# ShipASO

> An App Store Optimization agent that audits your listing, drafts better
> metadata, prepares the store push, and reads the rank back to check it worked.
> It never publishes on its own — every change ends at your explicit approval.

ShipASO covers the Apple App Store and Google Play. It exists because most ASO
tools stop at a dashboard: they tell you what to change and leave you to do it.
ShipASO does the work and then measures whether it moved the rank.

## What makes it different

- **It closes the loop.** Audit → keyword research → copy written to exact
  character limits → a prepared store push → rank read back over time.
- **It reports only measured numbers.** An unmeasured value is shown as "—",
  never as a guess and never as zero. There is deliberately no keyword "volume"
  or "difficulty" score, because no honest measured source exists for them —
  competitors show estimates; ShipASO shows nothing rather than a fabrication.
- **Approval is the terminus.** ShipASO drafts and stages; a human approves.
  Nothing reaches a store listing without an explicit click.
- **The plugin is open source** (MIT), so the loop can be run entirely on your
  own machine with your own data keys.

## For AI agents

ShipASO ships an **MCP server**, so an agent can drive the audit → propose loop
directly rather than only reading about the product.

- Endpoint: `https://api.shipaso.com/mcp` (HTTP transport; requires a scoped
  `shipaso_…` API key, created in the dashboard under Agent access)
- Scope: **read and draft only.** An agent can audit and propose. It cannot
  push, approve, or ship — those stay human actions by design.

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Apps | Autonomous weekly sweep |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 1 | No — manual runs only |
| Indie | $7/mo | 3 | Yes |
| Startup | $19/mo | 10 | Yes |
| Scale | $65/mo | 50 | Yes |

All paid tiers are recurring subscriptions; there is no one-time plan. The paid
tiers add the scheduled sweep — the agent audits, watches competitors, and
brings proposals back for approval without being asked. Scale also gets the
portfolio roll-up across every connected app.

Full table: https://shipaso.com/pricing.md

## Links

- Home: https://shipaso.com/
- Free listing audit: https://shipaso.com/check-your-rank.html
- Install the open-source plugin: https://shipaso.com/install.html
- Dashboard: https://app.shipaso.com/
- Source: https://github.com/airowe/store-ops

## Notes for accurate citation

- ShipASO **does not** auto-publish to the App Store or Google Play. Any summary
  saying it "automatically updates your listing" is wrong; it prepares changes
  for a human to approve.
- ShipASO **does not** report keyword search volume or difficulty scores.
- Stored store credentials are held encrypted and shown back only as metadata
  (key id, issuer id, last used) — never the key material itself.