The Oldest Survivor

Five Names, One Maker

Ultralingua, Inc. managed to land five separate apps in this top 100: Collins Spanish-English, Collins German-English, Collins Italian-English, Collins-Robert Concise, and Collins English. Every one of them shares the same 2008 release date, and every one of them picked up an update within the last twelve months, which is the minimum threshold just to qualify for this board. So one company built an entire shelf of dictionaries back in the App Store's first year and, somehow, has kept every last one of them breathing.

No other developer even shows up twice in this entire top 100. Everyone else on the list gets exactly one entry, which is what makes Ultralingua's run of five so hard to ignore. Whatever their internal update schedule looks like behind the scenes, someone at that company has been quietly keeping five separate codebases alive since the App Store was brand new. Nothing glamorous about it either. Just maintenance, stretched across years, without a single gap.

A Crown That Doesn't Sit Still

Apartment Guide Home Rentals, from Rent Group Inc., is sitting at #1 right now, and it's new to the throne since it wasn't anywhere near the top ten before. It knocked Complex RPN Calculator out of first place back in September 2026, and so far it's only managed to hold #1 for 2 of the last 61 tracked days. Over that same 61-day window, the crown changed hands 9 times, and the average shuffle across the whole top ten works out to 9 places. Treat the top spot here like a weather report rather than a monument, because that's really what it is.

Scan the top 25 and one thing jumps out: the front of the field is packed tight. Every single entry, from Apartment Guide Home Rentals at #1 down to i41CX at #25, carries a 2008 date. There's no real year gap separating #1 from #2, since the entire leaderboard is competing within that same release year. Age isn't what splits them apart. It's simply whether they've been updated recently enough to stay in the running.

One entry breaks that mold in its own strange way. 易仙AI八字【2026年运程】, from CHEUNG PUI MAN, has a title that clearly points toward 2026 fortune-telling content, yet its listed release date still sits back in 2008 alongside everything else. It's the one row here where the name and the number just don't line up.

What the reviews actually say about the leader

This is where the crown starts to lose its shine. Across 100 reviews of Apartment Guide Home Rentals, sentiment reads mixed and appears to be sliding, currently sitting at -0.15. Users keep coming back to complaints about scams and listings that are inaccurate or out of date, along with general frustration using the app. There's some praise mixed in too, people describe it as helpful and easy to use, and a few mention that notifications and filters work well, so it's not entirely grim. Still, the negative themes are the ones dominating the data.

So the app currently wearing the oldest-survivor crown isn't winning because people love it. It's winning because it happens to pair an early release date with a recent update, which is exactly what this board measures and nothing more. Meanwhile Ultralingua's five dictionaries just sit there quietly, doing their one job since 2008, with no scam complaints attached to any of them in this dataset. If you're trying to decide which kind of survivor actually deserves your trust, the data leans pretty clearly in one direction.