In the body, I wrote a novel. I detailed the discrepancy between the app's Position 1 claim and my manual check at Position 31. I attached screenshots. I mentioned the time zone glitches. I pointed out that the app confused "People Also Ask" snippets with actual organic links. I ended with a plea to the developers: "Please fix your crawlers. You’re selling anxiety dressed as analytics."
Alex from SerpWatch emailed me one last time. No rocket ship. No chipper tone. Just a plaintext message: what my serp app review
That’s when the spiral began.