It is not easy to find good apps. Is it possible with some other app website to only search within apps (list apps) that have at least 500k downloads and at least 10k reviews?
Something like make the Play store a database of app names with columns for reviewcount and downloadcount and do SQL commands with where clauses?
I created this.
It's an advanced Google Play search engine, I wanted to create that a long time ago. Now, it's done 😀
Since Google doesn't have an API for Play search, I use an open source scraper.
Almost all app specs can be filtered and sorted.
I hope you'll like it, and please let me know if you find any bug or have any feature request.
It's open source : KPlaysearch
I also created a similar application (http://play.gqqnbig.me/) to KaKi87's. Source code is at https://github.com/gqqnbig/advanced-play-search
Looks like what the OP is looking for can be done at AppBrain, using the &sort=popular URL parameter. See e.g. this example search for file sync: First result page mosly holds apps with 10k+ downloads with a good "internal rating" (they have their own "rating number" in addition to the playstore rating). Checking some, they seem to have 10k+ ratings on GPlay as well. Additional filtering is possible for free/paid, new/updated, app2sd, reduced price.
Though not being exactly what was asked for, I guess it's pretty close. Another good result list can be obtained with the &sort=highest-rated variant, which seems to sort by playstore rating: "file sync" by rating.
Since Google (and other search engines) index the web version of Play Store, a massive database of every element of the Play Store has been created and searching it is totally free!
On Google, you can refine web searches like using - to exclude words from the search, or .. for range search, etc.
As an example, to search for free apps that don't contain ads and in-app purchases: site:play.google.com/store/apps/details -"Contains ads" -"in-app purchases" -Buy Free
&hl=), and since different localization uses different keywords (e.g. "Contiene anuncios" instead of "Contain ads"), it might be hard to sort out the real result.
App Finder is the most advanced search engine for Android apps.
It has 2,300,000+ apps indexed, with data for all 200+ countries/regions, many filters and search operators, and a very detailed result list with scalable screenshots.
For more information see the thread on XDA, and here. Available from Google Play here.
Disclosure: I am from Skyica LLC, the developer of App Finder
Couple of ways you could fine tune or eliminate this:
Select the option to view English (or whatever your native language is) results only. I think this is in your search preferences; you may have to view the desktop version of the results page to get it.
When viewing a page that seems to be from your locale, look at the & hl= and following text in the URL. Copy this to the clipboard. Then go back to the search results page and add inurl: then paste what you just copied immediately to the right of the : (colon). Make sure there aren't any spaces between the colon (:) and what you just pasted.
This isn't another website, but https://github.com/sk1122/App-Searcher-and-Keyword-Seacher is a Django project which provides the software needed to self-host a website which does roughly what is needed.
Its models include reviews and ratings.
Besides Django, its scraper depends on requests and bs4. I don't see any other dependencies.
You can use the pub: token to search for apps from a specific publisher. Maybe there are other supported tokens, I don't know.
Specify the full and exact publisher name, no quotes needed. It works both in the Play app and website, e.g:
