The invention relates to the technical field of mobile communications, and discloses an application rating method, which is applied to a mobile terminal. The application rating method comprises the following steps: acquiring applications conforming to preset conditions on the mobile terminal, wherein the preset conditions include a use time or use times; judging whether the mobile terminal is in an idle state or not; and if so, pushing rating windows of the applications. The invention also discloses the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is controlled according to the method. Through adoption of the application rating method, rating flows of the applications on the mobile terminal are saved, and the occupation of rating effort of a user is reduced. Meanwhile, more fair and rational rating can be realized, and a reference value of application rating to a new user is increased.