For a while now, Google has been AI-ifying everything it owns, and the latest AI infusion just went straight to the Play Store on Android. This is now showing AI generated review summaries for apps listed in the store, which should save you a lot of time skimming various app reviews to get a feel for how good or bad a specific app is.
As with anything Google does, the rollout of this feature is slow, but it has at least finally started – the AI summaries were first spotted more than a year ago in testing. When you get it, you’ll see a “Users are saying” section above the reviews themselves. This is it.
Google Play Store AI review summary (left) and ‘chip’ content (right)
It will only show up for apps with enough reviews to pull from, but we don’t know what the exact threshold is. Each AI summary is one paragraph, and tries to highlight the most common positive and negative points in user reviews.
Under the summary paragraph itself you get a selection of ‘chips’ that you can tap to quickly be taken to reviews mentioning what each chip describes. For what it’s worth, Apple rolled out something similar to the iOS App Store back in April.
