42matters tracks everything from app meta data, to rankings, to download estimates, to changes in meta information, to SDK usage, to App-ads.txt and more. If you would like to leverage our data into your own product, research or app industry analysis, it can be obtained via our API or File Dumps or our interactive App Market Explorer.
For this article, we’ve leveraged our rich database of app data and statistics to analyze the Apple App Store. In so doing, we have captured not only the current state of the store but the emerging trends that will define its future as well.
To demonstrate our findings, we’ve answered the following questions about the Apple App Store:
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Apple is a company that needs no introduction. They boast one of the most impressive product catalogs on the planet, offering a variety of popular devices, software applications, and online services. Foremost among these innovations is the Apple App Store.
Speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado, a 28-year-old Steve Jobs described a future in which consumers could purchase and download software directly from their computers.
25 years later, in 2008, Apple launched the App Store and Jobs’ vision for the future became reality. Following the success of the iTunes digital music store, the Apple App Store became one of the world’s first commercially successful mobile app marketplaces. Today it connects millions of iOS device users to millions of mobile apps and games from developers and publishers all over the world.
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The iOS Apple App Store is one of the most popular mobile app vendors on the planet, offering 1,735,558 apps.
To date, 736,842 app publishers have published apps on the iOS Apple App Store.
Of the 1,735,558 apps available on the iOS Apple App Store, 216,355 are gaming apps and 1,519,203 are non-gaming apps.
1,636,791 apps available on the iOS Apple App Store are free to download. Conversely, 97,986 must be purchased. Of course, it should be noted that many free apps may either offer or require in-app purchases.
Drilling down a bit deeper, apps available on the iOS Apple App Store are divided into 26 categories. We’ve calculated the distribution of Apple App Store apps by category:
An average of 1,008 new apps are released on the iOS Apple App Store per day.
Last week, 5,615 new apps were published to the iOS Apple App Store. Here are the upload statistics over the last three weeks:
Last month, 34,639 apps were added to the iOS Apple App Store. Here are the upload statistics over the last three months:
By enabling users to rate apps available on the iOS Apple App Store, consumers and app developers alike are better able to determine the popularity and quality of each app. Currently, 757,284 (44%) apps have been rated by users while 978,274 (56%) have not yet been rated. We’ve determined how these ratings are distributed:
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While the vast majority of apps available on the iOS Apple App Store are free to download, there are many that require a payment up front. Typically, paid Apple App Store apps cost We’ve taken the liberty of investigating the price distribution of paid apps costing up to USD $10.00:
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