Demands the Newest iOS

Apple Shows Up Seven Times, And Still Has No Edge

Apple's name shows up 7 times in this top 100, more than any other developer on the board. Find My sits at #13, Apple TV Remote is right behind at #14, and Siri lands at #19. Three Apple apps packed into a six-rank stretch, and every one of them lists the same sky-high minimum iOS version as the rest of the field.

Apple writes the operating system, and even its own apps need the newest copy of it just to make the cut. There's no house advantage here, no early access to a build nobody else has. When the company behind iOS ships software that requires the newest iOS, that's just the entry fee like everyone else pays.

One Day on Top, Twenty-Five Changes Overall

PhosphorDSC, from developer Stuart Woolley, now holds #1 after taking the crown from Recall for Siri: Second Brain by Elevated Systems LLC in September 2026. It's a fresh face at the top of the chart, and so far it's held the #1 spot for just 1 of the last 71 tracked days.

Nothing about this throne is settled. The top spot has flipped 25 times across the tracked period, which is a lot of churn for a board that's really just measuring a version number. Apps don't climb this list step by step. Either they declare the newest minimum iOS Apple has put out, or they don't, and as soon as something newer lands, whoever was sitting at #1 gets pushed down.

The Real Story Is the Tie, Not the Order

The rank numbers hide something worth noticing: there's no actual gap between #1 and #2. PhosphorDSC and Recall for Siri: Second Brain both sit at 27.0, and that same number shows up again at #25 with jpg2excel and GTG Snacks. Every entry from #1 through #25 reads the identical 27.0, so whatever is ordering that stretch, it isn't the version number itself.

That pretty much undercuts the whole idea of a leaderboard here. The figure these apps report never moves, what changes is just who posted it, or updated into it, most recently. Small, narrow-purpose apps like Uncle Rudy: Tasks that roast, HK Weather: Warning & Forecast, and Kashtat - Camping & Outdoors are sitting at the exact same bleeding-edge requirement as Apple's own Siri and Find My. Honestly, the real oddity isn't any single app here, it's that almost the whole top 25 shares one pattern so completely that the metric has nothing left to rank them by.