ChatGPT Lags Behind 3rd Party Apps
I've been getting a lot of questions about whether ChatGPT's release will end all 3rd party apps. Now that the official ...
Turo is the Most Downloaded Car Rental App Right Now
Summertime means travel time. And wouldn't it be nicer to travel in class? Turo, the Airbnb of car rentals, offers exac...
Telegram Hits $14M Since Starting to Moentize
Telegram has been monetizing its app for a year now, following moves from other social platforms like Twitter and Snapch...
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Life360's Revenue Grew 35% in May
I keep a close watch on the Top Grossing charts in the App Store and Google Play, always looking for risers. The list do...
App Downloads Grow 10% in May - The Most Downloaded Apps
Happy June, which means, it's time to crunch the numbers and rank the most downloaded mobile apps in the world. The whol...
Monopoly Go! Took Over the App Store in May - The Most Downloaded Games
Monopoly Go! has been sitting pretty at the top of the App Store's most downloaded chart ever since it was released back...
Twitter's Mobile Revenue Dropped by 15% in May
Last week I looked at Snapchat's revenue and this way I'm continuing my monthly tradition and looking at the revenue for...
AMC Theaters Just Had Its Best Week in Downloads
Last week I looked at how demand for streaming content seems to be shifting from movies to TV and how that's helping TV-...
Apollo, the Biggest 3rd Party App for Reddit is Shutting Down
I don't normally do opinions in this newsletter and prefer to let the data speak for itself, but I find what's going on ...
May Was Snapchat's Biggest Month of Revenue Growth (and Revenue)
With May behind us, it's time to look at Snapchat's revenue and see if the quot;paid beta testingquot; feature continues...
CapCut's Revenue Growth is Outpacing Every Other Competitor!
Lights, camera, CapCut! The video editor from TikTok that's now monetizing is doing so in a way that should put all of ...
Paramount+ Continues to Chase Peacock - Both Hit All-Time Revenue Highs
Streaming platforms have been active this year, and as we head into the summer season, I expect nothing less than the ra...
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Saw a Massive Drop in Downloads This Year
2023 has not been the best year for cryptocurrencies... Coinbase, which became a household name during the pandemic, is...
Top Dating Apps See Revenue Rebound in May After a Long Slog
Dating apps aren't new at all, but during lockdowns in 2020 they became the way to socialize to the point revenue was ri...
ChatGPT Breezes Past a Quarter Million Dollars Within Days of Launch
The official ChatGPT app rolled out last week and has been one of the most downloaded apps in the US, the only country i...
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...
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...
