David Frampton from Majic Jungle, developers of Chopper which we recently wrote about, has released an update to his free Mac OS X application, MajicRank.

MajicRank is an application that lets users check the position of one or multiple apps in the top 100 lists in all regional app stores. You can specify both the Top 100 overall and up to three categories for the app to check. MajicRank can be set to either the check just the big 8 countries or all available app store countries. You can modify this in the application preferences.

Even though most people will use this app to just track their applications, it makes a great tool to keep track of competing applications as well. You can put in as many application IDs as you wish, use this to track both your applications and applications you want to keep an eye on.

This update adds a new major feature that will be very useful over time. The ability to track the history of the apps specified over time. Once you have a few days available, you can switch the app display to graph from table to see the history graph (example above). There are a couple caveats to this history graph feature though. For the history graph to be complete you must run this application at least once per day to allow it to grab the needed data. Also, when you first launch and configure the app there will be no historical data available for the applications you specify. This will only come with multiple days of running MajicRank.

Here’s a list of the features that this version, 1.3 adds:

• Adds historical graphs
• Stores all archives by AppID
• Reduces file size of stored archives
• Allows entering AppID with search preference over name
• Auto detects and fills in app ID when app name is entered
• Allows re-ordering of apps list
• Fixed a bug where deleting an app while editing it’s title caused a hang
• About box allows resizing, should now be viewable on low-res displays
• Adds latest date run to status text when update is complete

The application, which is available for download here (Mac OS X only) has already proven to be very useful to developers. This version makes it even more so. More details on the app are available on the MajicRank page.

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