Replies per app
| App | Replies to its 100 newest reviews |
|---|---|
| Vibe by Mistral | 77 |
| Perplexity | 6 |
| Grok | 0 |
| ChatGPT | 0 |
| Gemini | 1 |
| Claude | 0 |
| DeepSeek | 0 |
We ran one call of our App Reviews tool on 2026-11-05: 7 Google Play packages, country US, language English, newest first. 3 of the 7 apps replied to at least one review.
Who gets an answer
On our first run, Vibe mostly answered its fans. 69 of its 100 newest reviews gave 5 stars, and 60 of those got a reply.
Across all 7 apps, 12 replies went to a 1 or 2 star review. On the first run, Perplexity's replies went to 1 and 3 star reviews, and each one asked the reviewer to send details by email or on its Discord.
The median reply came 1.7 hours after the review. Google's Play Console page says a reply to a negative review can raise that rating by 0.7 stars on average.
Why the newest 100 is not a fair race
The big apps get reviews much faster. ChatGPT's 100 newest reviews were written within 17 minutes, while Vibe's 100 go back about 26 days.
A team that answers a few reviews a day can keep up with Vibe's pace but not with ChatGPT's. So read the table as what someone who just posted a review is likely to see, not as how hard each team works.
A review with no reply today can still get one later, so each refresh of this post counts again.
How to run the same count
The App Reviews tool on the Agent Tools home page takes up to 10 apps in one call, by store link or package name, and your own agent can make the same call over MCP. Each review row has the rating, the text, the date, and the developer's reply with its date, if there is one.
Rows have no reviewer name field, though a developer's reply may greet the reviewer by first name.
What we did not count
This is one country, one language and one moment. Reviews in other countries, or older reviews, may get more answers.
We also didn't judge whether a reply helped. A reply that says "thanks!" counts the same as one that fixes a bug.
Frequently asked questions
Do AI chat apps reply to their Google Play reviews?
We read the 700 newest US English Google Play reviews of 7 AI chat apps, 100 per app. 84 of them got a reply from the developer, and 77 of those came from Vibe by Mistral.
Does ChatGPT reply to its Google Play reviews?
ChatGPT replied to 0 of its 100 newest US English reviews. Those 100 reviews were written within 17 minutes.
How fast do AI chat apps reply to reviews?
The median reply came 1.7 hours after the review. Across all 7 apps, 12 replies went to a 1 or 2 star review.
Try it: run the same check yourself with App Reviews, with no key, or read every post on the Agent Tools blog.
Sources
- Play Console Help, View and analyze your app's ratings and reviews: developers can reply to new reviews in Play Console even before they are public, and see a history of their replies.
- Google Play Console, Ratings and reviews: responding to a negative review can raise that rating by 0.7 stars on average.
- Google Play Developer API, Reply to reviews: the API that lists reviews and posts replies, so a team can answer reviews from a script.
- Google Play, Comment posting policy: the rules for what reviewers may post on Google Play.
- Apple Developer, Ratings, reviews, and responses: the App Store counterpart: developers can respond to reviews to build rapport and encourage downloads.
- Google Play, Vibe by Mistral: the store listing of Mistral's chat app, formerly Le Chat.
- Our own runs: App Reviews and the other tools named above, on 2026-11-05, 2026-11-06. A timer runs the same calls again every 7 to 30 days.
Change log
We measure the numbers in this post again every 7 to 30 days and check that every source still loads. A new line appears here only when something in the post really changed.
- 2026-11-06. Published. Why: First version, with the numbers we measured with our own tools on 2026-11-06.