Yesterday, July 10, the 10th anniversary of the launch of the App Store- The iOS app store. During these ten years it has evolved significantly, marking the wake of many technological advances, especially in the last five years. Amazing apps have been seen and developers have been paid for their work, the App Store is still a must-see.
On the occasion of the XNUMXth anniversary of the app store, some graphics have been developed that show what are the most popular apps of all time both in free and paid version. They are well-known titles that we will surely know how to place on the timeline of the last ten years.
WhatsApp, Minecraft and Facebook Messenger top the App Store
The popularity of an application is measured by your position in the App Store ranking.Therefore, Tower Sensor has developed a series of graphs that show the number of days that an app has remained in position 1 in the ranking during these 10 years. Being precise the information of the graphs dates from the July 1, 2010 to July 5, 2018, so the first 2 years of the application store does not appear in the graph.
More than 30.000 apps have made it to number 1 of the store ranking in at least one country and the results, although expected, sow some information about the popularity of the applications and the interest of the users. A distinction is made in two different graphs between free and paid applications.
In the case of free apps, the image that heads this article, we can see that in the first position is WhatsApp with more than 1700 days at number 1. Next is Facebook Messenger and Facebook, both with more than 1500 days in first position. They are followed by Viber, Instgram, Telegram, Snapchat, WeChat, Youtube and imo. If we realize communication services triumph about free games and other types of applications, although we talk of popularity and no of total downloads.
On the other hand, in paid applications, we are the leader of Minecraft, the great game of cubes with 1645 days at the top of the ranking, followed by Facetune and Afterlight with 1501 and 1312 respectively. It is followed by 7 Min Workout, Plague, WhatsApp (when it was not free), FlightRadar 24 and more. We see that in this category photo editing apps and games They are more present than in the category of free apps.
