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Compare your app's iOS and Android reviews in one pandas DataFrame
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Compare your app's iOS and Android reviews in one pandas DataFrame

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App Store and Google Play reviews live in two different worlds: different consoles, different exports, different fields. If you want to know whether your iOS users complain about the same things as your Android users, you usually end up merging two CSVs by hand.

In this post I'll put both stores' reviews in one pandas DataFrame and answer a few questions product teams actually ask, with real data from Duolingo and Spotify (US stores, reviews from October 20–22, 2026).

Disclosure: I built the App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper used below. It runs on Apify, which has a free plan with monthly credits, so you can follow along without paying anything.

Step 1: install the client

Create a free Apify account, copy your API token from Settings β†’ API & Integrations , and install:

pip install apify-client pandas

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Step 2: fetch reviews from both stores

You can pass an app name (it's searched in both stores), store URLs, a Google Play package name or an App Store…

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