When the user wants to monitor competitor apps on an ongoing basis — tracking metadata changes, keyword shifts, screenshot updates, rating trends, or new features. Use when the user mentions "competitor monitoring", "track competitors", "competitor alert", "competitor changed their title", "watch a competitor app", "competitor weekly report", "competitive intelligence", or "what changed in competitor's listing". For a one-time deep competitive analysis, see competitor-analysis. For market-wide c
The competitor-tracking skill sets up and runs ongoing competitor surveillance for app store optimization (ASO), catching metadata changes, keyword shifts, screenshot updates, rating drops, and new feature launches before they affect your own rankings. It distinguishes itself from one-time competitor analysis by focusing on recurring, delta-based monitoring — what changed between this week and last, and why it matters — rather than a single snapshot strategy document.
The workflow guides the user through defining a watchlist of three to five competitors, setting a review cadence (weekly recommended), and choosing focus areas (keywords, ratings, creative, pricing). It uses the Appeeky app-intelligence API through documented read-only GET endpoints to pull app metadata, keyword rankings, reviews, chart positions, and market movers. It provides a structured weekly competitive report template, monthly deep-dive triggers, and a competitive response playbook mapping observed changes to recommended actions. Automation options range from manual calendar-driven checks, to a semi-automated shell script that calls the Appeeky API weekly and diffs results, to using the Appeeky MCP inside Claude or Cursor to generate the report conversationally.
The target users are app marketers, ASO specialists, and indie developers who need continuous competitive intelligence on rival apps. It pairs with sibling skills for deep competitor analysis, keyword research, market movers, and Apple Search Ads. The skill only reads publicly available store intelligence via an authenticated API key supplied through an environment variable, and does not modify competitor listings or perform any destructive operation.
competitor-analysis is a one-time deep dive that outputs a strategy document from a snapshot. competitor-tracking is recurring (weekly or monthly) and produces a change log plus alerts, focusing on the delta between before and after.
Metadata changes (title, subtitle, description, screenshots), keyword ranking shifts, ratings and review themes, chart positions, and pricing or paywall changes — pulled via read-only Appeeky API GET endpoints.
Yes for the semi-automated script and API calls, which pass the key via an X-API-Key header sourced from an environment variable. You can also use the Appeeky MCP inside Claude or Cursor to run checks conversationally each week.
Run a full competitor-analysis when a competitor jumps 10+ positions in the category chart, changes their title, enters the top 10, or when your ranking drops on a keyword a competitor recently targeted.
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