App Store optimization backed by live demand curves

Chart rank tells you what is visible. Search, social, and install curves tell you what people are actually looking for before they tap install.

Why do chart ranks and demand curves disagree?

A climb on the App Store Top Free feed can reflect featuring, seasonal gifting, or a competitor going quiet. It rarely explains which problem language people type into Google, which TikTok hashtag clusters are heating up, or whether Android installs are moving in the same direction. Trends MCP lets an assistant read those channels as structured series and ranked lists so ASO conversations stay tied to dated evidence.

What does a weekly ASO evidence pass look like in practice?

An analyst asks for the current App Store Top Free and Top Paid lists, then follows with Get Trends on google search for the branded name, the top generic head term, and one experimental long tail phrase. The same thread adds tiktok pulls for two hashtag variants that appear in creative reviews, then app downloads for the Android package id. If the team debates a repositioning bet, Get Growth on google search with 30D, 3M, and 12M windows shows whether demand is fresh noise or a longer slope. That sequence mirrors how strong ASO posts are written, except the numbers arrive as JSON the model can quote accurately.

How does Trends MCP connect to Cursor, Claude, or a service account?

The MCP endpoint lives at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp with a Bearer token, and Cursor users can paste the block from https://www.trendsmcp.ai/mcp-server-for-cursor. Teams that prefer a plain POST integration can call https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api directly from a worker or notebook. The contract stays the same whether the caller is an IDE agent or a nightly job posting summaries into Slack.

Which adjacent workflows should link into the same brief?

Pair this page with the app download and App Store trend guides on https://www.trendsmcp.ai/app-download-trends and https://www.trendsmcp.ai/app-store-trends when you want a deeper read on individual sources. For broader commerce validation, add Amazon search interest from https://www.trendsmcp.ai/amazon-search-trends when a mobile product also sells physical bundles.

Common questions

Start with Get Top Trends for App Store Top Free, App Store Top Paid, and Google Play when you need the current leaderboard context. Add Get Trends on google search for the phrases in your subtitle and bullet keywords, tiktok for hashtag variants tied to your category, and app downloads for Android package demand. When leadership asks whether momentum is new or sustained, use Get Growth with explicit presets on the same sources so the assistant returns point to point percentages instead of a vibe check.
Each Get Trends or Get Growth request consumes one unit for a single source and keyword pair, while Get Top Trends consumes units per feed page. Batch keywords before a workshop, reuse answers inside your doc template, and reserve live leaderboard pulls for the moments when chart ranks actually change. The free tier allows 100 requests per month with no card on file, which is enough for disciplined weekly reviews when you plan the call list.
Use the REST reference at https://www.trendsmcp.ai/docs/api and the interactive docs at https://www.trendsmcp.ai/docs to confirm field names, feed labels, and error codes like rate_limited or data_unavailable. Trends MCP returns JSON series and ranked arrays rather than scraped HTML, which keeps agent summaries easy to audit.