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This Week in Apps - Meta's New Battle
#246 - Instagram's new video editor is here and faces tough competition, Bluesky loses momentum, the numbers behind Disney Solitaire's launch, is Discord ready for an IPO? and the spike in demand for the bible.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Mastering Apple Ads - 11 Ways to Unlock More Downloads with Apple Ads Intelligence
A step by step guide and 7 strategies for getting more downloads and saving money with Apple Search Ads
This Week in Apps - Chicken Jockey
#245 - The Minecraft movie nearly doubles revenue on mobile, Chinese shopping apps are undercutting the brands they work with due to tariffs, the most downloaded and highest-earning games in the world, and more!
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 ...
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...
(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. ...
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...
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...
This Week in Apps - Catching Up?
#244 - Manus AI comes to mobile, the most downloaded and highest-earning apps in the world, Remini tried to surf the wave, and a look at the impact of financial markets on app downloads.
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
This Week in Apps - Cartoon Money?
#243 - Who's riding the latest AI wave, how to win the browser wars, the numbers behind Supercell's latest experimental game, the market Apple Invites didn't sherlock, and more!
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
This Week in Apps - Replacing Humans?
#242 - Demand for Uber and Lyft is declining rapidly in the US while Waymo is growing, the numbers behind T-Life's App Store success, Audible's amagin growth and more!
