Availability of a name for an app in the AppStore

Question

Is there a way to check if a name is available in the AppStore with an HTTP request? Without manually creating the App in iTunes Connect?

Answer 1

Kaolin Fire's suggestion doesnt work on the latest version of itunesconnect. A work around is to start the creation of a new app and where you fill in all the details and the name of the app you want to know the availability for but using a sku of any of your previous apps.

If the name is available you will only get an error that the sku is already in use. Else you will get 2 errors sku and name both are in use.

Answer 2

App Annie and Google only give you games that are published to the App store. The only way to do it is go through the entire app creation process, including Bundle ID. This process is horrible as my iTunes Connect is littered with reserved app names that I do not intend to do anything with and will not become available to others until they expire 90 days after registration.

Answer 3

You could try app annie

It requires a free registration. I tried and tested it and does a decent job for iOS,MAC,GooglePlay app name searches.

Answer 4

I use Google to check if an app name (or something similar to it) already exists.
Use this as your search query:

site:itunes.apple.com inurl:app clash of clans

(replace 'clash of clans' with the suggested app name of course)

Answer 5

You can check the availability of an app name and even reserve that name here. Here is a page with more details about checking/reserving app names.

Answer 6

1. Open iTunes Connect
2. Click 'New App'
3. Fill out language and bundle id (can be anything)
4. Enter desired name & SKU of a previous app you have built
5. Click 'Create'
   
   

The name field will return red if the name has been taken.