Youngest Hit App

The Shape at the Top

Nineteen of the top twenty spots on this board belong to apps releasing in 2026. 7 Brew Coffee holds #1, ホロライブドリームス trails it at #2, and after that comes a string of Japanese and Chinese titles, イナズマイレブン クロス, 王者荣耀世界, 明日方舟：终末地, all carrying that same 2026 stamp. You don't hit a 2025 release until rank 20, where I Am Bird - original game by Estoty finally breaks the streak, with Smash Fest!, Bluey's Quest for The Gold Pen, and Red Dead Redemption NETFLIX right behind it. There are no raw rating totals to lean on here, so the calendar becomes the real signal. Nearly the entire top twenty was made this year.

Still, the tail isn't much older. On a board that rewards newness this hard, even a single year feels like a real gap.

A Coffee App With a One-Day Grip

7 Brew Coffee, made by Brew Culture, LLC, knocked ホロライブドリームス out of the top spot in September 2026. That sounds like a clean win until you look at how long it's actually lasted: 1 of the last 49 tracked days. The #1 spot on this board has flipped 5 times in that same stretch, and the top ten as a whole has shuffled by an average of 5 places. This isn't really a leaderboard so much as a scoreboard that won't hold still.

That said, 7 Brew Coffee didn't just get lucky on timing. Out of 100 reviews, sentiment lands at a steady 0.75, and it stays consistently positive, with people calling out how easy the app is to use and how much you can customize. The complaints cluster around payment and ordering, which happens to be the whole point of a coffee ordering app. So the interface wins people over, but checkout doesn't. That tension is sitting right underneath a #1 ranking that's barely a day old.

Repeats, and the One That Doesn't Belong

Shenzhen Tencent Tianyou Technology Ltd appears 4 times in the top 100, more than any other developer on the board. Three of those land inside the visible top 25: 王者荣耀世界 at #9, 洛克王国：世界 at #11, and 逆战：未来 at #18. That pattern reads less like one breakout hit and more like a publisher flooding big audiences with several titles at once.

Then there's NYT Crossplay: Word Games at #16, from The New York Times Company. Everything surrounding it on this list runs on physics puzzles, gacha systems, or match-three loops. A word game from a legacy newspaper company, sitting in the same fifty-thousand-plus-rating tier as ホロライブドリームス and 明日方舟：终末地, is the one entry here that just doesn't fit the mold.

What the Churn Actually Tells You

Weigh the volatility before you read too much into any single ranking. A board that swaps its #1 five times and moves its top ten by an average of 5 places is tracking who's hot this week, not who's built anything lasting. 7 Brew Coffee sits at #1 right now, but one day of momentum put it there, not a proven track record.

Keep an eye on the apps that aren't fighting for the top. NYT Crossplay: Word Games sits quietly at #16, untouched by the chaos, and it's still getting noticed.