research — App Store keyword difficulty (US)

How hard is it to rank for research in the United States App Store? Here is the estimated keyword difficulty, traffic and opportunity — computed from Apple’s public search data.

Difficulty
63
Hard
Traffic
69
demand proxy
Opportunity
42
demand you can win
Est. searches
~1,456
per day (est.)
Competitors
195
apps ranking

Top apps ranking for this keyword

  1. Apple Research — 4.19★
  2. Academia.edu — 4.77★
  3. ResearchGate — 4.83★
  4. R Discovery: Academic Research — 4.81★
  5. ScholarDaily: Research Briefs
  6. Zotero — 4.63★
  7. Wikipedia — 4.34★
  8. Google Opinion Rewards — 4.75★
  9. Perplexity - AI Search & Chat — 4.82★
  10. Scollr: Research Papers

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Figures are heuristics from Apple’s public iTunes Search API — directional guidance, not Apple-reported search volume.