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How to check your app downloads on iPhone (2026)
Install Apple's free App Store Connect app to see basic sales and download numbers on your iPhone. For download breakdowns — first-time downloads, redownloads, totals — use the App Analytics website. The full funnel (impressions, conversion rate, deletions, traffic sources) normally requires desktop; FunnelHound brings it to the phone via the official App Store Connect API.
Option 1: Apple's App Store Connect app
Apple ships an official App Store Connect app for iOS, and it's the fastest zero-setup answer. Sign in with your developer Apple ID and you get basic sales and download figures per app and per day, proceeds, and TestFlight management — inviting testers, checking build status, reading tester feedback. That's also roughly where it ends. The app is built around Trends-style sales data, not App Analytics: there are no impressions, no conversion rate, no deletions, no source breakdown, no benchmarks. If your question is "how many downloads yesterday?", it answers. If your question is "why did downloads drop?", it can't — the diagnostic metrics live elsewhere.
Option 2: App Analytics on the web
The App Store Connect Analytics section on the web is where Apple keeps the real numbers. For downloads specifically it distinguishes first-time downloads (new devices), redownloads (users reinstalling) and total downloads — a split that matters, because a "growth" week that's mostly redownloads is a very different story from genuinely new users. Analytics also holds impressions, product page views, conversion rate, retention and deletions. The catch: the site is built for desktop. It loads in mobile Safari, but the charts, filters and peer-benchmark views are cramped enough on a phone screen that in practice this is a laptop tool.
Option 3: third-party dashboards
A number of analytics dashboards will happily show App Store data on your phone — but read the architecture before the feature list. Most of them work by having you upload your App Store Connect API key to their servers, which fetch your reports, store your revenue and download data, and serve it back through their app. That's a real trade: your credentials and your business numbers now live in a third party's infrastructure, subject to their security and their retention policy. For teams that want cross-store aggregation it can be worth it. If you only need your own iOS numbers, routing them through someone else's cloud is unnecessary surface area.
What you can see on your phone
| Metric | App Store Connect app | App Analytics website | FunnelHound |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads | Basic totals | First-time / redownloads / total | Yes |
| Proceeds / sales | Yes | Yes | Yes (purchases) |
| Impressions & page views | No | Yes | Yes |
| Conversion rate | No | Yes | Yes, with category benchmark |
| Deletions | No | Yes | Yes |
| Traffic sources | No | Yes | Yes (Search / Browse / App Referrer / Web Referrer) |
| Usable on iPhone | Yes | Desktop-first | Yes — native |
Getting the full funnel natively on iPhone
FunnelHound takes the missing path: it pulls the same analytics reports from the official App Store Connect API and renders them natively on the iPhone — the full Impressions → Installs → Purchases funnel, deletions, and the source split. The difference from third-party dashboards is where your data goes: your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain on your device, requests go directly from your phone to Apple, and no third-party server ever sees your key or your numbers. Setup takes an API key — here's how to create one — and note that the first-ever analytics report request for an app takes 24–48 hours before Apple generates data.
Your funnel, on the phone in your pocket
FunnelHound shows Impressions → Installs → Purchases from App Store Connect, natively on iPhone. Key in your Keychain, data straight from Apple to you.
Get FunnelHoundData notes: App Store Connect analytics lag real activity by roughly 2–3 days — Apple's processing delay applies identically to the App Store Connect app, the website, FunnelHound and every third-party tool reading the same reports. Feature availability in Apple's App Store Connect iOS app as of 2026.