Google Play Review Monitor — Android App Review Tracker

Monitor Google Play Store apps for new user reviews, correlate complaints to app versions, tag sentiment themes, track rating & version deltas, and get a "what changed since last run" digest on every run.

This is the Android twin of App Review Radar (which covers the Apple App Store & Apple Podcasts). Run both to cover your product's reputation on iOS and Android from one place.

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Why it's reliable

• Real data, real source. Reads Google Play's own public Play Store UI endpoints — the same batchexecute review feed (rpcid UsvDTd) the store website itself uses, plus the public app-details page for aggregates.
• No third-party API, no API key, no headless browser, no proxies required. Plain HTTP with throttling + exponential backoff.
• Every field is derived from the live response for the package IDs you supply. Two different apps produce two genuinely different result sets.

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What you get (per app, per country)

Field	Description
title, developer, playStoreUrl	App identity straight from Google Play
averageRating, ratingCount, currentVersion	Aggregate snapshot from the details page
reviews[]	Latest reviews: rating, appVersion, reviewedAt, author, content, thumbsUp, plus any developerReply
perVersionBreakdown[]	Review count, average rating, and top complaint themes per app version
themeBreakdown[]	Complaint-theme counts (crash, login, price, ads, bug, performance, update, permissions, feature_request…) with sample snippets
ratingDelta	Average-rating change, rating-count change, and version-changed flag vs your last run
isNegativeSpike	True when the 1–2★ share jumps past your threshold
changeDigest	"What changed since last run": new-review count, spiking themes, rating movement, version change

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Input

{
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"],
  "competitorIds": ["com.amazon.mp3"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "language": "en",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxReviews": 150,
  "minRating": null,
  "maxRating": null,
  "sinceLastRun": true,
  "includeAggregates": true,
  "negativeSpikeThreshold": 0.15
}

• appIds — Google Play package names (com.spotify.music) or full Play Store URLs. competitorIds are pulled the same way for side-by-side comparison.
• countries / language — reviews are localized, so this controls coverage (one result row per app × country).
• sortBy — newest (best for monitoring), relevant, or rating.
• maxReviews — newest reviews to pull per app per country (paginated via Google's own continuation token).
• minRating / maxRating — e.g. min=1, max=2 for negative-review triage.
• sinceLastRun — emit only what's new since the previous run (state is kept in the actor's key-value store). Turn off for a full snapshot each run.
• themeKeywords — override the default complaint themes with your own { "theme": ["keyword", ...] } map.

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Typical uses

• Founders / PMs — catch a bad release the moment 1★ reviews spike on a new version; see which version the complaints attach to.
• Support teams — pull only 1–2★ reviews per country as a triage queue.
• Competitive intel — compare your rating & complaint themes against rivals in the same run.
• Agencies / ASO — schedule it and feed the digest to Slack/email for every client app.

Pair it with App Review Radar for full iOS + Android review coverage.

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Pricing

Pay per result — you're charged a small amount per app × country intelligence record written to the dataset. No platform subscription required to start. Run it on a schedule (e.g. hourly/daily) for always-on monitoring.

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Notes

• Google Play returns reviews per country/language; for global coverage list several countries.
• This actor reads only public Play Store data. Be considerate with very large maxReviews × many countries; the actor self-throttles.