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Standing category report · rewritten 8 Aug 2026

Entertainment, by the numbers

What 11,238 tracked entertainment apps reveal about how the category prices, concentrates, and competes — computed from public metadata, not estimated.

Dor Bass · Confidence: High · direct listing fields

Apps tracked
11,238
Median rating
4.4
Paid share
19.7%
Median size
48 MB

Free apps dominate Entertainment, and there's no real contest here. Out of 10,632 tracked apps, 8,501 cost nothing while 2,130 ask for payment upfront, roughly an 80% to 20% split favoring free. The apps that do charge tend to stay cheap: 840 fall between $0.01 and $0.99, and another 621 sit in the $1 to $2.99 range. There's a smaller group further up the price ladder too, 157 apps between $5 and $9.99 and 183 at $10 or more. The pattern isn't a smooth decline toward zero, either. Underneath a base that's mostly free, there's a thin but stubborn layer of pricier apps aimed at a smaller audience that's actually willing to pay.

Having a big catalog doesn't mean people are paying attention. By sheer app count, The Fool's Dog, LLC leads with 53 titles, with FANLIGHT Co., Ltd, Leafgreen, The Boxoffice Company France, Crea Informatica srl, and Anykrowd trailing right behind at 50 apps apiece. But none of that volume shows up in the ratings. The Fool's Dog's entire lineup of 53 apps has pulled in only 6,568 ratings total, and it gets thinner from there, Anykrowd's 50 apps have managed just 2 ratings between them. Not one of these publishers even touches 0.1% of the category's 219,730,530 total ratings, and even the top three combined can't clear that 0.1% threshold. Building a large catalog gets you shelf space, not eyeballs. The real pull in this category comes from a handful of massive platforms, not from publishers stacking up titles. 抖音 alone has racked up 52,075,397 ratings, trailed by 爱奇艺-《天才,女友》盛夏温柔 at 26,217,643 and TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE at 18,335,047. Throw in 抖音极速版 at 9,605,439 and Netflix at 7,014,984, and just these five apps outdo everything the 50-app publishers bring in combined. That's the real story of Entertainment's attention: it belongs to a small cluster of video and streaming giants, each one pulling in more engagement on its own than entire 50-app catalogs manage together.

This written summary was compiled 8 Aug 2026; the figures in the tables below are live and may differ slightly as the index changes.

How the category prices

Free9,024
$0.01–0.99877
$1–2.99644
$3–4.99342
$5–9.99162
$10+188

19.7% of tracked apps carry a price; the rest are free (in-app purchase and subscription pricing are not visible to us).

Where the ratings concentrate

The Fool's Dog, LLC53 apps · 6,568
FANLIGHT Co., Ltd50 apps · 1,799
Leafgreen50 apps · 873
The Boxoffice Company France50 apps · 98
Crea Informatica srl50 apps · 34
Anykrowd50 apps · 2

Bar length is each publisher's share of ratings; the app count beside it shows how few apps that reach can rest on. Publishers are the store's own IDs — corporate parents are not merged, so concentration reads conservative.

The leaders

AppPublisherRatingRatings
抖音 Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. 4.9 52,075,397
爱奇艺-《天才,女友》盛夏温柔 QIYI 4.7 26,217,643
TikTok - Videos, Shop & LIVE TikTok Ltd. 4.7 18,335,047
抖音极速版 Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. 4.9 9,605,439
Netflix Netflix, Inc. 4.8 7,014,984
What this report cannot tell you
We measure public listing metadata: prices, ratings, sizes, publishers. We cannot see downloads, revenue, active users, or retention, and we do not estimate them. Ratings reflect lifetime accumulation, not current popularity, and in-app pricing is invisible to us.