The App Store in August 2026, by the numbers

A permanent, citable snapshot of the tracked catalogue as of 31 Aug 2026, with month activity for August 2026. Computed from our live index of public metadata — downloads, revenue and retention are not visible to us and are not estimated.

Activity in August 2026

Our own observations over the period — not a claim about Apple’s additions or removals.

Biggest categories

Change in what we tracked since the previous release

These figures describe our index, not the App Store. Most of the movement between early releases is us widening our crawl, not apps appearing or disappearing — so a jump in “Apps tracked”, or a swing in the paid share that follows from it, is a fact about our coverage and must not be read as a market trend. Where we can measure a real change in the store, we say so explicitly and label it.