Data Bits: Less Than One Percent of iOS App Developers Have Half of All Reviews
Not too long ago we built a completely new way of tracking app reviews by caching data for speedy full-text search and advanced filtering. That means we’re now downloading every single review for more...
View ArticleData Bits: App Reviews Are Warmer And Fuzzier Than You May Think
We recently introduced a brand new section to the blog called Data Bits. This is where we choose an interesting set of data, analyze it, and turn it into bite sized blog posts for your reading...
View ArticleWorld Cup Fever Takes Over the App Store
World Cup fever has descended upon the iOS app store, both globally and in the United States. Apps designed specifically to follow the world’s largest sporting event are surging up the ranks with none...
View ArticleFunny Yo. Reviews From the App Store
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Yo. has been taking the app store by storm. With $1 Million in funding, and a media frenzy, the social networking app has been ascending the ranks with great...
View ArticleMost App Developers Stick With One Store
The iOS App Store was the first mobile app store to enable developers to sell their creations to end users directly and without any hassle. It was so new and exciting that in 2008 developing for iOS...
View ArticleThe Other Hyperlapse Rides Instagram’s Coattails to the Top
This past Tuesday, Instagram released Hyperlapse, an app that speeds up and converts videos you take on your smartphone using time-lapse technology. With reports of a similar software, being developed...
View ArticleUber’s Legal Battles in Germany Drive üBer Downloads in App Store
A recent court ruling in Frankfurt has banned Uber’s most popular service, Uberpop (Germany’s version of UberX), from operating in Germany, claiming it “unfairly competes” with local taxi services. In...
View ArticleSchool Calendar Changes App Rankings, as Apps Take the Classroom Mobile
Smartphone access among teens has increased substantially over the past years. According to a 2013 report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, nearly 4 out of 10 teens now...
View ArticleAre Free Speech and App Store Ratings Related?
Here at appFigures, we are constantly exchanging theories about what drives individuals to download an app, post a rating, or write a review. One recent idea intrigued us all: Are ratings from some...
View ArticleThe Reviews Are In: iPhone Users Love Custom Keyboards!
We’ve been talking a lot about the new changes in iOS 8 and what they mean for developers and end users. In this post we continue the trend and look at custom keyboards. Now that custom keyboards are...
View ArticleAre App Bundles Living Up to the Hype?
App Bundles have been one of the most anticipated and important new features for the App Store with the release of iOS 8. Considered to be a vital new way to drive revenue, many have been speculating...
View ArticleAngry Birds Turns Five: What We Can Learn From the Franchise’s Success
In 2009, a small Finnish company by the name of Rovio took a flash game that had been a crowd favorite online and turned it into a casual game for the, at the time, very new iPhone. Fun gameplay,...
View ArticleApp Stores Growth Accelerates in 2014
2014 was quite an eventful year in our industry. Apple finally gave in to the big screen but also teased us with the small screen of the upcoming Apple Watch, and even surprised developers with Swift....
View ArticleDid Super Bowl Ads Score App Store Success?
With an estimated 112 million viewers tuned in to the 49th Super Bowl on Sunday night, a lot of talk had nothing to do with the game or sport itself. Instead, there was a lot of hype over three...
View ArticleHouse of Cards Stacks the Deck for Monument Valley’s Success Across Major App...
This past weekend marked the return of Netflix’s popular original series, House of Cards for a third season. Having previously established the main character’s interest in video games, the newly...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About the New Apple TV App Store
Update: Apple’s Eddy Cue confirmed that there are more than 2,000 apps in the Apple TV App Store and that games are the leading category in an interview with BuzzFeed. The long awaited Apple TV App...
View ArticleAre Smaller Mobile Games More Successful?
.chart { border: 1px solid #ebebeb; border-radius: 3px; } Striking a balance between the size of your bundle and the type and number of assets your game makes use of is an art form. Push as much as...
View ArticleApple Threatens More Than 750,000 Apps
Update: Apple seems to be moving very quickly with this cleanup. Thousands of apps have already been removed. We’ll be releasing a report in the next few days with details. Yesterday Apple launched a...
View ArticleDissecting the Most Profitable iMessage Apps
Lately Apple has been on a roll with opening up new App Stores. It started with the Apple Watch in April of 2015, then the Apple TV App Store a few month later. Most recently, our attention has been...
View ArticleWe Analyzed All Android Games and Found the Most Installed SDKs
Earlier this year we started analyzing iOS and Android apps, digging into the SDKs they have installed. Since rolling this out into Explorer we’ve analyzed millions of apps and have seen several...
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