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I built a Google Play lead finder — pick a category, get every app company and its contact

Selling to app companies? Your prospect list is already on Google Play. You just can't export it.

So I built a tool that does: pick a category, get the apps in it with installs, rating and the developer email each company publishes on its listing.

Real output: finance apps on Google Play with installs and developer emails

What you get

  • Every app on the category page — 30 to 90 per category, per country
  • Installs, rating, genre, last update for each one
  • The developer's published email and website
  • Filters that run before you pay: minimum installs, "has an email"

How to use it

  1. Pick categories — FINANCE, Health & Fitness, GAME_PUZZLE… or TOP
  2. Pick countries — every store lists different apps
  3. Run it → JSON, CSV or Excel

Fintech companies in the US and UK with 100K+ installs and a contact email took one run: 33 companies.

Why it doesn't break

Most Google Play scrapers use search or Google's internal API. Both are disallowed by Google Play's robots.txt, and both change without warning. This one reads only the public category pages a shopper browses, plus each app's public page. Slower to build. Much harder to break.

You pay only for apps that pass your filters.

👉 Try Google Play Category Apps

Ready to run: fintech companies · game studios · EdTech companies

Which category would you pull first? Tell me and I'll add a ready-made example for it.

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