App reviews are free user research. People write them unprompted, they mention the app version, and on Google Play the developer can answer in public. The hard part is getting them out of the store in a shape you can sort and count.

This walkthrough uses the App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper on Apify. I ran it on Duolingo, US store, only 1 and 2 star reviews with at least 40 characters of text, capped at 25 reviews. Everything below comes from that one run.

What came back from one small run

The run took about 19 seconds. The status line said: 25 reviews, 2 app records, 159 filtered out. So the scraper read 184 recent reviews and kept the 25 that matched my rules. You only pay for the 25.

A few things I noticed in those 25 reviews:

13 were 1 star, 12 were 2 star. The sentiment label said "negative" for all 25.

They were all posted on November 5, 2026, within roughly five hours. Duolingo gets a lot of reviews.

11 reviews came from version 6.103.6 and 9 from 6.104.5.…