How to use Daily Ranking History in Category Rankings

Use Daily Ranking History to track how your app’s category ranking changes over time.

This view is useful when you want to monitor ranking movement, review changes after an app update or paid campaign, and compare your app with selected competitors.

When to use Daily Ranking History

Use Daily Ranking History when you want to understand how your app’s category ranking changes day by day.

This view can help you monitor the impact of:

An app update
A paid campaign
Seasonality
Competitor movement
Changes in organic momentum

Daily Ranking History is best for trend analysis. If you want to see where your app ranks across countries on a specific day, use Daily Country Ranking instead.

Choose the ranking context

At the top of Daily Ranking History, choose the context you want to review.

You can choose:

Country: The country you want to analyze.
Platform: iPhone or iPad.
Ranking set: Free, Paid, or Grossing.
Date: Time period you want to check.

These choices control what the ranking chart and table show.

Read the ranking chart

The chart shows how your app’s category ranking changes day by day.

Use the chart to look for ranking movement over time. For example, you can review whether your app’s ranking changed after a version update, a campaign, or a seasonal period.

When you compare ranking movement over time, focus on the overall pattern instead of one isolated day. This can help you understand whether your app is gaining, losing, or maintaining category position.

Add context with App Updates and Annotations

You can turn on App Updates and Annotations to add markers to the chart.

These markers help you connect ranking movement with important events, such as:

Feature releases
Content changes
Other notes added as annotations

Adding these makes it easier to review whether a ranking fluctuation happened near a known change.

Switch between linear and logarithmic views

You can switch between linear and logarithmic views.

Use this option when you want to adjust how ranking movement is displayed on the chart. This can be helpful when your app has a wider range of movement across the selected period.

Review the comparison table

Below the chart, you can review a table that compares your app with selected competitors.

The table includes category ranking details and Organic Visibility Score.

Organic Visibility Score gives an additional layer of insight beyond rank itself. It can help you review organic momentum together with category position.

Export data and create alerts

You can export the data for reporting or stakeholder updates.

You can also set alerts to monitor significant drops or gains in rank. Alerts are useful when you want to follow ranking changes for your own app or track competitor movement after a feature release or pricing change.

To learn more about how to create alerts, you can check Create Alerts.

Need more help?

If you have further questions on the process, contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager or contact the support team via live chat!