AI Art's Comeback - FaceApp Download Grew More than 500%
FaceApp has topped the App Store quite a few times over the last few years. The app that uses AI to apply filters and b...
Apple Music Classical Hit a Milestone, But Is There Real Demand?
A few weeks ago Apple launched a new app -- Apple Music Classical. Exactly what you'd expect from the name, and overall,...
A Closer Look at Monopoly GO's First Million
A new Monopoly app rose to the top of the App Store recently. That's Monopoly GO from Scopely. This isn't the first, an...
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Here's Why Reddit Just Hit its Biggest Day of Revenue!
I have a set of alerts saved in Explorer so I know when big things happen in the App Store, and this week, the alert was...
Dairy Queen's Current Promotion Nets Massive Results
A few weeks ago I looked at a new campaign Dairy Queen announced, which in my mind, marks the beginning of free-food-for...
How Many Mobile Apps and Games Get 1M+ Downloads Every Month?
A few days ago I polled my Twitter followers and asked how many apps and games they thought get more than 1,000,000 down...
Where Did Facebook Go? The Most Downloaded Apps in the World
March is behind us so I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded apps in the world. I know many of you have b...
Heypercasual Games Get Ready for the Summer - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
I rounded up the numbers and ranked the most downloaded games in the world, now that March is done, and I have to start ...
Mastodon Didn't Replace Twitter...
Last week I posted some numbers about Twitter's growth that caused a small rumble on Twitter. That whole thing made me t...
BeReal Continues to Grow - Slower, Much Slower, But Still Growing
One thing I like about the quot;newquot; Hipstamatic app is its BeReal-like feature that challenges me to take a picture...
This is Why Spotify is Shutting Down Spotify Live, its Clubhouse Clone
Earlier this week, Spotify announced in an email to users that Spotify Live will be shutting down at the end of the mo...
Twitter's Mobile Revenue Grew 60% in March, the Most Since November
March is behind us which means it's time to look at Twitter's mobile revenue, the tradition that started with Blue bac...
Robinhood's Downloads Fall to Three-Year Low
Robinhood, the investing app with no fees, was everything everyone talked about for quite a while in 2021. Pandemic wo...
Apple's Weather App Went Down Pushing One App's Downloads 566% Up
It's not every day that Apple's services crash, but this week they did and it was epic. Almost every day since the wee...
Is Dairy Queen's Spring on Food for Downloads Working?
Spring is officially here which means summer is around the corner which means it's almost free-food-for-downloads seas...
TikTok's Parent ByteDance Really Wants to Take Over the US
TikTok seems to be winning the ban war right now, but while most people are paying attention to that, ByteDance, TikTo...
Hipstamatic (Re)Launches a Classic to Challenge Instagram Culture
If you've been around apps for long enough, and in this case, I really mean a loooong time, you probably remember Hips...
Why Did Lyft Shift Away from its Founders to a Hired CEO?
Earlier in the week, Uber's chief rival, Lyft, announced it's replacing its founders with a new CEO. A founder stepp...
Apple Really Wants You to Listen to Classical Music!
Apple launched a new app this week. The first in a while. Apple Music Classical does exactly what you would expect --...
The Top AI Chatbots Are Earning Millions Right Now
OpenAI started an AI revolution with the release of ChatGPT. For some developers, the revolution is also earning milli...
The US Won't Ban TikTok Any Time Soon - Here's Why.
The US has been talking about banning Chinese-owned TikTok for a few years now. It got tense there for a minute in 2020,...
AI Chatbots Are Flooding the App Store and Google Play
In a very short span of four months, AI has made its way into the mainstream thanks to the magic of ChatGPT. It's become...
This is Why Short Sellers are Targeting Block's Cash App
News broke yesterday that Cash App, which is owned by Block (aka Square), is in trouble thanks to a variety of shady bus...
Prayer App Hallow's Subscription Time is Here. And It's Big.
Last month I looked at the quot;overnightquot; success of prayer app Hallow. Thanks to a massive Apple Search Ads campai...
