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The App Stability Crisis

Why apps keep crashing and users keep leaving. This pattern appears across 253 different app categories in our analysis of 156,000+ negative App Store reviews.

253
Categories Affected
156K+
Reviews Analyzed

Affected Categories

Blogging Coach

74% frequency

App crashes constantly during audio playback

"the app crashes all the time. A temporary workaround is you need to have the app open and active. The screen can't go to sleep."

Sailing Companion

73% frequency

Frequent app crashes

"Crashes on opening on iOS 12.5.5"

Note Taking

72.5% frequency

Crashing and Freezing

"This app just keeps crashing non stop."

Pet Supplies

72% frequency

App performance issues (slow load times, crashes)

"The app rarely ever works. I would like to see my notifications, but I can’t because it never stops lagging!"

Stable Diffusion

72% frequency

App crashes during image generation

"Crashes during image generation every time the app is used on my iPhone 13 mini"

Payroll

67% frequency

Slow app performance and frequent crashes

"This app is the slowest clock in I’ve ever used and it messes up all the time."

Car Maintenance

65% frequency

App crashes and freezes

"The app crashes every time I try to open it, making it useless."

Kanban Board

62% frequency

Frequent app crashes and performance issues

"The app crashes every few minutes, making it very hard to use any functions."

Lyrics

62% frequency

App performance issues (lagging, freezing, crashing)

"This app is literally unusable. The search is super slow and doesn’t even show results remotely close to what you looked up half the time."

Reading

61% frequency

Bugs and app crashes

"It's unbearable. I'm not being hyperbolic: every single time I open the app, there's a new bug."

Accounting

58% frequency

App crashes or freezes frequently

"The app freezes up ALL THE TIME. I usually just have to go to the website and not even bother with the app."

Coupon

58% frequency

App functionality issues (crashes, login problems)

"The app constantly crashes, making it impossible to use."

Stock News

58% frequency

App crashes and freezing

"This app is the glitchiest app I’ve ever used."

Car Buying

57% frequency

Frequent app crashes and unresponsiveness

"The app keeps crashing and it refuses to let me message private sellers directly."

Group Chat

57% frequency

App crashes and glitches

"The app constantly crashes and is unusable."

Personal Trainer

54% frequency

App crashes and technical glitches

"App constantly crashing"

Email Client

52% frequency

App crashes and performance issues

"The app always crashes and I cannot use for email."

File Manager

52% frequency

App crashes and instability

"'App crashes whenever music plays'"

Unschool Guide

52% frequency

App crashes and instability

"App won’t open. Keeps crashing."

Workout Tracker

47% frequency

Bugs and app crashes

"App keeps crashing."

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