App Review Teardown & Insights (AI)

Point it at any app — by name, store URL, or id — and get back an AI competitive teardown of its App Store (and Google Play) reviews: a summary, strengths, weaknesses, top complaints, requested features, and themed sentiment. Drop in several apps to tear down competitors side by side. Run it on a schedule and it also reports what changed since last time — rating moves, emerging vs resolved complaints, sentiment shifts — turning competitor and product monitoring into a set-and-forget task. Also callable as an MCP tool by AI agents.

How to use

Set the input, run the actor, and collect results from the run's dataset (export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull via the Apify API). Example input:

{
  "apps": [
    "Notion",
    "Evernote"
  ],
  "yourApp": "Notion",
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "compareToPrevious": true
}

See Inputs below for every available field.

What you get

One row per record:

Field	Description
app	The app reference you supplied
app_name	Resolved app name
sources	Stores that contributed reviews (apple, gplay)
overall_rating	Store-reported average rating
review_count_analyzed	Reviews fed to the AI
teardown.summary	One-paragraph competitive summary
teardown.strengths / weaknesses	What users love / dislike
teardown.top_complaints	The most common complaints
teardown.feature_requests	Features users ask for
teardown.themes	Recurring themes with sentiment + mention counts
teardown.sentiment_score	Overall sentiment 0–100
emerging_complaints / resolved_complaints	Complaints that appeared / disappeared since last run (monitoring)
rating_delta / sentiment_delta	Changes since the previous run
comparison	When 2+ apps: an extra record with a strengths/weaknesses matrix + sales battlecards (their weaknesses, where you win, watch-outs)
source_url	The app's store page

Sample:

{
  "app": "Notion",
  "app_name": "Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI",
  "apple_id": "1232780281",
  "sources": [
    "apple"
  ],
  "overall_rating": 4.78,
  "review_count_analyzed": 100,
  "teardown": {
    "summary": "Notion is praised as a powerful, flexible workspace but is dragged down by mobile bugs, a steep learning curve, and an intrusive AI button.",
    "strengths": [
      "Powerful, flexible all-in-one workspace",
      "Great for notes, tasks, and databases"
    ],
    "weaknesses": [
      "Buggy on iOS/iPad with crashes",
      "Steep learning curve on mobile",
      "Intrusive AI chat button"
    ],
    "top_complaints": [
      "app crashes / bugs",
      "confusing mobile navigation",
      "free-tier upload limits"
    ],
    "feature_requests": [
      "offline mode",
      "remove/hide the AI button",
      "better mobile editor"
    ],
    "themes": [
      {
        "theme": "Bugs and crashes",
        "sentiment": "negative",
        "mentions": 6
      },
      {
        "theme": "Power and flexibility",
        "sentiment": "positive",
        "mentions": 5
      }
    ],
    "sentiment_score": 62
  },
  "first_seen": false,
  "rating_delta": -0.03,
  "emerging_complaints": [
    "app crashes / bugs"
  ],
  "resolved_complaints": [],
  "sentiment_delta": -4,
  "source_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1232780281"
}

Inputs

Field	Required	Type	Default	Description
apps	yes	array	["Notion"]	Apps to analyze — an app name (e.g. 'Notion'), an App Store / Google Play URL, an Apple numeric id, or a Google Play package (com.x.y). One competitive teardown per app. Provide several to teardown competitors side by side.
maxReviews	no	integer	100	Reviews sampled per app (most-recent first) and fed to the AI. Caps cost; more reviews = richer teardown.
country	no	string	"us"	Two-letter store country code for reviews (e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'de').
compareApps	no	boolean	true	When 2+ apps are given (default on), add a cross-app comparison record — a strengths/weaknesses matrix plus sales battlecards (their weaknesses, where you win, what to watch out for).
yourApp	no	string	—	Optional. Name one of the apps as yours, and battlecards are framed as YOUR app vs each competitor. Leave empty for a neutral comparison.
compareToPrevious	no	boolean	true	When on (default), diff each app against the previous run and report what changed — rating delta, emerging vs resolved complaints, sentiment delta. Run on a schedule to track competitors over time.
proxyConfiguration	no	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional. The app-store endpoints are reachable directly; a proxy is rarely needed.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

You pay per result (ai-insight) — no charge for empty runs. Example: 20 app teardowns at $0.05/result ≈ $1.00.

One charge per app teardown produced. Apps we can't find / with no reviews are not charged. Apify platform usage (compute) is billed separately per your plan.

Use cases

• Competitor app teardowns — see a rival app's strengths, weaknesses, and what its users complain about.
• Sales battlecards — drop in your app + competitors and get a side-by-side comparison with where you win and what to watch out for.
• Product prioritization — surface the top complaints and feature requests across your own app's reviews.
• Monitoring — run weekly to catch emerging complaints, rating drops, and sentiment shifts on competitor apps before they spread.
• Market research / VoC — themed sentiment across an app category.

Limitations & updates

Analyzes public app-store reviews only (Apple App Store via the official iTunes feed; Google Play best-effort). The AI teardown is generated from the most-recent sampled reviews (capped by maxReviews) and reflects what reviewers wrote — not internal metrics. Apps with no reviews or that can't be resolved are returned empty and not charged.