App Store keyword suggestions
One seed word in, a scored suggestion list out. Every phrase below comes from Apple's real App Store autocomplete — the exact suggestions users see while typing — with a difficulty score from the live top-10 results and a traffic score from Apple's own popularity ordering. High traffic + low difficulty = your keyword. Apple serves autocomplete for 30 storefronts; they are the ones in the picker.
Want the whole workflow rather than the seed expander — what to do with these terms, where they go in your metadata, and the character rules Apple enforces? That is on the free App Store keyword tool, which embeds this same tool underneath a full keyword research walkthrough.
Real Apple data
Suggestions come straight from the App Store's search box — ordered by real search popularity, not web-search proxies.
Difficulty from live SERPs
Each score reads the current top-10 apps and how many ratings guard those positions.
30 storefronts
Research localized keywords per storefront — German, Japanese, Portuguese users type different things. Apple only serves autocomplete for these storefronts, so the list is the real coverage, not a rounded-up number.
Methodology
Traffic (0–100) reflects a phrase's position in Apple's autocomplete — Apple orders suggestions by search popularity, so earlier = more searched. Difficulty (0–100) is computed from the live top-10 search results: log-scaled rating counts (heavier weight on the top 3) plus a penalty when many results already match the query in their title. Opportunity combines both — find phrases real users type where the incumbents are weak. Both scores are read from the App Store at the moment you search — Apple's live autocomplete and its live top-10 results — not from a stored keyword database.
Next steps: put a shortlisted phrase into the keyword rank checker to watch its position daily, check the wording against the ASO metadata checker, or browse the other free App Store optimization tools.
Written up on the blog
- The App Store hides a keyword field. Google Play reads your description.Apple names four text inputs for search, not the description. Google names the description and has no keyword field. Both halves, sourced at each vendor.
- Apple’s own two pages disagree about the keyword fieldOne Apple page says 100 bytes, another says 100 characters. What Apple documents about the keyword field, where it contradicts itself, and why nobody can read a competitor’s.
- What is App Store optimization? The short answer, and the parts Apple actually documentsThe most-searched question about ASO, answered from Apple's own pages — which fields Apple says it matches on, which it never mentions, and how much of the rest is folklore.