Search the App Store with filters that actually narrow it, compare apps
side by side, and get told when an app you want drops in price. For Mac,
iPhone and iPad.
Free download · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · No account, no tracking
Find it
Search the App Store properly.
The whole catalogue, or the top charts for Mac, iPhone and iPad, with
ratings and prices on every result, so a list can be judged without
opening a single page.
iPhone and iPad apps that run on Apple silicon, flagged separately
Narrow it
Filters the App Store doesn't have.
Hide anything with in-app purchases. Cap the price. Demand four stars.
Drop apps nobody has updated in two years. Nine filters, combined however
you like, and the count updates as you go.
One-time purchases only: no subscriptions, no in-app extras
Released and last updated are separate filters, because they answer different questions
Compare it
Two apps, side by side.
Price, rating, size, version, release date, minimum macOS, and every
in-app purchase laid out in one table. Subscriptions get worked out to a
cheapest-per-year figure, so a monthly price and an annual one can
finally be compared.
Cheapest per year, calculated rather than claimed
Every tier listed, so a free app's actual cost is on the page too
Keep it
Room to research properly.
Comparing apps means holding several in your head at once, so AppSift
opens as many windows as you want, and merges them into tabs when you
would rather not lose the desktop. Everything you look at is kept, so
picking a shortlist back up tomorrow costs nothing.
Windows and tabs. Open any app in its own window with
Option-Command-O, or as a tab with Option-Command-T
Collections. Group apps however you think about them, with
notes, and export the lot
Saved searches. A filter set you tuned once is a sidebar
item, not something to rebuild
History. Every app you have opened, grouped by day, because
that is how people remember having seen something
A look inside
The whole store, on your terms.
Built to answer one question: is this worth buying now?
App Store deals, price alerts and price history, all recorded by AppSift
itself and kept on your Mac. Everything it claims, it can show you the
working for.
Deals
A daily feed of App Store price drops, sorted by discount, price or date.
Price alerts
Told the moment a watched app falls, or goes free.
Price history
Recorded from the day you install, so before long today's price has something to be measured against.
Every storefront
What the same app costs country by country, in each store's own currency.
Bundle savings
The bundle price against the total of its apps, added up rather than quoted.
My Apps
What you own, what's installed on this Mac, and which of them need updating.
Download AppSift
Free, for macOS 14 and later. Never miss a price drop on an app you want.
AppSift is made by Giorgos Trigonakis, an independent developer based in
Athens, Greece. The app is free. There is no account to create, nothing
to subscribe to, and nothing about you is collected. By downloading or
using AppSift you agree to what follows.
What you are allowed to do
You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install
and use AppSift on Macs you own or control, for as long as you like,
at no cost. That licence is yours to use, not to sell.
Please do not:
Sell, rent or sublicense the app, or redistribute it as your own.
Reverse engineer, decompile or modify it, except where the law
explicitly gives you that right regardless of what this document says.
Remove the signature, or pass around a modified build under the
AppSift name.
Use it to hammer Apple's services, scrape at volume, or do anything
that breaks Apple's own terms.
The app itself, its name, its icon and its design stay the property of
the developer. Nothing here transfers ownership of any of that to you.
Prices and app information
AppSift shows information about apps published on the App Store:
prices, ratings, in-app purchase tiers, chart positions, release dates
and similar. All of it comes from Apple's public interfaces, and all
of it is presented as it was when it was last fetched.
Always confirm the price on the App Store before you buy.
Prices change without notice, a figure in AppSift can be minutes or
days out of date, and a price alert is a prompt to go and look, not
a promise that a discount is still live.
Price history is recorded from the moment you install the app, so a
chart fills in over time rather than arriving complete. Deals data is
collected for a subset of storefronts. None of this information is
advice about what to buy, and the developer is not responsible for a
purchase you make on the strength of something AppSift displayed.
AppSift does not sell anything and cannot install anything. When you
decide to buy an app, it hands you to the App Store, and the purchase
is entirely between you and Apple under Apple's terms.
No connection with Apple
AppSift is an independent app. It is not made by, endorsed by,
affiliated with or supported by Apple Inc. Apple, App Store, Mac,
macOS, iPhone and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc. They appear here
only to describe what the app works with. App names, icons and
descriptions shown inside AppSift belong to their respective
developers.
What the app connects to
AppSift collects nothing about you and has no analytics, no tracking
and no third-party SDKs. It does need the network to do its job, and
it talks to exactly three places:
Apple (itunes.apple.com and apps.apple.com),
for search results, app details and chart positions.
The deals file hosted on Backblaze B2, a
plain data file that everyone downloads identically.
The update feed, also on Backblaze B2, to see
whether a newer version exists.
Those requests carry no identifier and no account. As with any request
to any server, the server on the other end can see the connection
itself, including your IP address. Your watchlist, collections, saved
searches, history and app library are stored only on your Mac and are
never sent anywhere. See the
Privacy Policy for the full picture.
Automatic updates
Because AppSift is distributed from this website rather than the Mac
App Store, it keeps itself up to date using Sparkle, a widely used
open source updater. It asks your permission before its first
automatic check, and you can turn automatic checks off in Settings at
any time and update by hand instead.
Every update is signed and notarized by Apple, and Sparkle verifies
the signature before installing anything.
The app is free, and may change
AppSift costs nothing today and there is no paid tier. If a paid tier
is ever added, the features that were free when you downloaded the app
stay free.
Features can be added, changed or removed as the app develops, and it
depends on interfaces run by Apple that can change or stop working
without warning. The app is offered as it is, with no promise that it
will remain available, keep working, or keep doing any particular
thing.
No warranty
AppSift is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of
any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty
of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or
non-infringement. You use it at your own risk.
Limits on liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for
any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising from
your use of AppSift, and specifically not for a purchase you made, or
a discount you missed, on the basis of information the app displayed.
Since the app is supplied free of charge, total liability for any
claim is limited to zero, which is what you paid.
Your consumer rights are not affected. Nothing in
this section takes away rights that Greek or European Union consumer
law gives you and does not allow to be signed away, and nothing here
excludes liability for death, personal injury, fraud or gross
negligence.
Ending the agreement
You can stop using AppSift at any time by dragging it to the Trash,
and that ends this agreement. The licence ends automatically if you
break the terms above. The sections on no warranty, limits on
liability and governing law carry on applying afterwards.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Greece, and the courts of
Athens, Greece have jurisdiction. If you use AppSift as a consumer
resident elsewhere in the European Union, you keep the protection of
the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in, and you may
bring proceedings in your local courts.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as the app changes. The current version
always lives at this address, with the date below showing when it last
changed. Continuing to use AppSift after a change means you accept the
updated terms. If a change is significant, it will be noted on the
website.
