App Pain API

io.github.apppainapi/app-pain-api · v0.3.1

What users hate about ANY iOS/Android app: clustered complaints, evidence, trends. No key needed.

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Connect Remote server

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http app-pain-api https://hawkmill.com/mcp --header "x-api-key: <X_API_KEY>"

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-pain-api": {
      "url": "https://hawkmill.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "x-api-key": "<X_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "app-pain-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hawkmill.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "x-api-key": "<X_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://hawkmill.com/mcp

Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.

Tools 7 found in our last check

search_apps
Search the iOS App Store and Google Play (both merged by default) to find apps and their ids; WordPress plugins / Chrome extensions / Steam games via store:"wordpress"|"chrome"|"steam". Use this FIRST when you only know an app name or a category.
mine_app_pain_points
THE core tool: fetch recent reviews of any iOS/Android app, keep the negative ones, and cluster them into ranked pain points (title, sharePercent, severity 1-5, verbatim evidence quotes). Ideal for competitive research and product discovery. Cached 7 days (instant on repeat); a…
get_pain_trend
How an app's pain points changed over time: compares two archived analyses and labels each theme new / resolved / rising / falling / stable with share deltas (percentage points). Instant (archive read, no LLM). Default: latest vs ~30 days earlier. Returns a note when the app has…
get_app_details
App metadata: name, developer, category, price, average rating, rating count and 1-5★ histogram (when available).
get_version_history
Per-version review stats (review count, average rating, first/last seen) — spot a rating crash right after a bad release. Android: aggregated from recent reviews. iOS: current version + release notes. Steam: not available (Steam exposes no per-version data — returns an empty lis…
watch_competitors
Continuous competitor monitoring (paid plans: Starter 2 apps weekly, Pro 15 apps daily). Manage the watchlist and the alert destination; digests of NEW 1-2★ reviews and NEW/RISING pain points are pushed to a Slack / Discord / any https webhook. action: list | add | remove | set_…
get_app_reviews
Fetch raw app reviews (unified schema across stores: rating/title/body/version/date/devReply/thumbsUp), 50 per page. Use for drill-down after mine_app_pain_points.

Headers

Name	Description
`x-api-key` Optional, secret	Optional API key for a personal quota; omit to use the keyless daily allowance

Details

Endpoint	`https://hawkmill.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP)
First published	1 Nov 2026
Last updated	1 Nov 2026
Registry name	`io.github.apppainapi/app-pain-api`

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Last check: 13 Nov 2026

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