App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper by Keyword

Type a category, like budget tracker or meditation, and pull the newest reviews for the top apps on the App Store and Google Play. Each review gets tagged by type and each app gets a short report of what users complain about and ask for.

Quick start

Press Start. The sample searches budget tracker, takes the top 3 apps from each store and grabs 20 recent reviews per app. Want more? Add search terms, raise Apps per search term to 10, and set reviews per app to 200.

What you get

• Every review: rating, title, text, author, date, app version, helpful votes, and whether the developer replied (Google Play)
• Tags on each review: sentiment, type (bug, feature request, pricing, performance, praise), theme, severity
• One report per app: average rating, rating spread, top complaints with counts and real quotes, feature requests, praise, suggested fixes
• App details: name, developer, store link, store rating and rating count, current version
• Optional complaint rows with issue category and requested fix (no extra charge)

Good for

• Checking what users hate about every competitor in your category, in one run
• Roadmap input from real feature requests
• Watching how a release moved ratings
• Pulling user quotes for a pitch deck or landing page

Pricing

• $0.0005 per review read and tagged
• $0.03 per app report
• 6 apps with 20 reviews each comes to about $0.24

You pay only for results that come back. Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it. Normal Apify platform usage applies.

Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Type a category or keyword, like budget tracker or meditation. We pull the top apps for each one and grab their newest reviews. No links needed.
appsPerSearch	How many top apps to take from each store for each term.
searchStores	Where to look for apps that match your search terms.
apps	Add apps you already know: a name (Notion), an App Store or Google Play link, or a Play package name (notion.id). Works alongside search terms.
maxReviewsPerApp	Newest reviews to pull per app. Apple's public feed stops at about 500 per country.
onlyLastDays	Skip older reviews. 0 keeps everything.
country	Two-letter store country code.
language	Two-letter review language for Google Play.
storeForNames	Which store to check when you type an app name instead of a link.
includeReviewRows	Turn off to keep only the per-app summary rows. Reviews are still read and billed.
emitComplaintRecords	Adds one row per review with its type (complaint, question, praise, promo, off topic), the complaint excerpt, issue category, any requested fix and a duplicate group. No extra charge. Counts mean reviews collected, not how common a problem is.

Limits

• Apple's public feed stops at roughly 500 reviews per app per country.
• Search uses each store's own ranking for your term, so the top results can include loosely related apps.
• Report counts mean reviews collected in this run, not how common a problem is overall.

Run it from code

Same input as the Console sample:

{
  "searchTerms": [
    "budget tracker"
  ],
  "appsPerSearch": 3,
  "apps": [],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 20,
  "country": "us"
}

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~app-review-insights/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json

from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/app-review-insights").call(run_input={"searchTerms": ["budget tracker"], "appsPerSearch": 3, "apps": [], "maxReviewsPerApp": 20, "country": "us"})

It also works from Zapier, Make, n8n and Apify schedules.