App Store Intelligence (Apple App Store · Google Play)

Two different questions live under "get me app store data", and picking the wrong Actor for yours is the main way this task goes wrong:

• What does this app look like right now? — price, rating, ratings count, ratings histogram, version, developer, category, screenshots, release notes. This is metadata, it is one row per app, and it is cheap.
• What are users saying? — the review corpus. This is reviews, it is thousands of rows per app, and it costs roughly three orders of magnitude more per app.

Most Actors in this category do reviews. If the user asked "did our competitor drop their price", routing them to a reviews scraper burns their budget on data they did not ask for.

The second trap is the store: Apple and Google Play need different identifiers, different Actors, and they do not carry the same fields (Google Play publishes a per-star histogram, Apple does not publish one on the app page; Play metadata often has no version). Answer each store from a run on that store — never infer one from the other.