AppReviewsFinder - grab iPhone App reviews

AppReviewsFinder is a Java application for downloading iPhone App reviews and ratings from all the iTunes Stores around the world. Meaning that you can easily see all the reviews of an App without having to change which iTunes Store you connect to within iTunes.

It can translate these reviews using the Google AJAX Language API.

Download AppReviewsFinder 1.0.2.

Any comments welcome.

You can find news about AppReviewsFinder on my blog.

The source code for AppReviewsFinder is now available at Google Code.

A spreadsheet (in OpenDocument format) that computes the percentages of the star ratings given the CSV data exported by AppReviewsFinder. Paste the CSV into the RawData sheet.

Credits and things

If you find AppReviewsFinder useful then please show your support by buying a copy of Flickmation for iPhone/iPod Touch.

The method used for retrieving the reviews is taken from Review Scraper by Didev Studios so support them too.

Version history

New in version 1.0.2

• Save the downloaded reviews in blocks to avoid running out of memory when there are lots of reviews.

New in version 1.0.1

• Added a split pane to separate the app tree from the reviews/ratings panel.
• The apps are now sorted in alphabetical order.

New in version 1.0

• Enable download etc. menu items when any App's sub tree node is selected.
• Added a menu item to show the local App's directory storing the reviews etc.

New in version 0.9.4

• Correctly use UTF8 encoding when reading the reviews XML files.
• Handle <br/> tags in reviews.

New in version 0.9.3

• Export ratings as CSV files for easy import into your favourite spreadsheet program.
• Only display a country in the ratings list if it has some.

New in version 0.9.2

• Added download and display of ratings.

New in version 0.9.1

• Translation via Google Language API
• Better character encoding handling