The ASO tool for Linux: a native app, not a browser tab

The AppImage is one file: download it, mark it executable (chmod +x) and run it, on any 64-bit distribution with a desktop. The .deb installs with your package manager on Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives and adds asorocket to your application menu.

The first launch starts the guided setup: pick your App Store and Google Play storefronts, find your app, keep the competitors asorocket suggests and tick a few keywords. There is no account to create.

The AppImage updates itself the same way as the Mac and Windows builds: downloaded in the background, installed on restart (how updates work). The .deb does not: a package installed through apt is updated by installing the newer .deb from the releases page on GitHub, which lists every version and its release notes. Settings › Updates & about shows which version you run on either build.

Everything asorocket collects is one SQLite database in the app’s data folder in your home directory. Nothing is uploaded to asorocket. Settings opens the folder and saves a backup, and the database is an ordinary file for whatever backup you run.

API keys and webhook addresses are encrypted through the Secret Service keyring (libsecret), the same store GNOME Keyring and KDE Wallet provide, so the app needs a keyring that is unlocked when it starts. Keys are left out of backups and never synced.

The daily refresh runs while asorocket runs. Close the window and it can stay in the system tray on desktops that have one, still refreshing and sending alerts. Turn on Open at login in Settings › Data refresh and it starts with your session and makes scheduled reports without opening a window.

Quit during a bulk research run of up to 1,000 keywords and asorocket keeps working from the tray, then quits by itself when the run finishes.