The Most Rated App on the App Store

The Shape of the Crowd

抖音 sits on top with 52.1M ratings, and YouTube is right on its heels at 49.7M. Only about 2.4 million ratings separate the two, which is the tightest margin you'll find anywhere near the top of this board. Spotify: Music and Podcasts grabs third with 42.9M, so even though the top three are bunched near the ceiling, there's still nearly ten million ratings of spread between them.

Once you step outside that cluster, the numbers fall off a cliff. Wells Fargo Mobile® lands at 25th with 10.9M ratings, less than a quarter of what 抖音 has racked up. By the time you reach rank 100, the total has shrunk to 4M. Across the full top 100, ratings stretch from 52.1M all the way down to that 4M floor, which puts the leader at roughly 7.4 times the median app on the list. It's not really a slope so much as a drop, with a long flat tail trailing off at the bottom.

A Crown That Just Changed Hands

抖音 didn't climb its way into the top ten, it just appeared there at #1. In fact, the top spot has only changed hands once during the whole tracked period, back in July 2026, when 抖音 pushed past YouTube. Before that moment, YouTube held first place as if it were permanent.

The new order looks like it's sticking. 抖音 has sat at #1 for 99 of the last 106 tracked days, so this isn't some fluke, it's a real shift at the top. Compare that to the rest of the top ten, which has barely budged, averaging just 1.4 places of movement per app over the same window. One seat changed completely. Everything else just wobbled.

Who Repeats, Who Doesn't Belong

Google shows up five times in the top 100, more than any other developer manages. That's less about one app dominating and more about how many products a single company can funnel through the same ratings pipeline. No one else repeats at that scale here.

One entry breaks the mold entirely. Bible, from Life.Church, sits at #19 with 13.9M ratings, right in the same company as Messenger and ChatGPT. It doesn't match the usual template for this list: there's no social feed driving it, no delivery network, no game engine underneath it. A Bible app is outranking giants like X and Uber Eats: Food & Groceries. That might be the most interesting detail buried in this whole list, that even the biggest popularity contest on the App Store still leaves room for something this quiet.

What the Tail Tells You

The apps hovering near #100, sitting at 4M, aren't actually small by any reasonable standard. They just look small standing next to 抖音. That's really the point here: scale on this board only means something relative to a leader so enormous it resets what counts as ordinary. Rank matters, sure, but the gap between ranks matters even more.