Application intelligence, computed continuously from the public App Store
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Leadership change
Darty Sécurité took the Most iPad Screenshots lead, from HandyRecorder.
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Leadership change
Bedspace Management took the Demands the Newest iOS lead, from Unifi QRify.
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Leadership change
Unifi QRify took the Demands the Newest iOS lead, from バナープロ - 電光掲示板アプリ.
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Correction
Every correction we make is logged, dated, and public — see the corrections log for what has changed and why.
What Apps Actually Warn You About
Behind every age rating is a list of specific warnings � violence, gambling, mature themes. Here is what the store is really flagging.
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Records here are evidence, not the product. Each figure is dated and traces to a stored row; we publish what we can read and name what we cannot.
19 studies, 26 category reports, and the guides that read them
What tens of thousands of apps reveal about who pays, how much, and where the money hides.
Almost every app is "4.5 stars." The rating count is where the truth is.
Most apps are quietly abandoned. Here is how long they survive, and how many still ship.
The vast majority of developers ship exactly one app. A tiny few ship hundreds.
Rating momentum has cratered hardest in categories built on short bursts of novelty, like AI chatbot apps and dating…
Facebook's App Store rating count stays high mainly because of years on the store plus daily habitual use, not…
The ecosystem, by category
- 01 Books 9 boards
- 02 Business 9 boards
- 03 Developer Tools 9 boards
- 04 Education 9 boards
- 05 Entertainment 9 boards
The standing rankings
Each board publishes its rule, what qualifies, and how many apps were considered. They are the raw evidence the studies above are built on.
Full ranking index →| Board | Leader | Value | Considered | Lead held |
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| Most Rated of All Time | 抖音 | 52.1M | 248,305 | throughout |
| Biggest App | Assassin’s Creed Shadows | 142 GB | 248,287 | 14d |
| Oldest Survivor | Apartment Guide Home Rentals | 2008 | 153,900 | 12d |
| Priciest Paid App | スマホ de サーベイ | $11,000.00 | 50,765 | 16d |
| Most Globally Charting App | Duolingo: Language Lessons | 25 | 3,318 | throughout |
| Most Languages | Oshi Island - Pixel Art Widget | 178 | 245,069 | 13d |
| Most Prolific Developer | hao du | 119 | 56,903 | throughout |
Build on our App Store data
Records, per-app metrics, publisher catalogues, and the data studies, all as clean JSON. First-party, dated, and graded, the same figures behind every page. Free and rate-limited while we onboard.
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Public App Store metadata, read across 25 storefronts. We store only what an app publicly lists.
Boards recompute on a fixed schedule from the full tracked set; each states what qualifies and how many were considered.
Every figure ties to a stored row and a date. Analysis is written to our published editorial standards.
Downloads, revenue, retention and in-app pricing are not visible to us. We name them; we do not estimate them.
Writes the studies, sets the editorial standards behind every analysis, and maintains the measurement methodology.