This Week in Apps

This Week in Apps - Beep Beep

#194 - Beeper is challenging Apple, GTA is delivering big time for Netflix, Pokémon Sleep is crushing it, TikTok hit a new all-time high, and more.


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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...


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GTA Delivers for Netflix's Growing Game Portfolio

Netflix has been quietly assembling a massive portfolio of games and this week, one of its newest titles made it to the ...


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TikTok's Biggest Haul - The Highest Earning Apps in November

November is long gone, which means it's time to rank the highest-earning apps in the world for the month, and while the ...


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Monopoly Go is Back at It - The Highest Earning Mobile Games in November

Monopoly Go is back as the highest-earning mobile game in the world in November, reclaiming the lead from China's King o...


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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...


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This Week in Apps - Delisted!

#193 - Scooter rentals are going bye bye, ChatGPT is back big time, China continues to grow, and more.


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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 ...


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ChatGPT Finally Made It - The Most Downloaded Apps in November

We're well into December, which means it's time to rank the most downloaded apps in the world in November. Downloads ar...


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China's Shifting Trends - The Most Downloaded Games in November

An app from China dominated downloads in the App Store in November as hyper casuals are making a comeback. I crunched t...


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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...


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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...


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This Week in Apps - Nothing but Growth!

#192 - November was a strong month across the board leading Twitter/X, Snapchat, Shop, and Gmail to new all-time highs. Plus an unknown game that took the App Store by storm.


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'Tis the Season and Small Businesses Are Winning

Shopify had a massive Black Friday this year, with purchases peaking at 4.2M per minute. Yes, minute. That's insane! So...


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X's Mobile Revenue Grew 261% in 2023

2023 has been nothing less than chaos for Twitter, which goes by X now but all the old-timers like me just can't not cal...


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Snapchat's Mobile Revenue Crossed a Big Milestone

When Snapchat's paid subscription went live I said no one would pay to be a beta tester. More than a year later, Snapcha...


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I Can't Believe How Much This Paid Game Is Making

I keep a close watch on the top app lists, and when a newcomer shows up, I immediately try to figure out what's going on...


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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. ...


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This Week in Apps - OpenAI's Real Problem

#191 - ChatGPT is losing millions, Amazon didn't win Black Friday, why ID by amo didn't take off, and more!


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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 ...


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Threads Is Outpacing X in Downloads Right Now

Threads, Instagram's response to Twitter (aka X, but I still call it Twitter), has seen downloads nearly double over the...


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Which Shopping App Grew The Most This Black Friday? (Not Amazon)

2023 hasn't been an amazing year for Amazon's downloads. Maybe everyone already has the app? Maybe there's more shopping...


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Amo Used a Proven Growth Hack and It Backfired

Social apps have a pretty quot;standardquot; growth hack that's not that user-friendly but is pretty much rocket fuel fo...


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Klarna's Worst Black Friday

Buy Now Pay Later was all the rage a couple of years ago. What's better than not having to pay for your purchases right ...


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China's Dominance is On Display - The Highest Earning Mobile Games in the World

I crunched the numbers and ranked the highest-earning mobile games in the world in October and September's trend seems t...


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Disney and Hulu's Upcoming Merger Will Create a Streaming Giant

Disney and Hulu are planning to merge into a single streaming service and that's a really big deal because Hulu, which s...


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