58 storefronts, one sweep

Worldwide Reviews

Most developers only ever check the US storefront. This sweeps every major App Store country to show where your ratings actually come from — and which markets are quietly dragging your average down.

Pick an app to sweep.

Works on any App Store app, yours or a competitor's. No account needed.

Where in the world do your ratings actually come from?

Most developers only ever look at the US App Store, because that is the storefront App Store Connect opens on. This page sweeps 58 storefronts and reports the rating count and average star rating in each, sorted by the storefronts that rate you most.

The result is usually a surprise. An app with a healthy US average can be carrying a materially worse rating in a market that supplies a large share of its ratings, and nothing in the default view would ever show it.

How it works

  1. 1Pick an app. The scan runs Apple’s lookup endpoint once per storefront, eight at a time.
  2. 2Each storefront returns its own rating count and average. This works because iTunes reports both PER STOREFRONT rather than globally — verified live, where one large app read about 8.9M ratings in the US and 1.4M in Germany.
  3. 3Totals are combined into a ratings-weighted average, never a mean of the averages, so a storefront with 40 ratings cannot swing the figure like one with 400,000.
  4. 4Storefronts at least 0.2 stars below that weighted average, on 20 ratings or more, are flagged as weak. The floor exists so one unhappy user in a quiet market does not top the list.

What it cannot tell you

  • It reads counts, not review text. To see what people actually wrote, open the reviews page for that storefront.
  • A storefront Apple did not answer for is reported as unavailable rather than as zero — one dead lookup must not be mistaken for an app nobody rates.
  • Ratings are lifetime, not recent. A storefront can carry a poor average from a version shipped years ago.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my app show a different star rating in different countries?

Because Apple stores ratings per storefront. Each country has its own count and its own average, and the number shown on your product page is the one for the storefront the visitor is browsing — not a global figure.

How many countries does the sweep cover?

58 storefronts, chosen to cover the markets that actually produce meaningful rating volume rather than all 175 Apple operates.

Does a low rating in one country hurt me everywhere?

Apple publishes nothing about this, so the honest answer is that nobody outside Apple knows. What is verifiable is that users in that storefront see that rating, and it is the number they decide on.