What's New

Sonar now reads the last ~90 days of an app's reviews and summarizes them with AI: what people praise, what they complain about (with real quotes), and notable feature requests. Re-run it after 90 days and it compares against the previous summary to show what's improving, persisting, or resolved.

It works for your own apps and any tracked competitor — so you can see what a rival's users love or hate and turn it into an opportunity. Open it from the redesigned Reviews page (pick an app from the title dropdown, then Analyze reviews), or straight from the Competitors table and any app's detail panel.

The Reviews page also got a cleaner layout and pagination, so long competitor review lists stay fast.

Getting started is smoother:

• A guided day-0 welcome helps brand-new orgs pick a path instead of staring at an empty dashboard.
• The add-product wizard walks you through tracking your first app, with faster tracking and ranked-only keyword discovery.
• A dedicated New Research Project page makes one-off keyword research a first-class flow.
• Newly added products are auto-selected in the sidebar so you land where you expect.

Writing your App Store and Google Play metadata is now a guided flow. Listing Helper lets you draft your title, subtitle, and keyword field with:

• Live character counts against each store's limits
• Keyword coverage scoring as you type
• Suggestions pulled from your tracked keywords and competitor listings

Find it in the sidebar under Listing Helper.

Every data table now has persistent column controls. Toggle the columns you care about — popularity, difficulty, rank, results count, notes — and your selection is remembered across sessions.

Combined with the new keyword text/regex filter and the Export button now lifted into the top bar, the tables are far easier to slice for your own workflow.

A few upgrades landed together:

• Compare apps dialog — line up your app against competitors side by side.
• Version change detection — Sonar now records app version changes automatically on each metadata sync, feeding the Activity feed.
• All reviews, not just low-star — the Reviews page shows the full picture, with country names in the selector (sorted alphabetically).

The REST API now supports product-centric write endpoints. Create products, track apps, add keywords, and trigger competitor scans without touching the dashboard.

API keys now carry scopes:

• read (default) — every GET endpoint
• read+write — POST/PATCH on products, tracked apps, keywords, and competitor scans (Full plan only at issuance)

Generate scoped keys from Settings → API keys.

API-only users can now buy prepaid credit packs ($10–$100) instead of a monthly subscription. Credits are spent per call on the stateless scraper endpoints, and you start with 50 free credits on signup.

• No subscription required for pure API/MCP use
• Failed requests are never charged
• Full-plan users get a daily quota with credit overflow

Existing Agent-plan subscribers keep their unlimited monthly access.

Sonar is now AI-native end to end:

• @sonarapp/cli — npm i -g @sonarapp/cli, then sonar for app lookup, keyword research, rankings, competitors, revenue, and CSV/JSON export.
• @sonarapp/mcp — a Model Context Protocol server exposing 9 stateless tools so Claude, Cursor, and other agents can query Sonar directly.

Both authenticate with your SONAR_API_KEY.

A new free public tool: App Store Roast. Drop in any App Store or Google Play listing and get an AI-graded teardown — an overall grade (F → A+), a one-line verdict, and graded sections for Icon, Screenshots, Title & Subtitle, Description, and Reviews, each with an actionable ASO tip.

It's free, shareable, and a fast way to see where a listing is leaving installs on the table.

New signups can now explore a read-only demo workspace — real apps, keywords, rankings, and reviews — before being asked for a credit card. It's the fastest way to see what Sonar does with live data, no setup required.

Start your trial whenever you're ready and you'll switch to your own workspace.

Research projects let you organize keyword research independently of tracked apps — perfect for pre-launch exploration or comparing markets.

• Multi-locale: research the same keywords across countries and languages
• Per-project filters and a one-click refresh for stale keywords
• Editable icon and name, with a Lucide icon picker
• Per-row actions to rename or delete projects and products

The Rankings and Keywords pages got sharper:

• Rank trend sparklines inline in the rankings table
• Filter rankings to ranked-only keywords, plus store/country and branded/generic toggles
• Store/country multi-select on the keyword table
• Clickable rows and keyword notes that sync across views

Sonar now estimates app revenue using install counts and category benchmarks — available in the dashboard, via the /api/v1/apps/revenue endpoint, and as sonar revenue in the CLI.

Bulk revenue and review filters make it practical for automation and portfolio-wide analysis.

The new Keyword Opportunity Matrix plots your keywords on a popularity-vs-difficulty scatter chart, so the high-volume / low-competition opportunities jump out instantly. Quadrants make it obvious which terms to prioritize and which to skip.

The Activity feed gives you a timeline of detected changes across your apps and competitors — new releases, metadata edits, screenshot swaps, price and category changes. Keep tabs on what competitors are shipping without checking the stores by hand.

A big foundational release:

• Free public tools — ASO Score Checker and Keyword Generator, no signup needed
• Multi-country support across keyword research and rank tracking
• REST API access on all paid plans, with the Agent plan for API-only use
• Single-tier pricing with everything included

Review monitoring went live: fetch reviews on demand from both the App Store and Google Play, paginated across all pages, with a rich app detail sheet for quick inspection. This is the foundation the later AI Review Insights build on.