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App review monitoring

App review monitoring,with the evidence attached.

Appfox reads every new App Store and Google Play review, groups them into themes with exact counts, and tells you when a theme moves and which release it followed. The customer's own words stay one click away.

Reading reviews is easy.Knowing what they add up to is not.

A review feed tells you what one person said this morning. It does not tell you whether pricing complaints are up this month, whether they started after version 2.8, or whether the five angry reviews you remember are five out of fifty or five out of five hundred.

Sentiment scores hide the same problem in a number. A score of 0.71 does not say what changed, how many people said it, or whether the sample is big enough to mean anything.

Review monitoring should produce a claim you can check: this theme, this many mentions, this share of reviews, this window, these versions, and here are the reviews themselves.

From a review feedto a theme you can act on.

  1. 01

    Collect every review

    Appfox collects App Store and Google Play reviews for your app and the competitors you confirm, with the collection window, locale, and cap always shown.

  2. 02

    Group into themes

    AI groups reviews into themes such as pricing, sync, onboarding, or crashes. Each theme carries total mentions, share of reviews, trend against the previous period, rating distribution, and affected versions.

  3. 03

    Detect the change

    A negative review spike or a rising theme is detected deterministically, with a baseline window, a comparison window, a minimum sample, and a cooldown so one episode does not alert twice.

  4. 04

    Explain with evidence

    The finding appears on Today with a plain explanation that cites the reviews and the release it followed. You read the recommendation first and drill into the raw reviews only as far as you need.

  5. 05

    Draft the reply

    Planned: review replies drafted from evidence for you to review and post. Reply drafts are not in the current beta.

  6. 06

    Close the loop

    When a task claims to fix a complaint, Appfox records the baseline mention rate and measures the theme afterwards with matched windows and denominators.

What review monitoringis intended to include.

  • Themes with total mentions, share of reviews, trend, rating distribution, and affected versions
  • Every count links back to the original review text
  • Competitor reviews grouped the same way, so you can compare complaints across the market
  • Negative review spikes and rising themes ranked on Today with the evidence attached
  • Planned: review replies drafted from evidence for human review
  • A collection window, locale, and sample shown on every number

What Appfox refusesto claim about reviews.

  • A percentage from a sample too small to support one. Low-volume apps see individual reviews instead of alarms.
  • That an unmentioned feature is a missing feature. Unmentioned and verified missing are different states.
  • That a drop in complaints was caused by your fix. A decrease is reported as observed, with your own assessment recorded beside it.
  • That a local sample is the whole store. The brief and every theme say exactly how much was collected.

App review monitoring,common questions.

Something else? Email us from the contact page and a person will answer.

Which stores does Appfox monitor reviews from?
The Apple App Store and Google Play, one country and language per market. Other review sources are not covered.
Does Appfox reply to reviews automatically?
No. Reply drafts are planned and unavailable in the current beta. The beta helps you understand reviews through themes and daily findings.
How is this different from sentiment analysis?
Sentiment analysis gives each review a score. Appfox gives each theme a count, a denominator, a trend, and the affected versions, and links every count to the reviews behind it.
Can I monitor competitors' reviews too?
Yes. Confirm your competitors once and their reviews are collected and grouped into themes alongside your own.
Is review monitoring on the free plan?
The proposed Free plan includes one app, one market, 30 days of history, and 20 AI runs a month. Appfox is invite-only; pricing and beta limits are not final.

Private beta

Put your reviews on Today.

Request a beta invitation to explore review themes and daily findings for your app.

Invitations are sent by email.