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Insights Apr. 18

Instagram Takes on TikTok's CapCut, But The Video Editing Market is Even More Competitive

This week, Instagram joined the busy and lucrative video editor market with the release of Edits, an app built to do exa...


Insights Apr. 18

Is Bluesky Still Cool? App Downloads Drop to Lowest Point in 2025

Bluesky has positioned itself as the best alternative to X, making its first year out of invite-only beta very tumultuou...


Insights Apr. 18

Disney Solitaire is Officially Out and Here's How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

Solitaire, the game children of the 90s probably remember for being built into Windows OS, is making a comeback. Well, k...


Insights Apr. 18

Discord is Finally Pushing Toward an IPO, But Does It Have the Numbers?

Earlier this week, Discord's founder announced he's stepping down in order to make room for an industry veteran to take ...


Insights Apr. 18

This is How to Drive Demand for The Oldest Book in the World

If you've been watching the top charts lately, you may have noticed an unlikely app at the top: Bible Chat. Religious ap...


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...


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