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Looking for an AppFollow alternative
AppFollow's centre of gravity is reviews: collecting them across stores, routing them, replying at scale, and reporting on sentiment. ASO tracking sits alongside that. If the reason you opened a tool was "where do I rank and who's ahead of me", you're buying a workflow you won't use.
Two different jobs
| The job | AppFollow | Storelift |
|---|---|---|
| Reply to reviews at scale, with roles and SLAs | Built for it | Not offered |
| Sentiment and tagging across many apps | Built for it | Not offered |
| Daily keyword rank with 7 and 30-day movement | Included | The product |
| Which apps rank above you, per keyword | Limited | Name, rating, reviews, age |
| Read reviews and star distribution | Deep — both stores | iOS today, Google Play in progress |
| Team seats on the free tier | 5 | Not offered |
| Entry price | Free · $179/mo | $0, then $12/mo |
When AppFollow is the right choice
- Support and marketing both touch reviews and need assignment, templates and SLAs.
- You manage many apps and need review reporting rolled up across them.
- Integrations into Zendesk, Slack or a helpdesk are part of the requirement.
Pick Storelift when the recurring question is about visibility rather than conversation: which keywords you rank for, which competitors stand between you and the top, whether a term is searched at all, and what changed since last week.
What Storelift does do with reviews
Reviews are measured, not managed. You get the store review feed with a star distribution you can filter by, and the breakdown per app version — enough to answer "what did the one-star reviews say after the release", which is the question that touches ranking. There is no reply workflow, and adding one isn't planned: replying requires write access to your App Store Connect and Play Console accounts, and Storelift asks only for read-only credentials.
That feed is on the free tier rather than behind an upgrade, because a rating drop is exactly the thing you need to see on the day it happens.
Frequently asked
Can I reply to reviews from Storelift?
No. Replies happen in App Store Connect and Play Console. Storelift reads the public review feed so you can see distribution, movement and per-version breakdown next to your rank.
Do I lose review history by switching?
The public review feed is re-read from the store, so what's publicly visible comes back. Internal tags, assignments and reply templates are workflow data and don't transfer — that's the real cost of leaving a review platform.
Which one should a solo developer pick?
If you answer your own reviews in the store console anyway, a review platform is overhead. Rank measurement is the part you can't do by hand across countries and keywords, day after day.
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