App Store Reviews Scraper & Google Play Reviews Monitor

App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper & Monitor gets reviews from both stores in one run, from every App Store country and in any Google Play language. Put it on a schedule and each run returns only the reviews that are new since the last run, plus each app's rating, star histogram and exact Google Play installs with the change since the previous run.

You don't need a login or an API key. Get a clean dataset through the API, as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it straight to Slack, Google Sheets, Make, n8n or Zapier. Pricing: $0.35 per 1,000 reviews on the Free plan ($0.25 on Gold) and $0.004 per app snapshot. Error rows and the digest are free.

What does it do?

• App Store reviews: the newest reviews of any iPhone or iPad app from one country, several, or all 175 App Store countries, with stars, title, text, author, date, app version and helpful votes.
• Google Play reviews in any language, up to 100,000 per app and language, with developer replies and their dates, thumbs-up votes and the app version.
• A review monitor. In Monitor mode the first run saves a baseline and every later run delivers only the reviews that arrived since, so reviews you already have are not delivered or charged again and there is nothing to deduplicate (see the FAQ on edited reviews).
• App rating and installs tracking: one row per app and country with the rating, rating count, star histogram (1 to 5 stars), exact Google Play installs (7,795,778,219 for Instagram, where the store page says "5B+"), version, last update and release notes. Monitor runs add the change since the last run, ratings per day and installs per day.
• A digest for Slack or e-mail. Each monitor run adds one free row with a ready-to-send message: new reviews, new 1- and 2-star reviews with links, rating changes and installs per day.

How to use it

One-off export

1. Click Try for free and paste App Store or Google Play links, App Store ids (389801252) or package names (com.instagram.android) into Apps. The store is detected automatically.
2. Choose countries (App Store) and languages (Google Play) and how many reviews you want per app.
3. Run it and export the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON. Reviews and app rows share one dataset: filter on type, or turn off app rows for a reviews-only file.

Daily monitor

1. Set Mode to Monitor: only new reviews since the last run and save the input as a task.
2. Schedule the task daily. The stores publish reviews about a day late, so a daily run is the natural rhythm.
3. Add a Slack or e-mail integration to the task that sends the digest row's message, or read the dataset from your own code.

Each saved task monitors on its own. To share the memory between tasks, set the same Monitor name in each.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
apps	required	App Store / Google Play links, App Store ids or package names (up to 100)
mode	export	export returns the newest reviews; monitor returns only reviews new since the last run, plus changes in the app rows and a digest
countries	["us"]	App Store: reviews and app rows per country. Google Play: app rows per country (rating, histogram and price differ by country)
allAppleCountries	false	App Store reviews from all 175 storefronts (about 90 s per app); app rows stay limited to countries
languages	["en"]	Google Play review languages (en, de, pt-BR, …)
maxReviewsPerApp	100	Per app and country (App Store, at most 500) or per app and language (Google Play, up to 100,000). 0 returns app rows only
reviewsSince	none	Only reviews from this date on: 2026-10-01 or 7 days
ratings	all	Only these star ratings, e.g. ["1","2"] for complaints
includeAppDetails	true	App rows with rating, histogram, installs and release notes
monitorName	none	Monitor name, so several tasks can share one memory
strictStatus	false	Fail the run when an app could not be read, so Apify alerts you

Output

Everything goes into one dataset, and the type field tells the rows apart (review, app, digest, error). The Reviews, App rows, Monitor digest and Errors tabs show the columns of each kind, but every tab lists all rows, so filter on type in your spreadsheet or code. A field one store doesn't have is null, so App Store and Google Play rows share the same columns.

Review row (App Store)

From a real run; the author's name is shortened for this page.

{
    "type": "review",
    "store": "appStore",
    "appId": "389801252",
    "appName": "Instagram",
    "country": "us",
    "language": null,
    "reviewId": "14635551041",
    "rating": 3,
    "title": "No full screen in iPad",
    "text": "Last two updates made the search 🔍 section (fourth from the top) reels show only in small squares, reels there don’t open full screen anymore, whichever one chooses.",
    "author": "Seaotter…",
    "date": "2026-10-06T19:40:25.000Z",
    "appVersion": "450.1.0",
    "helpfulVotes": 3,
    "developerReply": null,
    "developerReplyDate": null,
    "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id389801252?see-all=reviews",
    "isNew": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T22:37:42.746Z"
}

Review row (Google Play)

{
    "type": "review",
    "store": "googlePlay",
    "appId": "com.instagram.android",
    "appName": "Instagram",
    "country": null,
    "language": "en",
    "reviewId": "a3559f53-742b-480e-b80c-938b49322dca",
    "rating": 2,
    "title": null,
    "text": "why on earth on every update ,you find out to include more bugs?! this app has more bugs than a giant clony",
    "author": "Ali G…",
    "date": "2026-10-07T20:16:21.000Z",
    "appVersion": "450.0.0.50.77",
    "helpfulVotes": 0,
    "developerReply": null,
    "developerReplyDate": null,
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&reviewId=a3559f53-742b-480e-b80c-938b49322dca",
    "isNew": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T22:37:42.746Z"
}

App row (Google Play)

In monitor mode the last six fields before checkedAt hold the change since the previous run.

{
    "type": "app",
    "store": "googlePlay",
    "appId": "com.instagram.android",
    "appName": "Instagram",
    "developer": "Instagram",
    "country": "us",
    "rating": 3.9898,
    "ratingCount": 169601742,
    "histogram": { "1": 31888663, "2": 5359169, "3": 7086783, "4": 13527028, "5": 111740059 },
    "installsExact": 7795778219,
    "installsRange": "5,000,000,000+",
    "version": null,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-05T12:58:25.000Z",
    "releaseNotes": null,
    "price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "genre": "Social",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android",
    "previousCheckedAt": null,
    "ratingDelta": null,
    "ratingCountDelta": null,
    "installsDelta": null,
    "ratingsPerDay": null,
    "installsPerDay": null,
    "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T22:37:42.746Z"
}

The App Store app row has the same fields: its histogram comes from the App Store page (Instagram US: 25,365,304 five-star and 1,230,168 one-star ratings), version is filled in, and the install fields are null because Apple doesn't publish installs.

Digest row (monitor mode)

From a real run about ten hours after the first one; two of the five listed 1★ reviews shown:

App reviews monitor, 2026-10-09
New reviews: 178 (App Store 78, Google Play 100)
1–2★ new reviews: 66
• 1★ Instagram (Google Play, en): Recent addition is not perfect.... We wanna old version Someone please like my… — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&reviewId=f6dd9d85-28bc-4628-b1dc-f6dfcc2cbd4a
• 1★ Instagram (Google Play, en): I don't what you guys did but you need to fix it. What happened to the just wat… — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&reviewId=8b208ae1-027d-4d2c-b250-12c038a75528
Installs per day (Google Play):
• Instagram: +118,057
• Loop Habit Tracker: +5,937

The first run of a monitor saves the existing reviews as its baseline and says so in the digest. Every later run lists the new reviews per store, up to five new 1- and 2-star reviews with links, rating changes of 0.05 or more and Google Play installs per day.

Error row (free)

{
    "type": "error",
    "store": "googlePlay",
    "appId": "com.example.doesnotexist.zz9",
    "country": null,
    "language": null,
    "reason": "app_not_found",
    "message": "No Google Play app with the package name com.example.doesnotexist.zz9.",
    "scrapedAt": "…"
}

Reasons: app_not_found, not_available_in_country, no_reviews, rate_limited, store_error, parse_failed, charge_limit_reached. One app failing never stops the others.

Compared with other Actors

We ran the same input (Instagram on both stores, US/English, the 100 newest reviews per store) through this Actor and the most used review Actors on Apify Store (one for the App Store, two for Google Play), in the same minute on 2026-10-08:

	This Actor	Leading App Store Actor	Leading Google Play Actors (2)
Same reviews as this Actor	(reference)	100 of 100	96 of 100 each (Google served slightly different snapshots of its 24 h window)
Duplicates	0	0	0
Run time	3.6 s for both stores (200 reviews + 2 app rows)	38.6 s	30.7 s and 1.9 s
Both stores in one run	✅	❌	❌
Only new reviews since the last run	✅	❌	❌
App rows: rating, histogram, exact installs, changes	✅	❌	❌
Helpful votes	✅ both stores	❌	✅
Developer replies (Google Play)	✅	n/a	✅ in one of the two
Price per 1,000 reviews (Free plan)	$0.35	$0.10	$0.10 and $0.15

A cheaper per-review Actor on a schedule either downloads (and bills) reviews you already have again, or makes you guess how many are new. In monitor mode you pay only for the new ones.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event. Error rows and the digest are free, duplicates are never delivered, and there is no start fee of our own (Apify adds its standard $0.00005 per run).

Event	Free & Starter	Scale	Business
Review	$0.35 / 1,000	$0.30 / 1,000	$0.25 / 1,000
App row (rating, histogram, installs, changes)	$0.004	$0.0035	$0.003

Examples (Free plan):

• The test above, 100 reviews from each store plus 2 app rows, costs $0.078.
• An indie developer monitoring 3 apps on both stores in 3 countries (App Store) or 3 languages (Google Play), with about 20 new reviews a day per app, store and country or language, pays about $3.80 a month for reviews and $2.20 for daily app rows, about $6 in total.

Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it reaches it, leaving an error row that says so.

At the end of each run, the Actor sends its developer an anonymous summary: the event counts and prices, the run cost, your Apify plan level (free or paid) and your pricing tier. The summary contains no input, output or account identifiers.

Limits and FAQ

Why at most 500 App Store reviews per country?

Apple's public review feed shows only the newest 500 reviews per app and country. For more history, add countries or use allAppleCountries. Daily monitoring is never affected: few apps get 500 reviews a day in one country.

Why are the newest reviews about a day old?

Both stores publish reviews late. Google Play shows them exactly 24 hours after they're written, and the App Store usually one to two days after. A daily schedule doesn't miss any, because each run also re-reads the last three days.

Why does Google Play ignore the country for reviews?

Google Play groups reviews by language, not by country. Use languages for reviews and countries for app data such as rating, histogram and price, which do differ by country.

What about edited reviews?

Google Play dates a review by its last edit, and an edited review moves back to the top. Monitor mode remembers review ids for 7 days, so an edit within a week isn't delivered again; a review edited later comes back once with its new text.

Developer replies?

Google Play shows them and they're in the review rows. Apple's public review feed doesn't include replies.

"A Google user" as the author?

Some people review anonymously, and Google shows them under that name.

Is it legal?

The Actor reads only pages and feeds that anyone can open without an account, at a gentle pace and with an honest user agent. It never logs in, never solves captchas, and of the reviewer it returns only the public name they chose. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Can I use it from AI agents?

Yes, through the Apify API and the Apify MCP server.

Found a problem or need a feature? Open an issue in the Issues tab.