App Store Connect on iPhone · No tracking
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AppStats alternative?
AppStats is a well-built App Store Connect dashboard for the people AppMeta Pulse also serves: indie iOS developers and small studios who want revenue, subscription, and download numbers on their phone without opening a browser. Both use Apple's official App Store Connect API, keep your key on the device, and put your numbers in Home Screen widgets. If AppStats' iPad app, free tier, or alerts are what you want, keep it. AppMeta Pulse costs less, keeps your sales history after Apple's one-year window, answers reviews, and carries no tracking or third-party analytics.
How does AppMeta Pulse compare to AppStats?
AppStats is a serious app with a clear point of view, and on a few specific features (iPad, a free tier, alerts) it is the stronger product. The two apps make different trade-offs, and these are the ones you will notice in use.
Price
AppMeta Pulse: $0.99/month · $1.99/year · $2.99 lifetime. Free download with a demo on sample data; both subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial.
AppStats: $2.99/month · $19.99/year · $49.99 lifetime. Free tier for one app with 7 days of data.
AppMeta Pulse costs less on every plan. AppStats is the one you can use for free with a single app.
AppStats: $2.99/month · $19.99/year · $49.99 lifetime. Free tier for one app with 7 days of data.
AppMeta Pulse costs less on every plan. AppStats is the one you can use for free with a single app.
Sales history
AppMeta Pulse: App Store Connect serves about a year of daily sales. Pulse keeps every day it fetches on your iPhone until you delete it, plus an original copy of each report. Once a full year is stored, Trends compares this year with last year.
AppStats: Shows the data it fetches from App Store Connect, with breakdowns by product, country, and device.
AppStats: Shows the data it fetches from App Store Connect, with breakdowns by product, country, and device.
Privacy and tracking
AppMeta Pulse: No ads, no tracking, and no third-party analytics or SDKs. There is no AppMeta Pulse server; requests go from your iPhone to Apple.
AppStats: Privacy label lists usage data, diagnostics, identifiers, purchases, and coarse location, not linked to identity, per the listing; its description says usage analytics are optional.
Both read from App Store Connect with your own API key. They differ in what the apps themselves do around that data.
AppStats: Privacy label lists usage data, diagnostics, identifiers, purchases, and coarse location, not linked to identity, per the listing; its description says usage analytics are optional.
Both read from App Store Connect with your own API key. They differ in what the apps themselves do around that data.
Notifications and widgets
AppMeta Pulse: No notifications. 12 Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for proceeds, sales, MRR, trends, subscriptions, and reviews, per app or across the portfolio, including Pace, Ledger, Shape, and Where It Moved for the week or month.
AppStats: Eight widgets for downloads, revenue, products, the portfolio, subscription sales, and goals, plus alerts and summaries you can turn on.
If alerts are how you check your numbers, AppStats wins this category. Pulse has more widgets, two of them for the Lock Screen.
AppStats: Eight widgets for downloads, revenue, products, the portfolio, subscription sales, and goals, plus alerts and summaries you can turn on.
If alerts are how you check your numbers, AppStats wins this category. Pulse has more widgets, two of them for the Lock Screen.
Reviews
AppMeta Pulse: Every app's reviews in one list, unanswered low-star ones first. Translate a review on the device, reply one by one or to up to 25 at once, and on iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence on a supported iPhone, start from two English drafts written on the device.
AppStats: Built around sales, downloads, and subscriptions; check its listing for review features.
AppStats: Built around sales, downloads, and subscriptions; check its listing for review features.
Vocabulary and reporting
AppMeta Pulse: Uses Apple's own terms throughout: proceeds (after commission and tax), sales (gross), units (first-time downloads), active subscriptions, trials, and churn, plus MRR. Converts every amount into the currency you pick, using the European Central Bank's monthly rates, as estimates.
AppStats: Similar coverage, with breakdowns by product, country, and device. Shows revenue in EUR or USD.
AppStats: Similar coverage, with breakdowns by product, country, and device. Shows revenue in EUR or USD.
Platforms
AppMeta Pulse: iPhone only, iOS 17 or later.
AppStats: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple silicon Mac.
AppStats has iPad and Mac versions; Pulse doesn't.
AppStats: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple silicon Mac.
AppStats has iPad and Mac versions; Pulse doesn't.
Authentication and credentials
AppMeta Pulse: App Store Connect API key (.p8, Key ID, Issuer ID) in this iPhone's Keychain, where it never syncs. It can't change your prices, builds, or metadata; its only writes are review replies you send and analytics report requests.
AppStats: Same model, with the API key on the device; its listing asks for a key with Sales and Reports access.
Pulse asks for an Admin key, because it also reads App Store analytics and sends review replies.
AppStats: Same model, with the API key on the device; its listing asks for a key with Sales and Reports access.
Pulse asks for an Admin key, because it also reads App Store analytics and sends review replies.
Who should pick AppMeta Pulse vs AppStats?
Pick AppMeta Pulse if…
- You want a lower price on every plan, including Lifetime
- You want your sales history kept after Apple's one-year window, with year-over-year as it grows
- You want an app with no tracking or third-party analytics
- You check your numbers on your own schedule, or in widgets, rather than via notifications
- You want to reply to App Store reviews from the same app, in bulk when they pile up
- You prefer Apple's official vocabulary (proceeds, units, sales)
Stick with AppStats if…
- Alerts and summaries are how you check your business
- You want an iPad or Mac app
- You only track one app and AppStats' free tier is enough
- You have months of AppStats history you don't want to migrate
About AppMeta Pulse
Questions
FAQ
What is the best alternative to AppStats for iPhone?
AppMeta Pulse is an App Store Connect app for the same indie iOS developers. Both apps use Apple's official App Store Connect API and keep your API key on the device. The differences are price (AppMeta Pulse is $0.99/month against AppStats' $2.99/month, and $2.99 lifetime against $49.99), history (Pulse keeps every day of sales it fetches after Apple's one-year window), reviews (Pulse lets you reply, up to 25 at once), and tracking (Pulse has no ads, tracking, or third-party analytics; AppStats' privacy label lists usage data and diagnostics).
How is AppMeta Pulse different from AppStats?
Both apps are App Store Connect dashboards for iPhone, so the core function overlaps heavily. AppMeta Pulse costs less per month and at the lifetime tier, keeps your sales history on the iPhone after Apple's one-year window so year-over-year comparison works as it grows, lets you answer reviews with on-device drafts, and has no tracking or third-party analytics. AppStats has an iPad version, a free tier for one app with 7 days of data, and alerts and summaries, which AppMeta Pulse does not match. Stay with AppStats if you need iPad, a free tier, or alerts.
Does AppMeta Pulse have notifications or widgets like AppStats?
Widgets, yes: AppMeta Pulse has 12 Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for proceeds, sales, MRR, trends, subscriptions, and reviews; AppStats lists eight widgets. Notifications, no: AppMeta Pulse sends none, while AppStats offers alerts and summaries you can turn on. If you want to be told about your numbers rather than look at them, AppStats is the better fit.
Do both apps use the official App Store Connect API?
Yes. Both use Apple's official App Store Connect API with a .p8 API key you create. Both keep the key on the device, and neither scrapes the App Store Connect web dashboard. They differ in what happens around the fetch: AppMeta Pulse has no server of its own and no third-party analytics, while AppStats' privacy label lists usage data and diagnostics.
Is AppMeta Pulse cheaper than AppStats?
Yes. Monthly: $0.99 against $2.99. Yearly: $1.99 against $19.99. Lifetime: $2.99 against $49.99. The free options differ: AppStats has a free tier for one app with 7 days of data; AppMeta Pulse has a demo on sample data, and both of its subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial. Check each app's current App Store listing for exact terms.
Try it
Open AppMeta Pulse.
Your App Store sales, subscriptions, and reviews on your iPhone, in Apple's own vocabulary, with the history kept. The free download opens a demo on sample data.
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