Context

Data-driven models help mobile app designers understand best practices and trends, and can be used to make predictions about design performance and support the creation of adaptive UIs. This paper presents Rico, the largest repository of mobile app designs to date, created to support five classes of data-driven applications: design search, UI layout generation, UI code generation, user interaction modeling, and user perception prediction. To create Rico, we built a system that combines crowdsourcing and automation to scalably mine design and interaction data from Android apps at runtime. The Rico dataset contains design data from more than 9.3k Android apps spanning 27 categories. It exposes visual, textual, structural, and interactive design properties of more than 66k unique UI screens. To demonstrate the kinds of applications that Rico enables, we present results from training an autoencoder for UI layout similarity, which supports query-by-example search over UIs.

Content

Rico was built by mining Android apps at runtime via human-powered and programmatic exploration. Like its predecessor ERICA, Rico’s app mining infrastructure requires no access to — or modification of — an app’s source code. Apps are downloaded from the Google Play Store and served to crowd workers through a web interface. When crowd workers use an app, the system records a user interaction trace that captures the UIs visited and the interactions performed on them. Then, an automated agent replays the trace to warm up a new copy of the app and continues the exploration programmatically, leveraging a content-agnostic similarity heuristic to efficiently discover new UI states. By combining crowdsourcing and automation, Rico can achieve higher coverage over an app’s UI states than either crawling strategy alone. In total, 13 workers recruited on UpWork spent 2,450 hours using apps on the platform over five months, producing 10,811 user interaction traces. After collecting a user trace for an app, we ran the automated crawler on the app for one hour.

Acknowledgements

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN https://interactionmining.org/rico

Inspiration

The Rico dataset is large enough to support deep learning applications. We trained an autoencoder to learn an embedding for UI layouts, and used it to annotate each UI with a 64-dimensional vector representation encoding visual layout. This vector representation can be used to compute structurally — and often semantically — similar UIs, supporting example-based search over the dataset. To create training inputs for the autoencoder that embed layout information, we constructed a new image for each UI capturing the bounding box regions of all leaf elements in its view hierarchy, differentiating between text and non-text elements. Rico’s view hierarchies obviate the need for noisy image processing or OCR techniques to create these inputs.

This dataset offers a focused and invaluable window into user perceptions and experiences with applications listed on the Apple App Store. It is a vital resource for app developers, product managers, market analysts, and anyone seeking to understand the direct voice of the customer in the dynamic mobile app ecosystem.

Dataset Specifications:

• Investment: $45.0
• Status: Published and immediately available.
• Category: Ratings and Reviews Data
• Format: Compressed ZIP archive containing JSON files, ensuring easy integration into your analytical tools and platforms.
• Volume: Comprises 10,000 unique app reviews, providing a robust sample for qualitative and quantitative analysis of user feedback.
• Timeliness: Last crawled: (This field is blank in your provided info, which means its recency is currently unknown. If this were a real product, specifying this would be critical for its value proposition.)

Richness of Detail (11 Comprehensive Fields):

Each record in this dataset provides a detailed breakdown of a single App Store review, enabling multi-dimensional analysis:

1. Review Content:

   • review: The full text of the user's written feedback, crucial for Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract themes, sentiment, and common keywords.
   • title: The title given to the review by the user, often summarizing their main point.
   • isEdited: A boolean flag indicating whether the review has been edited by the user since its initial submission. This can be important for tracking evolving sentiment or understanding user behavior.

2. Reviewer & Rating Information:

   • username: The public username of the reviewer, allowing for analysis of engagement patterns from specific users (though not personally identifiable).
   • rating: The star rating (typically 1-5) given by the user, providing a quantifiable measure of satisfaction.

3. App & Origin Context:

   • app_name: The name of the application being reviewed.
   • app_id: A unique identifier for the application within the App Store, enabling direct linking to app details or other datasets.
   • country: The country of the App Store storefront where the review was left, allowing for geographic segmentation of feedback.

4. Metadata & Timestamps:

   • _id: A unique identifier for the specific review record in the dataset.
   • crawled_at: The timestamp indicating when this particular review record was collected by the data provider (Crawl Feeds).
   • date: The original date the review was posted by the user on the App Store.

Expanded Use Cases & Analytical Applications:

This dataset is a goldmine for understanding what users truly think and feel about mobile applications. Here's how it can be leveraged:

• Product Development & Improvement:

  • Bug Detection & Prioritization: Analyze negative review text to identify recurring technical issues, crashes, or bugs, allowing developers to prioritize fixes based on user impact.
  • Feature Requests & Roadmap Prioritization: Extract feature suggestions from positive and neutral review text to inform future product roadmap decisions and develop features users actively desire.
  • User Experience (UX) Enhancement: Understand pain points related to app design, navigation, and overall usability by analyzing common complaints in the review field.
  • Version Impact Analysis: If integrated with app version data, track changes in rating and sentiment after new app updates to assess the effectiveness of bug fixes or new features.

• Market Research & Competitive Intelligence:

  • Competitor Benchmarking: Analyze reviews of competitor apps (if included or combined with similar datasets) to identify their strengths, weaknesses, and user expectations within a specific app category.
  • Market Gap Identification: Discover unmet user needs or features that users desire but are not adequately provided by existing apps.
  • Niche Opportunities: Identify specific use cases or user segments that are underserved based on recurring feedback.

• Marketing & App Store Optimization (ASO):

  • Sentiment Analysis: Perform sentiment analysis on the review and title fields to gauge overall user satisfaction, pinpoint specific positive and negative aspects, and track sentiment shifts over time.
  • Keyword Optimization: Identify frequently used keywords and phrases in reviews to optimize app store listings, improving discoverability and search ranking.
  • Messaging Refinement: Understand how users describe and use the app in their own words, which can inform marketing copy and advertising campaigns.
  • Reputation Management: Monitor rating trends and identify critical reviews quickly to facilitate timely responses and proactive customer engagement.

• Academic & Data Science Research:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): The review and title fields are excellent for training and testing NLP models for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, named entity recognition, and text summarization.
  • User Behavior Analysis: Study patterns in rating distribution, isEdited status, and date to understand user engagement and feedback cycles.
  • Cross-Country Comparisons: Analyze country-specific reviews to understand regional differences in app perception, feature preferences, or cultural nuances in feedback.

This App Store Reviews dataset provides a direct, unfiltered conduit to understanding user needs and ultimately driving better app performance and greater user satisfaction. Its structured format and granular detail make it an indispensable asset for data-driven decision-making in the mobile app industry.

Aaditya1/Mobile-Application-Data dataset hosted on Hugging Face and contributed by the HF Datasets community

We built a crawler to collect data from the Google Play store including the application's metadata and APK files. The manifest files were extracted from the APK files and then processed to extract the features. The data set is composed of 870,515 records/apps, and for each app we produced 48 features. The data set was used to built and test two bootstrap aggregating of multiple XGBoost machine learning classifiers. The dataset were collected between April 2017 and November 2018. We then checked the status of these applications on three different occasions; December 2018, February 2019, and May-June 2019.

🚀 MobileViews: A Large-Scale Mobile GUI Dataset

MobileViews is a large-scale dataset designed to support research on mobile agents and mobile user interface (UI) analysis. The first release, MobileViews-600K, includes over 600,000 mobile UI screenshot-view hierarchy (VH) pairs collected from over 20,000 apps on the Google Play Store. This dataset is based on the DroidBot, which we have optimized for large-scale data collection, capturing more comprehensive interaction details while… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mllmTeam/MobileViews.

We surveyed 10,208 people from more than 15 countries on their mobile app usage behavior. The countries include USA, China, Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, UK, Italy, Russia, India, Canada, Spain, Australia, Mexico, and South Korea. We asked respondents about: (1) their mobile app user behavior in terms of mobile app usage, including the app stores they use, what triggers them to look for apps, why they download apps, why they abandon apps, and the types of apps they download. (2) their demographics including gender, age, marital status, nationality, country of residence, first language, ethnicity, education level, occupation, and household income (3) their personality using the Big-Five personality traits This dataset contains the results of the survey.

Unlock the power of user feedback with our iOS App Store Reviews Dataset, a comprehensive collection of reviews from thousands of apps across various categories. This robust App Store dataset includes essential details such as app names, ratings, user comments, timestamps, and more, offering valuable insights into user experiences and preferences.

Perfect for app developers, marketers, and data analysts, this dataset allows you to conduct sentiment analysis, monitor app performance, and identify trends in user behavior. By leveraging the iOS App Store Reviews Dataset, you can refine app features, optimize marketing strategies, and elevate user satisfaction.

Whether you’re tracking mobile app trends, analyzing specific app categories, or developing data-driven strategies, this App Store dataset is an indispensable tool. Download the iOS App Store Reviews Dataset today or contact us for custom datasets tailored to your unique project requirements.

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As of January 2025, around ** percent of the data linked to users collected by iOS apps was used by app publishers to integrate their product's functionalities. In comparison, ** percent of app data not directly linked to users had the same function. Collecting analytics data was the second most common reason for apps to collect iOS users' data, while only ** percent of identifiable user data and ** percent of non-identifiable users' data went to improve or integrate third-party advertising services.

This dataset comprises 10,000 user reviews of the BCA Mobile app collected from the Google Play Store between December 24, 2023, and June 12, 2024. Each review includes the user's name, the rating they provided (ranging from 1 to 5 stars), the timestamp of when the review was created, and the text content of the review. The dataset is in Indonesian and focuses on feedback from users in Indonesia. This data can be used to perform sentiment analysis, understand user experiences, identify common issues, and assess the overall performance of the BCA Mobile app during the specified timeframe. The reviews are sorted based on the newest first, providing the latest feedback at the top.

During the study period

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This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is Build mobile apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase : hybrid mobile app development. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

This dataset includes network traffic data from more than 50 Android applications across 5 different scenarios. The applications are consistent in all scenarios, but other factors like location, device, and user vary (see Table 2 in the paper). The current repository pertains to Scenario B. Within the repository, for each application, there is a compressed file containing the relevant PCAP files. The PCAP files follow the naming convention: {Application Name}{Scenario ID}{#Trace}_Final.pcap.

This comprehensive iOS application reviews dataset contains thousands of authentic user reviews from the Apple App Store in English. The dataset provides valuable insights for app developers, marketers, and researchers studying mobile application performance and user sentiment.

Key Features:

• Real user reviews from popular iOS apps
• Star ratings from 1 to 5 stars
• Review dates and timestamps
• App store URLs and metadata
• User demographics and location data
• App version information
• Review titles and detailed feedback

Applications: Perfect for sentiment analysis, app store optimization, mobile app development research, user experience studies, and competitive analysis. This dataset enables businesses to understand user preferences, identify app improvement opportunities, and develop better mobile applications.

Data Quality: All reviews are genuine user feedback collected from the official Apple App Store, ensuring authenticity and reliability for research and business intelligence purposes. The dataset covers various app categories including fitness, shopping, education, entertainment, and productivity applications.

As of May 2023, the mobile app version of popular ********************************* used ** of the data points they collected to track their iOS users, as well as collecting ** data points connected to the user's identity. Facebook, which was identified as the most data-hungry app among all the mobile social media, used ***** of its ** collected data points to track users. Dating app ****** collected ** data points collected to the users' identity, as well as **** data points to track users activity.

As of **********, three Meta-owned mobile apps, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram were reported to collect the largest amount of data from global iOS users. Each of the three mobile apps collected ** data points across ** segments, including *** data points regarding user content, and **** data points regarding users' contact info. Mobile apps Line, PayPal, Amazon Shopping, and LinkedIn followed, collecting ** data points from users according to the privacy details section in the Apple App Store.

The graph shows a comparison for app downloads worldwide from 2018 to 2024, using data from Sensor Tower and data.ai. Global app downloads have plateued in recent years, even declining, after seeing strong growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. For 2024 136 billion unique dowloads per user account were recorded. Why the difference? Source methodology explains the gap The discrepancy arises from significant differences in the methodolgy used by the sources to aggregate and generate the data. Sensor Tower reports only unique downloads per user account, excluding app updates, re-downloads, and installations on multiple devices by the same user. In contrast, data.ai includes these additional activities as well as downloads from third-party Android stores and a broader geographic scope, resulting in substantially higher total counts. As a result, Sensor Tower's numbers better reflect new user acquisition, while data.ai's encompass all market activity and total engagement. Despite stagnating downloads user spending is growing While the number of downloads is leveling off, consumer spending on in-app purchases and related revenue has grown in 2024 to 150 billion U.S. dollars, up from aroud 130 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. While gaming remains the highest grossing app category overall, the growth was driven by other categories. The entertainment, photo & video, productivity, and social networking categories ech grew by at least one billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024 compared to the previous year.

As of May 2023, product interaction data were the most commonly collected data points, with 94 over the 100 analyzed apps reporting to collect such data. User ID and crash data were collected by by 93 and 92 apps over 100, respectively. Over the 10 leading shopping apps hosted on the Apple App Store, the totality collected precise location, physical address, and payment info.

Nowadays, mobile applications (a.k.a., apps) are used by over two billion users for every type of need, including social and emergency connectivity. Their pervasiveness in today world has inspired the software testing research community in devising approaches to allow developers to better test their apps and improve the quality of the tests being developed. In spite of this research effort, we still notice a lack of empirical analyses aiming at assessing the actual quality of test cases manually developed by mobile developers: this perspective could provide evidence-based findings on the future research directions in the field as well as on the current status of testing in the wild. As such, we performed a large-scale empirical study targeting 1,780 open-source Android apps and aiming at assessing (1) the extent to which these apps are actually tested, (2) how well-designed are the available tests, and (3) what is their effectiveness. The key results of our study show that mobile developers still tend not to properly test their apps, possibly because of time to market requirements. Furthermore, we discovered that the test cases of the considered apps have a low (i) design quality, both in terms of test code metrics and test smells, and (ii) effectiveness when considering code coverage as well as assertion density.

Context

This dataset contains reviews for one of the most popular mobile app - tiktok. All the publicly posted reviews are scraped from the google play store.

Inspiration

• The dataset can be used to identify key insights related to the app, key problems/issues people have raised.
• Perform sentiment analysis of the reviews and find what people are talking about.
• Perform topic modeling to identify key topics mentioned in the review over time
• Generate visualizations of different worlds / n-grams / topics extracted from the reviews.