Every category where a model named Sonar 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%	8 of 56	18%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sonar 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 Sonar 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	2

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained12 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“If you have ~$30/month: Go with Sonar. It offers the cleanest search volume/difficulty data for the price” Gemini 3.5 Flash · App store optimization · budget prompt · first choice

“Best for Indie Developers: Sonar ... Excellent value, covers all core ASO tasks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · App store optimization · budget prompt · alternative

“If you are a solo/indie developer: Start with Sonar or ASOMobile.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · App store optimization · comparative prompt · alternative

“Another budget-friendly choice: Sonar — listed at $29/month” Perplexity Sonar · App store optimization · 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.

“solid but start paid and lack fully free equivalents matching AppFollow's breadth” Grok 4.20 · App store optimization · budget prompt · soft negative

“Too lightweight for B2B needs (from $29/mo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · App store optimization · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sonar, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sonar was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

App Radar25 of 293Compare →

Appfigures23 of 296Compare →

AppTweak19 of 295Compare →

AppFollow17 of 293Compare →

Sensor Tower15 of 291Compare →

ASOMobile11 of 293Compare →

ASOTools6 of 291Not among the top eight

AppDrift6 of 291Not among the top eight

MobileAction5 of 290Compare →

Google Play Console4 of 290Not 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 Sonar. 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 29 of the 29 answers that named Sonar and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

trysonar.appYour site28

appfollow.io21

webseotrends.com19

theapplaunchpad.com16

appdrift.co15

g2.com15

appradar.com14

asomobile.net12

apptweak.com9

businessofapps.com8

129 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming Sonar came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

trysonar.app/blog/best-aso-tools26

appfollow.io/blog/aso-tools20

webseotrends.com/blog/best-aso-tools19

appdrift.co/blog/15-best-app-store-optimization-tools15

theapplaunchpad.com/blog/best-app-store-optimization-tool14

appradar.com/academy/aso-tools13

asomobile.net/en/blog/best-aso-tools-2026-platform-comparison-pricing-and-features10

g2.com/categories/app-store-optimization8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

trysonar.app is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sonar takes 2% of first choices and AppTweak takes 39%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “app store optimization tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best app store optimization tool”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 49,500 a month (“sonar”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 8,330 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 210 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 141 · 5 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 97
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 56 in app store optimization

Segment leader

39%

AppTweak

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 29 answers
Its own site cited: in 29 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on trysonar.app

231

subdomains included

Content

145

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	101	52	2026-10-02
Comparison	34	26	2026-08-21	SEO
Template or tool	9	0	2026-05-27
Glossary or explainer	1	0	2026-03-19

Most recent

2026-10-02App not showing in app store search blog
2026-10-01Apple subscription offers compared blog
2026-09-29App store age rating blog
2026-09-28Apple search ads reporting export blog
2026-09-27Build your own aso dashboard blog
2026-09-26Apple search ads cost blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page trysonar.app exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Sonar

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

Sonar (trysonar.app) 2

Follow Sonar

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Sonar's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Sonar, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Sonar 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 Sonar, 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.