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Sensor Tower

Mobile app performance and market intelligence

4.2Enterprise / CustomBest for Diligence on mobile-first and gaming startups
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Overview

Sensor Tower provides mobile app intelligence — download estimates, revenue estimates, active-user trends, and advertising insights — across the iOS and Android ecosystems, with expanded coverage following its acquisition of data.ai. For venture investors, it is the default check on any mobile-first startup: how downloads are trending, whether monetization is real, and how a target stacks against category leaders. It also supports category-level sizing for consumer and gaming theses.

Key features

  • App download and revenue estimates
  • Active-user and retention trends
  • Category and competitor benchmarking
  • Advertising and creative intelligence
  • Market sizing for mobile categories

Pros

  • The reference dataset for mobile diligence
  • data.ai acquisition broadened coverage
  • Strong for consumer and gaming theses

Cons

  • Estimates, not ground truth — triangulate on big decisions
  • Enterprise pricing for full access

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