The Scenario
You are a product manager. You need the 200 most recent Google Play reviews for three competitor apps before the product strategy meeting on Wednesday at 10 AM.
You want star rating, review text, and date in one sheet so your team can tag themes and identify feature gaps during the meeting.
It is Monday afternoon.
The bad version:
- You open the Play Store and scroll reviews for app one
- You copy and paste reviews one by one into a Google Sheet
- By review 30 you realize the Play Store web interface is not designed for bulk reading
- You find a third-party review scraper tool and it returns XML
- You spend an hour parsing the XML into columns
- You are done with app one. You have two more to go.
- You walk into Wednesday's meeting with one app's reviews and a headache.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads your app ID list, calls DataForSEO's app reviews endpoint for each one, and writes every review into a structured sheet.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Fetch the 100 most recent Google Play reviews for app IDs listed in column A of my Competitor Apps sheet and paste all reviews into a new sheet with columns for app_id, rating, review text, and date.
SheetXAI calls DataForSEO's Google Play reviews endpoint for each app ID, waits for results, creates the new reviews sheet, and writes every review as a row. Three apps, up to 300 rows of structured review data — ready before Tuesday morning.
What You Get
A structured reviews sheet with one row per review:
- app_id — which competitor the review belongs to
- rating — star rating 1 through 5
- review_text — the full review text, ready for manual or AI tagging
- date — when the review was posted
All three competitors in one sheet, sortable by date or rating. You can filter to 1-star reviews to find pain points or pivot by app to compare average ratings side by side.
If you also want App Store reviews alongside Google Play, tell SheetXAI to run both endpoints and combine the results into one sheet with a source column.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Review research requests rarely arrive in a clean format. SheetXAI handles the variations inline.
When app IDs are not in the sheet yet and you only have app names
You know the competitor app names but not their Play Store IDs.
For each app name in column A of my Competitor Apps sheet, search DataForSEO to find the Google Play app ID. Write the app ID into column B. Then fetch the 100 most recent reviews for each and write all reviews into a new sheet with columns for app name, rating, review text, and date.
When you want to filter reviews by star rating
You only want the 1-star and 2-star reviews to focus on the strongest complaints.
Fetch Google Play reviews for all app IDs in column A of my Competitor Apps sheet. Filter to only reviews with a rating of 1 or 2 stars. Write the filtered results into a new sheet with columns for app_id, rating, review text, and date.
When you also want Apple App Store search results for context
You want to see which apps rank for the keyword "expense tracker" on the App Store to understand the competitive landscape beyond your current tracking list.
Pull the top 50 Apple App Store search results for the keyword "expense tracker" and write each app's name, developer, rating, and review count into my App Competitive Set sheet.
When you need the reviews plus a theme analysis in one shot
The product meeting needs raw reviews and a written breakdown of the top complaint categories.
Fetch the 100 most recent Google Play reviews for each app ID in column A of my Competitor Apps sheet. Write all reviews into a Reviews sheet with columns for app_id, rating, review text, and date. Then read all 1-star and 2-star reviews and write a short paragraph in a Summary sheet identifying the top three recurring complaint themes across all three competitors.
The pattern: the API pull and the analysis happen in one prompt, so the meeting deliverable is ready without a second pass.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any sheet with competitor app IDs or app names, then ask it to pull Google Play or App Store reviews from DataForSEO. The DataForSEO integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related workflows, see how to pull Google Business reviews for reputation tracking or the DataForSEO in Google Sheets overview.