How do I install App Pain API?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does App Pain API need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does App Pain API use?

App Pain API is reached over HTTP.

App Pain API MCP server

Q: When was App Pain API last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-09. What users hate about ANY iOS/Android app: clustered complaints, evidence, trends. No key needed.

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own URL. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Add to Cursor Add in Claude Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

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Server URL

https://hawkmill.com/mcp

The Claude button above opens Claude with the name and URL filled in. You still confirm it there.

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add --transport http io.github.apppainapi-app-pain-api https://hawkmill.com/mcp

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "io.github.apppainapi-app-pain-api": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "mcp-remote",8        "https://hawkmill.com/mcp"9      ]10    }11  }12}

claude_desktop_config.json

Remote · HTTPPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

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A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Remote

Transport: http
Version: 0.3.1
Last checked

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

App Pain API

What users hate about any iOS/Android app — clustered complaints, evidence quotes, trends. One MCP server, no API key.

Live server · Docs · OpenAPI 3.1 · Pain index (101 apps) · Pricing

Review intelligence for any app on the App Store or Google Play — not just your own. Feed it an app id, a store link, or a bare package name; get back ranked pain-point clusters mined from real 1–2★ reviews, each with its share of complaints, a severity score, and verbatim evidence.

Built for competitive research and agent workflows: one tool call replaces a week of reading reviews by hand.

{
  "painPoints": [
    { "rank": 1, "title": "Intrusive ads & ad frequency", "sharePercent": 16, "severity": 4 },
    { "rank": 2, "title": "Shadowbanning & algorithm suppression", "sharePercent": 12, "severity": 4 }
  ],
  "overview": "Monetization pressure (ads) and opaque algorithm changes dominate complaints."
}

↑ real output — TikTok, US App Store. Cached analyses return instantly; ~100 popular apps are pre-analyzed and always free to read.

The tools

Tool	What it does
`search_apps` ★	Find apps on both stores (merged results, rich fields) — the step 1 of every teardown
`mine_app_pain_points` ★	The core tool: fetch recent reviews, keep the negative ones, cluster them into ranked pain points with evidence quotes
`get_pain_trend`	Compare two snapshots: what got worse, what got fixed (new / resolved / rising / falling)
`get_version_history`	Rating per release — catch the version that broke things
`get_app_reviews`	Raw reviews, unified schema across stores (dev replies, thumbsUp)
`get_app_details`	Metadata: rating histogram, category, price, IAP
`watch_competitors`	Paid: push new 1–2★ reviews and rising pain points to Slack/Discord/webhooks

Also ships two prompts (competitor_pain_report, app_pain_deep_dive) so an agent can run a full teardown from one sentence.

Install

Server URL — paste it into any MCP client, no key needed:

https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/mcp

Client	How
Claude Code	`claude mcp add --transport http app-pain-api https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/mcp`
Claude Desktop / claude.ai	Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL
ChatGPT	Settings → Apps & Connectors → Developer mode → Create → paste the URL, auth: No authentication
Cursor	`~/.cursor/mcp.json` → `{"mcpServers":{"app-pain-api":{"url":"https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/mcp"}}}`
VS Code	`code --add-mcp '{"name":"app-pain-api","type":"http","url":"https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/mcp"}'`
Windsurf	`~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json` → `{"mcpServers":{"app-pain-api":{"serverUrl":"…/mcp"}}}`
Codex CLI	`~/.codex/config.toml` → `[mcp_servers.app-pain-api]` `url = "…/mcp"`
Gemini CLI	`~/.gemini/settings.json` → `{"mcpServers":{"app-pain-api":{"httpUrl":"…/mcp"}}}`
stdio-only clients	`npx -y mcp-remote https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/mcp`

Keyless limits: unlimited cached results plus a few new analyses per day. Want your own quota (10/month free, more on paid tiers)? Register at POST /v1/register and add an x-api-key header. When the server-side allowance runs out, mine_app_pain_points degrades gracefully — it hands your agent the prepared negative reviews to cluster with its own model.

Mainland China: *.workers.dev needs a system proxy or TUN mode to connect.

Try asking your agent

"What do users hate most about Duolingo, and is it getting better?"
"Compare the top 4 habit-tracker apps' pain points and find a product gap."
"Watch my 3 biggest competitors and alert our Slack when their users start complaining about something new."

Also a plain REST API

Everything the MCP server does is available over REST with JSON responses and a full OpenAPI 3.1 spec — same cache, same quota, one GET:

curl -s "https://app-pain-api.quiet-delta.workers.dev/v1/apps/ios/835599320/painpoints"

Pricing

Free tier forever (no credit card) · Starter $9/mo (any country, 500-review depth, watch 2 competitors) · Pro $29/mo (daily alerts for 15 competitors, unlimited analyses) — details on the site.

Notes

Data comes from public app-store pages, normalized into one schema. Not affiliated with Apple or Google.
All tools are read-only (readOnlyHint annotations set).
Speaks the classic initialize handshake (2024-11-05 → 2025-11-25) and answers the mandatory server/discover RPC from the 2026-07-28 spec — modern clients probe, see the supported version list, and fall back to the handshake automatically.
Cold analyses take 30–120s and stream progress notifications; repeat calls hit a 7-day cache and return in milliseconds.
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How do I install App Pain API?

Does App Pain API need an API key?

What transport does App Pain API use?

When was App Pain API last checked?

Documentation

App Pain API

The tools

Install

Try asking your agent

Also a plain REST API

Pricing

Notes