Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower: A broad intelligence platform for benchmarking digital markets and competitors. Ranked #6 of 45 in Competitive Intelligence Software by our editors (8.2/10); pricing: Pricing on request; best for digital, app, advertising, and gaming intelligence.
At a glance
- Editor score8.2 / 10
- PricingPricing on request
- Best forDigital, app, advertising, and gaming intelligence
- Free planNo
- Competitor trackingYes
- Founded2013 · San Francisco, California, United States
- Facts checked24 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Covers app, web, audience, advertising, and gaming performance metrics
- Historical analysis, alerts, APIs, feeds, and integrations support ongoing research
- Includes generative-AI visibility insights across prompts, platforms, and brands
Where it doesn't
- Customized pricing requires a contact-sales process
- Its broad scope may exceed the needs of narrowly focused teams
- API and data-feed capabilities may suit enterprise workflows more than simple research
Our verdict on Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower is a digital intelligence platform for marketers, app developers, gaming companies, advertisers, strategists, and researchers. It brings together market and competitor analysis across mobile apps, websites, digital advertising, audiences, and games. The product is available through web access and an API, with coverage spanning downloads, revenue, active users, retention, ratings, reviews, traffic, advertising activity, audience engagement, and gaming performance.
Pricing is customized for each customer, with the published model directing prospective buyers to contact sales. Its value is tied to the breadth of information and the ways teams can incorporate it into ongoing analysis. Custom alerts can be delivered through email or Slack, while API access and scheduled CSV or Parquet feeds support recurring data workflows. Snowflake, Salesforce, and Slack integrations extend that fit into analytics, customer, and notification environments. Historical metrics and time-series analysis also support tracking market and competitor trends rather than relying only on current snapshots.
The strongest case for Sensor Tower is a team that needs one environment for digital market intelligence across several channels. App teams can examine downloads, revenue, retention, ratings, and reviews; web teams can study traffic sources and visitor behavior; advertising teams can review spend, impressions, advertisers, publishers, creatives, and share of voice; and gaming teams can follow revenue, units sold, DAU, MAU, wishlists, and player engagement. Audience analysis and generative-AI referral, prompt, platform, and brand-visibility insights add further scope. Organizations seeking a focused, lightweight tool for one narrow metric or a simple competitor list may find this breadth unnecessary; teams coordinating cross-channel research and data delivery are the clearer fit.
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Sensor Tower fact sheet
| Free plan | No |
|---|---|
| Paid from | Not verified |
| Competitor tracking | Yes |
| Change alerts | Yes |
| Web traffic data | Yes |
| Historical data | Extensive |
| Competitor limit | Not verified |
| Data types | App downloads, revenue estimates, active users, engagement, retention, app store rankings, keywords, ratings and reviews, digital advertising impressions and spend estimates, web visits, audience activity, PC and console game metrics |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web |
| Compliance & security | SSO/SAML |
| Support | Email, Docs |
| Built for | Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 3 integrations: Snowflake, Salesforce, Slack See all → |
| Pricing | Pricing on request (source) |
| Website | sensortower.com |
| Facts checked | 24 Sep 2026 |
Sensor Tower integrations
Sensor Tower lists 3 integrations on its own site.
- Snowflake
- Salesforce
- Slack
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