Use the Play Console app to track app performance

With the Play Console app, you can choose the metrics that you would like to monitor, keep up to date with messages while you’re away from your desk and enjoy popular features, like viewing and replying to app reviews, managing your orders on the go and more.

Get the Play Console app

If you haven't already, add your Google Play Developer account on your device.

Go to Google Play or open the Google Play Store app .
Search for and select the Play Console app .
Tap Install.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

Select your developer account

To choose which account you’re using, do the following steps:

Open Play Console.
If prompted, select your developer account and tap OK.
Tap the Menu icon .
You’ll see the name and email address of the account that you're using.
If you have more than one developer account associated with your email address, select the one that you want to use. To select a different email address, tap the down arrow .

Stay informed on the go

Once you have the Play Console app, learn how you can do the following:

Select the KPIs that you’d like to monitor upon onboarding. For more information, see View app statistics.
Manage your app's orders or subscription cancellations. For more information, see Manage your app's orders and issue refunds.
View and reply to app reviews. For more information, see View and analyse your app's ratings and reviews.
Track and monitor the availability of your apps across different tracks and releases.
Stay up to date with any new or critical messages from Google Play while you’re away from your computer.

Set up notifications

When you get a notification from Play Console, it displays on your device's status bar.

Turn notifications on or off

Open Play Console.
On the top-left menu, select Settings > Notifications.
Select what you want to be notified about.

Types of mobile app notifications

Notification type	Description
Business critical	By default, business-critical notifications are turned on. Includes changes to your app state, like the following: App rejections App update rejections App suspensions App removals
App updates	By default, release update notifications are turned off. Includes publishing updates, like app updates that are pending or have gone live.
Reviews	By default, review notifications are turned off. Tells you when users write new reviews or update existing reviews. To learn how to reply to a review, see View and analyse your app's ratings and reviews.

View your apps and version details

Pin your favourite apps

By default, all apps associated with your developer account will be shown in the following order:

Published apps
Unpublished apps
Apps with violations

To pin an app at the top of your list, select the pin icon .

View your app bundle or APK release details

To see the version details and release dates of your app bundle or APKs currently in production, staged roll-out, or alpha or beta testing:

Open Play Console.
Select an app.
Select Test and release
> Releases overview.

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