Thumbs Up: 2.1 Million Negative Google Play Reviews Across 48 App Categories

Over 2.1 million negative user reviews (1- or 2-star ratings) from 9,775 apps on Google Play. The dataset includes the number of votes each review received within a month, highlighting reviews considered important by other users. It was created by recmeapp and last updated on March 13, 2023.

Use Cases

• Detect prominent app issues based on highly-voted negative reviews.
• Analyze user sentiment trends across 48 different app categories.
• Identify common complaints or failure points from the volume of negative feedback.
• Train models to prioritize app reviews based on community voting signals.

Strengths

• Contains over 2.1 million individual review records.
• Covers a broad scope of 9,775 apps across 48 distinct categories.
• Includes a community voting metric to signal review importance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2023-03-13 08:56:10; freshness should be verified.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to Google Play reviews.

Provenance

Source

Google Play

Collection Method

Collection of user reviews and associated vote counts.

Freshness

Last updated 2023-03-13 08:56:10.