App Review Pain-Point Miner (App Store + Google Play)

Find out what users hate and what they wish for in any app category. You enter search terms such as "habit tracker" or "budget app", or specific app IDs. The Actor reads the most recent App Store and Google Play reviews and returns one row per app with:

• Pain score: demand (rating count, log scale) × share of 1–2★ reviews × (1 + wish rate)
• Complaint categories, each with a count and a share: pricing/subscription, bugs/crashes, ads, missing feature, accuracy, localization, support, privacy
• Verbatim feature wishes, e.g. "Please add option to check things off from apple watch."
• Willingness-to-pay signals: reviews that say "I'd pay", "one-time purchase", "lifetime"…
• Sample 1–2★ complaints
• Optionally, every review as a row, with its categories and wish sentences

The Actor does not use an LLM or need API keys. Every review is classified by transparent keyword rules, so you get the same result every time and the cost stays low. The rules work for English and Turkish reviews.

Use cases

• Validate an app idea before building: find the categories where users are unhappy and say what they want
• Competitor research: find out why users leave a rival app
• Product roadmap: collect feature requests from your own app's reviews across countries

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["habit tracker"],
  "stores": ["appstore", "googleplay"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "maxAppsPerTerm": 5,
  "reviewPages": 2
}

Output example (one app row)

{
  "store": "appstore", "country": "us", "appName": "Habit Tracker - HabitKit",
  "painScore": 4.57, "lowStarShare": 0.14, "wishRate": 0.12, "willingToPayCount": 2,
  "topComplaintCategory": "pricing_subscription",
  "complaintCategories": {"pricing_subscription": {"count": 6, "share": 0.12}},
  "featureWishes": [{"quote": "Please add option to check things off from apple watch.", "stars": 4}]
}

The key-value store record OUTPUT holds every app ranked by pain score.

Limits

• The App Store feed returns at most the 500 most recent reviews per app and country.
• Google Play reviews are read with the open-source google-play-scraper library. Some apps return no reviews.
• Keyword rules can miss sarcasm or mixed reviews, so read the quoted wishes before you decide.

Built on the open-source NeedMiner by HAPPYSPROUTSTORE LLC (MIT).