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Mac · Local-first review manager

Every app store review.
One Mac app.

ReviewHeron gathers reviews from all your apps across the App Store and Google Play into one timeline — and drafts replies on-device. Your data and your API keys stay on your Mac. No tracking.

129 € one-time · 14-day trial, no card

No account · No subscription to use AI · Free on-device drafting with Apple Intelligence

ReviewHeron — Inbox
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Unreplied With text iOS ★ 5 Critical
OLDER117
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Still OK 12. Apr
Reliable and reassuring
A genuinely reliable, reassuring app. The daily reminder works perfectly — I feel safe day to day.
iOS🇫🇷2.7.1 translated
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Hausbiber 2. Mai
Mega hilfreich
Wir suchen schon länger ein Haus — diese App hat endlich Struktur in die Suche gebracht. Die Checklisten sind Gold wert.
iOS🇩🇪2.7.1
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Knowhow 29. Apr
Useful checklists, slow loading
The checklists are the best part — used them on two viewings. But the comparison tab takes 8–10s to load.
Android🇬🇧1.4.0 History
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FocusFlow 1. Mai
The only timer I actually stick with
Tried every pomodoro app on the store. First one I've used for more than a week — the gentle nudges work.
iOS🇺🇸3.1.0 Replied
SStill OK / FR
5.0 iOS🇫🇷 Positive

Fiable et rassurante

camille_l · Apr 12, 2026

Application vraiment fiable et rassurante. Le rappel quotidien fonctionne parfaitement, je me sens en sécurité au quotidien.

Translated to English · Apple Intelligence Hide translation
Reliable and reassuring
A genuinely reliable, reassuring app. The daily reminder works perfectly — I feel safe day to day.
ReliabilityReminders
Developer reply Apr 13, 2026

Thanks for the kind words, Camille! Reliability is exactly what Still OK is built for — glad the daily reminder fits into your routine. More on the way.

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One reply per review on the App Store — editing overwrites the live response.
Built by an indie dev, for indie devs.
Why ReviewHeron
01

Local-first & private

No backend for your data, no account. On-device AI, or bring your own key.

02

One inbox, every store

All your apps, App Store + Google Play, in a single timeline.

03

Reply in minutes

On-device drafts, templates, tone presets. You stay in control.

The tour

Everything about reviews, in one place

Four screens do the work that used to mean two consoles, a dozen tabs, and a lot of copy-paste.

01

One unified inbox

Every review from all your apps, both stores, in a single timeline. Filter by unreplied, rating, sentiment or store — no more bouncing between consoles.

Inbox · All
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Unreplied With text iOS ★ 5 Critical
OLDER117
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Still OK 12. Apr
Reliable and reassuring
A genuinely reliable, reassuring app. The daily reminder works perfectly — I feel safe day to day.
iOS🇫🇷2.7.1 translated
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Hausbiber 2. Mai
Mega hilfreich
Wir suchen schon länger ein Haus — diese App hat endlich Struktur in die Suche gebracht. Die Checklisten sind Gold wert.
iOS🇩🇪2.7.1
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Knowhow 29. Apr
Useful checklists, slow loading
The checklists are the best part — used them on two viewings. But the comparison tab takes 8–10s to load.
Android🇬🇧1.4.0 History
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FocusFlow 1. Mai
The only timer I actually stick with
Tried every pomodoro app on the store. First one I've used for more than a week — the gentle nudges work.
iOS🇺🇸3.1.0 Replied
SStill OK / FR
5.0 iOS🇫🇷 Positive

Fiable et rassurante

camille_l · Apr 12, 2026

Application vraiment fiable et rassurante. Le rappel quotidien fonctionne parfaitement, je me sens en sécurité au quotidien.

Translated to English · Apple Intelligence Hide translation
Reliable and reassuring
A genuinely reliable, reassuring app. The daily reminder works perfectly — I feel safe day to day.
ReliabilityReminders
Developer reply Apr 13, 2026

Thanks for the kind words, Camille! Reliability is exactly what Still OK is built for — glad the daily reminder fits into your routine. More on the way.

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One reply per review on the App Store — editing overwrites the live response.
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AI workbench, prompt in plain sight

Draft replies on-device with Apple Intelligence, or your own Claude / OpenAI key. You see the exact prompt before anything runs, tweak the draft, then send.

Reply · Workbench
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5.0 iOS🇩🇪 Positive Unreplied
Finally my notes are organised
Write AI Workbench Templates
Prompt 1378 chars
Write a developer response to this App Store review of Knowhow.

Store: App Store (iOS)
Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) · positive
Reviewer: studio_mara
Themes raised: organization, onboarding, satisfaction

Review: „Endlich Ordnung in meinen Unterlagen …"
Applies to Knowhow only
Add to the prompt
Detected themes App roadmap Recent reviews, same theme Author history
Voice & style
+ Warm + Direct + Brief + Playful
Warm and personal; thank them and address the concrete points raised. No corporate-speak.
Salutation
AutoWith nameNo name
Emojis
AutoAllowedNever
Generate with Apple Intelligence Switch ▾
On-device · free · nothing leaves your Mac
Copy prompt Generate inline ⌘G
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Insights that actually matter

Reply rate, median response time, unreplied count and rating trend — per app or across everything. Know what needs attention at a glance.

Insights · Workspace
Insights SStill OK
7d30d90d1y
Reply rate96%
Median reply time6h
Unreplied3

Rating trend

Weekly average · markers = releases
2.2.0 2.6.0 2.7.1

Top themes

Click filters the inbox
Reminders 30% ★ 4.9
Onboarding 22% ★ 4.7
Reliability 18% ★ 4.8
Crashes 12% ★ 2.3
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Templates that fill themselves

Save your best replies as reusable building blocks. Placeholders like {firstName} or {nextVersion} fill in from each review the moment you insert them — fast, consistent, on-brand.

Templates

Reply templates

+ New template
Crash / won't open
Billing / refund
Bug — fixed, please update
Thanks + coming soon
Feature request
Name
Bug — fixed, please update
Text
Good news, {firstName} — this is fixed in {nextVersion}. {appShort} should run smoothly now. Thanks for flagging it!
Available placeholders
{firstName}First name
{appShort}Short app name
{nextVersion}Next patch
{rating}1–5 stars
Live preview
Good news, Mara — this is fixed in 2.7.2. Still OK should run smoothly now. Thanks for flagging it!
The wedge

Local-first isn't a feature. It's the whole point.

Every other review tool is a cloud dashboard that ingests your data. ReviewHeron is a Mac app you download — because the one thing you can't undo is handing your data to someone else's server.

Source App Store · Google Play
fetch reviews
on-device Your Mac Reviews · Drafts · Keys
Never No cloud · no account
/01

No backend for your data.

There's no cloud to breach — your reviews go store → Mac and are never relayed through us. The one thing that can ever leave, and only if you switch it on, is a scrubbed crash report: no content, no identifier, no stored IP.

/02

Keys in the Keychain

Bring your own Claude or OpenAI key and it's stored in the macOS Keychain — on your machine, never uploaded.

/03

On-device AI, free

Apple Intelligence drafts, classifies and translates right on your Mac. Offline-capable, no quota, no cost.

The honest comparison

ReviewHeron vs. cloud review tools

Appbot, AppFollow, AppReply and the rest are capable — but they're cloud SaaS built for support departments. Here's the difference that matters.

 
ReviewHeron
Cloud review tools
Where your data lives
On your Mac
Their servers
API keys
macOS Keychain
Uploaded to their backend
Account required
None
Yes
Pricing
One-time · 129 €
Monthly subscription
AI
On-device or your key
Their model, their quota
Built for
Indie makers
Support teams

Side-by-side in detail: vs. AppFollow · vs. Appbot

The honest math

Build it yourself? You'd get 80% of the way.

Sure — you could wire up the basics in a weekend: pull the reviews, bolt an AI call on top. The other 20% is the part that bites: notarization, juggling several apps across two stores, and forever chasing Apple's and Google's API changes. That's months, not a weekend. Or: 129 €, once.

+0.7★

Average rating lift when developers reply to reviews — Google's own Play data. ReviewHeron turns replying into a two-minute habit.

from $166/mo

The cheapest Appbot plan that lets you reply from inside the tool — every month, for as long as you use it. ReviewHeron is 129 € once, and the AI runs on your Mac.

★ figure: Google Play Console data (Google I/O). Price: Appbot’s Large plan billed annually — the cheapest tier that includes “Reply in Appbot”; appbot.co/plans, checked 2 August 2026.

Pricing

Buy it once. It's yours.

No subscription, no seats, no upsell to unlock the AI. The anti-SaaS price for an anti-SaaS app.

ReviewHeron for Mac

Yours forever — no subscription, ever.

129 €
one-time
14-day trial — no credit card up front
Everything included
  • Unlimited apps · App Store + Google Play
  • Free on-device AI with Apple Intelligence
  • Bring your own Claude / OpenAI key
  • Templates, tone presets & saved replies
  • Insights, reply tracking & rating trends
  • 12 months of updates & API maintenance

After that, your version is yours forever. Keeping updates & Apple/Google API maintenance going is optional — 39 €/year, never a subscription. Why updates expire →

Buy ReviewHeron Or try it free for 14 days

Notarized .dmg · Sparkle auto-updates · macOS 14+

Secure checkout via our merchant of record — VAT handled worldwide, license key delivered by email.

On the roadmap

Want a Windows or Linux build?

ReviewHeron is built with Flutter, so other desktops are feasible. Email me and I'll ping you when there's enough demand — your vote validates the port.

Vote by email

One email when it ships. No spam, no list-selling — local-first people don't do that.

Questions

Straight answers

Yes — literally. Your reviews are fetched straight from the stores to your Mac, your API keys live in the macOS Keychain, and none of your content is ever relayed through me. The only exception is opt-in: if you switch on crash reports, ReviewHeron sends a scrubbed stack trace — no personal data, no identifier, no stored IP — so I can fix what's breaking. Off by default, and you can turn it off anytime.

No. On-device drafting with Apple Intelligence is free and built in. If you want a more capable model you can plug in your own Claude or OpenAI key — but it's entirely optional.

Both the App Store and Google Play, across all of your apps, in one unified timeline. There's no per-app or per-seat limit.

No — it's a notarized direct download (.dmg) with Sparkle auto-updates. No sandbox limits, no review delay on updates. First launch shows a quick 'how to open' note.

129 € once, no subscription. That includes 12 months of updates & Apple/Google API maintenance; after that your version is yours forever and you can extend for 39 €/year — optional, never required. There's a 14-day trial with no credit card up front.

Mac first. It's built with Flutter, so Windows/Linux are feasible — leave your email above to vote for the port.