Tuesday
07Jul2009
How Much Does It Cost To Buy Every iPhone App?
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 8:09AM How much would it cost to buy all 55,732 apps in the app store as of yesterday (7/6/2009)?
$144,326.06
.. or $2.59 per app ($3.34 if you don't include the free apps (12,538 of them) in the average) and which publishers stand to make the most from you?
| rank | name | total paid apps | total cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iceberg Reader | 1206 | $16,427.94 |
| 2 | Khalid Shaikh | 986 | $4,714.14 |
| 3 | PlayMesh | 110 | $3,214.90 |
| 4 | Paragon Technologie GmbH | 180 | $3,116.20 |
| 5 | Skyscape | 40 | $2,826.60 |
| 6 | Lexi-Comp | 15 | $2,269.85 |
| 7 | IndiaNIC Infocom Limited | 366 | $2,125.34 |
| 8 | Innovative Language Learning, LLC | 260 | $1,730.40 |
| 9 | Modality Inc. | 61 | $1,719.39 |
| 10 | Brighthouse Labs | 1602 | $1,611.98 |
| 11 | Lextech Labs | 3 | $1,400.97 |
| 12 | Renkara Media Group, Inc. | 177 | $1,323.23 |
| 13 | DMBC | 415 | $1,131.85 |
| 14 | ロゴヴィスタ株式会社 | 18 | $1,129.82 |
| 15 | Navimatics Corporation | 25 | $954.75 |
| 16 | Mobile Systems | 47 | $948.53 |
| 17 | Labra PTY LTD. | 2 | $899.98 |
| 18 | MyAccountsToGo | 2 | $899.98 |
| 19 | FidesReef | 475 | $870.25 |
| 20 | Molinker Inc. | 840 | $835.60 |
| 21 | Appsessions, LLC | 676 | $793.24 |
| 22 | AppEngines | 265 | $692.35 |
| 23 | Super Art Software | 304 | $691.96 |
| 24 | Niles Technology Group, Inc. | 100 | $669.00 |
| 25 | Intelligent Designs Group, LLC | 7 | $659.93 |
| 26 | Your Mobile Apps Inc. | 335 | $639.65 |
While we were digging around in the data for our latest post. we created this graph of the total price of all apps over time... here it is:
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Reader Comments (7)
Good analysis, thanks for the info! would be interesting to also know more about sales trends, but you know Apple :-)
A lot of those people (Khalid Shalik) take some of the most popular apps, and pretty much re post the same app under his name, has crappier quality, etc etc. They're essentially ripping you off. Just so you guys know.
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You should mention the fact that the developers get only 20% of the app...
So most of the money you pay goes actually to apple for doing nothing rather then to the developers doing everything.