Goodbye HBO, Hello Max - Big News For Streaming?
It's finally here. A few months ago, HBO announced it will merge content from HBO Max and the recently-acquired Discove...
Meta Sold GIPHY at a Huge Loss After Regulatory Pressure, But... Downloads Tell another Story
Are you into gifs? If so you must know Giphy, the search engine for gifs. A few short years ago Facebook's Meta bought G...
Peloton is (Finally) Going All-In on Mobile Fitness
Peloton has been trying to highlight and monetize its in-app content for a while now. That should help the company weath...
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Shopping is Becoming Political - PublicSq. Takes Over the App Store
Before I dive into the next one I have to put a disclaimer that this isn't about the politics behind this app and is onl...
How Many Apps Will Turn 10 This Year?
Earlier in the week, I polled my Twitter followers to see if they could guess how many apps turn 10 this year. For the f...
Amazon Loses Downloads Lead in the US to Chinese Competition
Amazon has been the most downloaded shopping app in the US for a very long time. It managed to beat local competitors li...
TikTok's Downloads Dropped 38% in the US This Year
Earlier this week, the state of Montana announced its plan to ban TikTok in 2024. This is the first decisive action we'v...
Anime Earns Big on the App Store
Streaming apps are somewhat of an easy go-to on This Week in Apps because it's an area of the store that's only been tak...
There's an Official ChatGPT App Now - What's Going to Happen to the $10,000,000 Industry its Absence Created?
OpenAI released an official mobile app for ChatGPT this week. Normally I'd wait a week or two and collect some data befo...
Is frfr the New Gas? Here Are the Numbers
A new app rose to the top of the charts this week, if only for a brief moment. But that brief moment reminded me of anot...
Demand for Discord Slides a Whopping 37% Since 2021
Demand for Discord, much like demand for most digital ways to communicate, grew sharply in 2020 and continued steadily i...
The App Store Ushers "Cheap" Apps - How Many Apps for Cost Under $0.99?
The App Store is about to turn 15 in a few months and while it's changed drastically since launching in 2008, one thing ...
Snapchat's Subscription Revenue Grew the Most in April
April is behind us which means it's time to check in on Snapchat's mobile revenue. I like to do that with big platforms ...
Why is Disney+ Bringing Hulu Into Its Flagship App?
Disney announced this week that it'll bring content from Hulu into the flagship Disney app later this year. On the surf...
Twitter Hits Peak Revenue As Downloads Continue to Drop
2023 has been a very strong year in mobile revenue for Twitter. The last time I looked at revenue, in March, Twitter hit...
It Finally Happened - The Most Downloaded Apps in April
April is over, which means it's time to crunch the numbers and rank the most downloaded apps in the world for the month....
India's Mega Power is On Display - The Most Downloaded Games in April
I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded games in April and noticed an interesting trend. And it's not abou...
The Hottest Trend in Apps Right Now - How Much Are AI Chatbots Making?
AI chatbots have really taken over the App Store. This isn't the first time I said that (third, actually) and while it m...
Go Knicks! The Biggest NBA Season in Mobile Revenue
Sports and streaming go together like peanut butter and jelly. It sounded better in my head, but while cheesy, it is tru...
Lots of Money for the Chat GPT App That's in Command of the App Store
OpenAI is really missing out on lots of revenue by not publishing a native mobile app. Some of you might be thinking, qu...
Bluesky is Mastodon's Newest Competitor
My Twitter feed was full of quot;do you have a Bluesky invite?quot; type tweets this week, reminding me of the latest Tw...
CapCut Quietly Quadrupled Its Revenue in Q1
If you've been watching the top apps in the US you'd probably know about this trend but you may not know its magnitude (...
End of An Era for Zoom - Downloads Drop Below Pre-Pandemic Levels
Zoom, the app that made lockdowns slightly less depressing for many of us, has hit a new pace of downloads that wraps up...
Google Authenticator is Finally Useful, But Why Now?
Google finally made its Authenticator app useful by adding the ability to sync accounts across devices and also changing...
