Read a competitor's app reviews with your AI agent
Ask your agent what a rival app's users praise and complain about on Google Play or the App Store. A real run on 100 Todoist reviews.
What do Todoist's users complain about?
At a glance
| Job | What a rival app's users complain about, in their words |
|---|---|
| Tool | apps_get_reviews |
| Credits | 1 for 100 reviews |
| Stores | Google Play and the App Store |
| Run on | Todoist on Google Play, 27 October 2026 |
The prompt
We asked our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold, on 27 October 2026:
Read the 100 newest Google Play reviews of Todoist and tell me what its users complain about,
what they praise, and what a rival to-do app should do differently.The call
| Step | Tool | Input | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apps_get_reviews | Todoist on Google Play, newest 100 | 1 |
The newest reviews of one app, each with its stars, text, app version, helpful votes and the developer's reply. It costs 1 credit for each 100 reviews, on Google Play or the App Store.
What came back
The 100 reviews ran from 11 September to 25 October 2026. Todoist's listing shows 4.6 stars from 306,861 ratings.
| Stars | Reviews |
|---|---|
| 5 | 60 |
| 4 | 14 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 1 | 11 |
What the 26 reviews of 3 stars or fewer were about:
| Complaint | Reviews |
|---|---|
| A feature is behind Pro, or the app reads as paid | 5 |
| A recent update added taps to adding a task or a time | 4 |
| Reminders were missing or unclear | 4 |
| Hard to delete the account or start over | 3 |
| Recurring tasks and subtasks | 2 |
| Other, or no reason given | 8 |
The 74 reviews of 4 or 5 stars are mostly a few words, such as "great app". The longer ones praise how simple and clean the app is, that it keeps them on track (one reviewer with ADHD calls it a life saver), its recurring tasks and voice entry, its free plan, the absence of ads, and its links to Google Calendar and AI assistants.
The review with the most helpful votes, 50, gives 3 stars and says recurring subtasks lose their order when they are completed out of order.
What the agent concluded
- The loudest complaint is an update. Four low reviews, and one 4-star review, say a recent update made adding a task or its time take more taps. Complaints that name a recent change are the ones a rival can answer in its listing.
- Reminders are the trust problem. One reviewer says a missed reminder cost them $2,000. For a to-do app, a reminder that fires is the feature, and that is what a rival should promise and prove.
- Users are connecting AI assistants. Four reviews name an AI assistant: two use ChatGPT with it, one found the app through Claude, one switched to it for its built-in AI. A rival without an agent connection is missing a reason people now choose.
- Todoist answers almost everyone. The developer replied to most reviews, every 1-star review among them, often with a fix. That is the bar for a rival's own reviews.
Run it on yours
Read the newest {number} {Google Play or App Store} reviews of {competitor's app} and group the
complaints. Which ones name a recent update?For the listing itself and its release notes, call apps_get_app. To find the apps in a category, apps_get_top_charts returns a store's charts.
