Every number in TrendGap comes from stored, dated data, and small labels tell you how old it is. Here is what the labels mean, how often each kind of data is refreshed and where to see what changed. Some pages named here may not be in your menu yet.
Reading the freshness labels
You find these labels on report sections, library cards, Peek, Market Radar, Trends, your watchlist and tool results:
- "Updated" and how long ago: when the value was last measured or worked out again. After about a month, the label shows the date instead.
- "Data for" and a month: a monthly figure, such as search volume. It names the month the figure covers.
- "Newest complaint", "Checked" or "Fetched" and how long ago: when the newest complaint behind an idea was posted, when a watch was last checked, or when a tool result's data was fetched.
- "Not measured yet", "Not checked yet" or "No complaints yet": nothing is stored yet. TrendGap never shows a missing value as zero.
Hover over a label to see the exact time in UTC. A value measured on a given day says "today", "yesterday" or a number of days, never hours.
What is refreshed every day
- Each idea's evidence label, complaint counts and Gap Score are worked out again once a day from the stored complaints. This is plain counting; AI plays no part in it.
- Saved searches are checked for new matches.
- Keyword monitors are checked on Pro and above. On other plans they are checked weekly.
- Market Radar reads the app charts and new-product feeds it shows.
- The public complaint pages on the website are refreshed.
The rank tracker checks positions every Monday. On Pro and above, your oldest keywords are also checked every day, and the tool's note says how many. New complaints arrive with TrendGap's data runs. When the daily complaint refresh is switched on, TrendGap also looks for new complaints every day, and on paid plans the note under your watchlist says so.
What is refreshed each week
Every Monday, the weekly measurement records the ratings of the apps, plugins and add-ons that compete with each idea, how many complaints each idea got in the past seven days, and how often its keywords come up on a developer forum. It also checks your watches again and runs the rank and AI visibility checks that are due.
After each run, alerts that pass your rules land in your Inbox on paid plans, and Free gets a weekly summary. The Weekly Gap Report is built from the new numbers.
What is refreshed each month
Some sources publish their figures once a month, so TrendGap reads them monthly. These carry a "Data for" label: search volume (in Trends, the Demand section of a report and keyword lookups), top websites in Market Radar when that feed is on, and traffic estimates for the websites you watch.
Monthly rankings are stored at the start of the next month, and the Pain Index comes out once a quarter. See Monthly rankings and the Pain Index.
Why some comparisons wait for history
Some numbers compare this week with the weeks before, so they need several weekly measurements first:
- Momentum badges ("Heating", "Steady", "Cooling", "Still hot") and the "Heating up" list.
- The weekly Gap Score change on cards, such as "No change this week".
- "Gap of the week", which uses the highest Gap Score until enough weekly history exists, and only then the biggest weekly rise.
- Watch changes and complaint alerts. A watch shows "Waiting for data" until it has enough checks to compare.
- Sections of the Weekly Gap Report, which wait under "Not in this issue" with the reason.
Until then, the app says what it is waiting for instead of guessing. Comparisons only use weeks measured the same way, so if the way TrendGap collects complaints for an idea changes, its weekly comparisons wait again.
See what changed: the Changelog
On Home, the "Changelog" link under "Library counts" opens the Changelog. It lists every finished data run with its counts, such as the reviews and posts an "Idea pipeline run" read, the apps a "Weekly measurement" measured or the reports a "Report refresh" published. The team's release notes sit beside them, marked "Product" or "Data".
The "Last data run" tile shows when the newest run happened. On the website, the "What's new" page, when it is switched on, lists the product updates and data notes the team has made public.