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): 254,425
Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 50,589
Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 305,014
Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 51,138
Count of Application Submissions [details]
This Month (Games): 18 ( 9 / day )
This Month (Non-Games): 191 ( 96 / day )
This Month (Total): 209 ( 105 / day )
Application Approval Delay [details]
August, 2010: Maximum delay 20 days, average delay 3.34 days.
Application Price Distribution [details]
Current Average App Price: $2.88
Current Average Game Price: $1.24
Current Average Overall Price: $2.64
Application Category Distribution [details]
Most Popular Categories
1 - Books (44192 active)
2 - Games (36875 active)
3 - Entertainment (28849 active)
4 - Education (19787 active)
5 - Lifestyle (16167 active)
Page last updated: 2010-09-02 05:55:19 -0700 PDT
That's excellent information, I wonder though, how many apps were bumped in the “cleaning up the content” review? Anyone know?
Can you provide statistics about sales per country or region
Any possible way of obtaining how many applications are downloaded each month, and then individual application downloads in each category. (Utilities, Education Games Ect…?) best/worst application sales for each category as well?
This is good information
Is there any information/statistics on downloads and what people are searching for in the App Store? (most popular keywords etc.)
Guys,
I am doing research on the profitability on the iPhone and I was wondering where you get these numbers from? Where does the information come from?
is there some way by which I can enter an application name and know about it's popularity ? eg. how many downloads till date ?
I would like a list of all the apps and a summary of what each app does. I can't find that information anywhere even at the App Store. Send it to my email or email me the web location for this information. Please don't say just try Apple or the App Store because I did. I would much rather speak to someone and have that list mailed to me if possible. I am not interested in the iPhone as a phone but I am aware of at least one application (I Speak Spanish) I would love to have..
I wanna my magazine 'fashionbiz(www.fashionbiz.co.kr)' up load in APP Store. But i'm sorry only korean magazine, in korea. what can i do for it.. please teach me..^^
Hi Debbi.
Did you get the list of apps you wanted. If you did pls do share with me thru e-mail.
Hi Jeroen,
I am very much interested in knowing more about your research findings.. Would it be possible for you to share your findings with me?
Thanks
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Did you get an answer to this question? Dan
Did you get an answer to this question? Dan
This is good information
Oh this topic… Did you get the answer to this question? Dan Nice to visit your site. Wish you post another good topic like this. I will wait to read it.
I'd like to know the relationship of free apps to paid apps in each category?
And I'd like to know the relationship of free apps to paid apps for all apps downloaded to date.
And as I'm a curious guy, I'd like to know the relationship of free apps to paid apps for all apps refused/turned down by Apple
Its one thing for Apple to claim a total number of apps sold (actually Apples using the total number of apps downloaded free and paid, I believe). But the true numbers that tell you anything, are the total number of free apps compared to paid apps….
I have a question on the categorization of apps. Are those exclusive, that is, each app is assigned a single category? Or would I find an app that's a musical trivia game in several categories, for instance. I'm trying to design a research project around iPhone use, and this factor plays into it.
Would you happen to have the Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store on a monthly basis? Please let me know if you have this information published anywhere.
Thank you!
Hi,
I wonder how hard would it be to include metrics of other countries appstores, as I have realized that these metrics are only focused on US's.
If you have any procedure for data extracting and processing, I will be glad in help you out with Spanish one, or maybe scripting something to retrieve metrics for all app stores.
One app can be listed in several different categories
I uploaded snatchboard the other week to the app store, which was fine, however I am getting frustrated with the update ability and the general upload issues with the itunes connect, it seems to get stuck in “upload received” and there is no way to remove a rejected app from there. Apart from that I think its a good experience!
Do you know how many apps support which languages?
Is ther eany way to find a relationship of the number of “trial” apps that are identical to paid apps? ie- any way to determine how many duplicates there are for “trial” or “free” purposes?
Great stuff, thank you. Would you have the same info for Android, Blackberry, Nokia? Thanks!
Do you have any information on app downloads?
Approval delay on Application update would be nice. Unless it is considered as application approval and then said so.
Average iPhone Application Approval Delay
Hi, a little question about the number of submissions:
According to Steve Jobs at Live WWDC 2010, the number of submissed apps are about 15k per week (search for “15k” at page http://live.gdgt.com/2010/06/07/live-wwdc-2010-...).
Your stats tells me that there at most 25k app submissions per month (dec 2009), i.e. around 6k apps per week.
How can this be? May your stat be a bit wrong, or may Jobs have made a wrong statement? I'm asking because I'm going to write a few (hopefully correct) lines about these numbers.
How many apps are downloaded daily?
That 15k number includes updates. This number is for new applications only.
approval delay on update is classed as the same as a new submission.
Incredibly helpful page, thanks!
Does anybody happen to know how many of the 44,870 current publishers actually made over $150 in order to get a check from Apple?
$1 Billion revenue paid by Apple could (in theory) represent $3000 / app. Considering most non-book apps cost at least $20,000 to develop (ie 2 people 2-4 weeks), most are already taking a heavy loss. If you consider that the apps in the top 10 were bringing in over $10-$100K/day, it leaves very little.
I'd be surprised if anybody got a check from Apple if they weren't in the top 500 at the end of the year.
I'd be very surprised if more than 0.1% of the developers actually made more money than they spent.
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It says nothing . Doesnt divide Iphone and Ipad . Doesnt explain categories.
It's useless for marketing analysis. But it's the begining of a good job
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Thanks for the data. The harder question to get answered is the sales data for content within apps. Apple includes the sale of content (i.e. – books, game add-ons) in their ecosystem, but I haven’t been able to find any statistics on those sales. Got any ideas?