Filed under: Analytics, Data | Tags: Applications, Data, iPhone, Statistics
Want to drill down to see how different iPhone apps are doing? You can click around iTunes and collect your own data, or you can visit the Application Ranking section of Mobclix and see the breakdown of iPhone apps in each category. Paid apps still outnumber free apps.
Of the 3,420 apps in the iTunes App Store, a full 2,604 (76 percent) are paid, and only 816 are free. (About the same ratio since the App Store launched). Games dominate (31 percent of all apps), followed by utilities (15 percent) and entertainment apps (12 percent).
Within each category, you can sort apps by rank, price, rating, or release date. And if you click on a specific app, you will get a chart showing its rank over time—something you can’t see in iTunes. For instance, Tap Tap Revenge is maintaining its early strength, and is currently ranked No. 8.
The No. 1 free app is Air Sharing (which turns your iPhone into a wireless hard drive) shot up quickly in the rankings after its launch on September 8.
In contrast, the No. 1 paid app, PocketGuitar (which turns your iPhone into a digital guitar) launched on August 26 and worked its way up more gradually in the overall rankings to its current No. 40 spot.
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Thanks for the insights! Random Rant: I think Mobclix have been a little too strict on their ‘blue theme’ for the pie chart – 10 categories on the pie chart, but the only one that I can easily map from the key to the chart is Lifestyle. Seriously, brand ‘theming’ taken too far.
Comment by Chris Jacob September 18, 2008 @ 1:51 pmHI,
Comment by priyanka March 31, 2009 @ 7:17 amcan you please tell me how can get app rank to diplay it in our site.