Most Countries at Number One

Seven Hand-Offs, Then Silence

Seven times now, the crown on this board has changed hands since tracking began. On paper that's a lot of turnover for a spot this hard to hold. But look at the timing and a different picture emerges. ChatGPT has sat at #1 for 47 of 48 tracked days, which means six of those seven handovers were already old news before it even entered the picture. It took the top spot from Shadowrocket back in July 2026, and since then the very top of the board has barely twitched.

Everything below tells a different story, though. The rest of the top ten shuffles around at an average of 1.5 places per window, minor jostling rather than anything dramatic. So the board is basically running at two speeds now: a frozen #1 up top, and a mildly restless pack jockeying just behind it.

What 28 Countries Actually Looks Like

On its own, 28 is just a number. Set it against the median for the top 39, though, and suddenly it's 28 times larger than that midpoint, a gap so wide that ChatGPT isn't really competing with this field so much as lapping it. Across 599 reviews, sentiment holds steady at 0.75, with reviewers circling back to helpfulness, ease of use, and AI capabilities, plus a smaller stream of app-specific gripes and AI-related worries. You don't often see a lead this large sitting next to sentiment this stable.

What's striking is that ChatGPT is brand new to this top ten, and it didn't work its way up the way most apps do. It showed up already sitting at #1. Most apps that reach the top of a board like this climb there rung by rung. This one just skipped the climb.

The Long Tail Below the Leader

Drop below ChatGPT and the numbers thin out fast. Shadowrocket holds #2 with 5. eFootball™, AnkiMobile Flashcards, BerryFilm - Korean Style Cam, Blitzer.de PRO, and Real Sensi FF - PRO are all bunched at 2. By the time you get down to Al Quran Translation at #25, the count has dropped to 1, and it more or less stays there for the rest of the tracked 39. That's the real shape of this list: one massive outlier out in front, a thin shelf of apps holding 2 apiece, and then a long, flat tail where everyone else claims exactly one country.

Two names are worth calling out. Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. shows up twice, once as 抖音 and once as 抖音商城-下单返积分、退货包运费, a reminder of how one company's app ecosystem can plant two flags on this board at once without either entry getting anywhere near ChatGPT's total. Then there's the strange case of Netflix Game Controller, parked at 1. It's a companion utility, not anyone's flagship app, and yet it still owns a country chart outright.

The Real Story Isn't the Crown

Everyone will want to talk about the handover from Shadowrocket to ChatGPT, since that's the moment you can actually point to. But the number that really explains this board is the median gap. A lead of 28x isn't something momentum builds. It's what you get when one app is simply operating on a different scale than everything else on the list. Getting to number one anywhere is tough enough. Getting there across 28 places, while the runner-up sits at 5, isn't really a lead at all. It's a different category of app.