Google Play Similar Apps Scraper — Android Competitor Discovery

Point it at any Android app and get its competitors — both the apps Google Play itself recommends as similar, and everything else the same developer publishes — in one ranked table.

Quick start: press Start with no configuration at all. The Actor ships with two seed apps and returns around a hundred related apps immediately. Then paste in the app you actually care about.

Sample output

seedTitle	relation	rank	title	developer	score	priceText
Netflix	similar	1	Prime Video	Amazon Mobile LLC	4.1	Free
Netflix	similar	2	Max: Stream HBO, TV, & Movies	WarnerMedia	3.9	Free
Netflix	same-developer	1	Netflix Games	Netflix, Inc.	4.3	Free

Every row also carries appId, url, summary, developerId, score, scoreText, price, currency, free, icon, seedAppId, seedDeveloper and country.

Why two relations, not one

A bare similar-apps scraper gives you one list and no context. This one tags every row so you can tell the two signals apart:

• similar — Google Play's own "similar apps" cluster. This is what Google decides to show a user standing on your app's page, which makes it the closest thing to an objective competitor set that exists.
• same-developer — everything else that publisher ships. Useful on its own, and necessary to exclude: Google's similar list is often padded with the developer's other apps, and without the tag you would mistake a publisher's own portfolio for a competitive field.

Duplicates across the two lists are removed, the seed app itself is never returned, and the row shape is identical for both relations so the result drops straight into a table.

Set expectations before you buy

How many competitors exist is Google's call, not ours. Measured across seven popular apps: Pinterest returns 171 similar apps, Netflix 10, Uber 7, Spotify 5, Duolingo 3, Canva 2. There is no setting that changes this — it is how large a cluster Google chose to publish for that app.

If a seed returns two rows, that is the real answer for that app, and the run charges you for two rows. Seed several apps in one run if you want breadth.

What you can do with it

• Build a competitor set you did not pick yourself. Your own list of rivals is biased. Google's is not.
• Map a publisher's portfolio. One call returns everything a developer ships, with ratings attached.
• Find acquisition targets or partners. Small, well-rated apps sitting next to a giant in the same cluster.
• Feed an AI agent. Rows are under 1 KB, consistently shaped and pre-ranked, so a model can reason over a whole competitive field in one pass.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
appUrlsOrIds	Netflix, Pinterest	Package names or full Google Play URLs.
includeDeveloperApps	true	Adds the same-developer rows. Turn off for Google's similar list alone.
countries	["us"]	Two-letter storefront codes. Recommendations differ by country.
language	en	Independent of country.
maxAppsPerSeed	50	Counts both relations together, per seed per country.

A seed app that is not published in a requested country is reported in the log and in SUMMARY, and the run continues with the rest.

Pricing

Pay per related app delivered. A seed with no competitors charges you nothing.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected to Google LLC. "Google Play", "Android" and "Google" are trademarks of Google LLC.

It reads only public, unauthenticated Google Play pages — the app listing (/store/apps/details), the similar-apps cluster (/store/apps/collection/cluster) and the developer page (/store/apps/developer). None of those paths are disallowed by play.google.com/robots.txt. It signs into nothing, stores no credentials, and returns nothing behind a login or a paywall.

Google can change the page structure at any time. When a cluster cannot be read, this Actor says so in the log rather than handing you an empty result that looks like an answer.