ReviewPulse pulls together every Steam review for the games you care about — highlights, concerns, gameplay feedback, performance issues — and surfaces them at a glance. Right from your Home Screen.
Track the Steam games you love. ReviewPulse summarizes thousands of reviews into the patterns that actually matter — without the doom-scrolling.
Add any Steam game to your watchlist and follow ratings, recent reviews, and live player counts in one tidy dashboard.
Stop reading 24,000 reviews. ReviewPulse clusters mentions into Highlights, Concerns, Gameplay, Performance, and Recommendations — so you spot the signal in seconds.
Compare totals, positive and negative reviews, and score for each language at a glance. Catch regional sentiment gaps that aggregate scores hide.
Drop one or many ReviewPulse widgets on your Home Screen. Check ratings, recent reviews, and live player activity without ever opening the app.
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ReviewPulse was built to be useful without being nosy. This policy explains exactly what we collect, what we don't, and the choices you have.
If you read privacy policies carefully, the rest of this document explains exactly what each piece of the app does and why. The summary above is honest and complete.
ReviewPulse is an independent iOS app and Home Screen widget. The "we" in this policy refers to the app's developer, who is the data controller for any personal data the service may process. ReviewPulse is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Valve Corporation or Steam.
For privacy questions, write to reviewpulse@acegamers.top.
ReviewPulse is local-first. The following data is stored on your iPhone — inside the app sandbox and the shared App Group container group.com.yuchen.steamreviewmonitor that the main app and widget read from — and nowhere else:
The Steam appIds you've added, plus per-game preferences (display order, the game pinned to your widget). Persisted in the App Group via UserDefaults.
Recent review counts, scores, and recent-review numbers from past fetches. Used to compute your 24-hour delta and keep widgets warm offline.
Header images for the games on your watchlist, downloaded from Steam's CDN and cached so widgets render without a network round-trip.
A random UUID generated on first launch, used to scope your local cache and to throttle backend requests fairly. It is not tied to you, your Apple ID, or your device, and you can rotate it any time from Settings → Reset Session.
None of this data is uploaded to us. Uninstalling the app or tapping Settings → Reset App Data erases all of it.
To produce the grouped summaries you see in the app (Highlights / Concerns / Gameplay / Performance / Recommendations), ReviewPulse runs a small backend service. Here is exactly what crosses the wire when you open a game:
The backend then fetches public reviews from Steam's own endpoints (store.steampowered.com/appreviews/{appId} and /api/appdetails), runs the grouping/summarization, caches the result for all users requesting that game, and returns it. Review text is never combined with anything that could identify you.
Server access logs (timestamp, requested appId, truncated IP for abuse prevention) are kept for up to 30 days and then deleted. We do not link these logs to your watchlist, your session ID, or any user profile, because we have none.
To be unambiguous, ReviewPulse does not collect any of the following — not on the device, not on the backend:
ReviewPulse interacts with exactly the following third parties:
We do not embed advertising, attribution, or social-login SDKs of any kind.
Because there are no user accounts, retention is mostly under your direct control:
Even without an account, you have meaningful controls:
ReviewPulse is rated 12+ on the App Store and is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. The app stores only what's described in §3 — a watchlist, snapshots, cached artwork, and an anonymous session ID — all of which can be wiped from Settings.
All network traffic between your device, our backend, and Steam uses HTTPS / TLS 1.2+. Local data is stored inside the iOS application sandbox and the App Group container, both protected by iOS data-at-rest encryption tied to your device passcode. Backend infrastructure is locked down with least-privilege IAM and encrypted at rest.
If you discover a vulnerability, please email reviewpulse@acegamers.top. We aim to acknowledge within 48 hours.
ReviewPulse is available worldwide via the App Store. Backend processing happens on cloud infrastructure that may be located outside your country (typically in the United States). When personal data crosses borders, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses with our processors. The amount of personal data involved is intentionally minimal — see §4 for the exhaustive list.
If we make material changes — for example, adding an optional iCloud sync feature, or changing what the backend processes — we will update the Effective date at the top and post an in-app notice before the change takes effect. Any new collection would be opt-in and clearly explained.
Questions, corrections, or the occasional kind word are welcome:
ReviewPulse is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Valve Corporation or Steam. "Steam" is a trademark of Valve Corporation.
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