It's 2023 and AR Hasn't Taken Over the App Store or Google Play (Yet?)
Have you heard anything interesting about AR recently? I haven't... Just a few short years ago, however, Augmented Rea...
To Video or Not to Video - How Many Apps & Games Have App Preview Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth at least a thousand pictures, or a million words (depe...
Just How Big is the Apple TV App Store in 2023?
When the Apple TV App Store opened up in 2015 it had a lot of promise. Knowing how hard it is to develop for big game ...
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Need an Authenticator App? Here are the Most Popular Options
Twitter recently made a security change that forced its non-paying users who use 2-factor authentication to start usin...
ChatGPT Delivered Another (Small) Win for Microsoft
Microsoft has been riding the ChatGPT wave for a few weeks now. Last week I looked at downloads of the official Bing a...
How Did a Prayer App Get to the Top of the App Store?
It's always exciting to see a new icon making it to the top of the App Store. I have nothing against Temu and TikTok b...
Demand for News Aggregation Apps Drops to its Lowest Since 2018
The last few years have been... busy. The kind of busy you'd read about in the news, which is why demand for new aggre...
ChatGPT Pushes Bing's Downloads to All-Time High
A few weeks ago Microsoft and OpenAI announced ChatGPT, which has and is currently all the rage in the tech world, will ...
Betting on the Super Bowl Scores Big Downloads
I noticed Draft Kings rose to (almost) the top of the App Store on Sunday, Super Bowl day. Considering this isn't bettin...
This Tax Season is the Biggest for TurboTax
Changes to tax filing rules improvements (and lots of ads) have made TurboTax one of the main go-to apps for filing tax...
The Game that's Quietly Taken Over the App Store
I noticed an unfamiliar icon was hovering all over the top apps list in the App Store over the last few weeks and had to...
Opportunity Time - More than 30% of Apps on the App Store & Google Play are Abandoned
There are millions of apps and games on the App Store and Google Play, but just how many are being developed actively? ...
Apple's Latest Ratings Sweep is Barely Noticeable (for Bigger Apps)
Lots of developers have told me their iOS apps have lost ratings in the last week. In the last year or so, Apple has do...
A Closer Look at Telegram's App Revenue in Its First Earning Year
Last year Telegram, the messaging app that isn't Meta's and has been on our list of the most downloaded apps in the worl...
Spotify's Downloads Soar to New Heights in 2022
Spotify's downloads took a hard hit when Apple Music first launched. That resulted in the no-longer-news battle between ...
Can Mobile Casino Games Adapt or Is It Game Over?
Mobile casino games are very interesting to me. Not because I'm a big fan of the genre but rather because of how much th...
Vrbo Soars Past Airbnb with Millions of Downloads
Airbnb isn't used to having competition. For a loooong time it was the only owner-renting-by-app service in use. Not onl...
Notion Exploded in Popularity Last Year
Have you switched to Notion? I have. When it comes to team collaboration, there are a whole bunch of options, but I'd o...
Indeed Cements its Lead as the Most Popular Job Search App
The job market is in a very strange place right now. On the one hand, lots of people are moving around now that work fro...
Why is EA Games Shutting Down Apex Legends Mobile?
Earlier this week, EA Games announced its decision to cancel Apex Legends Mobile, a game it released less than a year ag...
Paramount Has a New Plan to Beat Peacock - Will it Work?
Earlier this week, Paramount announced it will be merging its flagship streaming service Paramount with Showtime and ren...
Home Automation is Growing Beyond Tinkerers
Home automation, aka being able to turn your lights on from your phone, is quickly becoming mainstream. I say that not b...
RIP Video Editors - The Most Downloaded Apps in December
I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded apps in the world in December, and in case you want to jump ahea...
It (Finally) Happened - The Most Downloaded Games in December
Unlike apps, games saw the exact opposite trend in December with downloads moving up instead of down, in part thanks t...
