How to download or export your Apple App Store purchase data

Purchase History has no export or download button. To get your purchase records out of Apple, request a copy of your account data from Apple’s Data & Privacy page. Apple says the copy includes a record of what you bought or downloaded from the App Store, iTunes Store and Apple Books. It is not a ready-made spreadsheet of your spending.

Updated: September 2026 · By the App Purchase Vault project · Checked against Apple Support documentation

Viewing your history vs downloading your data

If you only need one receipt or one price, a data request is overkill: use your purchase history instead.

Requesting a copy of your account data

What Apple says the copy includes

Apple’s description of a data request includes "a record of the items you have purchased or downloaded from the App Store, iTunes Store, and Apple Books, as well as your browsing history in those stores". It also says the list covers every item you purchased or downloaded, but not the content itself: you redownload apps, music, films and books from the stores, not from your data copy.

EU, UK and Japan: one-time or recurring requests

In the European Union, the United Kingdom and Japan, Apple lets you request certain subsets separately, including App Store information and app install and push notification activity. You can schedule these as a one-time download or as a recurring one: daily for 30 days, or weekly for 180 days.

What Apple publicly confirms about the files

• Data is provided in its original format or in "industry-standard formats". Apple says app usage information comes as spreadsheets or as .json, .csv or .pdf files.
• Apple provides PDF file guides that describe the data types in each file.
• Card and bank details, device identifiers and email addresses are masked.
• Dates and times use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), so late-evening purchases can show the next day’s date.
• A purchase partly paid with gift card balance might appear as a gift card redemption.
• The word "biometric" in a purchase record only means you confirmed with Face ID, Touch ID or Optic ID.
• Apple recommends Numbers over other spreadsheet apps, because some apps round long numbers and display them wrongly.

What Apple does not publicly document

Apple’s consumer documentation doesn’t name the file that holds App Store purchases, list its columns, or promise a single clean CSV with one row per charge. So we don’t either. Rely on the file guides included with your own download, which describe what you actually received.

Reconciling with a bank statement

1. Take the amount and date of the bank line.
2. Search that amount in Purchase History. It is faster than searching files.
3. If nothing matches, look for several smaller purchases that add up to the charge: Apple may have grouped them.
4. Remember the time zone: data-copy timestamps are in UTC, bank statements usually use local time.
5. Purchases paid with Apple Account balance, or billed by a developer outside Apple, won’t appear as Apple charges on your card.

Privacy considerations

Your data copy can contain much more than purchases: account details, sign-in records and, depending on what you select, iCloud content. Request only the categories you need, download over a network you trust, and store the files somewhere private. Delete them when you are done if you don’t need them.

Be wary of any service that asks for your Apple Account password to "export" your purchases for you. Apple’s Data & Privacy tool lets you get your data yourself.

App Purchase Vault and Apple data

App Purchase Vault currently supports Google Play on Android, where it reads the Google Takeout export on your phone. Apple App Store import is planned; it can’t read an Apple data copy today. The Android equivalent of this guide is how to export your Google Play purchase history.