About Apple App Store
The store behind every iOS, iPadOS and macOS install.
The App Store opened in July 2008 alongside iPhone OS 2.0 and is now the only mainstream distribution channel for iOS and iPadOS apps, with separate storefronts for macOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS. Developer-facing data lives in App Store Connect: sales and trend reports, financial reports per territory, subscription reports, product page analytics, ratings and reviews, and crash and performance metrics.
Apple takes a commission on paid apps and in-app purchases. The headline rate is 30 percent, with a reduced 15 percent rate for developers enrolled in the Small Business Program (revenue under one million US dollars per calendar year) and for the second year and beyond of an auto-renewable subscription. The same App Store Connect surface is also where Apple Search Ads attribution lands, which is the only first-party way to see paid installs separate from organic ones.
Our connector pulls a metadata table out of App Store Connect today, the Product Type Identifiers reference. That covers what kind of transaction each line in a downloaded sales or financial report is (paid app, in-app purchase, subscription renewal, refund, and so on), which is the join key you need before deeper sales, subscription and analytics data is worth ingesting. Sales reports, subscription reports and Search Ads attribution are available through App Store Connect's reporting APIs and we extend the pull on request, but the default scope is intentionally narrow. The point is to land App Store revenue and install data next to your CRM, your accounting package and your other ad channels, so the iOS line in the group P&L stops being a separate spreadsheet.