App Store & Google Play Scraper — Apps, Ratings, Reviews & Top Charts

Get public app data from the Apple App Store and Google Play in one clean schema: title, developer company, category, price and currency, rating average and count, rating histogram, installs, version, size, release notes, description, icon and screenshots — per country. Add Google Play reviews (with developer replies) and Apple top charts (top free / top paid) in the same run.

Built for app-market research, competitor tracking and product/marketing analytics: compare your app with competitors across countries, watch prices, ratings and release cadence, or track who climbs the charts.

Why use it

• 🍏🤖 Both stores, one schema — the same fields for App Store and Google Play apps, so you can put them side by side in one sheet
• 🌍 Per country — prices, currency, ratings, availability and charts for up to 50 storefronts per run
• 📊 Rich Google Play data — 1–5★ rating histogram, install range and install count, written-review count, ads / in-app purchase info
• 🏆 Apple top charts — top free and top paid, up to 100 ranks per country, optionally with a full app record for every charted app
• 💬 Google Play reviews without personal data — rating, text, app version, date, helpful count and the developer's reply. Reviewer names, avatars and ids are never returned; emails and phone numbers in text are redacted
• 🤝 Polite and transparent — only public, robots.txt-allowed pages and Apple's documented API; Apple's ~20 calls/minute limit is respected; every run records the robots.txt decision in its summary
• ⚡ Fast and cheap — no browser; 100 App Store apps are one API call

How to use

1. Paste app ids or store URLs into Apps — mix both stores freely:
   • App Store: 6448311069, id6448311069 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069
   • Google Play: com.spotify.music or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music
2. Pick countries (2-letter codes, default us) and, for Google Play texts, a language (en, de, pt-BR…).
3. Optionally add Apple top charts and tick Include reviews for Google Play reviews.
4. Run. Use Max results or Apify's maximum cost per run to cap spending — the Actor stops cleanly.

Input example

{
  "apps": ["6448311069", "479516143", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo"],
  "countries": ["us", "de"],
  "language": "en",
  "appleCharts": ["top-free"],
  "chartSize": 25,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 20
}

Output

Four record types share one dataset: app, review, chart-entry and error (an input that failed, never charged). Real records from a test run on 2026-10-06 (long texts shortened here):

App Store app

{
  "type": "app",
  "store": "apple",
  "appId": "479516143",
  "bundleId": "com.mojang.minecraftpe",
  "country": "us",
  "title": "Minecraft: Play with Friends!",
  "developer": "Mojang",
  "developerLegalName": "Mojang AB",
  "developerId": "479516146",
  "developerUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/mojang/id479516146",
  "genre": "Games",
  "genres": ["Games", "Simulation", "Adventure"],
  "price": 6.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceText": "$6.99",
  "free": false,
  "ratingAverage": 4.5071,
  "ratingCount": 841917,
  "ratingHistogram": null,
  "version": "26.52",
  "sizeBytes": 1327799296,
  "minOsVersion": "13.0",
  "contentRating": "9+",
  "releaseDate": "2011-11-17T08:00:00.000Z",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-28T16:23:50.000Z",
  "releaseNotes": "Various bug fixes!",
  "description": "Dive into an open world of building, crafting and survival. Gather resources, survive the night, and build whatever you can imagine one bloc…",
  "supportedLanguages": ["DA", "NL", "EN", "FI", "…"],
  "iconUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/3b/b7/24/3bb724be-0244-933a-af48-ad2195689877/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-10-0-85-220.png/512x512bb.jpg",
  "screenshotUrls": ["https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/07/47/6f/07476fcd-1ecf-18ca-e7f7-364d6c6cd5e1/pr_source.png/406x228bb.png", "…"],
  "storeUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minecraft-play-with-friends/id479516143",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-06T15:08:39.202Z"
}

Google Play app

{
  "type": "app",
  "store": "google",
  "appId": "com.duolingo",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "title": "Duolingo: Learn Languages",
  "summary": "Make language learning fun with Spanish, French, English, chess, math & music.",
  "developer": "Duolingo",
  "developerId": "6957685454452609502",
  "developerUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6957685454452609502",
  "developerWebsite": "https://www.duolingo.com/help/support-request",
  "genre": "Education",
  "genreId": "EDUCATION",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "inAppPriceRange": "$0.99 - $239.99 per item",
  "containsAds": true,
  "ratingAverage": 4.7321,
  "ratingCount": 49510755,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 1025581, "2": 370222, "3": 1130252, "4": 5788262, "5": 41196389 },
  "reviewCount": 958793,
  "installs": "500,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 500000000,
  "installCount": 979094893,
  "version": null,
  "contentRating": "Everyone",
  "releaseDate": "2013-05-29T12:18:00.000Z",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30T16:46:06.000Z",
  "releaseNotes": "Our mascot owl, Duo, is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we’re squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience b…",
  "storeUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-06T15:06:53.473Z"
}

Google Play review — no reviewer identity; the reviewer's name is removed from the developer's reply too

{
  "type": "review",
  "store": "google",
  "appId": "com.ubercab",
  "country": "us",
  "reviewId": "feb5aa1b-c2fa-4f20-8b37-dffab90c9d1a",
  "rating": 3,
  "title": null,
  "text": "The app itself has usually worked fine for getting a ride but often means finding your driver. It determines weird pickup spots sometimes, e…",
  "appVersion": "4.646.10004",
  "date": "2026-09-08T03:28:38.000Z",
  "thumbsUpCount": 7,
  "developerReplyText": "Hi [name]! We would like to know more about this. It would be great if you could send out a description of this with details at t.uber.com/c…",
  "developerReplyDate": "2020-01-17T06:20:15.000Z",
  "storeUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubercab"
}

Apple chart entry

{
  "type": "chart-entry",
  "store": "apple",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "country": "de",
  "rank": 1,
  "appId": "6473753684",
  "title": "Claude by Anthropic",
  "developer": "Anthropic PBC",
  "releaseDate": "2024-05-13",
  "storeUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/de/app/claude-by-anthropic/id6473753684",
  "chartUpdatedAt": "2026-10-06T15:07:22.000Z"
}

Fields

Field	App Store	Google Play
appId	numeric id	package name
developer / developerLegalName	developer name / legal seller name	developer name / —
developerId, developerUrl, developerWebsite	✓	✓
genre, genreId, genres	✓ (all genres)	✓ (primary)
price, currency, priceText, free	✓	✓
inAppPriceRange, containsAds	—	✓
ratingAverage, ratingCount	✓ (this country)	✓
ratingHistogram (1–5★ counts)	—	✓
reviewCount (written reviews)	—	✓
installs, minInstalls, installCount	—	✓ (installCount is the figure Google embeds in the page; the page itself only shows the range)
version, minOsVersion	✓	when not "varies with device"
sizeBytes	✓	— (Google no longer publishes it)
contentRating, releaseDate, lastUpdated, releaseNotes, description	✓	✓
summary (short description)	—	✓
supportedLanguages	✓	—
iconUrl, screenshotUrls (max 10), storeUrl	✓	✓

Descriptions are clipped at 5,000 characters, release notes and review texts at 3,000. Missing values are null, never guessed.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.50 per 1,000 apps, $0.10 per 1,000 reviews and $0.30 per 1,000 chart entries, plus $0.002 per run. Platform usage is included — you pay nothing else. Example: 50 competitor apps in 3 countries with 20 reviews each = 150 apps + 3,000 reviews ≈ $0.38. Error rows are free. Cap any run with Max results or Apify's maximum cost per run — the Actor stops cleanly.

Use cases

• Competitor tracking: schedule a daily run for your app and your competitors; chart ratings, rating counts, prices and release cadence over time
• Market research: compare prices, categories and ratings of an app across 50 countries and both stores
• Chart monitoring: who entered the top 100 in Germany this week, and which company is behind it
• Product feedback: what users praise or complain about in Google Play reviews, and how competitors reply

FAQ

Which countries work? Any App Store / Google Play storefront, as a 2-letter code (us, gb, de, bg, jp…). An app that isn't sold in a country returns an error row for that country.

Why are there no App Store reviews? Apple's customer-review feed (itunes.apple.com/{country}/rss/customerreviews/…) is disallowed by Apple's robots.txt (Disallow: /*/rss/*), and Apple's website terms forbid page scraping, so we don't collect them. App Store records still include the rating average and count.

How many Google Play reviews do I get? Up to 20 per app, country and language — the reviews Google shows on the public app page (its "most relevant" selection, not the newest). Loading more would require Google Play's internal endpoint, which its robots.txt disallows (Disallow: /_), so we don't use it. Running several countries or languages gives you different reviews.

Why is a review's date newer than the developer's reply? The date is when the review was last edited; reviewers often update old reviews after a reply.

Can I search by keyword? No. Both stores disallow their search pages in robots.txt (itunes.apple.com: Disallow: /search*, play.google.com: Disallow: /store/search). Use app ids / URLs, or start from the Apple top charts.

Is this personal data? Reviewer names, usernames, avatars and user ids are never output, the reviewer's name is removed from developer replies, and emails / phone numbers in texts are replaced with [email] / [phone]. Note that some developers publish under their own personal name — that is how the store lists them.

Limitations

• App Store: no reviews and no rating histogram (see FAQ). Ratings are per storefront. App texts come in the storefront's own language (the Language setting applies to Google Play only).
• Google Play: at most 20 reviews per app, country and language; reviews have no title; app size is not published; version / minOsVersion are null when Google shows "Varies with device". Google Play data is read from the public app page, so a change to Google's page layout can break it until we update the Actor.
• Charts: Apple top free and top paid (iPhone apps), up to 100 ranks — the limit of Apple's public feed. Apple's feed server is sometimes slow; the Actor retries, and a chart that still fails returns an error row.
• No keyword search (see FAQ).
• Throughput: App Store lookups are throttled to Apple's documented ~20 calls/minute (100 apps per call); Google Play pages are fetched about one per second.