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State of the App Store · release 2026-11 · methodology v1.0

The App Store in November 2026, by the numbers

Release notes · partial month, refreshes daily until it closes

We tracked 1,093,812 apps from 381,019 publishers by the end of November 2026, with Games the largest category at 146,565 apps.

39,382 apps shipped an update during the month, and we recorded 1,081 price drops against 930 price rises.

7.5% of tracked apps charge up front; the mean rating across rated apps is 4.15.

A permanent, citable snapshot of the tracked catalogue as of 30 Nov 2026, with month activity for November 2026. Computed from our live index of public metadata — downloads, revenue and retention are not visible to us and are not estimated.

Apps tracked
1,093,812
Publishers
381,019
Total ratings
3,009,246,845
Mean rating
4.15
Free
92.5%
Paid
7.5%

Activity in November 2026

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

Newly tracked
31,849
Apps updated
39,382
Price drops
1,081
Price rises
930

Biggest categories

Games146,565
Education126,421
Utilities109,953
Business96,810
Lifestyle69,313
Productivity62,927
Health & Fitness62,526
Finance46,135
Entertainment45,598
Food & Drink40,874

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.

MetricPreviousThis releaseChange
Apps tracked 1,061,971 1,093,812 +31,841
Publishers 368,403 381,019 +12,616
Total ratings 2,997,195,938 3,009,246,845 +12,050,907
Paid share % 7.5 7.5 ±0
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