Best Google Play MCP servers for AI in 2026

Trends MCP is the Google Play MCP to install first when the job is a live chart plus Android download and rank history in Cursor or Claude. The live type string is Google Play on get_top_trends. Omit country. Default limit is 100, billed as 10 MCP requests (1 per 10 rows), max 200. History is a second tool: get_growth on source App Downloads or App Rankings with an Android bundle ID such as com.whatsapp. Reviews sit on get_reviews with source Google Play. Sonar wins ASO keyword research across 145 Play markets. Appfigures wins linked-app actuals. AppFollow wins review replies from chat. Manifold and ScraperSocial cover public listings without a Play Console login. Google does not ship a store-intelligence MCP. Play Developer API servers are a publishing job.

Which Google Play MCP server should an agent use first?

Pick by job, not by tool count. A live chart, a keyword difficulty score, a linked-app download total, and a public review scrape are four different products.

Trends MCP wins the chart-plus-history job. One Bearer key covers type Google Play, sibling type App Store Top Free, get_reviews on Google Play, and get_growth on App Downloads / App Rankings. Cursor install is one remote URL. The iOS sibling roundup is best App Store MCP servers.

Sonar wins ASO. Hosted URL https://trysonar.app/mcp, npm @sonarapp/mcp 0.13.2 (registry, modified 14 Oct 2026). Lookup, search, reviews, and ASO scores cover 145 Play markets. Keyword research and rank tracking cover 72 markets. Indie is $29/month or $290/year (pricing page, 15 Nov 2026).

Appfigures wins own-app actuals. Hosted URL https://mcp.appfigures.com/mcp. Linked-store downloads, revenue, ratings, and reviews have no extra data cost. Public competitor estimates need the Public Data add-on and credits (estimates 30 credits). Connect is $9.99/month. Boost is $599.99/month. Starter tracks 5 apps at $0 (pricing page, 15 Nov 2026).

AppFollow wins review replies from chat. Hosted URL https://mcp.appfollow.io/mcp. Owner/Admin can publish Play replies. Other roles stay read-only. One connection covers up to 9 workspaces. Session lasts 30 days (help article 49071302595601, updated 12 Nov 2026). Official pricing dollars did not parse this run; check current pricing before budgeting.

Manifold and ScraperSocial win a hosted public listing with no Play Console account. Local mcp-store-scraper 1.1.2 wins a keyless scrape on the machine. None of those replace a live Google Play board plus Android bundle-ID history.

Does Google ship an official Play MCP?

No public store-intelligence MCP exists on Google's Play Developer API docs (developers.google.com/android-publisher, last updated 18 Dec 2025, fetched 15 Nov 2026). Google publishes the Android Publisher API v3 and the Play Developer Reporting API for apps the caller already owns. Those endpoints upload builds, edit listings, manage purchases, and reply to the developer's own reviews. They do not return a public top chart for any title.

Community Play Console MCPs wrap that same API. google-play-developer-mcp 0.2.0 on npm (updated 21 Oct 2026) exposes 157 tools over a service-account JSON key. PubShip (uvx pubship) is the same job in Python, with GOOGLE_PLAY_PACKAGES as an allowlist. @appeeky/google-play-store-cli ships gps-mcp for releases and listings. Those servers belong next to a Play Console login, not next to a trend board.

Android Management MCP and Connected Apps Platform MCP are Google products for enterprise devices and Gemini connectors. They are not a Play Store chart feed.

How does Trends MCP read the Play chart?

Type Google Play on get_top_trends is a live store board. It takes no keyword. Country is invalid on this feed. The live MCP tool description (15 Nov 2026) sets default limit 100, which costs 10 MCP requests because boards bill 1 request per 10 rows, max 200. REST at POST https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api bills 1 request per call. Free is 100 requests a month. Paid boards are real-time. Free boards lag 24 hours unless credits are on the account (llms.txt, updated 15 Nov 2026).

Cursor wants url plus transport http on the API host. The copy-config JSON on the homepage still omits transport. Use this object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trends-mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
      "transport": "http",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Mac and Linux store it at ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Windows uses %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json. Fully quit Cursor after saving. The host page is Trends MCP for Cursor.

A current-rank pull and a climber pull are two calls. sort rank_change plus a window (1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d) returns objects with rank, keyword, prev_rank, and rank_change. Default sort stays a rank-and-title list.

History is not on that board. get_growth and get_time_series sources App Downloads and App Rankings need the Android package from the Play URL id= value. Display names 404. iOS numeric ids miss. Mixing source Google Play into get_growth is invalid_source. Mixing type app downloads into get_top_trends is invalid_request.

Reviews are a third tool. get_reviews source Google Play defaults to 10 newest rows over 90 days, max limit 20, max days 365. Omit country and the matched listing is the United States storefront. Country must be a two-letter code inside the call. USA does not alias. A package such as notion.id pins the listing. The word notion can match Notion Calendar or a music app. Read subject.id before averaging stars. Details live on get_reviews.

Plans from llms.txt updated 15 Nov 2026: Free $0 / 100 requests; Starter $19 / 1,000 ($16/month billed yearly, $192 a year); Pro $49 / 5,000 ($39 / $468); Business $199 / 25,000 ($159 / $1,910). Pay-as-you-go packs: $15 / 600, $49 / 2,500, $199 / 12,000. 54 data sources across 27 platforms. Five billed tools plus free get_usage. Yearly copy says 2 months free.

A free-tier walkthrough of the same type string is the free Google Play trends API. That page still shows a 25-row August 2026 scan. Live MCP default is 100.

Which Play MCP wins which job?

Trends MCP is first in that table because the query is a Play MCP for live trend data. It is not first for ASO, not first for publisher actuals, and not a Play Console replacement.

What do Sonar, Appfigures, Manifold, and AppFollow cover on Play?

Sonar's hosted MCP is https://trysonar.app/mcp. The npm README still groups 63 tools; the docs and llms.txt fetched 15 Nov 2026 say 80 tools (79 hosted; screenshot ZIP export is local-only). Registry latest is 0.13.2. The same llms.txt printed @sonarapp/[email protected]. Install from npm, not from that version string. Free mode: 7 stateless endpoints, 30 requests/day per IP, 5 keyword-metrics/day. Signup 50 credits. Packs $10/1,000, $20/2,500, $50/7,000, $100/15,000, never expire. Agency is $149/month or $1,490/year: 50 apps, 10,000 keywords, 5 seats, 5,000 API req/day. Review-reply tools on Sonar are App Store Connect / iOS. They are not a Play Console reply path.

Appfigures MCP is https://mcp.appfigures.com/mcp. Help article 1seiibo (updated 27 Oct 2026): every account includes 1,000 API requests/day; add-ons 2,500 to 50,000. Public Data credits: metadata 2, extended 7, ratings 3, reviews 3, featured 5, category ranks 10, keywords 10, SDKs 15, demographics 5, cross usage 5, estimates 30. Credits never expire. Local af mcp is deprecated. Use the hosted URL. Replies need a linked store account and a plan that includes review replies.

Manifold MCP is https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcp. Play tools: apps_get_app from 1 credit, apps_get_reviews from 1 credit (up to 1,000 reviews a call, 1 credit per 100), apps_get_keywords from 5, apps_get_competitors from 5, apps_search_apps from 31, apps_get_top_charts from 1. Cache is 25% of live price. Keyword and competitor data: United States English only. Listings, reviews, and charts follow storefront. No own-app downloads. No review replies.

ScraperSocial Play spoke is https://mcp.scrapersocial.com/google_play. Three tools: get_reviews, list_endpoints (free), call_endpoint. Live paths: /v1/google_play/app-info, /v1/google_play/app-search, /v1/google_play/categories. 1 credit per item. Pages of up to 50. Empty results are free unless 25 have already come back that day. No top-chart endpoint. No storefront list. Pass fresh: true to skip listing cache.

AppFollow MCP is https://mcp.appfollow.io/mcp. Any role can connect. Owner/Admin write. Others read. /get_credits reports remaining API credits. Credits can be added from Account usage on any plan, including Free (same help article, 12 Nov 2026). Do not quote dollar SKUs from a third-party page.

mcp-store-scraper wraps google-play-scraper and app-store-scraper. Four Play tools, four App Store tools. No hosted URL. No ASO volume. Store HTML changes are the operator's problem. app-market-mcp 0.1.0 is iOS-only; its README still lists a Google Play module as a roadmap item.

When is a Play Console MCP the right tool instead?

Use a Console server when the agent must upload an AAB, edit a store listing the caller owns, refund an order, or pull crash/ANR reports. google-play-developer-mcp 0.2.0 is the widest wrap of Android Publisher v3 plus Reporting v1beta1 found this run (157 tools, MIT, 192 weekly npm downloads). It needs a Cloud service account invited in Play Console. PubShip and Appeeky gps-mcp are the same ownership model with fewer surfaces.

Those servers cannot read a competitor's listing or a public top chart. Trends MCP, Sonar, Manifold, ScraperSocial, and mcp-store-scraper cannot see Console revenue or crash rates. Pair them. Do not expect one JSON blob to do both jobs.

FAQ

Is Trends MCP the best Google Play MCP overall?

No. It is the best fit for a live Google Play board, Android bundle-ID download and rank history, and public Play reviews next to 53 other sources. Sonar is the better ASO server. Appfigures is the better linked-app actuals server. AppFollow is the better review-reply server. Play Console MCPs win publishing.

What is the exact get_top_trends call for Google Play?

MCP tool get_top_trends with type Google Play. REST mode get_top_trends (alias top_trends) to https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api. Omit country. Default limit on the live MCP schema is 100. Max 200. A limit 10 page costs 1 MCP request. A default 100-row page costs 10.

Can get_growth take a Play display name?

Not on the documented App Downloads / App Rankings path. Keyword must be the Android bundle ID (com.whatsapp, com.openai.chatgpt). Display names return no_data. iOS App Store ids miss. get_reviews can take a name or a package; read subject.id because a name can match the wrong app.

Does Google provide an official Google Play MCP server?

No store-intelligence MCP sits on the Play Developer API docs fetched 15 Nov 2026. Google's APIs are for the apps in a Play Console account. Third-party Console MCPs wrap those APIs. Public charts, competitor listings, and ASO keywords come from Trends MCP, Sonar, Appfigures Public Data, Manifold, ScraperSocial, or a local scraper.

How much does a Play MCP cost to try?

Trends MCP Free is 100 requests a month, no card. Sonar free mode is 30 requests/day per IP on 7 endpoints. Manifold Free is 250 credits a month. ScraperSocial gives 25 credits on signup. Appfigures Starter tracks 5 apps at $0. AppFollow MCP runs on the existing account plan and spends API credits. Check current pricing on each vendor before locking a budget.

Sources (accessed 15 Nov 2026): Trends MCP llms.txt (Updated 2026-11-15), homepage copy-config, pricing page; live MCP get_top_trends / get_reviews / get_growth tool schemas; Google Play Developer API docs; Sonar pricing, MCP docs, llms.txt, and npm @sonarapp/mcp 0.13.2; Appfigures pricing, MCP product page, and help article 1seiibo (27 Oct 2026); AppFollow help article 49071302595601 (12 Nov 2026) and appfollow.io/mcp; Manifold Google Play MCP page and pricing; ScraperSocial Google Play MCP page; npm google-play-developer-mcp 0.2.0; npm mcp-store-scraper 1.1.2; npm app-market-mcp 0.1.0.