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App Store Metrics

We originally created page to celebrate the App Store reaching 10,000 apps and included a few metrics on the app store. There was a tremendous response to that page. We’ve added a few more interesting stats and expanded the ones that were there onto this new page. Let us know what else you’d like to see on these page either in the comments below or send us feedback via email. We’ll do what we can to include them in the future.

App Store Stats Summary

Count of Active Applications in the App Store [details]

Total Active Apps (currently available for download): 134,215
Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 16,382
Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 150,597
Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 29,340


Count of Application Submissions [details]

This Month (Games): 971 ( 69 / day )
This Month (Non-Games): 7,010 ( 501 / day )
This Month (Total): 7,981 ( 570 / day )


Application Approval Delay [details]

December, 2009: Maximum delay 37 days, average delay 5.08 days.

Application Price Distribution [details]

Current Average App Price: $2.90
Current Average Game Price: $1.37
Current Average Overall Price: $2.65


Application Category Distribution [details]

Most Popular Categories
1 - Games (21816 active)
2 - Books (21046 active)
3 - Entertainment (18248 active)
4 - Education (9262 active)
5 - Utilities (8538 active)


Page last updated: 2010-01-14 12:11:31 -0800 PST
  • This is so great.. Thousands of application are listed. I hope it will grow more and more by time.
  • Robert
    HI All,

    I am considering development of a health and fitness related app and would like to know the search statistics ( i.e. how often is a specific keywords searched in the app store) and sales statistics for a specific apps (i.e. app X has ___ downloads/purchases). Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!
  • Thanks for the insight! I used some of your data for my research on the Top100 Free Apps on the UK store.
    http://azitravel.com/blog/2010/01/top-100-apps-...
  • benjaminholfeld
    This data can be very useful - I am just wondering where you get it from and how reliable it is... Also I am wondering what happened to the 15871 Apps that aren't available for download anymore...
  • The Apple App Store has been keeping its app rankings frozen for over 24 hours -- with no indication that Apple considers this situation either important or remediable. These unacceptable events have been coming more and more often -- the previous freeze, 48 hours, occurred Nov. 4-5 -- and have invariably preceded days of seriously erroneous statistics and records once App Sore record-keeping resumed trying to display any new or accumulated stats. How will this wreckage affect 148Apps and (of course) the Apple corporation throughout the foreseeable future?
  • TypingManiac
    Hi you have some problems with counting apps. in detailed section.

    Tap Tap KEYBOARD - Android
  • sziring
    I'm going to take a shot in the dark here but I'm thinking of those 100,000 apps a good number of them double count the free / trialwares version as well. One could argue that it's only one app not two. So are we celebrating 100,000 apps or 100,000 items that are downloadable?
  • Guest
    This is a fantastic resource!
  • kermit64113
    any take on the breakout between free and paid apps? Seems like we are seeing a lot more paid apps than free recently
  • susancooke
    I would love any information anyone has regarding apps in the medical/health & wellness area. I am looking to put convert our natural fertility program www.circlebloom.com into an itunes app and just not sure how well it would do. It would be priced at $130, much higher than the average app price, but it is over 6 hours of audio medical content.

    Any thoughts would be helpful!
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