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applr is an MCP server. Connect Claude or ChatGPT in a few steps — the rest of the site is a preview of the data those tools query.
What's available
These are the tools Claude and ChatGPT get. Read-only, covering every app on the Shopify App Store.
App catalog
Search and inspect individual Shopify App Store listings.
- Search Shopify apps
- Get app profile
- Get competitor apps
- Compare apps
- List app categories
- List app languages
Reviews
Review ratings, geography, and trends for a given app.
- Search app reviews
- Get review geography
- Get app review trend
Market trends
App Store-wide trends: category growth, submissions, churn, and market movement.
- Get App Store market summary
- Get category growth
- Get app submission trend
- Get language trend
- Get removed apps
- Get churn by category
- Find opportunity gaps
- Get market moves
- Get declining apps
Shopify changelog
Search Shopify's own platform release notes.
- Search Shopify release notes
Merchant forum demand
Unmet demand signals mined from real merchant forum discussion.
- Search forum topics
- Get forum demand signals
Semantic search & similarity
Embedding-based search: similar apps/reviews, positioning mismatches, rebrands, and capability gaps.
- Search apps semantically
- Search reviews semantically
- Find similar apps
- Find similar reviews
- Get positioning mismatches
- Get possible rebrands
- Get capability gaps
- Get category drift outliers
- Get ecosystem demand clusters
- Get demand cluster members
Forecasts
Statistical (non-AI) trend projections: actual history plus a 3-month linear-regression forecast, for the same metrics already charted on the dashboard.
- Get category forecast
- Get app forecast
Events
AI-classified causal annotations: platform changelog entries that could obsolete/threaten/boost a category or app, and sustained review-rating shifts.
- Get category events
- Get app events
- Get recent significant events