Is ReviewMaxxing free?

Yes, ReviewMaxxing is completely free with no signup required. You can scrape unlimited app reviews from both App Store and Play Store.

How many countries does ReviewMaxxing support?

ReviewMaxxing supports 50+ countries organized in 3 tiers: Tier 1 (15 developed markets like US, UK, Germany), Tier 2 (19 emerging markets like India, Brazil), and Tier 3 (16 other markets).

Can I export reviews to Excel?

Yes, you can export all scraped reviews to XLSX (Excel) or CSV format with full review data including ratings, dates, countries, and vote counts.

Does ReviewMaxxing work with both App Store and Play Store?

Yes, ReviewMaxxing supports both Apple App Store and Google Play Store. You can search for apps on either store and scrape reviews from multiple countries simultaneously.

How to Analyze App Reviews Without Expensive Tools

App review analytics platforms want hundreds of dollars a month. Some charge per app tracked. Others gate basic features like export behind enterprise tiers. If you just need to understand what users are saying, there is a cheaper path: get the raw data and analyze it yourself.

Start With the Data

The first step is getting reviews out of the app stores and into a format you can work with. ReviewMaxxing does this for free — scrape and export to XLSX or CSV in a few minutes. You get the review text, rating, date, country, author, app version, and vote counts. That is everything you need.

Quick Wins in a Spreadsheet

Open the export in Excel or Google Sheets and try these:

Pivot table by rating and country. This shows you at a glance which markets are happy and which are not. A 15-second setup that tells you more than most dashboards.
Filter to 1-star reviews and read them.Not analyze, not run through a tool — just read. Twenty minutes of reading 1-star reviews will tell you more about your app's problems than any sentiment score.
Search for keywords.Ctrl+F for “crash,” “slow,” “bug,” “update,” or “price.” Count the hits. Now you know your top complaint categories without any NLP.
Sort by vote count. The most upvoted reviews are the ones other users agree with. These are your highest-signal feedback.

When You Want to Go Further

For teams that want a bit more structure without buying a platform:

Manual tagging. Add a column and tag each review with a category: bug, feature request, pricing complaint, praise, etc. After tagging 100 reviews, you will have a clear distribution of what users care about.
Word frequency. Paste review text into a free word cloud generator. It is crude but instantly shows what terms come up most.
Time-series charts. Plot average rating by week or month to see if sentiment is trending up or down. Overlay this with your release dates.

What You Are Skipping

Paid platforms do offer real value: automated sentiment analysis, alert systems, competitive tracking over time, and polished dashboards. If you are a large team tracking dozens of apps across many markets, a paid tool probably makes sense.

But if you are a small team that needs to check reviews weekly or do occasional competitor research, the spreadsheet approach works fine. The data is the same — you are just skipping the middleman.

Give ReviewMaxxing a try and see how far a spreadsheet takes you.