App Store Connect
Why models recommend it
“First-party, free, and the only *real* data source for your own app”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Use App Store Connect and Google Play Console first; both provide free search, conversion, and listing-experiment data”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“give you first-party impressions, conversion and search-term data for your own app at $0, and should be the baseline”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“For iOS, also use App Store Connect for performance analytics and product-page testing at no extra tool cost.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as App Store Connect, over the 18 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 3 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 18 of the 18 answers that named App Store Connect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for App Store Connect, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |