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App Intelligence · Melissa Hoey · August 2022

Accelerate App Research with Advanced Search

Sensor Tower’s powerful mobile app search tool helps you identify the exact app you’re looking for in a fraction of the time.

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"I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…"

Not only is this a famous U2 song, but they’re also the words we’ve heard time and time again from our customers as they attempt to narrow down the vast mobile app landscape. With over 150,000 new apps added to the Apple App Store and Google Play store every month, it can sometimes seem nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact apps you want to monitor.

That’s why we’re excited to introduce Sensor Tower’s Advanced Search, the industry’s most powerful mobile app search tool that makes it easier than ever to find the exact apps that are relevant to your business. With Advanced Search, you can efficiently search apps by the metadata developers add to their store pages, including in their Name, Description, Subtitle, Promo Text, and In-App Purchases.

Advanced Search unlocks a plethora of new use cases for Sensor Tower customers performing research into mobile apps. 

Say you’re on the licensing team at an entertainment company and you’ve been tasked with monitoring the App Store and Google Play store for apps that are misusing your intellectual property (IP). Advanced Search can help you identify any copycat apps that might be infringing on your company’s copyrights by searching for your company’s name (i.e., "Disney"). A quick search will pull up any apps that are using "Disney" anywhere in their metadata, allowing you to swiftly pinpoint any illegitimate apps that are profiting off of Disney’s content. 

Check out this video for a detailed walkthrough of Advanced Search:

Advanced Search is available now for all Sensor Tower enterprise customers. 

Interested in learning more about using Sensor Tower’s Advanced Search to supercharge your app research?  Request a demo with our sales team.


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Melissa Hoey

Written by: Melissa Hoey, Product Marketing Manager

Date: August 2022