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2 categories · Named, not ranked

App Annie

13Judge labels

1First choices

5Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. App Annie was named 6 times in App store optimization and 1 other category, where AppTweak led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business61 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 56

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 of 40

under the label threshold

In app store optimization · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named App Annie for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
App store optimization tools	Marketing	2%	15 of 56	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by AppTweak at 39%
Mobile apps	Marketing	0%	57 of 117	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Customer.io at 17%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for App Annie yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated App Annie across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
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	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Start with a free trial of App Annie or TheTool to test which fits your workflow better.” MiniMax M2.5 · App store optimization · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“supplement with free ASO tools like App Annie or Mobile Action” Kimi K2 · Mobile apps · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Many ASO "intelligence" tools (like App Annie, Sensor Tower, Apptopia) provide *modeled estimates*... Estimates can be off by 50-200%” DeepSeek V4 Flash · App store optimization · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as App Annie, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and App Annie was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sensor Tower12 of 132Not among the top eight

AppTweak7 of 131Not among the top eight

MobileAction6 of 130Not among the top eight

App Radar4 of 132Not among the top eight

ASOdesk3 of 130Not among the top eight

AppFollow3 of 130Not among the top eight

data.ai3 of 130Not among the top eight

App Store Connect2 of 130Not among the top eight

Google Play Console2 of 130Not among the top eight

StoreMaven2 of 130Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named App Annie. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 10 of the 13 answers that named App Annie and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

appradar.com8

appfollow.io6

devopsschool.com4

g2.com4

appdrift.co3

clickup.com3

guideflow.com3

theapplaunchpad.com3

wix.com3

anything.com2

No domain is on file for App Annie, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

appradar.com/academy/aso-tools6

appfollow.io/blog/aso-tools5

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-app-store-optimization-tools-in-2025-features-pros-cons-compa4

appdrift.co/blog/15-best-app-store-optimization-tools3

appfollow.io/blog/app-store-optimization-services3

clickup.com/blog/aso-tools3

wix.com/blog/aso-mistakes3

anything.com/blog/when-to-pay-for-app-store-optimization-services2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as App Annie

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as App Annie; a claim can dispute any of them.

App Annie (data.ai) 1App Annie (now data.ai) 1

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for App Annie by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where App Annie is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name App Annie, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.