App stores review widgets
Where app stores customers leave reviews
App store reviews are per-storefront and per-region, which surprises people the first time. The US listing and the UK listing carry different reviews.
Ratings also run higher on Google Play than on the App Store for the same app, so showing both invites a comparison.
| Platform | Who uses it | Worth your attention if |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | iOS users deciding whether to download | You have an iOS app |
| Google Play | Android users comparing options | You have an Android app |
| Apple Podcasts | Listeners and potential sponsors | You run a podcast — added manually |
Which of these to actually bother with
Add each region you care about as its own source. One listing does not cover the others.
For a podcast this is genuinely useful: Apple splits reviews by country and makes them hard to find, so collecting them onto your own page is the only place they exist together.
Why one platform is not enough on your own site
Your rating on the biggest platform is what search shows. Your website is where someone decides. Those are different moments, and the second is helped by breadth — reviews from three sources read as harder to fabricate than the same number from one.
One widget takes all of these plus 60-odd more, up to 100 sources, with tabs if you want visitors to filter. Browse all 71.
If you want it pre-configured
The saas page comes set up with the sources that matter for this trade, and with the placement advice that goes with it.