App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper

Scrape app reviews from the Apple App Store and Google Play with one tool and one output format. Paste app links or IDs from either store and get every review as a row: star rating, title, text, date, app version, reviewer name and the developer's reply. Any storefront country, newest or most critical first, with optional star-rating and date filters.

No login, no API key, no cookies and no residential proxy. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from your own code through the Apify API.

What you get

One row per review, the same shape for both stores, so iOS and Android reviews land in one spreadsheet without any cleanup.

Field	App Store	Google Play
store	app_store	google_play
appId	numeric ID, e.g. 310633997	package name, e.g. com.whatsapp
appName, appUrl	yes	yes
country, language	storefront and language used	storefront and language used
reviewId	yes	yes
userName	yes	yes
rating	1 to 5	1 to 5
title	yes	Google Play reviews have no title
text	yes	yes
date	ISO 8601, UTC	ISO 8601, UTC
appVersion	not exposed by Apple	version the review was written on
isEdited	yes	not exposed by Google
thumbsUpCount	not exposed by Apple	yes
developerResponse, developerResponseDate	yes	yes
scrapedAt	yes	yes

App details (name, developer, average rating, rating count, version, category, install count on Google Play) are saved separately in the run's key-value store under APP_DETAILS. Inputs that could not be parsed, were not found, or had no matching reviews are listed under APPS_WITHOUT_REVIEWS with a reason, and none of that is charged.

How to use it

1. Paste one or more apps into Apps. Any of these forms work, mixed freely:
   • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997
   • 310633997
   • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp
   • com.whatsapp
2. Set Max reviews per app and, if you want them, Countries, Sort order, Only these star ratings and Only reviews since.
3. Run it. Open the Reviews tab, or download JSON, CSV or Excel from the Export button.

A country written into an App Store link, such as apps.apple.com/gb/..., is used for that app instead of the Countries list.

Example input

{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duolingo-language-lessons/id570060128",
    "com.duolingo"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "language": "en",
  "sort": "newest",
  "ratings": ["1", "2"],
  "reviewsSince": "2026-01-01"
}

That collects up to 1,000 one- and two-star reviews written since 1 January 2026 for Duolingo on both stores, for the US and UK storefronts, newest first.

Example output

{
  "store": "app_store",
  "appId": "310633997",
  "appName": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "appUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "reviewId": "14627084281",
  "userName": "Assala776",
  "rating": 1,
  "title": "Whatsapp for IPAD only",
  "text": "When we can get the ipad whatspp without linking to phones",
  "date": "2026-10-04T15:06:47+00:00",
  "appVersion": null,
  "isEdited": true,
  "thumbsUpCount": null,
  "developerResponse": "Let us know if you are still encountering any problems. Go to WhatsApp :: Settings :: Help :: Contact Us and write \"App Store Review\" in your description.",
  "developerResponseDate": "2026-10-06T09:12:30+00:00",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T15:30:13+00:00"
}

Input

Field	Default	What it does
Apps	two example apps	App Store or Google Play links, numeric IDs or package names.
Max reviews per app	500	Per app, per country. No ceiling; 10,000 from one App Store listing works.
Countries	us	Storefront codes such as us, gb, de, in, br, jp. Each app is scraped once per country.
Language	en	Google Play stores reviews per language, so this decides which Google Play reviews you get.
Sort order	newest	Newest, most helpful, highest rating or lowest rating first.
Only these star ratings	all	Pick 1 and 2 for complaints, 5 for testimonials.
Only reviews since	none	A date such as 2026-01-01. With "newest first" the run stops as soon as it reaches older reviews, which keeps it short and cheap.
Proxy	Apify datacenter	Apple rate-limits its review pages per address, so App Store requests use Apify's shared datacenter proxy, included in every plan at no extra charge, and switch address when a limit is hit. Google Play is read directly. Residential proxies are never needed.

Pricing

A small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per review returned. Apps that are not found, cannot be parsed or return nothing add nothing beyond the start fee, because the Actor only writes real reviews to the dataset. The exact prices are on the Pricing tab.

In testing on the Apify platform, 1,000 Google Play reviews took about 3 seconds and 1,000 App Store reviews between 40 seconds and a few minutes, depending on how hard Apple was rate-limiting at the time.

Good to know

• The App Store serves 20 reviews per request and paginates as deep as the listing goes. In testing, an offset of 10,000 still returned a page, so large pulls are a matter of time, not a hard limit.
• Apple rate-limits per address. The Actor paces its App Store requests and moves to a fresh proxy address when Apple answers with a rate limit. If a run still reports "App Store rate limit", wait a few minutes and run it again; the Google Play half of the run is unaffected.
• Google Play keeps reviews per language, not per country. Scraping the same app for us and gb with language: en returns largely the same reviews. Change Language to reach reviews written in other languages.
• Developer replies are included for both stores, with the reply text and date.
• Date filtering is cheapest with "newest first", because the run stops at the first review older than the date. With other sort orders the filter still applies, but the Actor has to read past non-matching reviews, and it gives up after reading ten times the number you asked for.
• Star-rating filters are native on Google Play. On the App Store they are applied after download, with the same ten-times reading limit.
• Reviews, not ratings. Both stores show far more star ratings than written reviews. A listing with "2M ratings" may have 200,000 written reviews, and only those can be scraped.

What people use it for

• Sentiment and complaint analysis: pull the one- and two-star reviews for your app every week and feed them to a model or a spreadsheet.
• Competitor research: scrape the same category of apps across stores and compare what users praise and what they hate.
• ASO and product decisions: see which features reviewers mention, per country and per version.
• Support triage: find reviews without a developer reply and answer them.
• Training and RAG data: thousands of real, dated, rated opinions in a clean JSON shape.

Run it from your code

Every run is available through the Apify API, with Python and JavaScript clients, webhooks and schedules.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("teamsasuke/app-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
    "apps": ["com.duolingo", "570060128"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
    "sort": "newest",
})
for review in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(review["rating"], review["text"])

Schedule it to run daily with Only reviews since set to yesterday and you have a review monitor.

FAQ

Do I need an API key, an Apple developer account or a Google account? No. Both stores publish reviews on their public web pages, and that is where this reads them.

Is it legal to scrape app reviews? Reviews are public data that the stores show to anyone. Scraping public data is generally lawful, but you are responsible for how you use it, and reviewer names are personal data under laws such as GDPR. If in doubt, drop the userName field.

Why did I get fewer reviews than the store shows? The store counts ratings, which include people who tapped stars without writing anything. Only written reviews can be returned. Also check the country: a review written on the German storefront only appears under de.

Why are my Google Play results the same for every country? Google Play groups reviews by language. Set Language instead of adding countries.

Can I get reviews for a specific app version? Google Play reviews carry appVersion; filter on it after download. Apple does not expose the version.

Something returned nothing. Was I charged? No. Apps that fail or return nothing are listed in the APPS_WITHOUT_REVIEWS record with a reason, and only reviews are billed.

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