About AppStore-Discounts
AppStore-Discounts is an independent service that tracks Apple App Store price drops in real time.
Our goal is simple: help every iPhone, iPad and Mac user discover paid apps during their sale windows, instead of buying them at full price right before a drop. We track over 600,000 active apps in France and the United States in real time, and publish every significant drop as soon as it's detected — no human curation, no editorial bias, no hidden ads.
How it works
Our crawler queries the public Apple iTunes API multiple times a day to track prices of the most popular apps (top 100 paid, top 50 free) on the US and France stores. Every significant drop is recorded and shown on the site immediately.
On top of the top charts, we monitor every app we've already observed at least once, every app users browse on our site, and every app that has been the target of a price alert. That represents an active catalog of about 620,000 apps per country, continuously tracked. The detection threshold is set at a minimum 10% drop to filter out FX noise and price-correction errors.
What you can find on AppStore-Discounts
The site is organized around four kinds of pages:
- the homepage, surfacing today's biggest drops and temporarily free apps,
- the complete price drops list (/en/drops) and the free apps list (/en/free), with category, sort and discount filters,
- category pages (Games, Productivity, Photo & Video…) grouping deals by theme,
- a per-app detail page with price history, statistical analysis of past drops and a direct link to the official App Store.
Categories tracked
We track Apple's 25+ official categories, ordered by popularity. Click a category to see current deals:
- Games
- Utilities
- Education
- Health & Fitness
- Lifestyle
- Productivity
- Entertainment
- Travel
- Business
- Finance
- Photo & Video
- Sports
- Music
- Shopping
- Food & Drink
- Social Networking
- Reference
- Navigation
- Medical
- News
- Graphics & Design
- Books
- Weather
- Developer Tools
- Magazines & Newspapers
- Stickers
Price alerts
You can create a free alert on any app. Set your target price and we'll email you as soon as the app reaches it. No account required, just your email.
Alerts are particularly useful for popular apps that go on cyclic sales (Black Friday, summer sales, app anniversaries…): instead of manually checking the price several times a week, you let our service email you automatically as soon as the trigger fires. No limit on the number of alerts per email address, and you can remove any of them anytime via the link in each email.
Detection methodology
A drop is considered "significant" if it represents at least 10% off the reference price (the highest paid price observed on the app). This excludes currency rounding, one-cent adjustments and catalog corrections. The displayed date is when our crawler detected the drop, which may lag the actual change at Apple by a few hours. The percentage shown is computed against the most recent reference price, not the app's launch price.
For developers
If you're a developer and you plan a temporary price drop, submit it to us for free. After manual review, it will appear on the site.
Data sources
All data comes from Apple's public API (iTunes Search API, iTunes Lookup API, Apple Marketing Tools RSS). No data is collected from users except the email used for alerts (removable any time via the opt-out link in every email).
Independence
This site is not affiliated with Apple Inc. Apple, App Store, iPhone, iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc.