Counting iPhone Apps Is Not A Game

We read this article on VentureBeat and that 62,965 total apps number just didn't sound right... so we dug into the data and found the total number of apps appearing in the US app store is 55,977 as of about 3pm this afternoon.

Dean Takahashi, author of the VentureBeat article, based his number on Mobclix data. The Mobclix reports can be misleading because they don't filter for uniqueness. Some apps appear in multiple categories: a single app can appear in the Entertainment category AND in the Action sub-genre of Games, for example.

Games are special in this regard. There are no cases of an app that's not classified as a game being in more than one category. For our purposes we only count apps as "Games" if they do not appear in another

non-game category. There are roughly 3,000 apps in this overlap area, which leaves 10,175 apps that are exclusively categorized as games.

So, about 56,000 apps and somewhere between

10,000 and 13,000 of them are games (depending on how you count). This graph will give you an idea of the growth rate for the different segments, showing the  number of unique apps each day for past month.

Special bonus feature! The total price of apps over that same time period.

How Much Does It Cost To Buy Every iPhone App?

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:

iPhone App Tag Clouds

After yesterday's post with a tag cloud made from all 52,000 apps in the iTunes App Store we decided to check out tag clouds by category. Here are a few of our favorites. You can also view our gallery with all 19 categories (including extra large versions).

Games:

Education:

Lifestyle:

All clouds generated at Wordle.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the categories!

The App Store Travels Lite

Here is a tag cloud we made of all the app names in the app store as of 07/01/2009 on wordle.