[1_player]

I never understood the App Store rating figures. Here's the scam app:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/keywatch-watch-keyboard/id1499...

Apparently the paid for 5 stars comments have been deleted, all that's left are comments in the 1 star range but the app is still rated 4.1/5. It's not the first time I see this discrepancy and makes it very hard for a user to understand who to believe: the 1 star comments or the very positive rating average?

[grishka]

The "more by this developer" app list is also telling. A bunch of utilities, with all of them having in-app purchases, most having weekly subscriptions too. I don't understand how any of these apps passed the review.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/keywatch-watch-keyboard/id1499...

[sneak]

It's almost as if the review process exists to maximize Apple's revenue...

[djxfade]

The app store allows you to submit a rating without a review. That's what you are seeing here.

[jacobp100]

You can rate without leaving a comment, so there could be a lot of 1 star comments and 5 star ratings without comments.

Also, it won’t show comments in other languages, but probably still does show you their rating in the average.

[perryizgr8]

> makes it very hard for a user to understand who to believe: the 1 star comments or the very positive rating average?

Isn't it obvious? Fake reviews will be deleted, but ratings won't be. So disregard the rating and look at the reviews.

[staticassertion]

It's not obvious at all that one piece of information is completely wrong and another, much more difficult to consume piece of information, is accurate.