Six ASO tools that no longer exist, and the thing that died with them

SearchMan, Meatti, AppCodes, AdAhead, MetricsCat and RaiseMetrics are all gone, and App Annie was retired into Sensor Tower. Articles published this year still recommend several of them. The losses worth caring about are not the logins.

This is not a list assembled from memory. Every entry below was requested on 12 August 2026, and the dates come from the last capture the Internet Archive holds. You can check any of them in about thirty seconds, which is rather the point.

What is actually gone

Several of these are still being recommended. Search for ASO tool roundups and you will find pieces published in 2026 describing SearchMan and Meatti in the present tense, with working-looking links to domains that have not answered in over a year.

The App Annie one is the one that matters

For most of a decade App Annie was the name people meant when they said app analytics. It became data.ai in 2022, then Sensor Tower acquired it in March 2024 and the brand was retired. Type appannie.com today and you arrive at a data.ai login page.

Nothing improper happened here. Companies get acquired and brands get consolidated. But an enormous number of links, bookmarks, tutorials, saved reports and half-remembered workflows pointed at that name, and all of them now terminate at a login wall.

TheTool does not even redirect properly

App Radar acquired TheTool, which is the normal outcome and usually means old links land somewhere sensible. Following thetool.io today produces this:

A redirect loop, not a landing page. Anyone following a link from an old article reaches nothing at all. This is a small operational detail, and it is a fair illustration of how quickly the plumbing rots once nobody owns it.

What you actually lose when a tracking tool closes

The login is the least of it. Here is the part that catches people:

Neither the App Store nor Google Play publishes historical ranking data. There is no archive to query, no endpoint that answers "what position did this app hold for this term last March". That information exists only because somebody looked on the day and wrote it down.

If your tool was the thing looking, then its database is the only place your history ever existed. When the company closes, that record does not become someone else’s to sell. It stops existing. You cannot rebuild it, buy it back, or reconstruct it from the stores, because the stores never kept it either.

What to do about it

A note on writing this

We build a competing product, so treat the framing accordingly. The factual claims are all checkable in a browser and we would rather you checked them than took our word for it. Every one of these tools was built by people who were trying, and several were genuinely good. Nothing here is a victory lap.

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