What you do in the Play Console
- Releases: internal, closed and open testing tracks, production, staged rollouts.
- Store presence: store listing, custom store listings, store listing experiments, promotional content.
- Quality: Android vitals (crash rate, ANRs), pre-launch reports.
- Monetization: in-app products, subscriptions.
- Statistics: installs, uninstalls, acquisition reports, conversion.
- Ratings and reviews: read reviews, reply with a developer response, see rating breakdowns.
A one-time registration fee is required to create a developer account. New personal developer accounts also have to run a closed test with a minimum number of testers before they can publish to production — see beta testing.
Reviews in the Play Console
Reviews can be filtered by language, country, rating and app version. If you'd rather see each new review the moment it arrives, send them to a team channel — see Google Play reviews in Slack.
The iOS counterpart is App Store Connect.