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New and noteworthy
This monthly report focuses on the Apple App Store for the iPad and iPhone in the United States. The major findings are:
» The number of applications in the Apple App Store for iPad has grown to 4,870 since the release of the iPad on April 3rd. In the last
two weeks alone, the number of iPad applications has grown by 32.7%.
» The largest application category on the iPad is Games with 1,577 titles (32%), followed by Entertainment and Books with 455 and
396 titles, respectively.
» Of the 186,414 applications in the Apple App Store for iPhone, 73% are paid, while 80% of the 4,870 applications in the Apple App
Store for iPad are paid.
» An application in the Apple App Store for iPhone costs $3.82 on average, as opposed to $4.67 in the Apple App Store for iPad.
» On the Apple App Store for iPad, Medical and Finance applications are the most expensive at $42.11 and $18.48 on average,
respectively. This is significantly more than the average price for applications in these categories on the Apple App Store for
iPhone ($10.74 and $5.74).
April 2010
Apple App Store - iPad And iPhone
About DistimoDistimo is an innovative app store analytics company built to solve the challenges created by a widely fragmented app store marketplacelled with equally fragmented information and statistics. Distimo Report provides in-depth reports for companies interested in themobile application ecosystem providing valuable insight into important trends happening within application stores. Distimo Monitor offers mobile developers a free analytics tool to monitor their own and competitive applications across all app stores, without anyadjustments needed to their application’s code.
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The total number of applications available in the Apple App Store for iPad is 4,870(April 26). The largest category on the iPad is Games with 1,577 titles (32%), followedby Entertainment and Books with 455 and 396 titles, respectively.
As shown above, 73% of the 186,414 applications in the Apple App Store for iPhoneare paid, while 80% of the 4,870 applications in the Apple App Store for iPad are
paid. The largest category on the Apple App Store for iPad is Games, and it attributessignicantly to the higher percentage of paid applications: 82% of the 1,577 Gamesin the Apple App Store for iPad are paid, while only 69% of the 34,181 Games in theApple App Store for iPhone are paid.
Along with differences in the proportion of free versus paid applications between iPadand iPhone, the average prices differ as well. On average, an application in the Apple
App Store for iPhone costs $3.82, as opposed to $4.67 in the Apple App Store for iPad.On the Apple App Store for iPad, Medical and Finance applications are most expensiveat $42.11 and $18.48, respectively. This is signicantly more than the average price for applications in these categories on the Apple App Store for iPhone ($10.74 and $5.74).The higher price of Medical applications is signcantly inuenced by six applicationspublished by Lexi-Comp which are priced between $9.99 and $299.99.
The number of applications in the Apple App Store is displayed above for the pastthree weeks. Nine days after the release of the iPad, the Apple App Store for iPadcontained 3,670 applications: 2,654 applications that were exclusively compatiblewith the iPad and 1,016 universal applications*. In the last two weeks alone, the totalnumber of applications in the Apple App Store for iPad has grown by 32.7% to 4,870applications on April 26. The total number of applications now available in the AppleApp Store is 189,851.
* Universal applications are optimized to run on all iPhone OS devices.
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Highest ranked paid applications - Apple App Store for iPad
Rank Application Publisher Price
1 Pages Apple Inc. $9.99
2 GoodReader for iPad Good.iWare Ltd. $0.99
3 Penultimate Cocoa Box Design $2.99
4 The Pinball HD OOO Gameprom $2.99
5 Keynote Apple Inc. $9.99
6 Magic Piano Smule $0.99
7 Numbers Apple Inc. $9.99
8 Weather HD vimov, LLC $0.99
9 Real Racing HD Firemint $9.99
10 Air Video - Watch your videosanywhere!
InMethod $2.99
11 Plants vs. Zombies HD PopCap Games, Inc. $9.99
12 SCRABBLE for iPad Electronic Arts $9.99
13 Stick It - Sticky Notes withBump™
TapFactory $0.99
14 Star Walk for iPad - interact iveastronomy guide
Vito Technology Inc. $4.99
15 Calculator for iPad CrowdCafé $0.99
16 Flight Control HD Firemint $4.99
17 X-Plane for iPad Laminar Research $9.99
18 Air Sharing HD Avatron Software, Inc. $9.99
19 SketchBook Pro Autodesk Inc. $7.99
20 World Atlas HD National GeographicSociety
$1.99
Highest ranked free applications - Apple App Store for iPad
Rank Application Publisher
1 iBooks Apple Inc.
2 The Solitaire UnitConvertr
3 Break HD Free Jirbo, Inc.
4 ABC Player ABC Digital
5 Sundry Notes inZania
6 The Weather Channel Max for iPad The Weather Channel Interac-tive
7 Netix Netix, Inc.
8 JamPad QNG
9 Calculator XL Luke Campbell
10 iBanner HD for iPad - LED ScrollingMarquee
Laan Labs
11 USA TODAY for iPad USA TODAY
12 Alice for the iPad-Lite Atomic Antelope
13 Big Bad Sudoku Book Bad Weasel, LLC
14 GodFinger for iPad ngmoco, Inc.
15 Jirbo Says : Brain Test Jirbo, Inc.
16 Adobe® Ideas 1.0 for iPad Adobe Systems Incorporated
17 Ofine Pages Codium Labs LLC
18 Labyrinth 2 HD Lite Illusion Labs
19 Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD Peterb
20 PhotoPad by ZAGG ZAGG Inc.
Highest ranked paid applications - Apple App Store for iPhone
Rank Application Publisher Price
1 Doodle Jump - BE WARNED:Insanely Addictive!
Lima Sky $0.99
2 RedLaser Occipital $0.99
3 The Simpsons Arcade Electronic Arts $0.99
4 Angry Birds Clickgamer.com $0.99
5 ZombieSmash gamedoctors $0.99
6 Big Button Box Pro Shaved Ham $0.99
7 Skee-Ball Freeverse, Inc. $0.99
8 MONOPOLY Electronic Arts $2.99
9 Diner Dash PlayFirst, Inc. $0.99
10 Gun Builder Win Sheng Loh $0.99
11 Battery Doctor Pro - Max Your Battery Life
Game Lingo $0.99
12 MLB.com At Bat 2010 MLB.com $14.99
13 Bejeweled® 2 PopCap Games, Inc. $2.99
14 THE GAME OF LIFE ClassicEdition
Electronic Arts $1.99
15 WolframAlpha Wolfram Alpha LLC $1.99
16 iVideoCamera - record videowith effects on any phone (2G,3G, 3GS)
Laan Labs $0.99
17 Words With Friends Newtoy Inc. $1.99
18 Star Wars: Lightsaber Duel THQ Wireless Inc. $0.99
19 Family Guy: Uncensored Glu $0.99
20 Phone Tracker: locate any mobilephone !
Dworld Services $0.99
Highest ranked free applications - Apple App Store for iPhone
Rank Application Publisher
1 The Impossible Test PixelCUBE Studios
2 Top 100s by Year by Bing nuTsie
3 The Simpsons Arcade FREE Electronic Arts
4 Solitaire MobilityWare
5 Opera Mini Web browser Opera Software ASA
6 Spill Da' Milk™ Skyworks
7 On this day... Sophiestication Software
8 Shut Up Button Shaved Ham9 Bing Microsoft Corporation
10 Hit Tennis 2 Focused Apps
11 Brain Trainer by Lumosity.com Lumosity
12 Facebook Facebook
13 Simon: Classic Category 5 Games
14 Burning Bubbles Lab FREE TLogic.de
15 Glow Doodle Fall ITIW
16 Pandora Radio Pandora Media, Inc.
17 Cell Phone Tracker Pro FREE Reza Alizadeh
18 Titan Wars Miraphonic
19 Tap Fish - 5 Free Fishbucks BayView Labs
20 Collapse! Chaos FREE GameHouse
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Distimo is an innovative app store analytics company built to solve the challenges created by a widely fragmented app store marketplace lled with equallyfragmented information and statistics. Distimo Report provides in-depth reports for companies interested in the mobile application ecosystem providingvaluable insight into important trends happening within application stores. Distimo Monitor offers mobile developers a free analytics tool to monitor their ownand competitive applications across all app stores, without any adjustment needed to their application’s code.
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