# DataBlue, free: App Store search API

> Search Apple App Store apps and return normalized listing metadata.

DataBlue's App Store search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. DataBlue's docs list 6 of the 8 fields on our checklist: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Price, Category, Icon.
We haven't run DataBlue through [our App Store search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 131 plans for App Store search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.60 per 1,000 searches or less. [See the best free App Store search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.
[Apple](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/apple/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt) and [Zapi](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/zapi/rp129000-monthly/llms.txt) are the best App Store search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/free
- [App Store search API: the 9 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-app-store-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.datablue.dev/v1/data/app-store/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.datablue.dev/app-store-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: DataBlue (https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Developer: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓
- Price: ✓
- Category: ✓
- Icon: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 200
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 43 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Apple App Store apps and return normalized listing metadata.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree not to use the Services to: Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right, including intellectual property, privacy, and data-protection laws, Collect, store, or process personal data in a manner that violates applicable law or the rights of data subjects, Send spam, malware, or unsolicited communications, or facilitate fraud, phishing, or deceptive practices, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services, other accounts, or our systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without authorization, Resell, sublicense, or expose the raw Services as a competing API without our written permission, Exceed rate limits, circumvent usage metering, or place an unreasonable load on the infrastructure, or Use the Services to build profiles for unlawful surveillance, discrimination, or harassment. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your specific use of the data you obtain through the Services complies with the laws, regulations, and terms that apply to you and to the sources you target.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: about 71 pages

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: term, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, limit, media, entity, timeout_ms
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/data/app-store/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Service

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, country, total results, time taken, position, app ID, app name, bundle ID, developer name, description, price, currency, rating, rating count, category, categories, icon, screenshots, app URL

## DataBlue's plans (12)

- [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $10.15 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $4.589 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/149-monthly/llms.txt): $4.051 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/299-monthly/llms.txt): $3.64 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/699-monthly/llms.txt): $3.374 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $319 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/319-yearly/llms.txt): $9.304 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $649 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/649-yearly/llms.txt): $4.207 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $1,639 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/1639-yearly/llms.txt): $3.713 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $3,289 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/3289-yearly/llms.txt): $3.337 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $7,689 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/7689-yearly/llms.txt): $3.093 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [DataBlue, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/contact-us/llms.txt): 75% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/data/app-store/search`: [DataBlue, free](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)

## DataBlue's APIs (15)

- [DataBlue: Amazon product API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: Amazon search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: search autocomplete API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/data/amazon/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/datablue/free-post-v1-data-amazon-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: search autocomplete API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/data/google/keyword-suggestions](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/datablue/free-post-v1-data-google-keyword-suggestions/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: search autocomplete API pricing, 12 plans, POST /v1/data/walmart/autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/datablue/free-post-v1-data-walmart-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: App Store API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: App Store search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: web scraping API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: web search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: Google Ads Transparency API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ad-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: news API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: Local business search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: video search API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: YouTube channel video API pricing, 12 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/datablue/free/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Advanced](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-advanced/llms.txt)
- [DataBlue: SERP API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v1/data/google/serp, Google SERP Lite](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/datablue/free-get-v1-data-google-serp-google-serp-lite/llms.txt)

## DataBlue: App Store search API alternatives

- [Pullbay, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/pullbay/9-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpApi, $5,675 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/serpapi/5675-monthly/llms.txt): $2.837 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $3,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/searchapi/3000-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/5-pack/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 88% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://docs.datablue.dev/app-store-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/plans-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.datablue.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing
- https://www.datablue.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=app-store-search-api-pricing