How does QueryWatch explain a traffic change?

QueryWatch, an independent Google Search Console app for iPhone and Android, has a change investigation view that shows which items contributed most to a movement in your numbers. The free tier shows the top 3 contributors; Pro shows the top 20 contributors to any change. It works from your own Search Console data.

What does the view show?

When clicks or impressions move between two periods, the view ranks the contributors, so you see where the change came from instead of scanning the whole table. Pro adds 16 months of history with custom ranges and period comparison, so you can choose which two periods to compare.

	Free	Pro
Contributors to a change	Top 3	Top 20
History and period comparison	Not included	16 months, custom ranges
Site limit	None	None

What does it not do?

It does not explain Google’s reasons. QueryWatch is not a rank tracker and never scrapes search results; positions are the averages Google reports in Search Console. It does not show Google Analytics 4 or Bing Webmaster Tools data either. If a drop looks sitewide, check Google’s own documentation and the Search Console Page indexing report rather than reading one number in isolation.

How current is it?

Search Console data runs a few days behind, so the newest complete day is not today. When you open a change on a Monday, expect the last few days to be missing or partial.

Can an alert lead into it?

Yes, in the sense that Pro alerts store an evidence snapshot of what the relay server saw, so you can start from an alert and then open the investigation view for the same property. Alerts compare the latest complete day with the same weekday over the previous four weeks and fire at a 30 percent change or two standard deviations.

QueryWatch requires iOS 26 or later on iPhone, or Android 12 or later on Android, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC.