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Crawlora's App Store coverage: 13 live API endpoints and 14 guides on scraping App Store data. See the endpoint table and the App Store Search API hub below for parameters, pricing, and comparisons.
API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Summary | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
GET | /appstore/app | Retrieve full App Store app details | |
GET | /appstore/categories | Retrieve App Store chart categories and collections | |
GET | /appstore/developer/{dev_id} | Retrieve apps by developer ID | |
GET | /appstore/editorial | Retrieve an App Store device or Arcade editorial landing page | |
GET | /appstore/editorial/category | Retrieve an App Store category-scoped editorial page | |
GET | /appstore/list | Retrieve App Store collection rankings | |
GET | /appstore/privacy/{id} | Retrieve App Store privacy disclosures | |
GET | /appstore/ratings | Retrieve App Store ratings histogram | |
GET | /appstore/reviews | Retrieve App Store reviews | |
GET | /appstore/search | Search the App Store | |
GET | /appstore/similar | Retrieve "You Might Also Like" apps | |
GET | /appstore/suggest/{term} | Retrieve App Store search suggestions | |
GET | /appstore/version-history/{id} | Retrieve App Store version history |
API hub
Use an App Store Search API to collect Apple App Store search results, app metadata, rankings, reviews, and developer data as structured JSON.
Explore the App Store Search APIGuides
Legacy banks hold 49.2M App Store + Google Play ratings at 4.83 stars vs. 41.9M at 4.74 for neobanks — but Venmo alone out-rates every single bank.
WhatsApp is 15 years old and still adds ~15.2M Google Play ratings a year, second only to ChatGPT and ahead of TikTok, Temu, and Threads.
Uber leads five delivery apps in combined ratings, but iPhone users cast most of them — DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart and Lyft all skew iOS, Lyft by 26x.
Apple's version history for 104 major apps: a ~6.7-day median cadence, Wise updates every 2.5 days, Khan Academy every 73, and PayPal is 4x overdue.
AI coding flooded the app stores — 2025 had the most new apps since 2016. But of ~18,000 apps that hit traction and survive today, the birth-year peak is 2019.
No one ranks apps by rating count. We built one: WhatsApp leads Google Play with 240M ratings, the App Store leader is different, and the gap runs to 62x.
Today's top free and paid app charts on the App Store and Google Play: ChatGPT leads Android free, App Store paid is 80% games, Android paid is 0% games.
FIFA's World Cup app averages 2.65 stars, its ticket app 1.79 — FIFA's year-round app holds 4.62. Real App Store and Google Play data, two days post-final.
We mined 1,610 App Store, Google Play, and Reddit posts about the Claude app. In all three, pricing and rate-limits beat quality complaints — every time.
We mined 92,088 App Store and Google Play reviews of X. The 4.6-star rating never budged — but written-review sentiment and topics shifted sharply after 2022.
Scrape App Store and Google Play reviews and ratings in 2026 — DIY Python, no-code, or a structured API — with the legal and rate-limit basics.
We read ~5M recent App Store & Google Play reviews. The star badge hides a hollow middle: ~80% are 1 or 5 stars, recent iOS averages just 3.15 stars.
How many AI apps are on the App Store? We analyzed 1,490: 84% launched since ChatGPT, the median has just 171 ratings, and five apps hold 45% of all ratings.
We pulled 8,505 AI apps off the App Store — 5.7× our first study. The median has 10 ratings, 87% have under 1,000, and the flood is still accelerating.