Apple App Store Reviews and GitHub Issues for 10 iOS Applications

Kate Spencer's replication package extends prior research by replacing Google Play reviews with Apple App Store reviews. It collects 9,284 App Store reviews and 23,776 GitHub issues across 10 open-source iOS applications including Bitwarden, Firefox, and WordPress. The dataset was last updated on May 15, 2026.

Use Cases

• Replicate automated methods for augmenting GitHub issues based on user reviews mentioned in the description.
• Compare user feedback patterns between Apple App Store and other platforms based on the dataset's source.
• Analyze the relationship between user-reported issues and developer-tracked tasks across the 10 listed applications.

Strengths

• Contains 9,284 Apple App Store reviews and 23,776 GitHub issues, providing a substantial corpus for analysis.
• Covers 10 distinct open-source iOS applications, offering a multi-project perspective.
• Explicitly linked to a prior replication package, facilitating comparative research.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the selected 10 applications.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Collected via a pipeline applied to Apple App Store and GitHub for 10 specified applications.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 03:01:04; freshness should be verified.