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Starview shows keyword popularity scores (5 to 100) from your own Apple Ads account. You connect it once in Starview, and the sign-in stays on your Mac, in the keychain. It is never sent to our servers.

Popularity appears in Search, in your tracked keywords, in Ranked Keywords and in Suggest Keywords. Everything else in Starview works without Apple Ads.

What you need

  • An Apple Ads  Advanced account. You don’t need to launch a campaign or set up billing.
  • An app in that account. Apple only answers popularity requests for an app you can advertise.
  • All your campaign groups must be linked to a valid App Store Connect account.

Connect your account

  1. Open Starview → Settings → Apple Ads.
  2. Click Sign In and sign in to Apple Ads. Two-factor authentication and passkeys work as they do in Safari.
  3. Enter the App ID of an app in your Apple Ads account. It’s the number in the app’s App Store link, after id.
  4. Click Check. Starview looks up the popularity of “photo” in the US to confirm everything works.

If you would rather sign in with your own browser, click the clipboard button in the sign-in window. Sign in to app-ads.apple.com in your browser, open the developer tools, and copy the Cookie header of any request to app-ads.apple.com.

When the session ends

Apple signs sessions out from time to time. Settings → Apple Ads then shows Session ended. Click Reconnect to sign in again. Starview never opens the sign-in on its own.

Search Ads Platform API key (optional)

If you have Apple Ads API access, you can also add an API key. Starview uses it for keywords the sign-in doesn’t score.

  1. In Apple Ads, choose Account Settings → User Management and invite an API user with the API Account Read Only role.
  2. Create a key pair in Terminal:
openssl ecparam -genkey -name prime256v1 -noout -out private-key.pem
openssl ec -in private-key.pem -pubout -out public-key.pem
  1. In Account Settings → API, paste the contents of public-key.pem and save. Apple shows a client ID, team ID and key ID.
  2. In Starview → Settings → Apple Ads, turn on Use an API Key under Search Ads Platform API. Enter those three IDs, copy the contents of private-key.pem and click Paste, then click Save and Check.

Apple scores API keywords for all countries together, so these scores don’t change by country.

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