# App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (iOS + Android) (`ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Unified mobile app reviews scraper for Apple iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Extract star ratings, review text, app versions, developer replies & timestamps.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio Ramos Gómez](https://apify.com/ramgoxxx) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Agents, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 app reviews

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (iOS & Android) do?

**App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper** extracts customer reviews, star ratings (`1–5`), app versions, helpfulness votes (`thumbsUp`), review dates, and **developer replies** from **both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in a single unified dataset schema**.

Instead of maintaining two separate scrapers with incompatible field names for iOS and Android, this **Unified Mobile App Reviews API** normalizes feedback across both ecosystems so Product Managers, Voice-of-Customer (VoC) teams, ASO agencies, and AI agents can analyze mobile user sentiment in minutes.

- **Simple Pay-Per-Event pricing:** `$0.80 per 1,000 reviews` (`$0.0008` per mobile review). Platform compute is free.
- **6,250 Free Reviews / Month:** Apify's `$5.00/month` free credit covers **6,250 iOS + Android app reviews every month at `$0`**.
- **Paste IDs or Full Store URLs:** Accepts numeric Apple IDs (`389801252`), `apps.apple.com` links, Android package IDs (`com.spotify.music`), or `play.google.com` URLs in the same run.

***

### Why scrape Apple App Store & Google Play reviews together?

Your competitors' **1-star and 2-star mobile reviews** are a real-time roadmap of bugs, hated paywalls, broken updates, and missing features their paying users are complaining about right now.

#### Core business use cases

1. **Competitor Churn & Pain-Point Mining:** Extract recent `1–2★` reviews from rival iOS and Android apps to discover why users cancel — then build your product positioning and ad copy directly around their weaknesses.
2. **Release & Version Regression Monitoring (`appVersion`):** Detect spikes in crash reports immediately after a new iOS or Android version rollout (`v8.9.x`).
3. **Voice of Customer (VoC) & AI Sentiment Pipelines:** Pipe weekly reviews into Slack, Notion, Linear, or Claude/OpenAI via **n8n / Make** to auto-tag bug reports vs feature requests.
4. **App Store Optimization (ASO) Keyword Mining:** Discover the exact natural phrases happy `5★` users write to describe your category.
5. **Due Diligence & Market Research:** Benchmark customer satisfaction, reply responsiveness (`replyText`), and version velocity across mobile fintech, SaaS, health, or consumer apps.

***

### What data can App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper extract?

Every iOS and Android review is mapped into one clean, analytics-ready JSON structure:

| Field Name | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `store` | `string` | Source mobile storefront: `apple_app_store` or `google_play`. |
| `appId` | `string` | Apple numeric ID (`389801252`) or Android package ID (`com.spotify.music`). |
| `reviewId` | `string` | Unique review identifier for incremental deduplication across scheduled runs. |
| `userName` | `string \| null` | Public display name of the reviewer. |
| `score` | `integer` | Star rating from `1` (lowest) to `5` (highest). |
| `title` | `string \| null` | Review headline (populated on Apple App Store; `null` when omitted on Google Play). |
| `text` | `string` | Full customer review body text. |
| `appVersion` | `string \| null` | App version string the reviewer was using when submitting feedback. |
| `thumbsUp` | `integer` | Number of "Helpful" / thumbs-up votes from other store users. |
| `replyText` | `string \| null` | Official developer support response on Google Play when present. |
| `reviewedAt` | `string \| null` | Timestamp / date of the review. |
| `country` | `string` | Storefront ISO-2 country code (`us`, `es`, `gb`, `de`, `fr`, `br`, `mx`, etc.). |

***

### How to scrape iOS & Android app reviews (Step-by-Step)

1. Open **App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper** in Apify Console.
2. Add one or more iOS apps in **Apple App Store IDs or URLs** (`iosAppIds`, e.g., `["389801252"]` or full `https://apps.apple.com/...` URLs).
3. Add one or more Android apps in **Google Play Package IDs or URLs** (`androidAppIds`, e.g., `["com.spotify.music"]` or `https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=...`). *(You can scrape iOS only, Android only, or both together).*
4. Set **Country** (`us`, `gb`, `es`, `de`, etc.), **Language** (`en`, `es`, etc.), and **Max Reviews per App** (`maxReviewsPerApp`).
5. Click **Start** and export your unified dataset to **CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML**.

***

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

Charged purely **Pay-Per-Event (`$0.80 / 1,000` reviews)** with platform compute free:

| Reviews Extracted | Total Cost | Covered by Apify `$5/mo` Free Credit? |
| :--- | :--- | :---: |
| **200 reviews** (100 iOS + 100 Android) | **`$0.16`** | Yes (`$0`) |
| **1,000 reviews** | **`$0.80`** | Yes (`$0`) |
| **6,250 reviews / month** | **`$5.00`** | **100% Free every month** |
| **25,000 reviews** | **`$20.00`** | Scales cleanly across dozens of apps |

***

### Use with AI Assistants & MCP (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT)

Connect mobile app review intelligence directly to **Claude Desktop**, **Cursor**, or **ChatGPT** via Apify MCP:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mobile-app-reviews": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Example prompts:

- *"Pull the latest 200 iOS and Android reviews for Duolingo (`570060128` and `com.duolingo`) and rank the top 5 user complaints."*
- *"Compare iOS vs Android ratings by `appVersion` for Spotify in `us`."*

***

### Input examples

#### Example 1: Compare iOS + Android Reviews for the Same Brand

```json
{
  "iosAppIds": ["324684580"],
  "androidAppIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 250
}
```

#### Example 2: Spanish Storefront Competitor Audit (`es`)

```json
{
  "iosAppIds": ["https://apps.apple.com/es/app/wallapop/id692753946"],
  "androidAppIds": ["com.wallapop"],
  "country": "es",
  "language": "es",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200
}
```

***

### Output example

```json
[
  {
    "store": "apple_app_store",
    "appId": "389801252",
    "reviewId": "11940284910",
    "userName": "DesignOpsLead",
    "score": 2,
    "title": "Battery drain after latest update",
    "text": "Love the core features, but version 354 heats up my iPhone within 10 minutes.",
    "appVersion": "354.0.0",
    "thumbsUp": 14,
    "replyText": null,
    "reviewedAt": "2026-10-31T14:22:10-07:00",
    "country": "us"
  },
  {
    "store": "google_play",
    "appId": "com.spotify.music",
    "reviewId": "39a81f0c-91ab-4d12-89c1-7721b9012ef1",
    "userName": "Marco R.",
    "score": 5,
    "title": null,
    "text": "Offline playlists sync way faster on Android now.",
    "appVersion": "8.9.84.594",
    "thumbsUp": 29,
    "replyText": null,
    "reviewedAt": "2026-11-01T09:11:04+00:00",
    "country": "us"
  }
]
```

***

### Integrate with Python, n8n, Make & Slack

#### Python (`apify-client`)

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "iosAppIds": ["389801252"],
        "androidAppIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
        "country": "us",
        "language": "en",
        "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
    }
)

for rev in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if rev["score"] <= 2:
        print(f"[{rev['store']} v{rev['appVersion']}] {rev['score']}★: {rev['text'][:120]}")
```

***

### Frequently Asked Questions & GDPR Disclaimer

#### How many reviews can Apple's public RSS feed return per country?

Apple's storefront RSS feed exposes up to the 500 most recent reviews per country (`10` pages x `50` reviews), while Google Play pagination supports up to `2,000` reviews per app per run. To collect thousands more Apple reviews, run across multiple storefront countries (`us`, `gb`, `ca`, `au`, `de`, `es`).

#### Legal & Ethical Notice

> Our Actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as private email addresses, gender, or exact user location. They only extract public app reviews openly posted on Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations worldwide; review display names should only be processed for legitimate product research and analytics purposes.

# Actor input Schema

## `iosAppIds` (type: `array`):

Numeric Apple App IDs (e.g. '389801252') or apps.apple.com URLs.

## `androidAppIds` (type: `array`):

Android package names (e.g. 'com.spotify.music') or play.google.com URLs.

## `country` (type: `string`):

2-letter storefront country code (us, es, gb, de, fr, br, mx, ca, au).

## `language` (type: `string`):

2-letter language code for Google Play reviews (en, es, de, fr, pt).

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Maximum recent reviews to extract per app.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "iosAppIds": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "androidAppIds": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

Every extracted iOS App Store and Google Play review row.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ramgoxxx/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/osqRNcg2jorYTpjVj/builds/zGE6tSyEbdeMC00Fa/openapi.json