Apple Adds More Default Apps to the App Store, and This Time It's Positive
Apple has quietly rolled out another batch of pre-installed apps into the App Store, including the Phone, Safari, and ...
Fox Takes Over the Weather Category — What's at Stake?
On Monday Fox, the news company you probably heard of once or twice in the last year, released a new app dedicated to ...
The Top Mobile Apps in September by Downloads and Revenue
We crunched the numbers and ranked the apps with the most downloads and revenue across the App Store and Google Play in September 2021.
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TikTok Wasn't the Most Downloaded App in the World Last Month
We just published our [monthly report of the most downloaded apps for September](https://appfigures.com/resources/insi...
Swiping Right on Tinder!
Tinder was the top app by revenue in the U.S. last month, which prompted me to look back and see if that's its first t...
Peacock's Squid Game
Have you seen Peacock's revenue this week? In case you haven't, it's gone waaaay up. And by that, I mean daily revenue...
What Happened to Slack???
When I analyzed the top business apps for our monthly report, I noticed Microsoft Teams was ranking pretty high. 4th o...
Royal Match Takes Off
One game has been slowly climbing the money mountain in the U.S., and that's Royal Match. Matching games do very well,...
India is Driving Massive Growth!
Summer's all gone, and we have our first month of back to normal school. September was a fairly quiet month in the wor...
Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love
Speaking of luxury, while Google Play delivers downloads, it's the App Store that drives revenue! 
Time to Get Back to Work!
To give you broader insight into the app market we started going deeper and looking at the most downloaded apps in a d...
LinkedIn Dumps its 2nd Largest Market
LinkedIn announced yesterday that it'd stop its operation in China. It's not that surprising of a move considering Lin...
Twitter's App Revenue Got a Bump Last Week
It's been a little over a month since Twitter released Super Follows. If you recall, the launch was mostly meh in term...
It Finally Happened! TikTok Creeps Into Top 10 Grossing Apps in the U.S.
TikTok is on fire for a whole bunch of reasons, and the one I see as being most important, revenue, is on the list. In...
Was Tapjoy a Good Acquisition for ironSource?
Another week and another acquisition that's shrinking the mobile ad market. This week it's ironSource, another ad netw...
Apple's HomePod Mini is Bad News for Alexa and Google Home
I use app downloads as a proxy for retail sales somewhat often because some devices must be operated via app. An area ...
When Facebook Went Down Telegram Went Up. Waaay Up!
Facebook's fleet went down this week for a few hours. As surreal as that may sound, one's misfortune is another's fort...
Happy Birthday Mario Kart Tour!
Mario Kart Tour turned two a few weeks ago, prompting me to take a look at how it's been doing. In short, just okay....
The (House)Party is Over...
Houseparty, the "face-to-face social network" that blew up during lockdowns last year, is now officially dead. Last mo...
AppLovin Absorbs MoPub, Takes Aim at Facebook
I usually focus on trends in apps and games, but once in a while, a service provider makes a move I see as pivotal, an...
Home Improvement is (Also) Going Mobile!
When you're stuck at home all day, you start to see all the things you said you'd fix or improve. And after you stare ...
Apple's Now Allowing Users to Rate Its Pre-Installed Apps—Here are the Numbers
Apple has quietly rolled out the ability to rate pre-instaleld apps such as the Calculator and Mail. Here's how users are rating them.
Apple Wants to Know What You Think
Apple quietly rolled out a small change with an interesting impact a couple of weeks ago. They [made it possible to ra...
Hulu’s Unbelievable Month
I look at streamers fairly often, and most of the attention goes to HBO Max and Disney, the two fairly new apps that h...
