# AppTracker Open [AppTracker](/dashboard/explore/tracker) to see collected activity for apps in your [Explore watchlist](/docs/explore#watchlist). Watched apps are the watchlist, not a separate subscription list. **Add apps** opens the app explorer; saving or removing an app changes that same list. ## Access and periods {#access} AppTracker requires full market access and a positive watchlist allowance. The current Studio plan includes both, with up to 50 watched apps. Free and Pro do not unlock AppTracker, even though Pro allows a five-app watchlist. Effective workspace entitlements also account for trials and installations with billing disabled. Owners and admins manage the live watchlist. Choose **7d**, **30d** or **90d**; the default is 30 days. Filter by app and event type. Events are grouped by date, newest first, and **View change** opens the relevant section of the market app profile. An empty period means no matching recorded events, not that nothing happened to the app. ## Recorded events {#events} - **Ranking:** entry into the top 10, 50 or 100, or a rise or fall of at least five positions. Live changes compare consecutive daily observations for the same country, chart and category. A newly observed entry needs evidence from the previous complete chart snapshot; a collection gap alone does not establish a new entry. - **Ads:** an ad with a recorded first-seen date in the period. This is detection, not a verified campaign launch time. - **Organic:** a collected social post with a recorded publication date in the period. The source must also mark it available. - **Onboardings / Paywalls:** a published flow with a capture date in the period. A new capture does not prove when the app changed its interface. - **Est. downloads:** an increase of at least 40% between observations for different periods from the same source and storefront. Both values must exist and the earlier estimate must be positive. This event does not report download decreases or actual App Store Connect downloads. Version, rating and review-count changes have no historical observations in AppTracker. The Version and Rating filters therefore have no events; current profile fields do not supply that missing history. Review alerts for your own connected apps in the sidebar are a separate source. Download events are **estimates**. Read their source, country, period and date together, using the same cautions as [Explore estimates](/docs/explore#estimates). Live activity comes from stored chart snapshots, metric observations, ads, social posts and captured flows; AppTracker does not continuously monitor the store during your visit. The timeline is bounded to 2,000 events and has collection limits per app. A notice appears when those limits may omit older activity. ## Demo watchlists {#demo} The demo reads the same browser-local watchlist as Explore. With no matching selected apps, it shows a labelled fallback of up to four example rising apps. Sample activity uses a fixed reference date rather than moving to today's date. Demo selections are also mirrored to a dashboard cookie so the sidebar can load matching example notifications. These selections do not create a live workspace watchlist. ## Sidebar notifications {#notifications} The sidebar's **Notifications** modal lists up to 20 recent AppTracker events from the last seven days when tracker access is available. Each links to AppTracker filtered to that app and seven-day period. Demo entries are labelled as examples. Use the bell on a watched app to mute its notifications; a muted app is marked **Muted** and its events stay in the timeline. Turn off individual event types in [Settings → Notifications](/dashboard/settings/notifications). Mutes, preferences and read state are stored in this browser, separately from the watchlist and underlying observations. See [Dashboard utilities](/docs/overview#dashboard) for the other notification types and sidebar modals.