[Android Apps and Games] Skyica:
Conclusions regarding App Finder

From all the above, you can see that overall, App Finder clearly is the most powerful search engine for Android apps.

Actually, it is the only tool that has all the features one would expect from an app search engine:

Only AppAgg also has all the important filters for rating, number of ratings, free/paid, IAPs, ads, update date, and category. In AppAgg however most filters are inconveniently implemented as search operators.

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While AI-based natural-language search would often be optimal, none of the tools has this (we have planned this as an alternative to keyword search for the future)

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Only AppBrain also understands queries in the most useful way: All words and phrases from the query are required (if OR is not used), but different word forms are allowed.

An important improvement would be to also allow close synonyms, which is planned for the future. For now, the convenient OR-operator / can be used to include synonyms manually, which also works inside phrases.

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Only App Finder can require words in title or summary. Since developers are required on Google Play to provide a summary of maximal 80 characters for each app, this is an optimal an obvious possibility to drastically increase the specificity of queries.

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Only App Finder shows all the most important information directly in the result list: In addition to the standard data,

the number of ratings to evaluate the reliability of the rating,

in-app purchases,

ads,

last update date,

short description,

scrollable screenshots.

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Only the Play Store also has local prices, age ratings, and user ratings for all 200+ countries / regions supported by Google Play.

Only App Finder however shows global user ratings for apps without local ratings, which are for example available for about 2.8 times more apps in the US, and for about 21 times more apps in New Zealand.

Also, only App Finder has the option to use global ratings instead of local ratings for filter and sort,

which makes it possible to discover high quality apps that don't (yet) have a local rating in the user's country.

(A very important missing feature is of course the support for multiple languages, which will be implemented as soon as possible.)

Additional unique features include:

A filter for Play Pass apps and games

A high-resolution visualization of the rating distribution in the result list

Display of the in-app price range in the result list

Display of the Age rating in the result list

A flexible user interface that adapts to phones and tablets of all sizes, fine-grained in-app scaling of the user interface, and a 1-, 2-, or 3-pane layout.

Comprehensive integrated documentation

Nearly* all these features are already available in the free version, without ads, without limitation, without sign-in.

* The exception is the update date filer. Note that the update date is always shown in the result list.

We reserve the right to require payment for some of the more advanced features in the future.

Many additional features are available with a Plus license, for example:

Filters for update date and release date, sort by release date

Filters for price range, IAP price range, and age rating

Multi-select of categories

Display of both global and local rating, two decimals for ratings >4.5 stars

Display of release date and other additional data in the result list

Scalable screenshots in the result list

A dark theme

Spreadsheet data export