AppGoblinWelcome to AppGoblin
AppGoblin has marketing and advertising tools to help illuminate the world of in app advertising and marketing. AppGoblin has many free mobile app marketing resources as well as some paid datasets like competitor analysis and SDK client lists. The goal is to provide as much free and reproducible open source app analytics for the community as possible.
Community & Feedback
Join AppGoblin Discord
Join AppGoblin's Discord for a quick way to contact me or discuss ASO, app marketing and in app advertisements. Feel free to give feedback or request new features.
Open Source Resources
Some data sets are available for free download. They can be found on github.com/ddxv/appgoblin-data. Feel free to reach out if there are other parts of data you'd like to see exported.
The code is maintained open source for transparency. The data is collected with github.com/ddxv/adscrawler and the website code can be found at github.com/ddxv/appgoblin.
Paid Features
AppGoblin is committed to providing open, reproducible mobile app analytics to the community. Most of the data and insights on the site are free to access and built on open-source pipelines. However, some datasets and services require significant resources to maintain and are offered as paid features.
Full App-Ads.txt Datasets
$500/month
Use Cases: Programmatic fraud detection. Ad network analysis. DSP bid enrichment.
- Reports updated daily
- Data available as large compressed TSV (~60GB uncompressed)
- Individual ad networks.
- Small customizations available.
Get App-Ads.txt Datasets
Competitor SDK Client List
$500 base + $300 per additional company
Use Cases: Competitor analysis. Sales prospecting. Market research.
- All apps using a company or SDK from the top 60k scanned Android and iOS apps.
- Publisher Name and Domain
- Includes latest app install estimates, category data, and timestamps.
- Optional Add-Ons: All other SDKs of those apps, app descriptions. Other AppGoblin stats available on request.
- Ongoing reports (e.g., monthly tracking) are available upon request.
Get Client List
Custom Reports, API Integrations
Contact for quote
Need something specific? Custom reports, API integrations, or deeper analytics can be arranged. Please reach out with your requirements for a quote.
Contact for Quote
For Researchers, Journalists, and Academics
AppGoblin supports independent research and journalism. If you're a student, academic researcher, or investigative journalist working on mobile advertising, privacy, or app ecosystems, you're welcome to reach out for collaboration.
Background
Originally this came out of a curiosity I had about the IAB app-ads.txt standard in 2022. In order to scrape app-ads.txt files I had to first get 4,000,000+ iOS and Android apps + their respective publisher URLs. While that project, like app-ads.txt itself, went unused, I remained interested in letting the database of apps keep growing. Then in the fall of 2023 while on haitus from real work, I started working on an API and UI.
Now, App Goblin is the combination of several open source projects I built. Yes, there are a large number of similar companies like data.ai and sensortower.com which have many more features. But it was a great project for me to learn more frontend and javascript.
If you have questions or suggestions please feel free to reach out.
jamesoclaire.com
Check the Trackers on Your Android Device
AppGoblin has an Android app which can be used to check the trackers on your device.
You can download it from the Google Play Store.
