generator Tool
Free tool to generate ASO-optimized app title ideas from your app name, category, and key feature.
Blog and Guides Section
Launched comprehensive ASO guides, app localization tutorials, and keyword research resources to help developers grow globally.
January 2026
Batch Updates Diff Preview
Color-coded diff preview when pushing batch metadata changes. See exactly what changed in each language before publishing.
Figma Plugin Integration
Connect Figma to AppDrift for seamless screenshot localization. Translate text layers and batch export for all device sizes.
Screenshot Generator Launch
Free drag-and-drop editor for creating professional app store screenshots. All device sizes, no watermarks, completely free.
December 2025
Daily Keyword Rank Updates
Keyword tracking now updates ranks daily instead of weekly. Track position changes, difficulty trends, and popularity scores across 150+ countries.
Store Publishing Reliability
Improved publishing reliability with better error handling, retry logic, and pre-submission validation checks.
November 2025
AI Metadata Generation
Generate ASO-optimized titles, subtitles, descriptions, and keywords with GPT-4 and Gemini. Create metadata for both App Store and Google Play in under 60 seconds.
One-Click Store Publishing
Deploy metadata updates to App Store and Google Play across 150+ countries with a single click. Includes pre-launch compliance checking.
AI Metadata Translation
Translate your app metadata to 40+ languages with AI. Context-aware translations that preserve brand voice and respect character limits.