App Store & Google Play Reviews + Platform Gap

App Store and Google Play reviews of the same app in one run and one row shape: give one app name or store link, get iOS and Android reviews plus a pair report that shows which platform is weaker and why. $0.10 per 1,000 reviews.

What you get

• Reviews of both stores, one shape: store (appStore / googlePlay), rating, title (App Store only), text, version, date, helpful votes, developer reply (Google Play only), complaint topics, pairId. Reviewer names are never collected.
• Auto cross-store pairing: type Spotify (or paste an App Store link or a Google Play package) - the Actor finds the same app on the other store by itself, scoring developer name, title and identical bundle id / package among the top 8 search results. Every pair comes with a confidence (high / medium / low) and the reason; low-confidence pairs are never compared silently. In our 2026-11-03 re-check on 30 top-chart US apps, all 30 paired high and correct.
• Platform Gap Report (one per app, in its own Pair reports table of the Output tab): store rating, recent rating (newest reviews), share of 1-2 star reviews and reviews per day on each platform; the gaps; weakerPlatform; complaint topics (crash, bugs, login, billing, ads, performance, ui, feature_request) as a share of the negative reviews on each platform, flagged appStoreOnly, googlePlayOnly, muchWorseOnAppStore or muchWorseOnGooglePlay when the difference is real (at least 30 negative reviews per side and 5 points apart). In a 2026-11-03 check of 27 pairs, 15 had at least one flagged topic, and for 12 the recent-rating gap pointed the other way than the lifetime store rating.
• Release parity: current version and release date on each platform, whether they are the same release, and the lag in days. With Track history, every version's first-seen date is kept per platform, so the average iOS -> Android lag builds up over daily runs. Rating by version per platform is in the report too.
• Pairing record: the PAIRS record lists every input with the two apps it was paired with, the confidence and the reason - also for inputs that were not compared.

Sample output

Pair report

{
    "type": "pair",
    "pairId": "324684580_com.spotify.music",
    "input": "Spotify",
    "pair": {
        "appStore": { "appId": "324684580", "appName": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts", "developer": "Spotify" },
        "googlePlay": { "appId": "com.spotify.music", "appName": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts", "developer": "Spotify AB" },
        "confidence": "high",
        "reason": "developer 100%, title 100%"
    },
    "appStore": { "storeRating": 4.77, "ratingCount": 42904321, "reviewsAnalyzed": 200, "recentRating": 4.09, "negativeShare": 0.18, "reviewsPerDay": 291.5 },
    "googlePlay": { "storeRating": 4.35, "ratingCount": 36582436, "reviewsAnalyzed": 200, "recentRating": 3.8, "negativeShare": 0.26, "reviewsPerDay": 575.4 },
    "storeRatingGap": 0.42,
    "recentRatingGap": 0.29,
    "negativeShareGap": -0.08,
    "weakerPlatform": "googlePlay",
    "topicGaps": [
        { "topic": "performance", "appStoreShare": 0.22, "googlePlayShare": 0.02, "difference": 0.2, "flag": "muchWorseOnAppStore" },
        { "topic": "ads", "appStoreShare": 0.19, "googlePlayShare": 0.31, "difference": -0.12, "flag": "muchWorseOnGooglePlay" },
        { "topic": "billing", "appStoreShare": 0.08, "googlePlayShare": 0.14, "difference": -0.06, "flag": "muchWorseOnGooglePlay" }
    ],
    "releaseParity": {
        "appStore": { "version": "9.1.94", "releasedAt": "2026-10-23T17:59:53Z" },
        "googlePlay": { "version": "9.1.94.1929", "versionSource": "reviews", "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T11:59:56.000Z" },
        "sameVersion": true,
        "lagDays": 9.8,
        "newerOn": "googlePlay",
        "history": null
    },
    "messages": []
}

Reading it (run of 2026-11-03, 200 newest reviews per store): Spotify is rated higher on iOS, and Android is the weaker platform now too - a quarter of its newest reviews are 1-2 stars. But the reasons differ: iOS users complain about performance (22% of negative reviews vs 2%), Android users about ads and billing.

Review

One real App Store review from the run of 2026-11-05 (trimmed; every review row also has reviewId, url, voteSum, replyDate and isNew):

{
    "type": "review",
    "store": "appStore",
    "pairId": "324684580_com.spotify.music",
    "appId": "324684580",
    "appName": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
    "country": "us",
    "rating": 1,
    "title": "Glitches",
    "text": "It doesn’t play songs in my queue when I add them and it doesn’t work with my cross fade anymore. What’s going on????",
    "version": "9.1.94",
    "date": "2026-11-03T08:37:26-07:00",
    "thumbsUp": null,
    "replyText": null,
    "topics": [
        "bugs"
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-05T04:00:32.700Z"
}

How much does it cost?

$0.10 per 1,000 reviews. Example: one app with 500 newest reviews on each store plus its pair report = 1,000 x $0.0001 + $0.004 = about $0.10 per run.

• $0.004 per pair report (one report compares two apps); switch it off with Pair report.
• No Actor start fee. Platform compute is included.
• Max reviews per app and store caps your cost.

How to use

1. Enter app names, App Store URLs/ids or Google Play URLs/packages in Apps (or exact pairs in Explicit pairs).
2. Set Max reviews per app and store and the Country.
3. Click Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab (reviews and Pair reports tables).

Main filters: country, language, max reviews per store, minimum pair confidence, only new reviews.

Use it to:

• Find your weaker platform: one run on your app shows whether iOS or Android users are less happy right now, and why.
• Spot platform-specific bugs: appStoreOnly / googlePlayOnly topics point at issues of one build (crashes on Android only, login on iOS only).
• Plan releases: release parity and the history tell you how long Android lags behind iOS (or the other way round), per competitor too.
• Research competitors: put your competitors in Apps and compare their gaps with yours.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Connect this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=steadywren/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper

Try:

• "Compare the iOS and Android reviews of Duolingo and tell me which platform is weaker and why."
• "For Spotify, Strava and Calm: which complaint topics are much worse on Android than on iOS?"

How it compares

Checked against the Store descriptions of the 10 cross-store review Actors in Apify Store on 2026-11-03.

	This Actor	Other App Store + Google Play review scrapers in Apify Store
Auto-pair the iOS and Android listing of the same app (one input, confidence score)	yes	no
Platform Gap Report (rating, recent rating, negative share, complaint topics per platform)	yes	no
Release parity (version and release date per platform, lag in days, history across runs)	yes	no
Price per 1,000 reviews	$0.10, no start fee	$0.15 to $4, some with a start fee

Monitor daily

Turn on Track history between runs and schedule the Actor daily: new reviews are marked isNew, and every version's first-seen date per platform builds the release history (average iOS -> Android lag). With Only new reviews, each run outputs just the reviews earlier runs have not returned; the pair report is still delivered. History lives in the key-value store app-pair-history in your account.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor collects publicly available data only, without login and without personal data of private individuals. Check the site's terms for your use case.

What if a store changes or a run fails? The run fails with a clear error instead of returning empty results (also when key report fields are empty in most results), and you are not charged for results it did not deliver. When one store's reviews fail to load, no half-empty pair report is charged. A run where no store knows any of the names finishes green with a message. Each run's summary (results, retries, errors) is in the Storage tab -> Key-value store -> RUN_SUMMARY, next to the PAIRS record.

Do I need proxies? Are there limits? No proxy is needed for either store (off by default). Apple's public review feed serves the newest 500 reviews per app and country, so the App Store side stops at 500; Google Play has no such cap. For big apps 500 reviews is a few days, which is what the recent rating is about.

How fresh is the data? Live at run time: the newest reviews and the current store pages.

What does confidence mean? high: the same bundle id and package with a similar developer or title, or the same developer with the same title. medium: the same developer and brand name, the same full title from a differently named developer (developers often use another company name on one store), or the same id only. low: anything weaker - such pairs get no comparison unless you lower Minimum pair confidence. explicit: you gave the pair. The reason field shows the scores.

A pair is wrong or low - what now? Pass it explicitly in Explicit pairs: { "appStore": "<App Store URL or id>", "googlePlay": "<Google Play URL or package>" }. Explicit pairs skip the search. For a low-confidence pair no pair report is charged; the reviews of the app you named are still delivered, and PAIRS explains why the other store was not compared.

Why do the version numbers differ between the stores? Many apps number their Android and iOS builds differently (e.g. Copilot 2.115 on iOS, 16.0 on Android). sameVersion also counts build suffixes as the same release ("9.1.94" vs "9.1.94.1929"); lagDays compares the release dates, which works for every app.

Where does the Android version come from? From the Google Play page when it shows one (versionSource: "page"); for most big apps Google shows "Varies with device", then the newest version named in the reviews is used (versionSource: "reviews").

Why is the recent rating much lower than the store rating? Store ratings include years of in-app rating prompts (mostly 5 stars); written reviews come mostly from unhappy users. Compare recent ratings across platforms, not with the store rating.

How are topics found? By keywords in English, German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian, among 1-2 star reviews. Reviews in other languages get no topics but count in the ratings.

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Input reference

Field	Type	Default	Description
apps	array	- (prefill: Spotify)	App names, App Store URLs/ids or Google Play URLs/packages. Each becomes one iOS + Android pair: the Actor finds the same app on the other store by itself. Empty input: Spotify.
pairs	array	-	Pairs you know already, e.g. [{"appStore": "1232780281", "googlePlay": "notion.id"}] - no search, no confidence check.
country	string	us	Two-letter country code for both stores (App Store storefront and Google Play gl).
language	string	en	Google Play language (hl), e.g. en, de, fr.
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	100	Newest reviews to fetch on EACH store (1 to 5,000). The App Store serves at most 500 per app and country.
includeReviews	boolean	true	One result per review of both stores in one row shape (store, rating, text, version, date, topics). Turn off to get only the pair reports.
includeReport	boolean	true	One result per pair: store and recent rating per platform and the gap, negative share, complaint topics per platform with flags, release lag between iOS and Android, rating by version.
minPairConfidence	string	medium	Pairs below this confidence get no comparison (only the reviews of the app you named). "high": same bundle id and package with a similar developer or title, or the same developer and title; "medium": same developer and brand name, same full title, or same id only. Options: high, medium, low.
trackHistory	boolean	false	Remember reviews and versions per pair in a key-value store "app-pair-history" in your account: marks new reviews and builds the release history (average iOS -> Android lag).
onlyNew	boolean	false	Output only reviews that earlier runs have not returned (turns history on). Use with a daily schedule.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Not needed for either store; leave off unless a store starts limiting your requests.

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