AppScout: App Metrics · For iOS developers

Your App Store Connect metrics, on your iPhone.

Name: AppScout: App Metrics
Author: Andrew Tanchuk

Track app downloads, revenue, proceeds, subscriptions, and MRR in one native iPhone app. Explore the numbers by app, country, device, and product type, or keep a metric on your Home Screen and Lock Screen.

AppScout connects directly to Apple’s App Store Connect API using your team’s API key. It turns daily Sales and Subscription Summary reports into a dashboard, charts, and daily feeds. Your private key stays in your device’s Keychain, and you do not need an AppScout account or an SDK in your own apps.

Get AppScout for iPhone What you need to connect

Free to download · iOS 26 or later · Explore sample data before setup

12 supported metrics: Acquisition, sales, and subscriptions.
One team, multiple apps: View your portfolio or focus on selected apps.
Daily Apple reports: Usually available the following day.
Stored on your device: Local report processing and a Keychain-stored private key.

All 12 App Store metrics, explained

AppScout groups its dashboard into Acquisition, Sales, and Subscriptions. Open a metric to see its history and the available breakdowns. The definitions below describe how AppScout uses Apple’s reports, so you can choose the right number for the question you have.

Acquisition

Understand how your apps are downloaded and updated.

Downloads: The combined number of first-time downloads and redownloads in the selected period. Updates are tracked separately, so you can see download activity without mixing it with app updates.
First-Time: First-time app download units from Apple’s Sales reports. Use this metric to follow new downloads separately from people downloading an app again. It is a download measure, not a count of active users.
Redownloads: Redownload and restore activity reported by Apple. View it alongside first-time downloads to understand how much download activity comes from returning downloads.
Updates: App update units recorded in Apple’s reports. Follow update activity on its own chart, separate from first-time downloads and redownloads.

Sales

See customer spending, developer proceeds, purchases, and refunds.

Revenue: Customer-price amounts from the Sales report, with positive sales and negative refund entries contributing to the total. Revenue describes the customer side of the sale; it is different from the proceeds payable to the developer.
Proceeds: The developer-proceeds amounts reported by Apple, including applicable negative adjustments. Use this alongside Revenue to distinguish customer spending from your developer share. Daily proceeds are not a bank payout statement.
In-App Purchases: In-app purchase units identified in Apple’s Sales reports. This is a count of reported purchase units, while Revenue and Proceeds show monetary amounts. It is not a count of unique paying customers.
Refunds: The monetary value of refund entries, shown as a positive amount so you can review refunds separately. Open the daily feed for the reported app, product, country, units, and price details when available.

Subscriptions

Follow your active subscription base and its estimated monthly revenue run rate.

Subscriptions: Active paid subscriptions in Apple’s Subscription Summary report, including supported paid introductory, promotional, offer-code, and win-back offers. Free trials have their own metric. This is a subscription count, not a count of distinct people.
MRR: Monthly recurring revenue calculated from active paid subscriptions, reported customer prices, and subscription durations. AppScout normalizes those prices to a monthly amount. MRR is a run-rate estimate, not the cash collected during the month.
Net MRR: The monthly recurring run rate calculated using Apple’s reported developer proceeds instead of customer prices. This gives you a proceeds-based view of recurring revenue alongside MRR. It is not a measure of business profit.
Free Trials: Active free-trial subscriptions from the Subscription Summary report, including supported introductory, promotional, offer-code, and win-back trials. This shows the active trial base on a report date, rather than the number of trials started during a period.

Follow trends and compare reporting periods

The dashboard gives you a one-month overview. Open a metric and switch between 1M, 3M, and 1Y to inspect a shorter trend or a broader history. The one-month and three-month views cover 30 and 90 days; the one-year view uses a 12-calendar-month window through the latest available report date.

Charts and percentage changes help you see whether a metric is rising or falling compared with its previous period when comparison data is available. Touch and move across a chart to inspect values at a particular point and see the associated breakdowns. Available history depends on the reports Apple provides and the data AppScout has loaded.

Use a short period to check recent download or sales changes, then widen the view to put them in context. For subscription metrics, read the chart as a history of your active base or recurring run rate.

Understand where your results come from

A total gives you the size of a change. Breakdowns help you find where it happened. AppScout provides four ways to explore the detail available in Apple’s reports:

By app: compare contributions from the apps in your connected team.
By country or region: see the markets represented in your report data.
By device: compare the device categories reported by Apple.
By product type: separate the product categories associated with a metric.

Open a breakdown item to inspect its chart and daily history. You can also go deeper: for example, open an app and explore its countries, or open a country and see the apps contributing to it. The available categories depend on the metric and source report.

Review daily sales and refund activity

Daily feeds organize reported activity by date. Revenue, Proceeds, and Refunds include report-derived rows with app, product, country, units, and price information when those fields are available. Open a row to inspect its details. These are Apple report entries, which can aggregate units; they are not individual customer profiles or receipts.

Keep the dashboard focused on your apps

View all visible apps in the connected team, a single app, or a selected group. Your selection carries through the metric views so you can move between a portfolio overview and a closer look at one product.

In Manage Apps, reorder your apps, give them local display names, and hide apps you do not want in your normal view. These preferences organize AppScout; they do not rename or remove your App Store listings. Hidden apps can be shown again.

You can also hide individual dashboard metrics and restore them from Hidden Metrics, or turn dashboard section titles on and off.

Choose your display currency

Monetary report values are normalized to USD, and you can choose a different display currency in Settings. AppScout uses historical exchange rates for conversion, with the selected currency also used by its widget snapshots. Converted values are useful for comparison but may differ from Apple’s financial settlement amounts.

App Store metrics on your Home Screen and Lock Screen

Add AppScout widgets to check a number without opening the app. Small and medium Home Screen widgets and a rectangular Lock Screen widget are available. Choose from all 12 metrics, including downloads, revenue, subscriptions, and MRR.

Configure each widget with its own metric, a one-month, three-month, or one-year period, and the apps you want to include. Leaving the app selection empty uses all non-hidden apps. You can keep different metrics or different app groups in separate widgets.

Widgets read the latest data saved by AppScout. Refreshing the app makes newer data available to them, while iOS controls when each widget redraws. A widget is a convenient view of your latest reports, not a live sales ticker.

Daily reports, refresh, and optional notifications

AppScout reads Apple’s daily Sales and Subscription Summary reports. These reports are normally available the following day, so the latest numbers are usually about a day behind. Apple can publish reports later, and different report types may become available at different times.

The app checks for reports when you open it, when you pull to refresh, and during background refresh opportunities granted by iOS. Cached content lets you return to previously loaded metrics while fresh reports are being checked or downloaded.

Choose which new-data alerts you receive

Notifications are optional. Choose Positive Only for detected positive changes, Every Update for newly available report data found during background refresh, or Off. Notifications require permission and Background App Refresh. They are not guaranteed to arrive every day or at a fixed time, because iOS decides when the app can check in the background.

Check connection details when something looks wrong

Settings includes a Connection Log with recent App Store Connect request results and failures. It can help identify setup, access, or report-availability issues when a refresh does not produce the numbers you expected.

How to connect AppScout to App Store Connect

You need access to an App Store Connect team, a Team API key with access to Sales and Reports, its Key ID and Issuer ID, and your Vendor Number. AppScout connects one team at a time and shows the released apps available to that connection.

Download AppScout. Install it on an iPhone with iOS 26 or later. You can explore sample data before entering credentials.
Create or choose a Team API key. Open the API Keys section in App Store Connect. Download your private key file and import the .p8 file into AppScout. The app can read the Key ID from Apple’s standard key filename; check the Key ID during setup.
Enter your Issuer ID. Copy it from the same App Store Connect API Keys area.
Enter your Vendor Number. Find it in Payments and Financial Reports. AppScout validates the connection and starts loading your reports.

AppScout’s onboarding includes visual guidance for these steps. If you cannot access API keys or the required reports, check your team’s permissions with its account holder or administrator. You do not need to install anything in your own apps.

Your private key and reports stay on your device

AppScout stores your App Store Connect private key in the iOS Keychain, configured for that device. The key signs authenticated requests locally. The app fetches reports directly from Apple and processes them on your iPhone, rather than sending them through an AppScout backend.

Setup details, preferences, app information, report-derived metrics, and the Connection Log are stored locally. Some local app data may be included in device backups according to your Apple settings. AppScout does not currently sync your reports between devices through an AppScout service.

The app has no advertising, tracking, or third-party usage-measurement SDKs. It does make network requests to Apple for reports and app icons, and to exchange-rate providers for currency data. Exchange-rate requests do not include your API key details, Vendor Number, app names, or app IDs.

You control the connection: remove the Team Key in AppScout’s settings or revoke it in App Store Connect. See the AppScout Privacy Policy for storage, deletion, backups, and external-service details.

Frequently asked questions

What is AppScout?

AppScout: App Metrics is an independent iPhone app by Andrew Tanchuk for viewing your own App Store Connect reports. It brings downloads, sales, subscriptions, MRR, charts, breakdowns, and configurable widgets into a native app. It is built for developers who already have apps and access to their team’s App Store Connect data.

Is AppScout free, and which devices does it support?

AppScout is currently free to download from the App Store and is designed for iPhone running iOS 26 or later. Check its App Store listing for the latest availability and compatibility details.

Do I need to create an AppScout account?

No. You connect your existing App Store Connect team using a Team API key and Vendor Number. There is no separate AppScout account. You can also explore the interface with sample data before connecting your own team.

Can I track several apps or several App Store Connect teams?

You can view multiple released apps belonging to the connected App Store Connect team, select one app or a group, and hide apps from your normal view. AppScout currently connects one team at a time; it does not combine several developer accounts in one dashboard.

Is AppScout real-time analytics?

No. AppScout uses Apple’s daily Sales and Subscription Summary reports. Reports are normally available the following day, and delays can occur. Opening or refreshing AppScout checks for reports Apple has published; it cannot make an unpublished report available sooner.

What is the difference between Revenue, Proceeds, MRR, and Net MRR?

Revenue uses reported customer-price amounts, while Proceeds uses Apple’s developer-proceeds amounts. Both describe activity within a selected period. MRR and Net MRR instead estimate a monthly run rate from the active paid subscription base: MRR uses customer prices, and Net MRR uses developer proceeds. They are different views of the business, so they should not be expected to match.

Can I see app revenue and MRR in a widget?

Yes. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets can show any of AppScout’s 12 supported metrics, including Revenue, Proceeds, MRR, and Net MRR. Each widget has its own metric, period, and app selection. Widgets use data last refreshed by AppScout, and iOS controls when they update on screen.

Why might my numbers differ from another App Store Connect view?

Check that you are comparing the same metric definition, apps, dates, report source, and currency. AppScout uses daily Sales and Subscription Summary reports; other Apple screens may use different reporting rules or periods. Currency conversion, refunds, report delays, and partial data can also affect a comparison. For accounting and payouts, refer to Apple’s official financial reports.

Does AppScout send my private key to its developer?

No. The private key is stored in the iOS Keychain and used on your device to sign requests to Apple. AppScout does not run a backend that collects your key or report data. It does contact Apple for reports and app information, and third-party services for exchange rates.

Do I need to add an SDK to my own apps?

No. AppScout reads reports that Apple already provides through App Store Connect. Connecting AppScout does not require changing your app’s code, adding an analytics SDK, or releasing a new version of your app.

Can I view cached metrics offline?

Previously loaded metrics are cached on your device, so AppScout can reopen saved data without fetching every report again. A network connection is needed for setup, new reports, and any details or exchange rates that have not yet been downloaded.

Can I remove the connection later?

Yes. Remove the Team Key in AppScout’s settings to remove the stored private key and clear the associated app lists, preferences, icons, and cached metrics. Issuer ID and Vendor Number remain available to prefill setup, and recent Connection Log entries may remain. You can separately revoke the API key in App Store Connect to stop future access with that key.

About AppScout and getting help

AppScout: App Metrics is made by Andrew Tanchuk. It is an independent app for developers who want a focused way to check their own App Store performance on iPhone. AppScout is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

For setup questions, feedback, or a report that does not look right, email andrew.dsgnr@gmail.com or use Send Feedback in the app’s Settings. Include the metric, date range, and issue you are seeing. Keep private keys out of support messages.

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