Start with the job, not the comparison chart
If your main question is “what changed across my own iOS apps this week?”, Manifest is built around that review. If you need competitor estimates, keyword rankings, Android data, or advertising attribution, Manifest is not a substitute for a product that supplies them.
Appfigures also serves independent developers. It would be misleading to describe it as only an agency tool or assume that a solo developer cannot benefit from its broader capabilities. Check its current product information and pricing against your actual needs.
What you get with Manifest
- A portfolio overview of downloads, reported proceeds, active subscriptions when reported, and explicitly labeled recurring estimates.
- Daily Apple report capture, retained history, and fixed-window trends that distinguish gaps from reported zeroes.
- Release-health detail from Apple’s crash reports, including version and device dimensions when available.
- CSV and a plain-text “Copy for AI” export. Manifest does not send your account data to an AI provider.
Indie is $14/month for up to 8 apps; Studio is $39/month for an unlimited portfolio. Both offer a 7-day trial with a payment method and automatic billing unless canceled before it ends.
What you should not buy it for
Manifest does not currently provide keyword rankings, competitor estimates, Android analytics, user-level retention cohorts, ad-spend attribution, or automatic historical snapshot imports. Subscription run rates are estimates from reported paid counts, observed net proceeds, and billing periods — not gross MRR, accounting revenue, or guaranteed payouts.
Apple’s privacy thresholds and reporting lag apply here too. If your reports are sparse, another dashboard cannot manufacture the missing data. Check coverage first.
A fair trial checklist
- Connect a dedicated reporting key and track an app whose Apple reports are already available.
- Match a reported date and metric against the Apple report with the same filters. Inspect the recurring estimate’s product-by-product math.
- Use the weekly metrics checklist to identify one question worth investigating.
- Export the record. Decide whether the saved review time and clarity justify the subscription for your portfolio.
New ongoing reports normally take Apple 24–48 hours to prepare, and some metrics may take longer. An empty report is not evidence that the product has found zero activity.
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