Alongside the countdown to 50 billion app downloads posted earlier today, Apple has also published a series of updated charts for the top downloaded apps of all time. Apple posted the same charts last year, after the App Store hit 25 billion downloads, and had done the same in January 2011 ahead of 10 billion downloads.
Apple’s charts of the Top 25 apps of all time provide a precious insight into the trends of the App Store for free and paid apps downloaded by iOS users on their iPhones and iPads. While the charts from 2012 and 2013 are largely similar in terms of presence of games and brands like Angry Birds and Facebook, there are some interesting differences worth noting.
Below, we have compiled the complete list of updated “all-time top apps”, alongside some notes about the differences from last year’s charts.
iPad
Paid
- Pages
- Angry Birds HD
- Angry Birds Seasons HD
- Where’s My Water
- Fruit Ninja HD
- Angry Birds Space HD
- GarageBand
- Words With Friends HD
- Cut the Rope HD
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Angry Birds Star Wars HD
- GoodReader for iPad
- SCRABBLE HD for iPad
- Minecraft - Pocket Edition
- Plants Vs Zombies HD
- Notability
- MONOPOLY for iPad
- Quickoffice Pro HD
- Star Walk HD
- Draw Something
- iMovie
- iPhoto
- Where’s My Perry?
- Bad Piggies HD
Free
- Skype for iPad
- The Weather Channel for iPad
- Netflix
- Angry Birds HD Free
- Kindle
- Pandora Radio
- Calculator for iPad Free
- Fruit Ninja HD Free
- Words With Friends HD Free
- Google Earth
- ABC Player
- Calculator Pro for iPad Free
- Temple Run
- YouTube
- eBay for iPad
- CNN App for iPad
- Dropbox
- Adobe Reader
- Solitaire
- NYTimes for iPad
- Temple Run 2
- Hulu Plus
- Draw Something Free
iPhone
Paid
- Angry Birds
- Fruit Ninja
- Doodle Jump
- Cut the Rope
- Angry Birds Seasons
- WhatsApp Messenger
- Camera+
- Words with Friends
- Tiny Wings
- Angry Birds Space
- Pocket God
- Plants vs Zombies
- THE GAME OF LIFE Classic Edition
- The Moron Test
- Where’s My Water?
- Draw Something
- MONOPOLY
- Angry Birds Star Wars
- MotionX GPS Drive
- Skee-Ball
- SCRABBLE
- UNO
- Minecraft - Pocket Edition
- Color Splash
- The Sims 3
Free
- Pandora Radio
- YouTube
- Skype
- Words With Friends Free
- The Weather Channel
- Temple Run
- Google Search
- Netflix
- Shazam
- Angry Birds Free
- Draw Something Free
- Flashlight
- Facebook Messenger
- Google Earth
- Fruit Ninja Free
- iHeartRadio
- Movies by Flixster
- Bump
- eBay
- PAC-MAN Lite
- Groupon
- Google Maps
And here are some interesting facts about the new charts:
- In the Paid iPad chart, there are 6 Apple apps and 5 Rovio titles. The Top 3 is the same as last year’s.
- There are 5 Productivity apps in the Paid iPad chart, versus 6 in 2012. Penultimate is no longer in the Top 25.
- In the Paid iPad chart, 12 apps have “HD” in the title. In the free chart, the “HD” apps are 3.
- Of 25 paid apps for iPad, 15 are from the Games category.
- There are 7 games in the Free iPad chart.
- In the free iPad apps, Facebook went from #17 to #6. There are 2 Google apps in the chart.
- The Top 5 of the Paid iPhone chart is the same as last year’s.
- There are 19 Games in the Paid iPhone chart; they used to be 17 in 2012. 4 of them are Rovio titles.
- Camera+ went from #10 to #7; WhatsApp went from #18 to #6.
- Facebook is still the most downloaded free iPhone app of all time.
- Instagram went from #19 to #3; Twitter went from #12 to #8.
- YouTube is the highest new entry at #4. There are 4 Google apps in the Free iPhone chart; they were 2 in 2012.
- There are 6 games in the Free iPhone chart; they were 10 in 2012.
Apple’s page with the top apps for all-time can be viewed on a Mac, PC, or iOS device by opening this link. For comparison, you can view the complete 2012 results here.