What Happened to App Sliced? And Where to Track iOS Price Drops Now

If you typed "appsliced" into Google and got nothing usable, the site really is gone. App Sliced went offline on July 30, 2024, and appsliced.co hasn't resolved to a working service since.

I run AppsHunter.io, which puts me in the slightly odd position of writing about a competitor's funeral. I'd been reading App Sliced's price-drop feed for years before it closed, and what stuck with me in the shutdown threads was how many people had years of saved app alerts disappear in a single night.

#Why App Sliced shut down

The reasons were mundane. Continuously scraping the App Store for every price change costs real money in servers and bandwidth, and by mid-2024 App Sliced had stopped covering that bill.

The deeper problem was much older. As one longtime user put it on the Loopy Pro forum, "Apple stopped accepting App Sliced and most other similar apps" to the App Store back in 2012. Apple's affiliate program had been the funding engine for price-drop trackers, and once commission rates on app purchases were cut, the category lost its revenue floor. IOSnoops went first. AppRaven struggled. App Sliced outlasted both and still ran out of money in July 2024.

There was no acquisition and no pivot. Apple spent a decade shrinking the economics underneath these sites, and App Sliced was among the last to hit the bottom of that curve. It wasn't the last one to go, either — AppAdvice followed, and we wrote up where to discover iPhone apps now that AppAdvice is gone.

#Is appsliced.co coming back?

No, and I'd stop waiting. The cost structure that killed it hasn't improved, and nobody has picked up the domain to revive the service. If you had watch lists there, those went down with it — App Sliced users who tried moving to AppRaven reported they couldn't sign in with their old credentials or recover existing alerts.

#What App Sliced users actually want

Nobody was loyal to App Sliced the website; they were loyal to what it did. Strip the brand off and the job was narrow:

• Tell me when a specific app I already want drops in price or goes free
• Let me watch a shortlist instead of scrolling every discount on the store
• Keep the shovelware out, so a good app at $0.99 isn't buried under fifty free flashlight clones

That mechanic still runs. Developers still cut prices to chase chart position, run launch-week promos, and discount the current version before a paid upgrade ships. Nothing about that changed in 2024 — developers were cutting prices the same week appsliced.co went dark.

#The best App Sliced alternatives in 2026

My own site is on this list, which you should weigh accordingly. I've included the real competitors because an alternatives page listing only the author's product is useless to someone trying to replace a dead price tracker.

#1. AppsHunter.io

This one's mine, so discount it as you see fit. I built it around the same watch-and-alert loop App Sliced ran, alongside a searchable catalog, a daily App Store deals page, developer profiles, curated collections, and a weekly board of new iOS launches. The two pieces that came directly out of reading App Sliced shutdown threads were the per-app watch list and the daily deals feed.

Best for: getting price-drop alerts running again without rebuilding a watch list from memory.

#2. AppRaven

The veteran. A lot of App Sliced users landed here first out of habit, and it still covers apps gone free and price drops. Worth knowing that several people migrating in 2024 said they couldn't access old App Sliced accounts or carry existing alerts across.

Best for: anyone who wants the tracker that predates App Sliced's shutdown and is still standing.

#3. AppShopper-style wishlist trackers

These let you build a wishlist and get notified on price changes, which covers App Sliced's narrowest function. Coverage depends on how well each one keeps up with Apple's API changes, so check when the app was last updated before trusting it with a fifty-app watch list.

Best for: someone who only wants the wishlist half of what App Sliced did.

#4. Reddit deal communities

Not a tool, but it's where much of the community actually went. r/iosgaming and r/ipadmusic both ran App Sliced farewell threads in July 2024 and became de facto deal boards afterward. For music apps in particular, the recommendations there are better curated than any scraper managed.

Best for: the iPad music and iOS gaming niches, where fifty people testing an app beats an automated feed.

#Quick comparison

#The honest takeaway

App Sliced closing removed one of the last tools that made App Store pricing legible, and I don't think a comparison table fixes that. What it doesn't change is the reason you used it: apps on your list are going on sale this week and nothing is telling you.

If you want the closest thing to the old workflow, AppsHunter is at appshunter.io and a watch list takes about a minute to set up. If AppRaven or a wishlist tracker suits you better, use one of those — the real cost of drifting is another year of paying $4.99 for apps that quietly went free.

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#FAQ

Is appsliced.co still working? No. App Sliced shut down on July 30, 2024, and the domain hasn't pointed to a live service since.

Why did App Sliced shut down? Scraping costs it could no longer cover, on top of Apple's affiliate program shrinking steadily since 2012. By mid-2024 the site had no revenue path left.

What replaced App Sliced? No official successor exists. AppsHunter.io, AppRaven, and wishlist trackers each rebuilt part of what it did, and r/iosgaming absorbed much of the community conversation.

Can I recover my old App Sliced alerts? No. Accounts and saved alerts went down with the site, which a number of users discovered when they tried logging into AppRaven with App Sliced credentials.

Do iOS apps still go on sale now that App Sliced is gone? Constantly. Developers kept cutting prices through 2025 and 2026, including on apps that App Sliced regulars had been waiting on for months.