Model Context Protocol

Give your AI agents a real app store screenshot library

Connect Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other MCP clients to the AppScreens archive — a curated set of top apps classified by layout pattern and ASO strategy, with full version history. Your agents research the App Store instead of guessing.

5 read-only tools · Streamable HTTP · Pro token from Settings

Stop making your agents guess at the App Store

Without the MCP

Agents doing ASO or competitive research scrape store pages, hallucinate screenshot layouts, and have no way to see how a listing looked last quarter. Every answer is a guess you have to verify by hand.

With the MCP

Agents call structured tools against a curated archive: search by category and strategy, fetch direct screenshot URLs, and pull historical snapshots. Grounded answers, real images, no scraping.

The tools

Five read-only tools your agent can call. Full reference in the MCP guide.

search_apps

Search and filter the archive by name, platform, category, layout pattern, and ASO strategy. Returns paginated app summaries.

get_app

Full details for one app, including its current screenshots and video previews with direct, fetchable image URLs.

list_tags

List the layout and ASO-strategy tags you can filter by — the vocabulary AppScreens classifies every screenshot with.

list_categories

List every app category in the archive, usable as a search filter.

get_app_history

Historical screenshot snapshots for an app (Time Machine), newest first — see how a listing evolved over time.

Ask your agent

Once connected, prompts like these route straight to the archive:

  • Find iOS finance apps that use social proof in their screenshots.
  • Show me how Duolingo's app store screenshots changed over time.
  • What layout patterns do the top social apps use for their first screenshot?
  • Compare the ASO strategies of the top 3 meditation apps.
  • List Android productivity apps that lead with a caption-heavy layout.
  • Pull the current screenshots for Notion and describe the visual hierarchy.

Set up the MCP

  1. Generate a token. Open Settings → MCP server and generate a personal token (Pro required). Copy it — it's shown once.
  2. Connect your client. Pick your client below and paste the snippet, replacing the placeholder with your token.
  3. Ask away. Your agent can now search and read the archive.
  1. Run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add appscreens --transport http https://appscreens.store/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

Replace <YOUR_TOKEN> with your personal token. Generate one in Settings (Pro required).

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Point your agents at the archive

Generate a token, paste one snippet, and your AI assistant researches the App Store with you.