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What you can ask for / No. 05

Find apps in your own words

Apps on public stores, with ratings, versions, prices, and who makes them.

App stores rank what they want you to see. Ask for what you want instead: a rating floor, a recent update, a price, a developer. SpecStream reads the public listing and keeps the version and the date it saw, so “updated recently” means something.

Requests to start from

Three ways to ask. Each one opens in the workspace, read into parts you can check and change.

  1. A1

    Meditation apps on the App Store rated 4.5 or higher and updated in the last three months. Include the price and developer.

    Open it in the workspace
  2. A2

    Budgeting apps on the App Store with more than 10,000 ratings that are free to download. Include the developer and last update.

    Open it in the workspace
  3. A3

    Language learning apps in the French App Store rated 4 or higher. Include the price and content rating.

    Open it in the workspace

How it reads

Take A1. Before the quote, SpecStream turns it into parts you can check and change. Edit one and the request saves as a new saved version. Anything it can’t support stays visible instead of being quietly dropped.

A1Meditation apps on the App Store rated 4.5 or higher and updated in the last three months. Include the price and developer.

Meditation apps

  • FromApp Store
  • Only ifRated 4.5 or higher
  • Only ifUpdated in the last three months
  • Bring backPrice
  • Bring backDeveloper

Up to 25 results, each one fitting both things you asked forReady.

Details you can ask for

  • Price
  • Rating
  • Rating count
  • Category
  • Developer
  • Version
  • Last updated
  • Minimum OS
  • Content rating
  • Store country
  • Release notes

Use them as conditions, ask for them back, or both; the field picker in the workspace shows which work where. Mark a detail required and a result needs evidence for it before it counts. Optional details can come back empty without sinking the record.

Where it looks

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Sources
App Store · Public app listings

SpecStream picks the sources that fit each request and reads them live. Every fact keeps its source and the time it was read. Where SpecStream looks · How evidence works

From your agent or your code

Ask for the same list from your agent or your code. Your agent sees the price before it runs, then gets every match with the details you asked for. It works within your spending limit. Connect your agent with MCP.

Use SpecStream to find this:
Meditation apps on the App Store rated 4.5 or higher and updated in the
last three months. Include the price and developer.
Show me how you read it and the price before you run anything.

What it costs

You pay for the results that match, at the rate the quote shows.

  • Standard, $0.10 a match: up to 5 facts to check or return, with no related list.
  • Expanded, $0.30 a match: up to 15 facts, plus one related list, such as a company’s jobs or a creator’s posts. 10 related records a result are included, then 10¢ for each further 10.
  • Deep, $1 a match: anything beyond Expanded.
  • A person’s email, +$0.10; a phone, +$0.25 on top of the rate, when the request asks for one. A likely email counts and says likely. Rows without it pay their rate alone.
  • Your own list, $0.05 a row checked. A row that matches pays its rate instead.

New accounts get $10 of work free to start, no card. See pricing

Then what?

Recheck ratings and versions every month. Or export them to CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML, share a snapshot with an expiry date, and pick the work up later from wherever you left it.

Keep digging

CreatorsJob postings

Or flip through the whole crate and ask for any of them the same way.

Go find something