The Google Play reviews tool filters by star rating and returns up to 199 reviews per call.
USE CASES FOUNDERS & PRODUCT TEAMS
Analyze a competitor's App Store reviews in one prompt.
A 4.47 average on the App Store. 17 of the 25 newest reviews give 1 or 2 stars.
To analyze a competitor's App Store reviews, pull the newest ones and sort the complaints by theme. On 20 October 2026 an agent read Rocket Money's 25 newest US App Store reviews and 40 newest Google Play reviews. 17 of 25 and 17 of 40 gave 1 or 2 stars, against a 4.47 App Store average. The run cost $0.0012.
FOR Founders and product managers studying a competitor app before they build their own
THIS RUN · 20 OCT 2026 $0.0012 4 PAID CALLS
01 / WHY NEWEST
How to analyze App Store reviews of a competitor
A competitor's star rating is an average over years. Its newest reviews tell you what is breaking now and what its users would leave for. That is the opening a new app can aim at.
By hand, you open the app's page in the App Store and Google Play, sort reviews by newest, and copy the low ones into a sheet. With an agent, one prompt finds the app, pulls its newest reviews from both stores, reads the Google Play star counts, and sorts the complaints into themes. The run below did that for Rocket Money, the budgeting app with the most App Store ratings in the search.
02 / THE PROMPT PASTE IT INTO YOUR AGENT.
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and any agent that can run a terminal command.03 / THE RUN RECORDED 20 OCT 2026.
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What your agent asked each tool, what came back and what it cost. Calls that failed or found nothing were not charged.
YOU · ONE PROMPT
I'm building a budgeting app. Find the big budgeting apps on the US App Store, pull the newest App Store and Google Play reviews for the one with the most ratings, and sort what users complain about into themes.
YOUR AGENT
tapinall ONE BALANCE- 01 App Store search
Found 9 budget apps. Rocket Money has the most ratings, 400,669.
$0.0003 - 02 Newest App Store reviews
Read 25 reviews from the last week. 17 give 1 or 2 stars.
$0.0003 - 03 Google Play listing
On Google Play it rates 4.51 from 140,680 ratings. 8% are 1 or 2 stars.
$0.0003 - 04 Newest Google Play reviews
Read 40 reviews. 17 give 1 or 2 stars, and 7 of those are about signing in.
$0.0003
TOTAL $0.0012 about $0.00002 per review read
- newest App Store reviews at 1 or 2 stars
- 17 of 25
- of all 140,680 Google Play ratings at 1 or 2 stars
- 8%
- low App Store ratings about its own subscription
- 8 of 17
See the exact calls and responses FOR DEVELOPERS
agent-session / app-store-review-analysis 4 CALLS
- 01 / APP STORE SEARCH
tapinall call crawl4ai.app-store.search.apps --data '{"query":"budget planner","country":"us","limit":10}'9 apps on the US App Store with rating, rating count and latest version date
Rocket Money - Bills & Budgets · 4.47 · 400,669 ratings
EveryDollar: Budget Management · 4.73 · 84,160 ratings
PocketGuard - Budget App · 4.58 · 7,679 ratings
All 9 are free to download
ok — Charged: $0.0003
- 02 / NEWEST APP STORE REVIEWS
tapinall call litescrape.app_store.reviews --data '{"product_id":"1130616675","country":"us","sort":"mostrecent"}'25 reviews, 14 to 19 Oct 2026, all on version 16.5.0
13 at 1 star · 4 at 2 stars · 2 at 3 · 1 at 4 · 5 at 5
"I'm an idiot for keeping my premium membership, but they make it really hard to cancel"
"They list all subs except for their own"
Reviewer names redacted on this page
ok — Charged: $0.0003
- 03 / GOOGLE PLAY LISTING
tapinall call crawl4ai.google-play.app.detail --data '{"app":"com.truebill","hl":"en","gl":"us"}'Rocket Money - Bills & Budgets · 4.51 · 140,680 ratings · 41,662 written reviews
14,730,955 installs · in-app purchases $0.99 to $59.99
Stars: 108,149 at 5 · 16,114 at 4 · 5,244 at 3 · 2,247 at 2 · 8,921 at 1
Updated 16 Oct 2026 to version 16.5.0
ok — Charged: $0.0003
- 04 / NEWEST GOOGLE PLAY REVIEWS
tapinall call litescrape.google_play.reviews --data '{"product_id":"com.truebill","hl":"en","gl":"us","sort_by":2,"num":40}'40 reviews, 15 to 19 Oct 2026
21 at 5 stars · 2 at 4 · 1 at 2 · 16 at 1
"App silently updated in the background and no longer will allow me to log in unless I install Chrome or Microsoft Edge."
The developer replied to 15 of the 17 low ratings
ok — Charged: $0.0003
TOTAL $0.0012 about $0.00002 per review read
04 / WHAT IT FOUND FROM THE RESPONSES ABOVE.
What came back.
In plain numbers.
Read straight from the responses in the run. Nothing here is a mockup.
- newest App Store reviews at 1 or 2 stars
- 17 of 25
- of all 140,680 Google Play ratings at 1 or 2 stars
- 8%
- low App Store ratings about its own subscription
- 8 of 17
| Theme | App Store (17) | Google Play (17) | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Its own subscription or a charge | 8 | 2 | "I selected 7 dollars per month and it still charged me for 15" |
| Signing in after an update | 0 | 7 | "ever since the latest update I can't log into my app" |
| Linking a bank | 1 | 3 | "kept looping back to the link page after trying to link my account over 5 times" |
| Cancelling other subscriptions | 3 | 1 | "Can't get help with canceling subscriptions" |
| Price, savings, data and other | 5 | 4 | "Constant duplicate transactions" |
05 / READING IT
What the reviews say
The newest reviews are far harsher than the average. 17 of the 25 newest App Store reviews and 17 of the 40 newest Google Play reviews gave 1 or 2 stars, while only 8% of all Google Play ratings are that low. Recent reviewers skew toward people with a problem, so read this as a list of pains, not a drop in quality.
The two stores complain about different things. On the App Store, 8 of 17 low ratings are about the app's own subscription: hard to cancel, charged after a trial, or charged more than the plan picked. Users notice the irony of an app that cancels subscriptions and sells one. On Google Play, 7 of 17 are about signing in after the latest update.
For a founder, the openings are clear billing with an easy cancel, and an app that keeps working with smaller banks. Both come up in users' own words.
06 / LIMITS
Limits of this review analysis
It read 65 reviews from one week, out of 41,662 written reviews on Google Play alone. The App Store reviews tool returns about 25 per page and the Google Play one up to 199 per call, so a deeper pass pages back further. The themes here are the agent's grouping of short texts, and a few reviews fit two themes.
Each of the 4 calls answered on the first try at $0.0003. Store reviews are public, but this page shows no reviewer names.
| Method | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Reading the store pages by hand | Free | A scroll of reviews, sorted by you |
| App review monitoring SaaS | Check current pricing | Alerts and dashboards, usually a monthly plan |
| Agent with tapinall | $0.0003 per call on this run | Reviews from both stores, sorted into themes in your chat |
07 / VARIATIONS SAME TOOLS. ANOTHER JOB.
Change the market.
Keep the recipe.
Prompts that use the same tools. We have not run these, so check each price in the catalog.
One search, then one reviews call per app at $0.0003.
Set the store country on each call. Reviews follow the storefront.
08 / GOOD QUESTIONS Good questions,
Good questions,
short answers.
How do I analyze App Store reviews of a competitor?
Pull the newest reviews from the App Store and Google Play, keep the 1 and 2 star ones, and group them by theme with a count and a quote. This run read 65 reviews of Rocket Money in 4 calls for $0.0012.
Can I export App Store reviews for an app I do not own?
Yes, public reviews can be read for any app. A reviews tool reads the public storefront page by page, about 25 reviews per page on this run.
Why are the newest reviews so much worse than the rating?
People with a problem write reviews more often than happy users, and a recent update or billing change shows up first in new reviews. In this run 8% of all Google Play ratings were 1 or 2 stars, against 17 of the 40 newest reviews.
Can I read Google Play reviews the same way?
Yes. The run read 40 of the newest Google Play reviews in one call for $0.0003, along with the full star counts from the listing. The tool can also filter by star rating and sort by relevance.
How many reviews does one call return?
On this run the App Store reviews call returned one page of 25, and the Google Play call returned the 40 the agent asked for. Google Play allows up to 199 per call. Page back further on the App Store when you need more than the newest week.
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10 / MORE RUNS SAME BALANCE. ANOTHER JOB.
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- CUSTOMER RESEARCH Reddit market research 7 of 25 replies in the biggest freelance invoicing thread pitch an app the commenter built. $0.0253
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