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Google Play Console

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#19Best rank (small business)
11/14Models named it
2First choices
0Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inApp store optimization tools #19 small businessMobile apps #111
What AI models recommend in app store optimization

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“Start free with Apple's and Google's built-in tools (Apple Search Ads keyword tool + Play Console experiments)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“First-party, free, and the only *real* data source for your own app”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“both provide free search, conversion, and listing-experiment data, though they lack competitor intelligence”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Start with free tools like App Store Connect and Google Play Console for your own app's performance data.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Google Play Console, over the 23 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Google Play Console's own site, not checked by Gane.

Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Founded
1998
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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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Google Play Console came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 22 of the 23 answers that named Google Play Console and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appfollow.io16
g2.com11
asomobile.net9
trysonar.app9
appradar.com8
reddit.com7
apptweak.com6
createanything.com6
moburst.com6
softwareadvice.com6

Eighty-four of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming Google Play Console came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Google Play Console across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash20103
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01001