Public App Store research works without credentials. Live Apple Ads reports, App Store Connect metadata, subscriptions, screenshots, and price points require your own Apple developer credentials. They are stored locally in macOS Keychain on your Mac. RankPal does not store your Apple ID or private Apple API keys in our cloud.

RankPal is sold through Dodo Payments as a single annual subscription. After checkout, Dodo sends you a license key and returns you to RankPal. Paste the key once in the Mac app to activate your Mac.

The recommended launch path is direct download from rankpal.app with Developer ID signing and Apple notarization. That lets RankPal use Dodo Payments and ship updates faster. A Mac App Store version can come later if we want the discovery channel.

Apple lets you have 10 additional locales targeting the US market (Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Romanian, and more). By placing English keywords in the title field of these locales, you get extra keyword slots for the US — effectively 10x-ing your US keyword coverage.

Difficulty uses the same source as Apple Search Ads: actual competition data from the Search Ads auction. Under 50 means you can rank organically with good metadata. Over 70 means you'll need ads or significant volume to break in.

The estimated monthly recurring revenue of the top 5 ranked apps for that keyword. It's the most important metric — it tells you if there's actual money in that keyword, not just traffic. A keyword with 80 popularity but $0 MRR is a vanity trap.

RankPal includes manual refresh, keyword history, and live sync workflows. The product is intentionally one plan, so there are no feature gates to decode.

Yes, RankPal is a native macOS app. It requires macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later, and runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) and Intel Macs.