AllTrails Revenue Hits All-Time High Ahead of Being Sherlocked by Apple
iOS 18 is about to roll out to the public, and with it, an update to Apple Maps that brings topographic maps and trail n...
Why is CapCut Cutting Its Free Tier?
Not many know this but TikTok, yes, the TikTok, offers a video editing app that's been growing quietly and is now the hi...
ChatGPT Scores Its Biggest Month of Revenue Ever
ChatGPT just ended its best month of revenue on mobile. Ever! You've probably heard me say that before, and that's beca...
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X Recovers After Months of Revenue Decline
X's mobile revenue has been declining for several months now after peaking back in March leading to the obvious question...
Daily Consumer Spending in Top 3 Short Drama Streaming Apps Crosses $3M!
DramaBox, the highest-earning short drama streaming app, has seen revenue grow so much this year it's now close to earni...
Chick-fil-A Gets Into Gaming and Sees Most Daily Downloads Ever
Food for downloads isn't a new trend, so when I saw Chi-fil-A's app at the top of the charts earlier this week I wasn't ...
Zenless Zone Zero Got Off to a Slow Start, But Here’s Why That Might Be About to Change
Ever since Genshin Impact made such a massive impact on the gaming world (and not just on mobile) in the fall of 2020, e...
China's Dominance Shatters in June - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
I crunched the numbers and ranked all mobile games by their downloads and unlike previous months, June was full of movem...
Top Games Revenue Rose 47% in the Last Year - The Highest Earning Games in the World
I crunched the numbers and ranked all mobile games by their net revenue - what the publishers get to keep after Apple an...
X's Mobile Revenue Continues to Drop for 3rd Consecutive Month - Longest Ever Decline
X's mobile revenue has been on a very weird trend in the last few months. And by weird I really mean negative. It's weir...
This is The Most Important Trend Every App Developer Must Know About
A few weeks ago I gave the opening talk at the App Promotion Summit in NYC and being the keynote I wanted to summarize w...
Subscription Apps Share of Revenue Hit an All-Time High This Year
Browsing the App Store and Google Play top charts, it's very clear more and more apps are making money through subscript...
App Downloads Dropped Again... The Most Downloaded Apps in the World in June
I crunched the numbers and rounded up the most downloaded apps in the world in June. Unlike May, which was incredibly st...
App Revenue Remains Strong in June - The Highest Earning Apps in the World
App revenue has been on the rise in the last year, and looking back at our highest-earning apps charts, it's clear the l...
Which Types of Apps Get the Most Downloads and Make the Most Money?
Which types of apps get the most downloads? And which make the most money? I analyzed the top 100 apps and games in the...
GPT-4o Reversed the Trend for OpenAI and Delivered Its Biggest Month of Revenue
May was the biggest month ever for ChatGPT's mobile app. It reversed the decline in downloads and netted the app its big...
iPhone owners are paying millions for QR code readers
People ask me if there are still opportunities to make money with apps and they're somehow surprised when I say yes. I ...
Netflix's Game Portfolio is Dominated by a Single Game
Netflix has been not-so-quietly building out its mobile games portfolio for quite a while now. As of June, the collectio...
The Fitness App That's Beating All the Trends and Making All the Money
Over the last few years, it's become common to see apps get fewer downloads but make more money. Especially apps that ha...
Apple Takes on Blackmagic with Final Cut Camera
Last week, Apple released a new standalone camera app called Final Cut Camera. Perfect timing considering we'll be able ...
Investigating the Apps (That Could Be) Made Redundant by iOS 18
It's become sort of a guessing game come every WWDC which app (or type of apps) will Apple sherlock in the latest versi...
The Future of Social Platforms is... Small?
I noticed a new name inching its way up the top charts last week - ten ten. The app calls itself a walkie-talkie for yo...
BeReal Finally Got its Exit - But Why?
While most of us were busy checking out iOS 18, popular hyper casual game developer Voodoo Games announced it had acquir...
The King is Back on Top - The Most Downloaded Games in the World
I crunched the numbers and ranked the most popular mobile games on the App Store and Google by downloads. I'm happy to ...
