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Insights Apr. 11

The Minecraft Movie Jolts Mobile Revenue, but It's Just Not Enough

Minecraft is and has been the top-paid game in the US on both the App Store and Google Play for several years now. This ...


Insights Apr. 11

Powered by TikTok Videos, China's Answer to Tariffs is Cutting the Middleman

Earlier this week, two shopping apps I haven't seen before jumped to the top of the charts and have kept their top spots...


Insights Apr. 11

(Almost) Everyone's a Winner! The Highest-Earning Mobile Games in March

March is officially behind us and that means it's time to crunch the numbers and rank the highest-earning mobile games. ...


Insights Apr. 11

Blasted! The Most Downloaded Mobile Games in March

Block Blast continued to be the most downloaded game in the App Store in March, but it didn't stop there. Block Blast wa...


Insights Apr. 11

X's Mobile Revenue Rises for the Third Month in a Row

March was a good month for X's mobile revenue. Not just good but great. Actually, the best ever. X ended 2024 with a ba...


Insights Apr. 4

Manus AI Joins the AI App Race, But Can It Really Compete?

A few months ago yet another AI app came on the scene and stole the news cycle for a bit. That was Manus AI, an autonomo...


Insights Apr. 4

Instagram And TikTok Have Been Dethroned! The Most Downloaded Apps in the World in March

March was a very interesting month in app downloads. I crunched the numbers and ranked the most downloaded apps in the w...


Insights Apr. 4

March Was a Mega Month for App Revenue - Here are the Highest Earning Apps in the World

I crunched the numbers and ranked the highest-earning mobile apps in the world in March. I have good news and bad news. ...


Insights Apr. 4

Remini Rides the AI Cartoon Wave and the Downloads Double, But Something's Missing

Last week I looked at how ChatGPT's new image generation sparked demand for cartoon generators and how downloads explode...


Insights Apr. 4

Market Volatility Sends Everyone to the App Store (and Google Play)

Financial markets in the US have had quite a stormy week. The kind that breaks records and makes those who knew what to ...


Insights Mar. 28

The New AI Cartoon Trend Caused a Big Spike in Downloads for These Apps

The internet was buzzing with cartooned photos this week after OpenAI released an update to ChatGPT's image generation c...


Insights Mar. 28

Chrome is the Most Downloaded 3rd Party Browser on iOS. Are Apple Search Ads Behind the Downloads?

I've been seeing a lot of ads on the App Store for Google Chrome. The downloads show Chrome is the most downloaded not-S...


Insights Mar. 28

Supercell Tries Something New with mo.co - Is It a Success By the Numbers?

Supercell has a new game out and it's doing a few things differently. We've been following every Supercell release and I...


Insights Mar. 28

We Thought Apple Invites Would Sherlock the Market But It Didn't. This Happened Instead.

When Apple rolled out Apple invites, seemingly out of nowhere, a few months ago, everyone on the internet was ready for ...


Insights Mar. 28

Signal Proves No Publicity is Bad Publicity as Downloads Double

Signal, the secure messaging app, was in the news last week after a journalist disclosed he was accidentally in a group ...


Insights Mar. 21

Uber and Lyft May Have Outgrown the US, But Not Waymo!

I recently visited San Francisco (for GDC), and it was hard not to see the swarm of Waymos driving around, picking up an...


Insights Mar. 21

How T-Mobile Leaped TikTok, ChatGPT, and Other Popular Apps to Reach the Top of the App Store!

I actively watch the top charts, and for months, I've been seeing the pink icon of T-Mobile somewhere up top in the US. ...


Insights Mar. 21

Color Block Jam Crosses $25M, Aims to Join the Successful Hybrid Casual Club

I spent all of last week at GDC so games are fresh on my mind and one of the trends I've been watching most closely is t...


Insights Mar. 21

Claude's Long Awaited Update is Here - Did it Move the Needle?

We're barely three months into 2025 and have already seen a barrage of AI innovations. From DeepSeek, Grok 3, and update...


Insights Mar. 21

The Audiobooks Market Recovered and Rallied Led by Audible

I've been fascinated by the audiobook market on mobile for a few years now having followed the rise of Audible as the le...


Insights Mar. 14

Analyzing the Nearly 1,000 Apps and Games that are "Coming Soon"

You may not know this, but there's a way to see which apps have been approved for release by Apple but have not been rel...


Insights Mar. 14

ChatGPT Crosses a Major Milestone in the Face of Competition

ChatGPT has been on an astounding growth journey that hasn't slowed down even though local and international rivals stol...


Insights Mar. 14

The King of Game Revenue Lost Its Crown (Again) - The Highest Earning Games in the World

It's not all that often that we see this much movement at the pinnacle of the top earning mobile games, so let's get int...


Insights Mar. 14

A New Shakeup at the Top - The Most Downloaded Games in the World

Between the top downloaded and highest earning charts, it's the former that typically sees the most turnover as games th...


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