How Many Apps Are On The App Store (Mar 2023)

Key Stats

• The App Store had seen its lowest number of apps in the last eight years around the third quarter of 2022, when it only recorded around 1.64 million apps, and the second lowest was in the third quarter of 2015 when it recorded around 1.67 million apps.
• There was an increase of over 160,000 more apps from the third quarter of 2019 to the same quarter of 2020.
• The number of apps in the App Store decreased by more than 161 million between 2016 and 2017 and then by 90,000 in 2018.

Key Stats

• The App Store’s mobile app revenue exceeded US $10 billion in the second quarter of 2018, surpassing that figure again in the second quarter of 2019 with nearly US $15 billion. (Source: Business of Apps)
• From the first to fourth quarters of 2021, the revenue for mobile apps in the App Store remained around US $20 billion. (Source: Business of Apps)
• The App Store’s mobile app revenue increased from approximately US $5 billion in the third quarter of 2016 to more than US $10 billion in the third quarter of 2017. (Source: Business of Apps)

Key Stats

• In the last six years, the annual revenue for mobile apps in the App Store peaked during 2021 when it earned US $85.1 billion.
• 2016 had the lowest yearly revenue in the last six years, at US $28.6 billion. However, the figures improved, with 2017 earning US $9.9 billion more than the previous year and 2018 making US $18 billion more.
• The annual revenue for mobile apps in the App store has continually increased from 2016 to 2021, with the base figure of over US $28 billion in 2016 gradually growing by 8-12% until 2021.

Key Stats:

• As of the third quarter of 2022, social networking apps had a share of 2.16%, 0.21% below sports apps but 0.23% above music apps.
• In the third quarter of 2022, apps in the news and photography categories had a market share of over 1.6%.
• Apps for shopping and health and fitness had respective market shares of 5.26% and 5.08% in the third quarter of 2022. On the other hand, finance and productivity apps each had a market share of more than 4%.

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• Subway Surfers, Messenger, Amazon Prime Video, and Facebook were among the most downloaded apps on the Apple App Store in 2022, with over three million downloads each.
• Bereal was the most downloaded app in the Apple App Store around 2022. It’s a photo app launched in 2019, and it allows users to post a dual camera picture with their friends.
• TikTok, one of the popular short-form video apps right now, was the second most downloaded app on the Apple App Store in 2022.

Key Stats:

• Taking the top two and three spots for social media apps with the most Apple App Store downloads are messenger apps. These are WhatsApp and Telegram. They are created for mobile devices and computers, which allows conversations to be managed on multiple devices. In June 2022, WhatsApp had over six million downloads on the Apple App Store, and Telegram had 4 million in the same period.
• Xiao Hong Shu, Discord, QQ, and Life360 were downloaded over one million times in 2022, placing them among the top 10 social media apps for the social media category with the most downloads.
• With approximately 3.99 million downloads in June 2022, Facebook ranks fourth among the most downloaded social media apps. It outpaces Messenger by more than 10% or about 420,000 downloads.

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• The gaming app with the most downloads in September 2022 was X-HERO, with 7.18 million downloads. It is followed by Survivor!.io, 2.54 million downloads ahead of X-HERO.
• Subway Surfers’ official Chinese version was another most downloaded gaming app in September 2022, with 3.49 million downloads. It has 1.15 million fewer downloads than Survivor!.io but 600,000 more than Stumble Guys.
• Shell Commando and ROBLOX had over 1.5 million downloads in September 2022, while Sheep baa sheep and Fishdom had around 1.4 million downloads during the same time period.