Sonar ASO

The full competitive keyword picture for one of your own apps vs every tracked competitor, in one call: live stats (keyword gaps where competitors rank and you don't, winnable gaps, competitors climbing on your tracked keywords, keywords you lead), the top gap/threat/lead rows with metrics, and the latest AI insight if one was generated (opportunity clusters, threat narratives, strengths, posture). Use it when choosing which keywords to target next. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_competitor_landscape

WRITE tool — creates a product in the caller's Sonar workspace and starts tracking the given app(s). A product is the cross-store unit (one iOS + one Android app, or just one of either). Returns the product id and the Sonar app ids needed by sonar_track_keywords and sonar_track_competitor. Own apps count against the plan cap (Indie 10, Agency 50; competitors are not capped) — at the cap the call fails with a 403 plan_limit error. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_create_product

Create an app-store screenshot set for a product, from your own `screens` layouts or a built-in template. The layout JSON format and template ids are documented by sonar_screenshot_layout_guide. The set is immediately visible/editable for humans in the Screenshot Studio (studio_url in the response). Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or a write-scope API key.

sonar_create_screenshot_set

WRITE tool — delete an alert subscription in the caller's Sonar workspace. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_delete_alert

WRITE tool — delete a product in the caller's Sonar workspace and untrack every app linked to it, with their tracked keywords, discovered keywords, and competitor links. The product's screenshot sets are deleted too. Shared store data (app metadata, snapshots, rank history) is not deleted. Returns { id, deleted, untracked_apps }. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_delete_product

Delete one screen from a screenshot set. A set keeps at least one screen — deleting the last one is rejected. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or a write-scope API key.

sonar_delete_screenshot

Permanently delete a screenshot set and everything in it (screens, translations). Irreversible — confirm with the user before deleting work they may want. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or a write-scope API key.

sonar_delete_screenshot_set

WRITE tool — stop tracking one keyword/app pair in the caller's Sonar workspace. Identify the pair by its tracked-keyword id (from sonar_app_keywords). Equivalent to sonar_untrack_keywords with a single id; that tool removes several (or all) of an app's keywords in one call. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_delete_tracked_keyword

Keywords Sonar's discovery engine surfaced for one of your tracked apps but that aren't tracked yet — ranked finds (the app already ranks, unnoticed), competitor gaps, and AI/autocomplete-sourced ideas — each with popularity, difficulty, AI relevance, and an opportunity score (0-100, best first). This is Sonar's "what should I track next" answer; rows can be tracked with sonar_track_keywords. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_discovered_keywords

Estimate monthly revenue for an app, based on install counts, ratings, and category benchmarks. Returns the dollar estimate, a confidence grade (high/medium/low) with the factors behind it, and the methodology used. The figure is a model estimate, not reported revenue; the confidence grade is the part that says how far to trust it. Needs a Sonar API key or connected account (1 credit per call on prepaid API credits); not part of the free tier.

sonar_app_revenue

Extract the most likely target keywords from an app's title and description, ranked by relevance. Useful for understanding what an app (yours or a competitor) is optimizing for. Works without an API key (free tier, limited daily use per IP).

sonar_app_extract_keywords

Fetch user reviews for any app, live from the store (up to ~500 of the most recent or most helpful for the country). The star-rating filters and `limit` apply to that fetched window, so a narrow filter on a small app can return few or no reviews. Useful for sentiment analysis, feature-request mining, and competitive research; for an already-summarized view of a tracked app, sonar_review_insights returns themed AI analysis instead. Needs a Sonar API key or connected account (1 credit per call on prepaid API credits); not part of the free tier. If the store is throttling, the result may be Sonar's stored copy: it then comes back as `{ data, meta }` with `meta.stale: true`, its date in `meta.stale_as_of`, and a `meta.note` to pass on to the user.

sonar_app_reviews

WRITE tool — generates a fresh AI review analysis for a tracked app from its recent reviews (praise/complaint themes, sentiment, feature requests, trend vs the previous run). At most one analysis per app+country every 90 days (429 with the next available time while in cooldown — use sonar_review_insights to read the current one); needs at least 5 recent reviews. Requires a paid (non-trial) Indie plan and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_generate_review_insights

Fetch a screenshot set in full: every screen's layout JSON plus per-screen translation overrides keyed by locale. By default inline image data is replaced with placeholders to keep the response readable. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_get_screenshot_set

Get full details for one tracked app in the caller's Sonar workspace: store metadata plus up to 90 daily snapshots of rating, review count, version, and installs. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_get_app

Difficulty + popularity for a specific keyword (or up to 25 in bulk). Use this when you already know which keywords you care about — costs 1 credit per keyword. Works without an API key for up to 5 keywords/day (free tier, per IP); an API key removes that cap. Use sonar_keyword_search instead when you want related keyword ideas alongside metrics. A keyword the API cannot compute right away comes back as `pending` (queued on the scrape fleet, not charged) — this tool already waits and re-checks briefly; if it is still pending, call again after `retry_after_seconds`.

sonar_keyword_metrics

Research a keyword and related terms. Returns up to 10 rows — the seed keyword plus the store's top autocomplete suggestions — each with difficulty (0-100), popularity score, and results count. Use this to find keywords worth targeting; for metrics on terms you already know, sonar_keyword_metrics is cheaper. On prepaid API credits it costs 10 credits per call (rows that could not be computed are refunded); it needs a Sonar API key or connected account and is not part of the free tier. Answers within about 30 seconds. Each row carries `measured_at` (difficulty) and `popularity_measured_at` (popularity, can be older), ISO 8601 UTC; `stale: true` means at least one of them is older than 7 days. A related term that couldn't be computed in time comes back marked `pending` (queued, not charged) — get it later with sonar_keyword_metrics.

sonar_keyword_search

SERP history for one tracked keyword — which apps ranked in the top results on each measured day, newest first. Use this to see who competes on a keyword and how the top spots shifted over time. The keyword must be tracked in the caller's Sonar workspace. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_keyword_rankings

Get autocomplete suggestions for a seed keyword from the App Store or Google Play, in the order the store shows them. List position is the only demand signal: the `priority` field is 0 on Google Play and currently 0 on the App Store as well. Lighter and faster than sonar_keyword_search — use when you only need term ideas without difficulty/popularity scoring. Works without an API key (free tier, limited daily use per IP). If the store is throttling, the result may be Sonar's stored copy: it then comes back as `{ data, meta }` with `meta.stale: true`, its date in `meta.stale_as_of`, and a `meta.note` to pass on to the user.

sonar_keyword_suggestions

List your alert subscriptions — each rule defines a change type (rank drops, review spikes, etc.), its scope (a specific app or org-wide), threshold, and whether it's enabled. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_list_alerts

List the keywords tracked for an app in the caller's Sonar workspace, with latest difficulty, popularity, results count, note, and starred_at (favorite/target marker) per keyword. Returns the tracked-keyword ids used by sonar_update_keyword_note and sonar_star_keyword, and the keyword_ids used by sonar_keyword_rankings. Cursor-paginated (default 50 per page). Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_app_keywords

List every product in your workspace (unpaginated): each product's id, name, country, competitor count, and its linked store versions (Sonar app id, store, store_id, name). Product ids are what sonar_track_app, sonar_track_competitor, sonar_remove_competitor, sonar_delete_product, and the screenshot-set tools take; for per-app snapshots and competitor apps use sonar_list_apps. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_list_products

List the device sizes supported for app-store screenshot sets, with their canvas dimensions (the pixel coordinate space all layouts use) and which store each belongs to — including the landscape App Store creative-asset canvases (category "creative": product page header and search results asset). Pick a device here before sonar_create_screenshot_set. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_screenshot_devices

List a product's app-store screenshot sets (metadata only: store, device size, locales, studio_url). Use sonar_get_screenshot_set for full layouts. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_list_screenshot_sets

List the apps tracked in the caller's Sonar workspace (own apps + competitors), each with its latest snapshot (rating, review count, version, installs). Returns the Sonar app UUIDs needed by sonar_get_app, sonar_app_keywords, sonar_app_rankings, and sonar_app_changes. Cursor-paginated (default 100 per page). Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_list_apps

Look up a single app by its store ID. Returns app metadata including name, developer, category, rating, reviews, installs (Android), and price. Works without an API key (free tier, limited daily use per IP). If the store is throttling, the result may be Sonar's stored copy: it then comes back as `{ data, meta }` with `meta.stale: true`, its date in `meta.stale_as_of`, and a `meta.note` to pass on to the user.

sonar_app_lookup

The whole portfolio's health in one call — for orgs managing many apps: per-app KPIs (visibility + 7-day delta, ranked/top-10 counts, net rank movement, rating, review count), org-wide totals, the biggest keyword movers in both directions, a needs-attention triage list (visibility drops, rating drops, not-ranked apps), and the best discovered-keyword opportunities across all apps. Same numbers as the /portfolio page. Requires an Agency plan (403 on other plans).

sonar_portfolio

WRITE tool — remove a competitor from a product in the caller's Sonar workspace. Drops the competitor link under every own app of the product; if no other own app in the workspace still references the competitor, the competitor app is untracked as well. 404 when the product has no such competitor. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_remove_competitor

The latest AI review analysis for a tracked app (your own or a competitor): what users praise and complain about as named themes with frequency, verbatim quotes, and trend movement (new / persisting / growing / improving / resolved), plus overall sentiment, surfaced feature requests, and what changed vs the previous analysis. `insight` is null if none has been generated yet — use sonar_generate_review_insights. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts).

sonar_review_insights

WRITE tool — runs an AI keyword discovery scan on a tracked competitor: generates the search terms the competitor's listing is optimized for (brand terms included), queues them for SERP verification, and verifies the first batch inline (~30s), recording both apps' ranks. Returns generated/queued/verified_now counts; the rest verify in the background over the following hours — read results with sonar_competitor_keywords. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_scan_competitor

The layout-format reference for Sonar screenshot sets: static text, so one call per session is enough. It documents the layout JSON schema, coordinate system, image handling (remote URLs), flowing background shapes, fonts, translation overrides, and the recommended workflow.

sonar_screenshot_layout_guide

Search apps in the App Store or Google Play by keyword. Returns ranked list of apps with metadata (results are returned in store ranking order). Works without an API key (free tier, limited daily use per IP). If the store is throttling, the result may be Sonar's stored copy: it then comes back as `{ data, meta }` with `meta.stale: true`, its date in `meta.stale_as_of`, and a `meta.note` to pass on to the user.

sonar_app_search

WRITE tool — create or update an alert subscription in the caller's Sonar workspace. Upserts on (type + scope): re-submitting the same type/scope updates the existing rule. Omit `threshold` for the per-type default; omit `scope_app_id` for an org-wide rule. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_set_alert

Write a locale's translation overrides for screens in a screenshot set (text copy, localized captures/images). Geometry and styling always come from the source layout; anything not overridden falls back to it. The locale is auto-enabled on the set. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or a write-scope API key.

sonar_set_screenshot_translations

WRITE tool — stars or unstars a tracked keyword in the caller's Sonar workspace. A star marks the keyword as a favorite/target the user is actively pursuing; starred keywords carry a starred_at timestamp in sonar_app_keywords results. Idempotent: re-starring refreshes the timestamp, unstarring a non-starred keyword is a no-op. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_star_keyword

Get a store top chart (free / paid / grossing, overall or by category) with day-over-day movement: per-app rank delta, apps new to the chart, biggest movers and apps that dropped out. Use to see what's rising in a market or category. Note: summary, movers and droppedApps always describe the full top 200 — `limit` truncates the returned entries only. Movement is empty on the first day a chart is requested (no previous snapshot yet). Answers within about 30 seconds: when a live refresh can't finish in time the newest stored chart is returned with `stale: true` and its `measuredAt` date. Works without an API key (free tier, limited daily use per IP).

sonar_top_charts

WRITE tool — links the second-store version of an existing Sonar product (e.g. the product already tracks the iOS app and you want to add the Android version, or vice versa). Each product holds at most one iOS + one Android app; to start tracking a brand-new app, use sonar_create_product instead. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_track_app

WRITE tool — adds a competitor app under a Sonar product so its keywords and rankings get tracked alongside the product's own app. The product must already have its own app linked in the same store as the competitor. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_track_competitor

WRITE tool — starts daily rank tracking for one or more keywords on an app in the caller's Sonar workspace. Idempotent: re-posting the same terms reports them as already_tracked instead of creating duplicates. Returns per-keyword outcomes (created / already_tracked / failed). Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_track_keywords

WRITE tool — untrack an app in the caller's Sonar workspace. Deletes the workspace's tracked keywords for it (with their notes and stars), its discovered keywords, and its competitor links, and detaches it from its product — deleting the product, and that product's screenshot sets, if no other app is left. Shared store data (app metadata, snapshots, rank history) is not deleted. To drop a competitor from one product use sonar_remove_competitor instead. Requires an Indie plan (trial counts) and an authorized Sonar account or an API key with the write scope.

sonar_untrack_app