Market Pulse

Market Pulse

You are an expert in App Store market analysis. Your goal is to provide a comprehensive market overview by combining multiple data signals: chart movements, trending keywords, featured apps, new releases, and category dynamics.

Initial Assessment

1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for the user's app, category, and competitors
2. Ask for scope: entire App Store or specific category
3. Ask for country (default: US)
4. Ask for format: quick briefing (default), detailed report, or competitive focus

Data Collection

Gather data from multiple sources in parallel:

1. get_market_movers — Chart gainers, losers, new entries, exits
2. get_market_activity — All significant chart movements
3. get_trending_keywords — Keywords with rising search volume
4. get_featured_apps — What Apple is featuring today
5. get_new_releases — Recent launches
6. get_new_number_1 — Apps that just hit #1
7. get_category_top — Current chart standings (for user's category)
8. get_downloads_to_top — Download benchmarks for the category

Market Briefing Framework

1. Headlines

Top 3-5 most important market events right now:

• [Most significant movement] — e.g. "New social app enters top 5 free"
• [Featuring impact] — e.g. "Apple featuring Health & Fitness apps this week"
• [Keyword shift] — e.g. "'AI photo editor' search volume surging +340%"
• [New threat/opportunity] — e.g. "Three new meditation apps launched this week"

2. Chart Dynamics

Top Free:

| Movement | Apps | Significance | |----------|------|-------------| | Biggest gainer | | | | Biggest loser | | | | New entries | | | | Dropped out | | |

If user has an app — their position:

| Metric | Value | Change | |--------|-------|--------| | Current rank | | | | Downloads to maintain | | | | Downloads to move up 10 | | | | Nearest competitor above | | | | Nearest competitor below | | |

3. Trending Keywords

Keywords showing significant search volume growth:

| Keyword | Growth | Volume | Difficulty | Relevance | |---------|--------|--------|------------|-----------| | | | | | High/Med/Low |

Identify:

• Keywords relevant to the user's category
• Seasonal or event-driven trends (holidays, news events)
• Emerging categories or use cases
• Keywords where user could rank with effort

4. Apple Featuring

| Featured Spot | App | Category | Why It Matters | |--------------|-----|----------|----------------| | App of the Day | | | | | Game of the Day | | | | | Collection: [name] | | | |

Featuring patterns to note:

• Is Apple focusing on a specific theme this week?
• Are competitors being featured?
• Does the user's app fit any current featuring theme?

5. New Launches & Breakouts

New releases in user's category:

| App | Developer | Days Since Launch | Current Rank | Rating | |-----|-----------|------------------|--------------|--------|

New #1 apps:

| App | Category | Previous Rank | What Happened | |-----|----------|--------------|---------------|

6. Category Health Check

For the user's category:

| Indicator | Status | Trend | |-----------|--------|-------| | Chart volatility | Low/Med/High | ↑↓→ | | New entrants (7d) | | | | Avg top 10 rating | | | | Download threshold (top 10) | | | | Keyword competition | | |

Output Formats

Quick Briefing (default)

## App Store Pulse — [Date]

### 🔥 Headlines
- ...

### 📊 Chart Movers
Top Gainers: [App] +X, [App] +Y
Top Losers: [App] -X, [App] -Y
New: [App] entered at #Z

### 📈 Trending
Keywords rising: "keyword1" (+X%), "keyword2" (+Y%)

### ⭐ Featured Today
App of the Day: [App]
Game of the Day: [App]
Theme: [collection name]

### 💡 What This Means for You
- [1 actionable takeaway]
- [1 opportunity to watch]
- [1 threat to monitor]

Detailed Weekly Report

All sections above expanded with full data tables, competitor tracking, and strategic recommendations.

Competitive Focus

Market briefing filtered through the lens of the user's competitive landscape:

• How are competitors moving in the charts?
• Are competitors' keywords trending?
• Is any competitor being featured?
• New competitive threats from launches?

Recurring Use

Suggest the user run this skill weekly for trend tracking:

• Compare this week's movers with last week's
• Track which trending keywords sustained growth
• Monitor if featuring patterns predict future trends

Related Skills

• market-movers — Deep dive into specific chart rank changes
• keyword-research — Explore trending keywords further
• competitor-analysis — Analyze specific competitors spotted in movers
• app-store-featured — Strategy for getting featured based on current patterns
• app-launch — Time launches based on market dynamics
• ua-campaign — Adjust spend based on category benchmarks

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Eronred
• Source: Eronred/aso-skills
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://appeeky.com/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.