The US tax season drives Intuit’s TurboTax 2012 app downloads. WhatsApp’s in-app purchase subscriptions catapult them to Google Play stardom.   In this month’s Apps Index, we bring to you the top-performing publishers and apps outside of games across both the iOS App Store and Google Play. Starting this month, we have split up the [...] Read more

Adventurous Downloads and Puzzling Revenues: Temple Run 2 and Puzzle & Dragons top the charts With Game Developers Conference 2013 just on the horizon, we want to bring you the hottest mobile gaming properties of the past month across both the iOS App Store and Google Play. Starting this month, we are now splitting up [...] Read more

Introducing the App Annie Index top 52 publishers of 2012 This never-before-seen data is the basis of our App Annie Index playing cards. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it for you. Last year, we launched our App Annie All-Star collection trading cards, which provided stats on the top grossing [...] Read more

Come join us at Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2013 from March 27th to 29th in San Francisco! GDC is the world’s largest and longest running professionals-only game industry event. It attracts over 22,500 attendees, where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to [...] Read more

March 19th 8:40am ET –  Nicolas Beraudo EVP of Worldwide Sales appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to talk about App Annie and the global app economy. Squawk Box is one of the top financial shows in the US, helping investors with pre-market news, advice and trends. We were honored to be a guest on the [...] Read more

Now in Beta: App Annie Analytics and Store Stats for Amazon Appstore Today, we’re announcing the Open Beta of Amazon Appstore support for App Annie Analytics and App Annie Store Stats! The growth of the Amazon Appstore will be an exciting trend to watch in 2013. In addition to releasing apps on the iOS App [...] Read more

This month, we bring to you one of the largest growth areas in the app stores – the social networking category Social networks have for nearly a decade dominated the web, taking us from Friendster to MySpace and Mixi to Facebook. However, it is the combination of the mobile device, the technology and the app [...] Read more

We had a fantastic time at Apps World 2013! Our CEO, Bertrand Schmitt, was a big draw – participating on a panel titled “Premium to freemium – best models for monetising gaming apps” and speaking on “Global Trends in App Store Monetization” on the same day! Lots of customers and friends also came to the [...] Read more

A walkthrough of App Annie’s latest Store Stats and Analytics features from the Product Team Hourly Rankings Your apps’ rank in the top charts is one of the best leading indicators for downloads (and revenue) and I know that many of you watch rankings like a tech journalist watches for a new Apple rumour. An [...] Read more

App Annie & IDC Portable Gaming Report: iOS App Store, Google Play Games Combined Eclipsed Dedicated Handheld Games in Consumer Spending in Q4 2012 New quarterly report provides insights into portable gaming packaged software sales, app downloads and consumer spending trends across global marketplace   SAN FRANCISCO AND FRAMINGHAM, MASS., Feb. 21, 2013 – App [...] Read more