# Apple, free: App Store search API

> The Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store and Apple Books Store.

Apple's App Store search API on its iTunes Search API plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 8 key fields we check: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Price, Category, Version, Age rating, Icon.
We haven't run Apple through [our App Store search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 101 plans we rank by price cost $1.389 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 101 plans.
[Sonar](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/sonar/29-monthly/llms.txt), [AppSigma](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/appsigma/49-99-monthly/llms.txt) and [DataForSEO](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/dataforseo/top-up-from-50-pay-as-you-go-post-v3-app-data-apple-app-searches-task-post-setting-apple-app-searches-tasks-standard-queue/llms.txt) are the best App Store search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free
- [App Store search API: 3 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://itunes.apple.com/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing#searching
- Sold by: Apple (https://www.apple.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Developer: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓
- Price: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Version: ✓
- Age rating: ✓
- Icon: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Start fee: $0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: lookup requests

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Search API allows you to place search fields in your website to search for content within the iTunes Store and Apple Books Store.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit, "will remove any Promo Content immediately upon request from Apple"
- Use data: Promotional content in the API, "including previews of songs, music videos, album art and App icons only to promote store content and not for entertainment purposes", Promo Content "(i) is placed only on pages that promote the content on which the Promo Content is based, (ii) is proximate to a “Download on iTunes” or “Download on App Store” badge (as approved by Apple) that acts as a link directly to pages within iTunes where consumers can purchase the promoted content, [...] (v) is not used for independent entertainment value apart from its promotional purpose, and (vi) is not used to promote any other goods or services"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: term, country, entity "software". Optional: media, attribute, callback, limit, lang, version, explicit
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: iTunes Search API
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 39 fields the plan's answer can hold

app ID, app name, app URL, bundle ID, kind, description, version, release notes, released at, version date, price, currency, rating, rating count, current version rating, current version rating count, age rating, age rating reasons, categories, category IDs, category, primary category ID, developer name, developer ID, developer URL, developer website, seller, size, languages, minimum OS version, icon, screenshots, iPad screenshots, Apple TV screenshots, supported features, compatibility, Game Center, VPP license, results on page

## Apple's plans (1)

- [Apple, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Apple's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Apple, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free/llms.txt)

## Apple's APIs (2)

- [Apple: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/apple/free/llms.txt)
- [Apple: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free/llms.txt)

## Apple: App Store search API alternatives

- [Sonar, free tier](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/sonar/free-tier/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete, live
- [AppSigma, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/appsigma/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, live
- [DataForSEO, free, $1 trial credit, POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_searches/task_post, Setting Apple App Searches Tasks (priority queue)](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/dataforseo/free-1-trial-credit-post-v3-app-data-apple-app-searches-task-post-setting-apple-app-searches-tasks-priority-queue/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AppTweak, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apptweak/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/index.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1232780281&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=crm&entity=software&limit=200&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing