App Store Reviews Scraper · iOS and Google Play, any country

Download the reviews of any iOS or Android app from the App Store and Google Play in one run: star rating, title, text, date, app version, helpful votes and the developer's reply, for any store country, newest or most helpful first. Give it App Store links or ids and Google Play package names in one list; the store is detected from each entry. Built for daily monitoring: a date filter and a since-last-run checkpoint per app, store and country mean a scheduled run fetches only the reviews you have not seen, and every app gets a free summary with the average rating, a star histogram and the version collecting the most one- and two-star reviews. $0.06 per 1,000 reviews, no login, no API key, nothing charged for errors, summaries or empty runs. The first 50 reviews each month are free for every account.

Why this one

	This actor
Price	$0.00006 per review ($0.06 per 1,000) and $0.00006 per optional app-details record, plus Apify's default $0.00005 start fee. No platform usage charged on top.
Both stores	One list of apps, one run, one output format and one checkpoint store across the App Store and Google Play; every row says which store and country it came from.
Any country	countries: ["us", "gb", "de", "in"] fetches every app once per storefront. App Store reviews are per country; Google Play reviews are per country and language.
Daily monitoring	onlyNewSinceLastRun stores the newest review date per app, store and country and stops there on the next run; reviewedAfter accepts 7d, 12h or a date. Quiet days cost only the start fee.
Rating trend	A free summary per app and country with the average rating and histogram of the reviews fetched, the version with the most low-star reviews, and why the run stopped.
Every field	Rating, title, text, date, app version, helpful votes (and vote count on the App Store), developer reply text and date (Google Play), reviewer name, review link. minScore/maxScore keep only the stars you want, uncharged.
App record	Optional: overall rating and rating count, price, version, release and update dates, genre, content rating, developer and icon; Google Play adds the histogram, install range and developer e-mail.
Reliability	Apple's public reviews feed and the iTunes lookup API, Google Play's own review endpoint, no browser, no proxies; an app that does not exist in a country returns an error record instead of failing the run.

What people use it for

• Review monitoring on both stores: every new review of your app each day, with one- and two-star ones routed to Slack, e-mail or a ticketing tool.
• Release health: reviews carry the app version, and the summary names the version collecting the most complaints, so you see what broke before the overall rating moves.
• Competitor research across storefronts: the same app list for the US, UK, German and Indian stores in one sheet.
• Sentiment and topic analysis: thousands of rated, dated and versioned reviews for an LLM or a classifier.
• Agents: one tool call for "what are people saying about app X everywhere this week", with a known price per result.

Example tasks

Ready-made configurations you can open, copy and run as they are:

• Latest 1-star reviews of an app on App Store and Google Play: one app on both stores, three country storefronts, one-star reviews from the last 30 days, checkpoint on for a daily schedule.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
apps	array	required	App Store ids or URLs (310633997, id310633997, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997) and Google Play package names or URLs (com.whatsapp). Mix both in one list.
countries	array	["us"]	Two-letter store countries. Every app is fetched once per country.
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	100	Upper limit per app and country. The App Store feed stops at 500 (10 pages of 50).
sort	string	newest	newest (monitoring), helpful (most voted first) or rating (Google Play only).
reviewedAfter	string	–	ISO date (2026-01-01) or relative (1d, 12h, 7d, 30d). With newest the run stops at the first older review.
minScore / maxScore	integer	–	Keep only reviews within this star range (1–5). Filtered reviews are not charged.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Remembers the newest review date per app, store and country in a key-value store of your account and stops there next time.
checkpointStoreName	string	app-reviews-state	Name of that store; use one per monitoring job.
includeAppDetails	boolean	true	One app record per app and country with rating, counts, price, version, dates, genre and developer.
language	string	en	Language of the Google Play reviews (en, de, it…). The App Store feed has no language filter.

{
    "apps": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997", "com.whatsapp"],
    "countries": ["us", "gb"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
    "sort": "newest",
    "reviewedAfter": "7d",
    "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
    "includeAppDetails": true
}

Output

review (charged, $0.00006 each). Real rows, long fields shortened:

{
    "type": "review", "store": "app-store", "appId": "310633997", "country": "us",
    "reviewId": "14673611888", "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id310633997?see-all=reviews",
    "userName": "Presh1$", "userUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/reviews/id1980309752",
    "date": "2026-10-16T14:15:40.000Z", "score": 1, "title": "Complain",
    "text": "Why do they keep telling me to download official WhatsApp you didn't even allow me login my account",
    "appVersion": "26.40.77", "votes": 0, "voteCount": 0, "replyText": null, "replyDate": null, "language": null
}

{
    "type": "review", "store": "google-play", "appId": "com.whatsapp", "country": "us",
    "reviewId": "e0f1bfb1-7961-4005-b303-10db9ad3a8df",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&reviewId=e0f1bfb1-7961-4005-b303-10db9ad3a8df",
    "userName": "Akthar Khan", "userUrl": null, "date": "2026-10-16T22:31:41.569Z", "score": 1, "title": null,
    "text": "Net is too slow", "appVersion": null, "votes": 0, "voteCount": null, "replyText": null, "replyDate": null, "language": "en"
}

Field	Meaning
store, appId, country	Where the review comes from: app-store with the numeric id, or google-play with the package name, and the storefront.
score, title, text, date	Stars 1–5, review title (App Store only), text, ISO timestamp.
appVersion	Version the reviewer had; Google Play omits it on some reviews.
votes, voteCount	Helpful votes: App Store voteSum and voteCount; Google Play "thumbs up" in votes.
replyText, replyDate	The developer's reply, Google Play only; Apple's public feed does not include responses.
userName, userUrl	Reviewer name and, on the App Store, the public reviewer page.
language	Google Play review language; null for App Store rows (the feed has no language filter).

app (charged, $0.00006 each, one per app and country when includeAppDetails is on). App Store rows carry score, ratings, scoreCurrentVersion, ratingsCurrentVersion, price, currency, version, released, updated, genre, genres, contentRating, minimumOs, sizeBytes, icon, languages, bundleId, developer, developerUrl. Google Play rows carry score, ratings, reviews, histogram, installs, minInstalls, maxInstalls, price, free, version, released, updated, genre, contentRating, icon, adSupported, offersIAP, developer, developerEmail, developerUrl.

summary (free, one per app and country at the end of the run):

{
    "type": "summary", "store": "app-store", "appId": "310633997", "country": "us", "status": "COMPLETE",
    "reviewsScraped": 60, "reviewsFilteredOut": 0, "reviewsScanned": 100,
    "newestReviewDate": "2026-10-16T14:15:40.000Z", "oldestReviewDate": "2026-10-14T11:09:15.000Z",
    "averageScore": 3.85, "histogram": {"1": 15, "2": 1, "3": 1, "4": 4, "5": 39},
    "worstVersion": {"version": "26.40.77", "lowStarReviews": 14},
    "stoppedBy": "maxReviews", "checkpointUsed": null
}

status is COMPLETE, PARTIAL (stopped by your spending limit), EMPTY or ERROR; stoppedBy is maxReviews, reviewedAfter, checkpoint, endOfReviews, feedLimit (the App Store feed's 500 newest reviews per country), chargeLimit, scanLimit (a star filter matched nothing for thousands of Google Play reviews) or error. averageScore, histogram and worstVersion describe the reviews fetched in this run, not the store's overall rating (that is in the app record).

error (free): {"type": "error", "store": "app-store", "appId": "999999999999", "country": "gb", "error": "app not found in this country's App Store"}.

Pricing and cost examples

Try it free. The first 50 reviews each calendar month are free for every Apify account, with nothing to enter: the actor keeps count in a small key-value store in your account (free-slice-app-store-reviews-scraper) and charges only from the 51th on. The free results are real results you keep; the counter resets on the first of each month.

Job	Reviews	Cost
Newest 500 App Store reviews of one app in one country, with the app record	500 + 1	$0.03
Daily monitor of 10 apps on both stores in 3 countries, about 40 new reviews a day, checkpoint on	40 a day	$0.002 a day, under $0.10 a month
Competitor sheet: 20 apps × both stores × 5 countries × 100 reviews, with app records	20,000 + 200	$1.21
Research dataset: 200 apps × 500 App Store reviews	100,000	$6.00

Platform compute is included in the per-item price. A run that finds nothing new costs only Apify's $0.00005 start fee.

Discounts for paid Apify plans, applied automatically to the buyer's plan: Bronze 10% off, Silver 25% off, Gold and enterprise tiers 40% off the prices above. Free-plan users pay the listed price.

Scheduling: a daily complaints digest in two minutes

1. Create a task from this actor with your apps and countries, minScore: 1, maxScore: 2, onlyNewSinceLastRun: true.
2. Add a schedule (daily) and an integration (Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets, Make, n8n or a webhook) on the task.
3. The first run collects the current reviews (up to maxReviewsPerApp); from then on each run returns only new ones, and the summary rows tell you which version is collecting the complaints.

Run it from your code

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper').call({
    apps: ['https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997', 'com.whatsapp'],
    countries: ['us', 'gb'], maxReviewsPerApp: 100, reviewedAfter: '7d',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((r) => r.type === 'review').length, 'reviews');

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper').call(run_input={
    'apps': ['310633997', 'com.whatsapp'], 'countries': ['us'], 'maxReviewsPerApp': 100, 'minScore': 1, 'maxScore': 2,
})
for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    if item['type'] == 'review':
        print(item['store'], item['score'], item['text'][:80])

curl (synchronous, returns the dataset):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/agentsgearbox~app-store-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"apps":["310633997","com.whatsapp"],"countries":["us"],"maxReviewsPerApp":50}'

For AI agents

Give your agent hands. Instead of opening store pages, getting blocked and reasoning over HTML, it calls this actor as a tool and gets verified reviews back as JSON, priced per result, from both stores in one call.

• MCP, this actor only: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client (with your Apify token), then ask for "the one-star reviews of WhatsApp on both stores this week".

• MCP, all agentsgearbox actors: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=agentsgearbox/telegram-channel-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper,agentsgearbox/substack-scraper,agentsgearbox/google-news-scraper,agentsgearbox/brand-name-generator,agentsgearbox/ai-readiness-audit,agentsgearbox/company-lookup,agentsgearbox/app-intelligence,agentsgearbox/app-store-reviews-scraper

• No Apify account? This actor is eligible for Apify's agentic payments: an agent can buy a spend-capped token through agi.apify.com (x402, MPP or Skyfire) and call the API with it.
• Prices are per result and known in advance, so the agent can set a spending limit; error records come back as data instead of failed runs.

Reading the results

• Filter on type (review, app, summary, error) and store; every row carries appId and country.
• summary.worstVersion is the version with the most one- and two-star reviews among the reviews fetched in this run: the fastest signal that a release is going wrong.
• For a complete picture of an app's rating use the app record (score, ratings), not the summary's averageScore, which only describes the reviews you asked for.

Limitations, stated plainly

• Apple's public feed serves the newest 500 reviews per country (10 pages of 50) and no developer responses; older reviews have no public source. The actor reports stoppedBy: feedLimit when it hits that wall.
• Apple's feed sometimes answers with an empty page for minutes at a time, for some storefronts and networks. The actor asks through up to six request paths, retries once after a pause and remembers the path that worked; if every path stays empty for an app that has ratings, you get a free error row saying so instead of a silent empty result. A scheduled run simply picks the reviews up next time.
• App Store reviews come in the language they were written in; there is no language filter on Apple's side. Google Play reviews are filtered by language.
• Google Play exposes an app version on most but not all reviews, so appVersion can be null there.
• Apple's APIs allow about 20 calls a minute per address; the actor paces itself, so a run over many apps and countries takes a few seconds per pair.
• Review text is the reviewer's; names are public screen names. Keep personal data in mind when you store or share the output.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	What is happening
app not found in this country's App Store	The id exists in another storefront only, or is not an app id. Use the id from the App Store URL (…/id310633997).
app not found on Google Play in this country	The package is not published in that country. Try another countries entry.
"xx" is not a storefront / Google Play rejected country=…	Use two-letter ISO codes (us, gb, de).
0 reviews with the checkpoint on	Nothing new since the last run; the summary shows stoppedBy: "checkpoint".
Fewer than 500 App Store reviews	The app has fewer reviews in that country, or your maxReviewsPerApp is lower.

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Support

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