The Most Rated App for All Ages (4+)

The Drop From the Top

Just look at the raw numbers and the shape tells its own story. Walmart: Shopping & Savings sits at 18.8M ratings, Lyft trails by less than a million at 17.9M, and Uber - Rides, Eats, Hotels is right on its heels at 17.1M. Three apps within spitting distance of each other, and then a cliff: Capital One Mobile, parked at #4, has already dropped to 11.2M.

From there it's a steady, relentless slide. By #25, Discover Mobile sits at 5.2M, less than a third of the leader's total, and the board keeps thinning all the way down to 1.7M at #100. The app on top pulls in 6.2× the median of the full hundred. A handful of household names are basically carrying this entire board on their backs.

What 18.8M Ratings Actually Means

Numbers this size stop feeling abstract once you remember what they actually represent: real people leaving a rating on a shopping app, not once but en masse, over however many years the App Store has been around. Walmart has held the #1 spot on every single one of the 98 days we've tracked this board. No churn, no close calls. That's about as settled as a hierarchy gets.

Reviews skew positive, though not glowing, with a sentiment score of 0.33 holding steady across 1,150 reviews. People gripe about app performance and features in the same breath they praise delivery and ease of use. The top spot isn't about universal love, it's about reach: pair a 4+ rating with a shopping habit this common and you touch more lives than almost anything else on a phone.

Repeats, Newcomers, and the One That Doesn't Fit

Google shows up 7 times in the top 100, which probably says more about how many apps Google ships than about any one product running the table. The more interesting move is further up the board: 搜狗输入法-语音变声斗图表情, a Chinese input and sticker app from Beijing Sogou Technology, is new to the top ten and already sitting at #8 with 8.5M ratings. That's not a slow climb, that's a jump straight into territory usually held by airlines and banks.

And then there's Crumbl, the cookie chain, holding its own at #21 with 5.7M ratings against a field of banks, airlines, and tech giants. A dessert shop app outranking Google Drive isn't a glitch. It tells you something real about what people actually open their phones for.