The document provides statistics on iOS and Mac applications from the Apple App Store in March 2012. It shows that there were 489,543 iOS apps and 9,367 Mac apps at the time. The majority of apps were free for both platforms, but Mac apps had a higher average price of $12.87 compared to $3.43 for iOS apps. Games was the largest category for both platforms, making up 26.45% of Mac apps and 17.24% of iOS apps. The document provides detailed breakdowns of statistics like number of apps and prices by category.
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appsBridge March 2012 analysis
1. IOS & MAC APP STORE
APPLICATIONS FACT &
FIGURES
March 2012
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2. COUNTING
Understanding how applications are counted
All applications are not available in all countries (in all regional
app stores)
Example:
“yelp” is available in all countries
“météo france” is only available in France
When Apple announced 500K apps in the App Store (Dec
12th 2011), they count all applications in all countries
We only count US apps: that’s why we are looking at less
We may take in consideration all applications in the near future
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3. iOs = blue Mac = green
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4. STATISTICS
✓ # of iOs & Mac apps ✓ # of categories ✓ table + graph
✓ # of apps (%) ✓ # Mac apps by category ✓ # apps per average user
rating
✓ # of Free/Paid apps ✓ # iOs apps by category
✓ Top 10 by apps by
✓ Average Price Paid ✓ table + graphs
rating
✓ # of Least expensive ✓ # Mac apps by category
✓ AppsBridge iOs ranking
apps ✓ table + graphs Top 10
✓ # of Most expensive ✓ # of iOs apps validated ✓ AppsBridge Mac ranking
apps per month Top 10
✓ Mac Price distribution ✓ # of Mac apps validated ✓ Top 10 app version
✓ Mac Price distribution per month
(<USD 50) ✓ # of distinct developers
✓ # of Mac vs iOs apps
✓ iOs Price distribution validated per month ✓ Top 20 app providers
✓ iOs Price distribution ✓ Weekday of validation/ ✓ Smallest & biggest apps
(<USD 50)
release
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5. # OF APPLICATIONS
489 543 9 367
iOs apps Mac apps
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6. # OF APPLICATIONS (%)
Mac apps
1,88%
iOs apps
98,12%
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7. # OF FREE/PAID APPS
Free Paid Total
Mac Apps 1 422 7 945 9 367
15.18% 84.82%
iOs Apps 221 534 268 009 489 543
45.25% 54.75%
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8. AVERAGE PRICE PAID
USD 3.43 USD 12.87
iOs apps Mac apps
USD 1.88 (including free apps) USD 10.92 (including free apps)
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29. # APPS PER AVERAGE USER RATING
iOs Mac
0 (not rated) 173 607 (35.5%) 2 043 (21.8%)
1 23 294 (4.8%) 597 (6.4%)
2 35 599 (7.3%) 779 (8.3%)
3 88 994 (18.2%) 1 564 (16.7%)
4 81 732 (16.7%) 2 222 (23.7%)
5 86 317 (17.6%) 2 162 (23.1%)
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30. TOP 10 APPS BY RATING
avg. avg.
iOs # ratings Mac # ratings
rating rating
Facebook 4 1 895 905 OS X Lion 4 24 564
Words With Friends Free 4 1 076 335 FreeMemory 5 9 655
Temple Run 5 824 737 Twitter 4 4 500
Zombie Farm 5 813 371 Angry Birds 4 3 422
Angry Birds 5 720 430 iCleanMemory 5 2 552
Pandora Radio 4 617 663 Final Cut Pro 4 2 551
UNO™ - FREE 3 551 355 Smart Converter 5 2 515
textPlus Free Texting + Group Text 3 516 939 Evernote 5 2 267
Myspace 4 516 330 Caffeine 5 2 259
Angry Birds Lite 5 508 744 Alfred 5 1 895
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31. APPSBRIDGE IOS RANKING* TOP 10
* we consider user ratings and ratings count
Paid & Free Paid Free
Facebook Angry Birds Facebook
Words With Friends Free Words With Friends Words With Friends Free
Temple Run Fruit Ninja Temple Run
Zombie Farm Tap Tap Revenge 3 Zombie Farm
Angry Birds Plants vs. Zombies Angry Birds Lite
Angry Birds Lite Doodle Jump Pandora Radio
Pandora Radio Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 Move the Box
Move the Box Cut the Rope Myspace
Words With Friends Do Not Press The Red Button Backgrounds
Myspace Tiny Wings Instagram
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32. APPSBRIDGE MAC RANKING* TOP 10
* we consider user ratings and ratings count
Paid & Free Paid Free
OS X Lion OS X Lion FreeMemory
FreeMemory Angry Birds Twitter
Twitter iCleanMemory Smart Converter
Angry Birds Final Cut Pro Evernote
iCleanMemory Sparrow Caffeine
Smart Converter Reeder Alfred
Evernote Ringer - Ringtone Maker swackett
Caffeine Pixelmator MPlayerX
Final Cut Pro FaceTime Pee Monkey Plant Bloom - FREE
Alfred iVI Rail Maze
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34. # OF DISTINCT DEVELOPERS
125 624 126 968 3 805
iOs developers developers Mac developers
98,94% 3%
123 163 2 461 1 344
iOs only developers iOs & Mac developers Mac only developers
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35. TOP 20 APP PROVIDERS
# #
Andrews UK Limited 3 511 xhumans 896
Your Mobile Apps Inc. 1 691 Blackstone Audio 872
IndiaNIC Infocom Limited 1 631 Credencys Solutions Inc 866
for-side.com 1 299 Vallabh Papdiwala 822
AppWarrior 1 068 AppsPublisher.com 822
Feng 996 Brentwick 759
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 992 Innovative Language Learning, LLC 683
i-mobilize, inc. 986 G.P. Imports, Inc. 675
DMBC 920 FidesReef 672
SmartPocket.Inc 907 Exact REAL 654
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36. SMALLEST & BIGGEST APPS
Smallest Biggest
15.64 2
kilobytes gigabytes
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37. THANKS
✓ Thanks to these apps for not
having sued us yet for using
their icon in our logo
✓ AIM ✓ RedLaserBarcode Scanner
and QR Code Reader
✓ PayPal
✓ Instapaper
✓ Path
✓ Discovery Channel
✓ Skype
✓ Groupon
✓ Boingo Wi-Finder
✓ Editions by AOL
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