Ghost Apps Still Standing

A Crown Nobody Seems Happy About

Here's the strange part about this board: it's not really about who's on top, it's about how little that top spot seems worth having. Voice Changer took #1 from Fieldrunners in July 2026, ending a stretch where Fieldrunners had sat at #1 for the entire 15 days this board has been tracked. That's the only time the crown has moved at all, one shakeup after a long, flat stretch where nothing else budged. And the app now holding #1 is, by its own users' account, in bad shape. Across 100 reviews, sentiment sits at -0.61 and is still sliding, with people describing crashes, broken features, and updates that stopped coming a long time ago. For a board built out of apps abandoned by their developers at least five years back, that's par for the course. Voice Changer isn't unusual for being neglected, almost everything here is. What sets it apart is that people won't stop talking about it, one review after another, while the rest of the list just sits there gathering dust with nobody saying a word.

Two Apps, One Year, No Real Gap

Ignore the crown for a second and the top of the board is basically a tie. Voice Changer and Fieldrunners both trace back to 2008, so whatever's separating them, it isn't age. Call it a coin flip between two apps born in the same year. iFarkle at #3 is also from 2008, meaning the top three cover zero calendar time between them. The gaps only show up further down, once the list crosses into 2009 with Instant ECG, Pocket God, iBP Blood Pressure, and Zombieville USA Lite. With that whole cluster of 2008 releases bunched at the top before things finally spread out toward the back, this looks less like a race and more like a photo finish between apps that have already been standing still for over a decade.

Familiar Names, One New Arrival

The numbers back up just how frozen this board is: average movement across the top ten works out to 0.2 places. Against that kind of stillness, Sally's Spa showing up fresh in the top ten at #8 sticks out simply because almost nothing else does. The other thing worth flagging is how often the same developer names keep coming up. James Spencer's name shows up 4 times in the top 100, more than anyone else, which points to a small handful of prolific developers from the App Store's early days who account for an outsized share of the apps still parked here, untouched. Airport Codes at #10 gives some balance against all the games and health utilities filling out the rest of the list, a reminder that this ghost-app pattern isn't limited to one category. It just takes an app old enough, and once popular enough, to get forgotten in place instead of pulled entirely.