AppTraction is a native Mac app that makes App Store Connect make sense. Your sales, analytics, ratings, and reviews live on your Mac and appear instantly. It monitors your apps, flags problems, trends, and milestones, and writes weekly, monthly, and annual reports. Its AI evaluates your listing and helps fix it, and you can chat about any chart or report. It’s primed with Apple’s own ASO advice and uses your existing Claude or Codex subscription. Your data is stored only on your Mac.
I’m John. I spent 10 years as a senior engineer at Apple working on macOS and iOS, 2 years at Airbnb, and the last 8 as an indie dev, shipping 20+ apps for myself and clients. Along the way I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to distribute, market, and grow an app. AppTraction is the tool I wish I’d had when I started building my own apps.
Why I built it
Talking with other iOS and Mac developers, the one thing it seems we all agree on is that App Store Connect is frustrating, slow, and hard to make sense of. AppTraction fixes all of that.
What makes AppTraction different
It’s a fast native Mac app, not a website. Once your data is downloaded, everything is cached and instant.
It’s an “AI-first” app. A powerful AI sits behind many of AppTraction’s main features. It reviews and improves your listing, writes reports, and answers questions about any chart, table, or report.
Insights, not just data. AppTraction also proactively monitors your apps for issues and raises them as actionable “Insight cards”. With my own apps, it’s already caught several things I would have missed for months.
It uses your existing Claude or Codex subscription (or OpenRouter), so no pricey API fees.
Privacy focused: No data sharing, no ads, no key leakage, and your data never leaves your Mac. Our privacy policy: https://apptraction.dev/privacy
🎁 For the Product Hunt community: get 50% off with code HUNT50.
I’m still learning about what indie devs want to see from AppTraction and I plan on iterating new features and updates quickly, so I’d love to hear your feedback. What works for you? What’s missing?
Keeping the data on the Mac and reusing the Claude or Codex subscription I already use makes a lot of sense for a small dev. Any plans to pull in Google Play Console too, for apps that ship on both stores?
insight cards that flag problems before you would notice them is the useful part for App Store Connect. do they land as a notification on the Mac, or only inside the app?
As a solo dev this is exactly the gap I feel — I check App Store Connect in bursts and mostly miss the slow trends, so the proactive monitoring is the part that would actually change things for me. Love that it's a native Mac app and that it uses my existing Claude sub instead of another API bill. Congrats on the launch!
having app performance, reviews, and reports in one native Mac app makes tracking growth much easier.. keeping all the data local is a nice bonus
keeping it all on the mac is nice but what happens when two ppl on the team need the same numbers
About AppTraction on Product Hunt
“Supercharge Apple App Store analytics”
AppTraction launched on Product Hunt on November 10th, 2026 and earned 79 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #18 on the daily leaderboard. AppTraction is a native Mac app that makes App Store Connect make sense. Your sales, analytics, ratings, and reviews live on your Mac and appear instantly. It monitors your apps, flags problems, trends, and milestones, and writes weekly, monthly, and annual reports. Its AI evaluates your listing and helps fix it, and you can chat about any chart or report. It’s primed with Apple’s own ASO advice and uses your existing Claude or Codex subscription. Your data is stored only on your Mac.
AppTraction was featured in Mac (103.9k followers), Developer Tools (523k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (483.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 241.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted AppTraction?
AppTraction was hunted by John Scalo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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John Scalo
Hi everyone 👋
I’m John. I spent 10 years as a senior engineer at Apple working on macOS and iOS, 2 years at Airbnb, and the last 8 as an indie dev, shipping 20+ apps for myself and clients. Along the way I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to distribute, market, and grow an app. AppTraction is the tool I wish I’d had when I started building my own apps.
Why I built it
Talking with other iOS and Mac developers, the one thing it seems we all agree on is that App Store Connect is frustrating, slow, and hard to make sense of. AppTraction fixes all of that.
What makes AppTraction different
It’s a fast native Mac app, not a website. Once your data is downloaded, everything is cached and instant.
It’s an “AI-first” app. A powerful AI sits behind many of AppTraction’s main features. It reviews and improves your listing, writes reports, and answers questions about any chart, table, or report.
Insights, not just data. AppTraction also proactively monitors your apps for issues and raises them as actionable “Insight cards”. With my own apps, it’s already caught several things I would have missed for months.
It uses your existing Claude or Codex subscription (or OpenRouter), so no pricey API fees.
Privacy focused: No data sharing, no ads, no key leakage, and your data never leaves your Mac. Our privacy policy: https://apptraction.dev/privacy
🎁 For the Product Hunt community: get 50% off with code HUNT50.
I’m still learning about what indie devs want to see from AppTraction and I plan on iterating new features and updates quickly, so I’d love to hear your feedback. What works for you? What’s missing?