This past June, at their annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple made a startling revelation. The iOS 14 mobile operating system would kill the Apple IDFA… sort of. According to Apple, the iOS 14 will come with new privacy features, requiring consumers to opt-in for permission to be tracked via their Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA). Those who do not opt-in will no longer receive targeted advertisements that leverage IDFA data. This move is of great consequence to the world of mobil

Last week, we published an article discussing the value that Mobile Application Management [https://42matters.com/blog/?p=mobile-application-management] (MAM) brings to modern organizations. This week, we switch our attention to Mobile Device Management (MDM), focusing on the following questions: * What is Mobile Device Management? * What’s the difference between Mobile Device Management and Mobile Application Management? * Why do organizations need Mobile Device Management? * How h

Key Takeaways: We’ve added a monthly downloads filter to the 42matters Explorer! But that's not all. We’ve also added... * A “similar apps” feature for iOS apps * 72 new Android permissions and 7 new iOS permissions * Lebanon Top Charts Well, we’ve officially turned onto the home stretch of 2020. And while it’s been a rocky year, to say the very least, we at 42matters have nevertheless put it to good use, taking quarantines, lockdowns, and travel restrictions as opportunities to refine our

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash. Key Takeaways for “The Nine Best Mobile Security Apps in 2020”: * AVG AntiVirus Free & Mobile Security, Photo Vault by AVG Mobile is the best mobile security app by total downloads on Google Play, having been downloaded over 100 million times, including 13.8 million times in the last year. * Of the top nine, One Booster - Antivirus, Booster, Phone Cleaner by One Dot Mobile Limited has performed best over the last year, surpassing 78.6 million

Historical App Download Data Key Takeaways: * We have added historical app download estimates to the 42matters Explorer. * This will give users the ability to view historical download data, for any app, as far back as one year. * They will also have the ability to filter historical downloads by country. Over the past few months, we’ve received quite a few requests from our loyal customers concerning the possibility of adding historical app download data

One of the more common questions that we at 42matters receive is whether it’s possible to get app insights for app analysis. The answer, of course, is yes! The 42matters Explorer [https://42matters.com/app-market-explorer] — along with our catalog of useful APIs and file dumps — delivers everything from download statistics to technical insights. Our data, which is refreshed daily, is based on a comprehensive analysis of: * 3,385,076 [https://42matters.com/google-play-statistics-and-trends] A

Is there a way to get app download statistics? Yes! Services like 42matters [https://42matters.com/ame] that specialize in mobile app data and app store analytics can provide a variety of actionable download insights. These include estimates for total downloads and monthly/daily downloads by country. Now, some of our more astute readers will have caught onto that one word — estimates. And we confess, app downloads are tricky to pin down. Indeed, with millions of apps being uploaded, downlo

Coronavirus has been a shot to the arm. Fortunately, there appears to be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. For our part, we’ve looked at these extraordinary times as an opportunity for extraordinary focus. Indeed, since the initiation of global coronavirus containment measures we’ve been hard at work upgrading three useful features on the 42matters Explorer [https://42matters.com/app-market-explorer]. They are as follows: 1. Country availability filters 2. Language filters 3.

Key findings on 2020's best free health and fitness apps: * Coronavirus quarantine measures appear to have caused a surge in Health & Fitness app downloads. * Calorie Counter by MyFitnessPal, Inc. is the best free health and fitness app on the Google Play Store, having been downloaded over 50 million times, including 437,478 times last month. * Of the top seven, Home Workout - No Equipment by Leap Fitness Group has performed best over the last month, often surpassing 600,000 dail

On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization officially labeled the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a pandemic. In response, governments across the globe have issued a variety of edicts aimed at attenuating the spread of the disease. However, as pragmatic as national quarantines may be, they nevertheless impose substantial economic consequences. App download statistics provide some intriguing insights into the ramifications of such measures. In this article, we’ll focus on remote conn

High-precision Estimates of Daily App Downloads  At 42matters we continuously analyze millions of mobile apps available in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store and infer valuable actionable insights. Our Data Science Team has developed unique Machine Learning algorithms that precisely estimate the number of downloads each published app receives per day. This data allows to easily track the app downloads statistics both per country and globally. Millions of data points are updated on a dail

There are many apps on the Google Play and Apple App Store that are released specifically for a country, city, or even community. Those apps range from public services such as metro or train schedules, local banks, services for websites that are only active in a certain country, even games that are particular for the region. Discovering those apps can be hard, but sometimes they are the ones that are valuable for establishing local business relationships. Today we will show you how you can use d

TheApp Intelligence Explorer [https://42matters.com/app-market-explorer]from 42matters is a versatile tool for market research and lead generation on Google Play and Apple App Store. One of the most used feature combinations is the SDK insights filter + CSV Exports and this is what we will showcase today. One piece of invaluable information in regards to mobile apps is the SDKs they've integrated. Those can reveal insights about how apps monetize, what kind of data they might be collecting, wha

App reviews are one of the best ways to find out what users really think about apps. The only problem is that they are unstructured and it's hard to get an overview about particular topics without scrolling through thousands of reviews. That is why 42matters has analyzed hundreds of millions of reviews, both on Google Play and iTunes and has extracted clear and actionable results such as "positive UX sentiment", "negative Advertising sentiment", etc. Combining those filters together is a powerf

The ability to discover new apps that are getting traction on Google Play or Apple App Store can be extremely valuable for business. However, the sheer number of available apps makes this task impossible without having precise data about apps' release dates, app ranks in each country and store, ratings, etc. Even if this data is available it still requires a lot of internal resources such as data scientists working together with product managers to get the solution right. Luckily 42matters offer