Does BestAppify have a free plan?

Yes, with no card and no time limit, according to its pricing page on October 21, 2026: 1 app, 10 competitors, 1 AI listing audit a month, 15 live rank checks and 100 API and MCP requests a day, with 7 days of change history. Growth, at 29 dollars a month, adds 5 apps, the competitor change feed and alerts, review intelligence, listing analytics from GA4, forum mentions and market insights. Pro, at 99 dollars a month, adds unlimited apps, revenue and churn, the affiliate program, team seats and webhooks. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve, and the first payment can be refunded within 14 days.

Does BestAppify still track keyword rankings?

Its site gives two answers on October 21, 2026. Its rank tracking page says that Shopify's robots.txt disallows the App Store's search page, that Shopify began enforcing that rule on September 6, 2026, and that BestAppify stopped its keyword crawl that day and paused the feature; keywords already tracked keep their last position, dated September 5. Its API and MCP documentation says that tracked keywords are re-read about once a day since October 8, 2026, with one live search per keyword (positions 1 to 24), and its pricing page lists a number of live rank checks per day on each plan. For the searches that bring merchants to your own listing, it points to your Google Analytics. Luseri follows your position on up to 20 keywords you choose, and the position of the apps you watch, read every day among the first 192 App Store search results.

Does BestAppify show revenue and churn?

On its Pro plan, at 99 dollars a month. You paste a Partner API token with the View financials and Manage apps permissions, and BestAppify rebuilds MRR, churn, trials, cancellations, plan changes and gross and net revenue from the charge history, refreshed every day, with 12 months in the dashboard and up to 36 through its API. It says in the product that these figures are its reconstruction. Its site does not mention cohorts or uninstall reasons. Luseri shows MRR and its movements, cash collected in its own currency, retention by install cohort and the reasons merchants give when they uninstall.

Does BestAppify use AI?

Yes, on its site on October 21, 2026. Its AI listing audit scores your title, tagline, description and screenshots out of 100 against the apps that lead your category and lists fixes by priority, and its review intelligence groups reviews into themes with AI. Through its MCP server, your own assistant can also draft listing copy, review a draft before you publish it, or propose screenshot headlines, some of these on paid plans only. Its pages do not describe an assistant that answers questions inside the dashboard itself. Luseri has an assistant in the dashboard that answers questions from your app's numbers (revenue, merchants, retention, uninstall reasons, reviews, rank, competitors, listing traffic) and suggests what to do next. It runs on Claude, by Anthropic, and you do not need an API key of your own. It also has a read-only MCP server, so your own AI assistant can read the same numbers with a personal token.

Do I need Google Analytics to use BestAppify?

No. Its category ranks, competitor tracking, listing changes and review analysis come from its own crawl and work without any connection. Linking your listing's Google Analytics 4 property, on the Growth plan, adds the search terms merchants typed with the position they saw, Install clicks and their device, country and locale. Store-by-store installs also need a shop_url custom dimension in GA4, which does not fill in the past. Luseri reads your Google Analytics 4 directly too, with viewer access, and shows listing views, Install clicks, confirmed installs and the App Store searches that brought each visit.

Yes, for now. Its terms of use say: "Luseri is free for now. If it becomes paid, you will be told by email at least 30 days before, and nothing will be charged without your consent."

Can I use both at the same time?

Yes. BestAppify's App Store data needs nothing connected, and both read Google Analytics 4 without changing it. For revenue, BestAppify's revenue page asks for a Partner API token with the View financials and Manage apps permissions; Luseri needs Manage apps alone, and only reads.

Luseri / Guides

BestAppify vs Luseri

BestAppify presents itself as a growth and marketing platform for Shopify apps. Its data comes from its own crawl of the public App Store, so it can follow any app, competitors included: category rank, listing changes, review themes and an AI listing audit, with a free plan, an MCP server for your AI assistant and, on its Pro plan, revenue and churn from the Partner API. Luseri covers revenue and App Store data too, with a different focus. Here is what each does, as described on their sites on October 21, 2026.

By Arthur Renard, updated October 21, 2026

Side by side

	BestAppify	Luseri
Price	A free plan with no time limit; Growth at 29 dollars and Pro at 99 dollars a month, with revenue on Pro only, as published on October 21, 2026	Free for now, while it welcomes its first users, and free for life for accounts created before paid plans launch. Planned plans, per app and per month: $14.99 up to $2,000 of MRR, $29.99 up to $10,000, $69.99 above, announced by email at least 30 days ahead.
Connection	Nothing to connect for App Store data, which comes from its own crawl; Google Analytics 4 read only, for listing analytics; a Partner API token with the View financials and Manage apps permissions, for revenue	Partner API client you create, with the Manage apps permission alone, which it only reads; Google Analytics 4 as a viewer
Revenue	On Pro: MRR, active subscriptions, trials, cancellations, plan changes, installs, gross and net revenue with Shopify's fees, rebuilt from the charge history of the Partner API	MRR and its movements, cash collected in its own currency, one page per store
Churn and retention	Monthly churn rate, flagged above 10%, on Pro	Retention by install cohort
Uninstall reasons	Not mentioned	Yes
Keywords	Paused since September 6, 2026 according to its rank tracking page, with the last positions dated September 5; its API documentation describes tracked keywords re-read about once a day since October 8 (positions 1 to 24); demand and difficulty indices, and a public directory of more than 2,300 search terms	Daily rank for up to 20 chosen keywords, with your competitors' positions, the searches that brought visits, and ideas of searches to track
Category rank	Your place on Shopify's category pages, read every night, with the month's movement and the apps that passed you	Recorded daily
Competitors	10 per app (25 on Pro), any app in the store; from Growth, an alert the day one changes its pricing, name, tagline, description, icon or screenshots, or leaves the store	Up to six side by side (rating, reviews, entry price, rank and its change over four weeks, Built for Shopify badge, trial length), log of listing changes
Reviews	From Growth: up to 300 reviews per app grouped by AI into what merchants love, complain about and ask for, with sentiment, for your app and your competitors	Reviews and rating over a year, and a reply draft for any review, to post yourself
Market data	28,882 apps counted in Shopify's sitemap on October 20, 2026, leaderboards by category, a niche explorer, weekly movers, a public page for each app, a free statistics page and data studies	Your app and the competitors you pick
Listing traffic (GA4)	From Growth: views, Install clicks and conversion by GA4 channel, the search terms merchants typed with the position they saw, by device, country, locale and search surface; installs store by store with a custom dimension	Views, Install clicks, confirmed installs, App Store searches with your position, by country and language
In-app events	Not mentioned	Optional, with a health score per store
Forum mentions	Shopify Community threads that name your app or a tracked keyword, from Growth	No alerts: for each tracked keyword, a link opens the forum's search in your browser
Affiliates	On Pro: a commission program per app, tracked links, a referral ledger and a payout queue; you pay affiliates yourself	No
AI	An AI listing audit against your category's leaders (1 a month on Free, 20 on Growth, unlimited on Pro), AI review themes; through its MCP server, drafts of listing copy and screenshot headlines	An assistant in the dashboard that answers questions from your numbers, suggests what to do next and drafts replies to your reviews
Access to the data	REST API and MCP server on every plan (100, 1,000 or 10,000 requests a day), listed in the official MCP registry, three free Agent Skills, webhooks on Pro, CSV export	Dashboard, CSV export, and a read-only MCP server for your own AI assistant
Alerts	By email, with a weekly summary; its rank tracking page also names Slack and Discord, while its comparison pages say email only	Weekly email report, uninstall alert by email
Other services	Paid calls with Shopify merchants from 199 dollars, labelled ad placements on bestappify.com from 120 dollars, a free Chrome extension	No
Languages	Site in English	Dashboard in English and in French

Where BestAppify is stronger

Data on any app from the first day: rankings, listings and reviews come from its own crawl of the App Store, so competitors and the whole store are covered with nothing to connect. The free plan follows 10 competitors, Growth 10 per app for 5 apps, and Pro 25 per app.
Competitor watch: changes to pricing, name, tagline, description, icon and screenshots are dated with the before and the after, and you hear when an app leaves the store. Luseri's log covers name, plans and categories.
Review intelligence: up to 300 reviews per app sorted by AI into what merchants love, what they complain about and what they ask for, with sentiment, counts and quotes, for your competitors as well as your app.
An AI audit of your listing against the apps that currently lead your category, with a score out of 100 and fixes ranked by priority. One audit a month is included in the free plan.
A view of the whole App Store: leaderboards by category, a niche explorer with each leader's share, weekly movers and a public page for every app. Its statistics page, recounted every day, is free to quote, and its blog publishes data studies such as one on 38,693 search results (October 13, 2026).
More ways to reach your data: a REST API next to an MCP server on every plan, free up to 100 requests a day, listed in the official MCP registry since August 20, 2026. Three free Agent Skills teach an AI agent to use it, and Pro adds webhooks.
Listing analytics with more breakdowns: device and search surface next to country and locale, and, with a custom dimension in GA4, the store behind each install.
Channels beyond the listing: alerts on Shopify Community threads that mention your app or your keywords, an affiliate program on Pro, paid calls with merchants and labelled ad placements on its merchant site.
Plans for several apps (5 on Growth, unlimited on Pro), with team seats on Pro.
Its whole price list is published, so you know today what you would pay: a free plan that does not expire, Growth at 29 dollars and Pro at 99 dollars a month, a 14-day refund on the first payment, and annual billing at ten months for twelve. Luseri is free for now and has not published paid plans.

Where Luseri differs

Revenue and retention are at the core: MRR and its movements, cash collected shown apart in the currency Shopify pays you, retention by install cohort next to the reasons merchants give when they uninstall, and one page per store. BestAppify puts revenue and churn on its Pro plan at 99 dollars a month, and its site does not mention cohorts or uninstall reasons.
An AI assistant inside the dashboard answers your questions from your own numbers and suggests what to do next. It runs on Claude, a model made by Anthropic, and you have no API key to provide. If you prefer your own assistant, a read-only MCP server opens your numbers to it too. BestAppify answers questions only through the assistant you connect yourself over MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another client), within its daily request allowance.
Your Partner API client only needs the "Manage apps" permission, as the Partner API guide explains. "View financials" stays optional, for apps that sell annual plans. BestAppify's revenue page asks for a token with both, and "View financials" also allows two writes: cancelling a merchant's subscription and giving a store a credit. BestAppify's FAQ says it reads the Partner API to rebuild MRR, trials and uninstalls.
Optional in-app tracking adds a health score for each store, and an email alert warns you when uninstalls rise sharply, next to a weekly report.
The dashboard is available in English and in French. BestAppify's site is in English.

Which one to choose

Choose BestAppify if your work is mostly on the App Store against your competitors: watching their listings, reading their reviews, auditing your listing with AI, sizing a niche, or reaching all of it through a REST API and a wider MCP server, with a free plan to start. Choose Luseri if you want your revenue, your retention and the reasons merchants leave next to your listing and its traffic, to ask questions about your numbers inside the dashboard, to give your Partner account the narrowest access, or to work in French. BestAppify's App Store data needs nothing connected, so you can try both side by side. Other tools are compared in the overview of Shopify app analytics tools.

Questions

Does BestAppify have a free plan?: Yes, with no card and no time limit, according to its pricing page on October 21, 2026: 1 app, 10 competitors, 1 AI listing audit a month, 15 live rank checks and 100 API and MCP requests a day, with 7 days of change history. Growth, at 29 dollars a month, adds 5 apps, the competitor change feed and alerts, review intelligence, listing analytics from GA4, forum mentions and market insights. Pro, at 99 dollars a month, adds unlimited apps, revenue and churn, the affiliate program, team seats and webhooks. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve, and the first payment can be refunded within 14 days.
Does BestAppify still track keyword rankings?: Its site gives two answers on October 21, 2026. Its rank tracking page says that Shopify's robots.txt disallows the App Store's search page, that Shopify began enforcing that rule on September 6, 2026, and that BestAppify stopped its keyword crawl that day and paused the feature; keywords already tracked keep their last position, dated September 5. Its API and MCP documentation says that tracked keywords are re-read about once a day since October 8, 2026, with one live search per keyword (positions 1 to 24), and its pricing page lists a number of live rank checks per day on each plan. For the searches that bring merchants to your own listing, it points to your Google Analytics. Luseri follows your position on up to 20 keywords you choose, and the position of the apps you watch, read every day among the first 192 App Store search results.
Does BestAppify show revenue and churn?: On its Pro plan, at 99 dollars a month. You paste a Partner API token with the View financials and Manage apps permissions, and BestAppify rebuilds MRR, churn, trials, cancellations, plan changes and gross and net revenue from the charge history, refreshed every day, with 12 months in the dashboard and up to 36 through its API. It says in the product that these figures are its reconstruction. Its site does not mention cohorts or uninstall reasons. Luseri shows MRR and its movements, cash collected in its own currency, retention by install cohort and the reasons merchants give when they uninstall.
Does BestAppify use AI?: Yes, on its site on October 21, 2026. Its AI listing audit scores your title, tagline, description and screenshots out of 100 against the apps that lead your category and lists fixes by priority, and its review intelligence groups reviews into themes with AI. Through its MCP server, your own assistant can also draft listing copy, review a draft before you publish it, or propose screenshot headlines, some of these on paid plans only. Its pages do not describe an assistant that answers questions inside the dashboard itself. Luseri has an assistant in the dashboard that answers questions from your app's numbers (revenue, merchants, retention, uninstall reasons, reviews, rank, competitors, listing traffic) and suggests what to do next. It runs on Claude, by Anthropic, and you do not need an API key of your own. It also has a read-only MCP server, so your own AI assistant can read the same numbers with a personal token.
Do I need Google Analytics to use BestAppify?: No. Its category ranks, competitor tracking, listing changes and review analysis come from its own crawl and work without any connection. Linking your listing's Google Analytics 4 property, on the Growth plan, adds the search terms merchants typed with the position they saw, Install clicks and their device, country and locale. Store-by-store installs also need a shop_url custom dimension in GA4, which does not fill in the past. Luseri reads your Google Analytics 4 directly too, with viewer access, and shows listing views, Install clicks, confirmed installs and the App Store searches that brought each visit.
Is Luseri free?: Yes, for now. Its terms of use say: "Luseri is free for now. If it becomes paid, you will be told by email at least 30 days before, and nothing will be charged without your consent."
Can I use both at the same time?: Yes. BestAppify's App Store data needs nothing connected, and both read Google Analytics 4 without changing it. For revenue, BestAppify's revenue page asks for a Partner API token with the View financials and Manage apps permissions; Luseri needs Manage apps alone, and only reads.