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Appfigures just made its app-market data something an AI agent can query, not something you screenshot.

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◆Current state
Appfigures has spent the last year widening what its estimates cover — iPad data folded into every download and revenue figure, state-level financials in the API, a 15-report App Intelligence suite for competitor research, and Leaderboards that rank apps by explicit metrics instead of opaque store charts. The August release changes who consumes all of that: a CLI built specifically for AI agents, with a hinting system to keep them from misreading the data. The product is no longer only a dashboard.
◆Where it's heading
The arc runs from data completeness to data access. First they closed gaps in the underlying estimates, then they built more ways to slice them, and now they are exposing the whole surface to agents that can investigate, compare, monitor, and act — including replying to reviews and adjusting Apple Ads campaigns. Each layer assumes the one below it is trustworthy, which is why the accuracy fixes (iPad coverage, keyword popularity, Google Play delay removal) came first.
◆Prediction
Expect the agent surface to deepen before it widens — more write actions exposed through the CLI, and Leaderboards and App Intelligence reports made directly queryable by agents rather than only through the web reports.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Introducing the Appfigures CLI

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    The point where Appfigures stops being a place you look at data and becomes a source an agent pulls from. It lands on top of the accuracy and coverage work of the past year, which is what makes agent-driven analysis viable at all.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Introducing Appfigures Leaderboards

    Leaderboards rank apps across both stores by 14 explicit metrics — growth, revenue, discoverability — instead of deferring to store charts. It is a new way to slice data Appfigures already had, and it feeds directly into the questions agents now ask through the CLI.

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  3. 3mo ago

    App Intelligence for iPad

    Every download and revenue estimate now includes iPad alongside iPhone, with no toggle to set, and iPad-only apps get estimates for the first time. This is foundation work: the later intelligence and agent layers are only as good as the estimates underneath.

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  4. 8mo ago

    Support for By State Financial Reports via the API

    Apple's by-state financial reports are now imported, archived, and exposed via a group_by=state API parameter. API-first delivery — the site reports came later — is the same pattern that eventually produced the agent CLI.

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  5. 8mo ago

    Daily Averages Across Reports

    A daily average is now shown for every metric across all reports. A small readability addition to existing numbers, with no new data behind it.

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  6. 8mo ago

    Introducing the New App Intelligence

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    The rebuild of App Intelligence into 15 competitor reports plus a unified cross-platform app view established the research surface that Leaderboards and the agent CLI now sit on top of. It marked the shift from reporting on your own apps to analysing anyone's.

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