Can Signal Survive the Latest Blow from Elon and Telegram?
Telegram decided to pick on Signal this week and Elon Musk took a stab at it too, and that led me to look at how the two...
Demand for Airbnb is At an All-Time High in 2024
Airbnb is having a great quarter! The best quarter! I've used Airbnb over the last few years as a proxy to quot;things ...
Apple's Sherlocking Again - Can These Apps Survive?
Apple released a dedicated app for sports scores in February and I've been watching it closely because it sherlocks a sm...
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How Are App Developers Making Money on the Vision Pro?
The Apple Vision Pro is out, and it's clear this is the beginning of something big. For developers, the Apple Vision Pr...
Reddit Wants to IPO - But Is Reddit Still Relevant?
News emerged last week that forum platform Reddit is seeking a public offering. If you've been following the news about...
Remember Medium? Well, You Won't Believe How Much Its App Is Making
Remember Medium? If you've been around long enough, you might remember it as the platform that changed the writing exper...
Is Evernote Past Its Prime?
Last week I looked at the sale of a portfolio of apps for 100M by Bending Spoons, an Italian app publisher that took ove...
This is Why Mosaic Dumped its Portfolio for $100M
Last week, Bending Spoons, the Italian app publisher that recently acquired Evernote, acquired a portfolio of apps for j...
Duolingo is Speaking the Language of Success - Here are the Numbers
It seems like everyone was trying to learn a language in 2023, and there's one app at the center of that - Duolingo! Du...
This New Sleep Tracker is Outpacing Every Other Competitor
Sleep tracking is a sleeper industry that's grown 28 to more than 22M downloads in 2023. Jokes aside, demand for sleep-t...
Does Anyone Want Beeper Mini, the App That's Tussling with Apple Right Now?
We live in a world where green and blue bubbles can spark heated debates. That's a problem Beeper Mini is trying to solv...
Bird is Getting Delisted - What Went Wrong for the Micro Mobility Star?
The rise of micro-mobility, or scooter rentals as most know them, has been a very interesting trend to observe over the ...
Demand for Mental Health Apps is Almost Gone
Although demand for mental health apps Calm and Headspace has been on the decline since 2020, revenue wasn't - quite the...
ChatGPT Unpaused Paid SUbscriptions and Revenue Is at an All-Time High
ChatGPT has been growing like wildfire. So fast that last month, its parent OpenAI had to pause taking new paid subscrib...
Gmail's iOS Revenue Is at an All-Time High!
Something most people don't know is that Gmail, the inbox everyone is using, offers in-app purchases on the App Store. ...
ChatGPT Has a Serious Problem and It's Not Its Executive Team...
A lot has happened to everyone's favorite AI over the last couple of weeks. The big executive/board battle is what most ...
Are 3rd Party ChatGPT Apps Still Making Money?
When ChatGPT launched without a mobile app it was clear someone would quot;fixquot; that, and it didn't take long for a ...
Microsoft is Winning Another Race
If you use 2 Factor Authentication for anything, and I suspect many of you do, you need an authenticator app. The authe...
Checking In - How Disruptive is Pokémon Sleep, Really?
A couple of months ago a new app sporting the Pokmon brand appeared on the App Store and Google Play, and its purpose su...
This Trend Has to Stop - Why Lapse is Doomed to Fail
A new app has managed to claim the 1 spot on the App Store this week. Many apps managed to do that this year, so what's...
ChatGPT's Mobile Revenue Grew 38% in August
ChatGPT's own mobile app has been out for several months now giving us a glimpse into how important it is to have a mobi...
Why is Evernote Raising Its Price Again?
If you're an App Store veteran like me, when you hear the name quot;Evernotequot; you think of the most popular note tak...
Gmail's In-App Revenue Grew 179x Since 2021
Raise your hand if you've seen Gmail's paywall. I bet you haven't, but that doesn't mean Gmail isn't making money from i...
How Many iOS Apps Monetize with Subscriptions?
Subscriptions are a great way to make money with your app (or game). Many developers know that by now, but how many apps...
