Most downloaded does not equal necessarily most revenue making. We have published a new survey that allow us to know which apps are making most revenues in the App Store (we call it TOP GROSSING APPS). The note was published by ReadWriteWeb a few hours ago
You can
read here the full detail of our survey and the corresponding results. You can also view here
an excel document with the name/category/price of those apps in decreasing order.
This list computed using the simple UNITS SOLD x UNIT PRICE formula may yield a few 'outliers' and the science is not perfect (i.e. we do not know if the top app has been given away with vouchers, or whether the price is the same today as it was at the time of purchase, etc...). In any case, the findings are staggering: the money makers are real apps, all very solid, all but one with a price tag greater or equal to $2.99, but often well above $10.00. The top app costs $899 and the second one $99. These apps solve real issues, and are made by solid developers. And guess what, they are deriving serious revenues too!
The results are very different from the top download ranking. Here are the top 10 (in decreasing order)
- iRa Pro
- MobileNavigator Europe
- Air Sharing (Document Viewer, File Storage)
- OmniFocus
- Things
- BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push
- Tweetie
- Midomi Music Identifier and Search (Ultra)
- LogMeIn Ignition
- 1Password
Oh and one more thing before anyone screams. We do not include in our survey apps that have been installed via jailbreak. However some of those apps may have been installed via voucher (which is still equivalent to paid)
The bottom line: a useful app priced correctly will be a big money maker.
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