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Stage 02 · ASO and keywords

App Store keyword research and ASO inside your coding agent

Ask Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI or Cursor for keywords and it answers with live App Store data, writes the listing for every store language you pick and checks it against Apple's limits and the keyword rules before the metadata stage can close.

Become a founding member What the agent does
12 tools in this stage127 in the whole pipelineFor Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Cursor

The job it replaces

Hours of busywork, gone

Doing it by hand

  • Exporting keyword lists from one tool and pasting them into another
  • Counting characters in the name, subtitle and keyword fields by hand
  • Repeating a word in the title and the keywords without noticing
  • Writing and checking the listing again for every language

With AppFactory

  • Keyword ideas from App Store autocomplete, per storefront
  • Competitors and their ratings for every term, and the price ladder of any competitor
  • Metadata written for every store locale you pick
  • A checker that blocks wasted, duplicated or risky keywords

What the agent does

Step by step

  1. Find what people type

    It reads App Store autocomplete for a seed term in any of 11 storefronts, and can widen the seed to bring up the long tail people really search.

  2. Size up each term

    For every keyword it lists the apps the store search returns, with their ratings and prices, scores the niche and shows the top grossing apps of the category.

  3. Write the listing

    The mandatory ASO stage opens with a metadata template, one section per store language. The agent fills the name, subtitle, keywords, promotional text and description of each store locale from the research.

  4. Check every field

    Apple's limits are enforced (30, 30, 100, 170 and 4,000 characters), and so are the rules that waste ranking: the keyword field must be close to full, no word may repeat across name, subtitle and keywords, no spaces around commas, no filler words, no language names and none of the competitor names you list (guideline 2.3.7). The metadata stage cannot close until the listing passes.

  5. Close the stage

    The ASO stage is marked done only after its metadata passes the limits check, and only then does the delivery gate open. Until then the upload is refused.

  6. Target each search theme

    One Custom Product Page per keyword theme, with the deep links ready for your Apple Ads groups.

  7. Upload

    The listing is written into the App Store Connect draft version.

A fair comparison

ASO tools sell this alone. AppFactory includes it.

Standalone ASO tools usually charge a subscription for keyword research. In AppFactory the ASO tools are one stage of the pipeline that also builds, tests and ships the app, for one payment.

What you getStandalone ASO toolAppFactory
PriceUsually a monthly or yearly subscription$99 once, every update included (founding price for the first 10 buyers, then $149)
Keyword ideas from App Store autocompleteYesYes, per storefront
Competitors and prices per keywordOftenYes, with a niche score
Daily rank tracking with historyYes, that is their focusNo. AppFactory researches and builds; it does not track ranks every day
Writes the listing in every store languageRarelyYes, for every store language you pick, checked against Apple's limits
Builds, tests and ships the appNoYes, from idea to TestFlight

Want a daily history of your rankings? Keep your rank tracker. AppFactory covers the research, the listing and the app around it.

What you get

At the end of this stage

  • Keyword research per storefront, with the competitors behind each term
  • Name, subtitle, keywords, promotional text and description for every store locale
  • A listing that passes Apple's limits and the keyword rules
  • Custom Product Pages per theme with their links

Where it stops for you

  • Writing the listing and creating Custom Product Pages in App Store Connect wait for your approval.
  • Research is read only and needs no account.

Every stage, in one purchase

Founding members pay $99 once, every update included. Only 10 seats at this price, then $149.

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