The Oldest Abandoned App Still on the App Store

The Changeover

Across the 108 days this board has been tracked, the #1 spot has changed hands exactly once. Fieldrunners, Subatomic Studios' 2008 tower-defense game, held the top position until TapMedia Ltd's Voice Changer overtook it in July 2026. Voice Changer has now sat at #1 for 93 of those 108 days; Fieldrunners took the other fifteen before it lost its grip.

Calling it a swap undersells how little else actually happened. The rest of the top ten barely moved at all, with average movement across the whole window landing at just 2 places. One app took over the top spot, and the ranking around it shrugged.

What the List Actually Looks Like

The gap between #1 and #2 won't tell you much here, and neither will ratings or download counts. Release year is the thing that actually explains the board. Voice Changer and Fieldrunners both carry a 2008 tag, and so does nearly everything else near the top: Mancala+, Four in a Row., Fish Tycoon. Among the ranked entries shown, 21 of the first 25 share that same year. The run finally breaks at rank 22, where Fnorder shows up tagged 2009, followed by iAzkar - آي أذكار and Instant ECG - Mastery of EKG at that same mark.

LDW Software, LLC is the only developer who appears twice in this stretch, with Fish Tycoon and Fish Tycoon Lite both landing in the top 25, part of six total appearances across the top 100. One developer built two versions of basically the same idea and watched both sit untouched for years without ever losing their place on the board. Instant ECG - Mastery of EKG is the real outlier here: a medical study app parked among farm sims and board games, left alone just like everything around it but aimed at a completely different audience. You wouldn't expect an EKG trainer to land next to a mancala clone, but that's what five-plus years of neglect does to a ranking. It flattens everything onto the same shelf.

A Ghost With a Pulse

Voice Changer, though, isn't quiet. Across 101 reviews its sentiment sits at -0.75 and keeps sliding further down. People describe an app that doesn't work, crashes, and isn't worth the money, and they point straight at real time voice effects as the sore spot. This isn't an app nobody opens anymore. People keep opening it, keep paying for it, and keep getting burned by it.

So the board's top entry turns out to be a contradiction: untouched by its own maker for five years, yet very much touched by everyone who still downloads it hoping the real time effects will finally work this time. Most of the names below it, the Fish Tycoons and Mancala+ and Dots + Boxes of the world, are quiet in both senses, abandoned and left alone. Voice Changer is abandoned and still getting yelled at. That's a different kind of ghost.