Best app review APIs, 2026Every main way to get app review data.Apple’s and Google’s own review APIs and the main app data APIs, compared on what they return, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Reviews and ratings for any app, including competitors’, in a product or pipelineA data API that fetches reviews on request, or an app data API that serves them from its own database. They differ most in how they charge.
Bugs, complaints and feature requests in review textAn option that labels or filters reviews for you, so complaints and requests surface without reading every review.
Keyword suggestions, store search and top charts for ASOAn option with keyword suggestions, store search and top charts for both stores.
An AI agent that reads app reviews and listingsAn option with an MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Reading and replying to reviews of the apps you publishApple’s App Store Connect API and Google’s Play Developer API. AppFollow and Appfigures can also post replies through their APIs.
10options compared
7with an MCP server
7free to start
41sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
Apple’s App Store Connect API and Google’s Play Developer API read and reply to reviews of the apps you publish. Data APIs read public reviews, ratings and listings for any app.
App Store Connect API
Google Play Developer API
Monocrawl and the vendors below
What they return
What each option lists on its own pages, and how you connect.
| App Store and Google Play data | Connect | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | App Store reviews | Google Play reviews | App details | Ratings | App search | Top charts | Keyword suggestions | REST API | MCP server | Sources |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | |||||||||
| App Store Connect APIOfficial, Apple | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12345 | ||
| Google Play Developer APIOfficial, Google | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6789 | ||
| 42mattersApp market data API | – | – | 1011121314 | |||||||
| ApifyApp review actors | – | – | – | – | – | 15161718 | ||||
| AppbotReview analysis API | – | – | – | – | 1920212223 | |||||
| AppfiguresApp intelligence API | – | 2425262728 | ||||||||
| AppFollowReview management API | 29303132 | |||||||||
| AppTweakASO data API | 3334353637 | |||||||||
| Bright DataApp store scraper APIs | – | – | – | 38394041 | ||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
No published price for the API. Publishing on the App Store needs an Apple Developer Program membership.
Membership is $99 a year.
Worth knowingAlso returns Apple’s AI-generated review summaries, and lets you create, update and delete responses.
No published price
No published price for the API. A Play Console developer account has a one-time US$25 registration fee.
Quotas per app: 200 review requests an hour and 2,000 replies a day.
Worth knowingFor reviews older than a week, Google points you to a CSV download in Play Console.
No published price
Quote on request; no price list is published
A reviews call uses 3 of your plan’s monthly hits and needs the Small plan or above.
Worth knowingReturns 30 days of reviews by default; its Historical Package reaches back up to 10 years on the App Store.
14-day free trial
$0.10 per 1,000 reviews on either store
Starter plan $19 a month.
Worth knowingTwo community actors from one publisher, one per store; the Google Play one includes developer replies.
$5 of usage a month
From $219 a month for Large, billed monthly, plus a flat monthly fee for API access
The API fee is not published. Large tracks 100 apps, and is from $166 a month billed yearly.
Worth knowingTags reviews with sentiment and topics, and backfills an app’s review history from launch when you add it.
14-day trial of Large, no card
No published price for Public Data API credits, sold in packages inside your account
A reviews or ratings request costs 3 credits, and credits never expire.
Worth knowingIts Public Data API is for your own use: building a data product or reselling needs Appfigures’ approval first.
No free API credits listed
$179 a month on Essential, which reads all reviews over the API
The free plan reads the last 50. Store search, ratings history and replies need Team, $599 a month.
Worth knowingWorks on the apps you track in AppFollow, across eight stores including Steam and Trustpilot.
Free plan with limited API access
$199 a month for 200,000 credits on Lite, billed monthly
A review costs 1 credit. Lite tracks up to 250 apps; $166 a month if billed yearly.
Worth knowingReviews and metadata come from its own database, refreshed daily for the apps you track.
7-day trial with 20,000 credits
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay as you go
$499 a month includes 384,000 records.
Worth knowingSeparate scrapers for app pages and reviews on each store, called by app URL, with no charge for failed deliveries.
5,000 records a month
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded listings for Spotify on the App Store and Monzo on Google Play. No Apple or Google developer account.
GET /v1/app_store/app-infocurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/app_store/app-info?app_id=324684580" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"
Spotify: Music and Podcasts
com.spotify.client
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
App Store reviews2 credits
Google Play reviews2 creditsApp Store listing1 creditGoogle Play listing1 creditApp Store search3 creditsGoogle Play search2 creditsGoogle Play top chart2 creditsApp Store search suggestions1 credit2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Yes, for apps you publish. Apple’s App Store Connect API reads customer reviews of your own apps and manages your responses. Google’s Play Developer API reads reviews with comments on your production apps, from the last week only, and posts replies. Neither covers other developers’ apps.
Yes, through a third-party API. Monocrawl, Apify and Bright Data fetch public reviews for any app on request. AppTweak, 42matters and Appfigures serve reviews from their own databases, and AppFollow and Appbot read the competitor apps you add to their platforms.
Apple and Google publish no price for their APIs, which cover only your own apps; Apple’s developer membership is $99 a year and Play Console has a one-time US$25 fee. For any app, several vendors let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Bright Data 5,000 records a month, Apify $5 of usage a month and AppFollow a free plan with limited API access. AppTweak, 42matters and Appbot offer trials.
Not through Google’s API, which returns only reviews created or modified in the last week; Google points to a CSV download in Play Console for older ones. Review platforms keep their own history: AppTweak’s API plans list 10 years of historical data, Appbot backfills an app’s reviews from launch and AppFollow’s Team plan lists full historical data.
Monocrawl, Apify, Appbot, Appfigures, AppFollow, AppTweak and Bright Data publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly.
Units differ: a call, a review, a record, a credit and a hit are not the same size, and some plans also cap how many apps you can track. Price your own workload, such as a number of apps and reviews a month, with each vendor.
Method
What’s includedApple’s and Google’s official review APIs, plus widely used app review and app store data APIs that come up across app review API searches and comparison lists, list App Store and Google Play data on their own pages, and publish their pricing or offer a trial.
What we comparedWhat each vendor publishes about its App Store and Google Play data, pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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