App Store and Google Play Scraper (Reviews and Charts)

Get reviews and app data from the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run and one schema, as JSON or CSV rows: ratings, review text, app versions, developer replies, installs, prices and chart ranks, for any country. No login, no API key, no account.

What people use it for:

• Reading what users complain about: the newest 1- and 2-star reviews of your app from both stores in one table.
• Following a competitor's ratings, version history and reviews after each release.
• Watching the top free, paid and grossing charts, overall or in 40 categories, country by country.
• App-store optimisation: which apps each store returns for your keywords, in order, with rank.
• Review monitoring on a schedule: turn on onlyNew and pay only for reviews posted since the last run.

Quick start

Paste this into the JSON tab of the input and click Start:

{"mode": "reviews", "apps": ["com.duolingo", "570060128"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 5}

You get the 5 newest Google Play reviews and the 5 newest App Store reviews of Duolingo: 10 rows, usually in under a minute. App Store links or ids and Google Play links or package names can be mixed in one list.

More examples:

{"mode": "reviews", "apps": ["570060128", "com.duolingo"], "reviewRatings": ["1", "2"], "reviewsSince": "30 days", "reviewKeywords": ["crash", "freezes"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 500}

{"mode": "charts", "chartTypes": ["top-grossing"], "category": "games", "countries": ["us", "gb", "de"], "maxResults": 100}

{"mode": "search", "searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "budget app"], "countries": ["us"], "maxResults": 25}

Output

Six modes, set with mode: details (apps you list), search (apps for your words, with rank), charts (top free, paid or grossing, overall or by category, up to 200 per chart), developer (every app by a developer), reviews and similar (what each store shows as similar apps). An iPhone app and its Android twin come back with the same columns; a field one store doesn't publish is null, never a guess.

Group	Fields
App	store, appId, bundleId, title, summary, description, releaseNotes, url, icon, screenshots
Developer	developer, developerId, developerUrl
Store listing	category, categoryId, price, currency, free, contentRating, size, sizeBytes (App Store)
Ratings and installs	rating, ratingsCount, reviewsCount, installs, minInstalls (Google Play)
Versions	version, updatedAt, releasedAt
Lists	rank, chart, chartCategory, mode, query, country, language, detail (full or list)
Review	reviewId, rating, title (App Store), text, date, version, helpfulCount, voteCount (App Store)
Developer reply	developerReply, developerReplyDate (Google Play)
Reviewer	userName, only when includeReviewerNames is on

One real review row from each store and one app row (runs on 2026-10-16 and 2026-10-18, shortened):

[
  {
    "type": "review",
    "store": "apple",
    "appId": "570060128",
    "reviewId": "14665086998",
    "rating": 5,
    "title": "Hi",
    "text": "I like it it helps me a lot",
    "date": "2026-10-14T10:45:00.000Z",
    "version": "7.144.0",
    "helpfulCount": 0,
    "voteCount": 0,
    "developerReply": null,
    "userName": null,
    "sort": "newest",
    "country": "us",
    "appUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id570060128"
  },
  {
    "type": "review",
    "store": "google",
    "appId": "com.duolingo",
    "reviewId": "b4c911b9-b3d2-4782-a54f-0f1040e72d93",
    "rating": 5,
    "title": null,
    "text": "very good app",
    "date": "2026-10-15T02:56:42.000Z",
    "version": "6.100.3",
    "helpfulCount": 0,
    "developerReply": null,
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en"
  },
  {
    "type": "app",
    "store": "google",
    "appId": "com.duolingo",
    "title": "Duolingo: Learn Languages",
    "developer": "Duolingo",
    "category": "Education",
    "price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7451,
    "ratingsCount": 51054496,
    "reviewsCount": 965970,
    "installs": "500,000,000+",
    "minInstalls": 500000000,
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T16:38:11.000Z",
    "releasedAt": "2013-05-29T12:18:00.000Z",
    "contentRating": "Everyone",
    "summary": "Make language learning fun with Spanish, French, English, chess, math & music.",
    "mode": "details",
    "country": "us",
    "detail": "full"
  }
]

The dataset has four views (Apps, Reviews, App details with every field, and Free rows) and exports to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML. The run's SUMMARY record counts rows by store and lists anything that failed.

Pricing

You pay per app or review returned. There is no charge for Apify platform usage on top.

Row	Free and Starter	Scale	Business
Review	$0.10 per 1,000	$0.075 per 1,000	$0.055 per 1,000
App	$0.10 per 1,000	$0.075 per 1,000	$0.055 per 1,000

Plus $0.00005 per run start. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers about 50,000 apps or reviews. Free-plan runs stop at 500 rows each; any paid Apify plan removes the cap.

What's free: apps, developers or searches that don't exist, apps not sold in a country, and apps with no reviews for your settings (each comes back as a free row saying why), reviews left out by reviewsSince, reviewKeywords or appVersions, and apps or reviews skipped by onlyNew. A run that returns nothing because of the input costs nothing. To cap a run's spend, set Maximum cost per run in the run options, or Max rows in the input.

Limits

• App Store reviews: at most 500 per app, country and order. Apple's public review feed holds the newest 500 (or the 500 most helpful). Google Play has no such cap. App Store reviews carry no developer replies in the feed. Apple's review feed often answers with an empty page at first, so the Actor asks again (up to 48 times per page, several at once) before it reports an app as having no reviews.
• Google Play search shows about 30 results per search word. Charts and developer lists go up to 200 (maxResults, 1 to 200).
• Very deep Google Play review history: thousands of reviews in, Google Play sometimes stops answering for an app. The run keeps what it already has for that app, says so, and still ends successfully; run it again later for more.
• Google Play reviews come in the language you choose (language, default en); reviews written in other languages are not in that list. App Store text follows each country's store.
• Install counts are Google Play's public bands ("10,000,000+"); the App Store publishes no install numbers. Google Play no longer shows app size.
• Google Play list rows: with fullDetails off, search, chart, developer and similar rows come from the short list card (no ratings count, version or update date; detail is list). With it on (the default), each app's own page is read too. If a page can't be read, the app still comes back as a list row.
• Each country is read separately, because prices, charts, ranks and reviews differ by country.
• Ratings, ranks and prices are the stores' public figures at the time of the run.

Only new since last run, and schedules

Turn on Only new since the last run and schedule the Actor daily. Each run skips apps and reviews that earlier runs with the same input already returned, and skipped rows cost nothing. For reviews in newest-first order, it stops reading an app once a page has nothing new. In charts mode it gives you only apps that are new to the chart. Set up a schedule under Schedules in Apify Console.

Integrations: API, n8n, Make and AI agents

API. Run it and get the rows back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/locaihost~app-stores/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "reviews", "apps": ["570060128", "com.duolingo"], "reviewRatings": ["1", "2"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 50}'

Apify's API clients for Python and JavaScript work the same way.

n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks. Apify's built-in integrations send each run's dataset wherever you need it, for example new 1-star reviews into a Slack channel.

AI agents (MCP). Add this Actor to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=locaihost/app-stores, then ask something like "What are people complaining about in Calm's 1- and 2-star reviews on both stores this month?"

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape App Store and Google Play reviews?

$0.10 per 1,000 reviews or apps on the Free and Starter plans, less on Scale and Business. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers about 50,000 apps or reviews.

Can I use it through the API or from Python?

Yes. Use the run-sync-get-dataset-items call above, or Apify's Python and JavaScript clients. Every run's data is also available as JSON, CSV or Excel from its dataset.

Can I use it from an AI agent?

Yes. Through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=locaihost/app-stores) any MCP client can call it with a list of apps, search words or a chart and read the rows back.

Is it legal to scrape app store reviews?

The Actor reads what any visitor to the stores can see, without logging in: Apple's public lookup, search, chart and review feeds, and Google Play's public pages. Google Play's terms restrict automated collection, so check them against your use. Reviews come without the reviewer's name unless you turn on includeReviewerNames, which adds only the public display name; reviewer account ids, profile pictures and contact details are never collected. App rows carry the developer's name, id and store link, never their email, phone or postal address. You are responsible for how you use the results, including the stores' terms and the data-protection law that applies to you.

How do I find an app's id?

Paste the store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duolingo-language-lessons/id570060128 (or just 570060128) for the App Store, and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo (or just com.duolingo) for Google Play. For an App Store bundle id, write apple:com.example.app.

Why are some fields empty?

Each store publishes different things: installs exists only on Google Play, size and review titles only on the App Store, and developer replies only on Google Play. Google Play list rows (detail: "list") have no ratings count, version or update date; keep fullDetails on to get them.

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