The Biggest App Developer by Total Ratings

The Number That Breaks the Curve

Google's combined rating total comes in at 100.8M. The next closest name, Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd., tops out at 63.3M, and that gap alone is enough to call the race uncontested. Google has sat at #1 on all 94 days this board has tracked rankings, and that's not luck, it's structure. Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and a dozen other apps all file under the same developer name, so every single one of them dumps its ratings into the same pot.

Nobody else stacks apps like this.

Thin Air at the Top, Then a Long Slide

The top 100 stretches from that 100.8M peak all the way down to 4.8M at #100, and the median lands at roughly a thirteenth of Google's score, 13.4× smaller to be precise. A few names hold the upper middle without breaking a sweat: Spotify sits at #6 with 42.8M, Instagram, Inc. takes #7 with 32.1M, and DoorDash, Inc. lands at #14 with 25.9M. These are recognizable catalogs backed by real, sizable audiences.

Ownership is where things get messy. Meta Platforms, Inc. ranks #4 at 44.4M, Instagram, Inc. ranks #7 at 32.1M, and WhatsApp Inc. ranks #17 at 20.4M, three separate rows that all trace back to one company. The App Store's metadata splits Meta across three distinct developer identities, and since this board ranks by developer name rather than corporate parent, Meta's real reach ends up fractured into three scores instead of one combined number. Walmart, Disney, and Uber Technologies, Inc. sit comfortably among these tech giants, but then Life.Church cracks the top 25 at #24 with 13.9M, a single church media studio wedged right between Uber Technologies, Inc. and X Corp. A religious nonprofit outranking a pile of household consumer brands is the one result here that genuinely doesn't fit the pattern.

The Shakeup at #2

Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. is brand new to the top ten and already parked at #2 with 63.3M, which counts as a real event on a board this volatile. Average movement across the top ten has run 3.9 places over the tracked window, so some reshuffling is normal, but a newcomer landing in second place is well beyond the usual noise. Apple tells a slower version of the same story, climbing from #18 to #5 and now holding 43.9M, a steady rise rather than a sudden leap.

So the board shows two very different kinds of motion: Apple's gradual climb, and Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd.'s sudden arrival near the very top.

What the Totals Actually Hide

The Meta numbers expose something sharper than a plain size comparison. Counting method shapes this ranking just as much as actual reach does. A developer running a single app under a single name looks smaller next to a conglomerate that files everything through one account, no matter how many products that conglomerate actually ships. Part of Google's edge simply comes from staying under one name instead of splitting across several.