How To Use FoxData to Find Out If Your App Just Got Featured

Last week, I encountered a few Reddit posts about how there’s been a sudden spike in their app performance metrics in the app store, but they aren’t really sure what actually happened.

I mean, yeah, I totally understand the struggle. App stores don’t really tell you if one day they will decide to feature your apps, which leaves us more confused than ever about what just happened to cause the sudden spike in metrics.

Well, luckily, with ASO tools like FoxData, we can easily clarify it.

Well, how?

For a start, FoxData is an AI-powered analytics platform that helps app developers and marketers optimize growth through real-time market insights, user behavior tracking, ASO/ASA tools, and ad intelligence.

Covering 13M+ apps across the App Store and Google Play, FoxData delivers predictive data, competitive benchmarking, and global performance dashboards for smarter, faster decisions.

One of the key features that FoxData have is called "Featured Apps" and "Featured Record"

What Is the Featured App?

The Featured App tool shows when and which apps were featured in the Apple App Store and Google Play. You get free access to this feature once you subscribe to the FoxData plan.

Let’s talk further about what kind of data you can get from this feature.

The Featured App allows you to select and filter information like:

App stores: Apple App Store or Google Play Store
Category: Today, Apps, Games
Selected country/regions:
Date: From which date until when
App Name

For example, if I want to know what kind of games got featured in the Apple App Store last Thursday (August 7th, 2025) in Indonesia, the result will be shown as follows:

There will be a few categories for featured apps, like #1 Top Featured, #2 What We’re Playing, #3 Must-Play Games, and more.

I can also enter a specific app name that I want to check.

Once you click on the app listed, you will be brought to the "App Profile" page to learn more about the app - E.g HAIKYU!! FLY HIGH

What Is the Featured Record?

The Featured Record shows details about how many times and for how long the app store has featured the app. It helps users to understand the app and the competitors are featured in the Apple App Store/Google Play.

For example, the eFootball™ by Konami has been featured 55 times on the US App Store for various durations and occasions.

How To Check If Your App Got Featured Or Not?

Use Featured Record

This is pretty easy and straightforward. All you need to do is click on "Featured Record" from your App Profile menu. It will quickly list the category where your app was featured, your app ranking within the listing, the start and end dates, and the duration.

However, if you want to learn more about other apps that got featured alongside yours within the same category, or if you want to check apps featured during special events like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, you can go to the "Market" menu and click "Featured Apps."

Another use case is when you have multiple spikes from various countries, and you want to check whether your app was featured in those countries within a specific timeframe.

For example, if I want to find out why there are sudden spikes in app performance in the Apple App Store in Singapore, Japan, Korea, and the United States during Q2 2025 for the Bumble app, here’s how I would filter the results:

And here’s how the results would look:

1) [Jun 30, 2025] In Singapore, the Bumble app was featured in the Meet New People and For Singapore Living categories.

2) [Jun 30, 2025] In Japan, the Bumble app wasn’t featured in any category in Featured Apps. This means there must be another reason for the spike in Japan’s app performance in Q2 2025.

3) [Jun 30, 2025] In Korea, the Bumble app was featured in the 새로운 만남을 시작할 때 category.