Original App Store research, computed from the public record and written to a published standard
The Ratings Oligopoly
A tiny sliver of publishers controls a staggering share of all App Store ratings ever logged.
Read the full study →The App Store, by the numbers
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Leadership change
Golfstream - Social Network took the Priciest Paid App lead, from SYS™.
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Leadership change
SYS™ took the Priciest Paid App lead, from Golfstream - Social Network.
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Leadership change
7 Brew Coffee took the Youngest Hit App lead, from ホロライブドリームス.
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Correction
Every correction we make is logged, dated, and public. See the corrections log for what has changed and why. Read the corrections log →
Computed continuously from the public App Store
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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.
28 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.
According to AppWanderer, Open Food Facts - Product Scan currently leads with 123 supported languages, ahead of JW…
A record-fast rating count, like Meowdoku's AppWanderer-topping run, mainly reflects how often an app's review prompt…
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 | 914,184 | throughout |
| Biggest App | Assassin’s Creed Shadows | 153 GB | 914,184 | throughout |
| Oldest Survivor | Complex RPN Calculator | 2008 | 536,399 | throughout |
| Priciest Paid App | Golfstream - Social Network NEW | $1,000.00 | 70,636 | new |
| Most Globally Charting App | Duolingo: Language Lessons | 25 | 3,361 | throughout |
| Most Languages | Oshi Island - Pixel Art Widget | 178 | 898,739 | throughout |
| Most Prolific Developer | fly sky pty ltd | 438 | 320,484 | 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.
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