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How it works

From public listing to versioned history

No magic claims: listings are crawled, compared, and stored as diffs. Every app page shows when it was last checked.

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    We crawl the listing on a regular cadence

    Shoplist re-reads the public App Store listing for tracked apps and compares every field against the last known version — name, description, pricing plans, features, screenshots, categories, and more.

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    Changes become field-level diffs

    Each detected edit is stored as a before/after pair with a detection date, so you can see exactly what changed, when, and in what direction — not just that “something” was updated. Pricing plans added, removed, renamed, or re-priced are the clearest early signal of a competitor repositioning.

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    You filter for the changes that matter

    Scope the history to meaningful changes (pricing, positioning, features) or see everything. Daily category rank and a monthly update pulse sit beside the diff timeline, so rank moves and listing edits can be read together.

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Honest data

What this is — and isn’t

Change Intelligence observes public App Store listings. Changes are detected at crawl cadence, not streamed in real time, and each app page shows its last-checked timestamp so you always know how fresh the history is.

We never claim visibility into private data: install counts, revenue, or anything behind a partner login. What we can show is what an app publicly says about itself — and how that story changes over time, which is often the more useful signal.

Read more about how signals are sourced and labeled in the data methodology.

Tracked on every listing

  • Name and tagline
  • Description and positioning copy
  • Pricing plans, prices, and trials
  • Feature lists and highlights
  • Screenshots and media
  • Categories and featured placements
  • Category rank, daily

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Read competitor listings like a changelog.

Follow the apps that matter and every edit lands in your feed, dated and diffed.

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