Exact installs, ratings, app age and last-updated dates under every app card — in search, on developer pages and in collections. Then compare, follow and export them from one side panel.
Play rounds installs into buckets, so two very different apps look the same. PlayLens reads the real figure from each app's page and adds age, growth and freshness, colour-coded so the stale ones stand out.
Everything below is free unless it is marked Pro.
Exact installs, number of ratings, update date by freshness, app age and installs per day, under each card's own rating.
Guide →Every result carries its position. The table and the exports keep it together with the search term.
Every app on the page in a table: choose columns, filter by installs, rating, age or freshness, export CSV or JSON with all fields.
Play's own suggestions for a word, each scored Open, Contested or Crowded from its first ten results.
Guide →Star an app. PlayLens notes version, name, price and rating changes and measures installs per day from a daily record.
Guide →The latest 1–3★ reviews with the words that come up most, exportable by stars and date. Reviewer names are left out.
Guide →Follow keyword and country pairs, checked once a day in the background with 90 days of history.
Guide →Up to 6 apps side by side, with installs and rating history drawn in colour-blind-safe charts.
Desktop notifications, a Watchlist report in HTML or Markdown, and a full backup you can restore.
Guide →Add PlayLens from the Chrome Web Store. No sign-up, nothing to configure.
A search, a developer page or a collection. The numbers appear under every card.
Sort, filter and export the list, star apps to follow them, score keywords.
playlens.zip and unzip it.chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.See which search terms have weak, stale or small results before you build, and what the top apps charge.
Follow where your app ranks for the terms that matter, by country, and get told when it moves.
Know when a rival ships a new version, changes price or starts losing rating, without checking by hand.
Export clean CSV or JSON of a whole list with 36 fields, ready for a spreadsheet.
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You get a licence key by email. Paste it in the PlayLens settings; it works on up to 3 of your browsers. Prices in USD.
PlayLens stays open source (MIT). Pro is a convenience and a way to support the work, not copy protection. The key is checked with Polar about once a day and nothing else leaves your browser — see the privacy policy and how the licence works.
Short, practical walkthroughs with real screenshots.
Google Play shows installs as buckets like 10M+. Here is how to read the exact number, the app age and installs per day for every app on a list page.
5 min read
Turn Play’s own search suggestions into a ranked list. How the Open, Contested and Crowded verdict is calculated, and how to use it on real ideas.
7 min read
Follow where an app ranks for a keyword in any country. The tracker checks once a day in the background, keeps 90 days and can notify you when a rank moves.
6 min readInstall PlayLens and open any Google Play list page. The exact install count, rating, number of ratings, last-updated date and app age appear on each app card directly — no clicking through.
Any page that shows a grid or row of app cards: developer pages, search results, category and collection pages, Similar apps, and the Play home page.
Yes. Play’s own cards round to something like 824K. PlayLens reads the structured data on each app’s detail page, so you get 824.1K — the real figure, useful when comparing two apps that both round to the same number.
Yes. Open the side panel and click Export — copy the table, or download it as CSV or JSON with every field, ready for Sheets or Excel.
Everything you see on the cards, the side panel, the watchlist, reviews, keyword ideas and exports is free. Pro adds a daily rank tracker with history, alerts, comparison charts, reports, backups and saved keyword lists.
No account, no analytics and no server of ours. PlayLens runs only on play.google.com, fetches the same public pages you could open yourself, and keeps what it stores on your device. The one exception is a Pro licence key, which is sent to Polar to check it is valid.
Yes — it is a standard Manifest V3 extension, so any Chromium-based browser can load it.
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