Apple’s iOS app ratings

Neven Mrgan wrote an incisive post in which he used the rather low average of the App Store ratings for Apple’s home-produced apps to point out the flaws in the app ratings system itself. If you haven’t already, you should go read it now.

But he neglected to include the actual ratings for each individual app. I thought it might be interesting to see those, and so here they are. I’ve used the ratings for the current versions because, really, who cares about the past, but I’ve used the all-time ratings as a tie-breaker where necessary.

For jazzy CSS star ratings, click through to my site; they won’t show up in the dashboard.

  1. Texas Hold’em
    • 4 (4)
  2. Pages
    • 4 (4)
  3. Keynote Remote
    • 4 (3.5)
  4. iBooks
    • 3.5 (4)
  5. Apple Store
    • 3.5 (3.5)
  6. Remote
    • 3.5 (3.5)
  7. Keynote
    • 3.5 (3.5)
  8. MobileMe iDisk
    • 3 (3.5)
  9. Numbers
    • 3 (3.5)
  10. MobileMe Gallery
    • 3 (3)
  11. iMovie
    • 3 (3)
  12. Find My iPhone
    • 2.5 (-)

(Jazzy stars courtesy of Komodo Media)

Jul 15 2010, 10:34am

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  1. whileyouweregone reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    Neven Mrgan wrote an incisive post in which he used...Apple’s home-produced apps to point...
  2. claude reblogged this from mrgan
  3. iphoneyou reblogged this from mrgan
  4. bananacasts said: I recall a wise recommendation years ago (maybe on A List Apart) suggesting that five-point rating systems are flawed because it direct most people to the middle (non-confrontational) choice rather than the more “good” or “bad” choice.
  5. jeffrock said: Have you noticed rate on delete in iOS 4? I think they got rid of it.
  6. micahtcollins reblogged this from mrgan and added:
    strong negative bias...star ratings, in general. iOS only prompts users to rate an app...
  7. brianericford said: I dunno. Given that many base their reviews on changed icons (this app used to be great, the new icon sucks! I’m taking away three stars until you fix it!) whether an app “should” be free (when it’s $1.99) I think I’d worry about other things.
  8. chriskalani said: Ebay did that sort of thing too. I always loved seeing retorts from sellers such as: “This man is lying”.
  9. mrgan posted this
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