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Who’s Making Top Ranked Apps?

Our last post focused on the prices of top-grossing apps. This time around we’ve decided to look at the developers behind the top 400 apps. We’ll be looking at public ranks data for the top 400 paid, free, and grossing …

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Is Freemium Better Than Paid?

appFigures collects hourly ranks from the App Store, so we have access to every app’s rank and its price. This has lead us to ask, what will make you more revenue: selling a free app with paid in-app purchases or …

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What’s the Right Role for You?

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about iTunes Connect sub-user roles lately and figured it’d be helpful to map them out so you can choose the role that’s best for you. What are roles? Each iTunes Connect sub-user is …

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Problems with ranks. Again.

Earlier today we discovered that Apple changed its ranks feed to no longer provide access to top 400 lists but only the top 200. Because of this change ranks for the last few hours are not available in your reports. …

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What’s Going On with Ranks and Reviews

For the last few hours iTunes servers have been excruciatingly slow, causing delays and missing ranks for some countries. We’ve been investigating this issue since the early morning and, unfortunately, the problem lies with iTunes and is out of our …

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Get Reviews For Any App, In Real Time

It’s been two weeks since we rolled out public ranks, and we’ve gotten a ton of positive feedback. So today we’re pumped to announce another instrumental public feature: public reviews and ratings. We’ve made it super simple to view any …

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Apple’s Tinkering with Ranks

As of late last night (Thursday Jan 13th) Apple’s ranks feed has not been working properly. We’re not happy about it and users are keeping our support team on their toes. Hopefully Apple will take care of this immediately. We …

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We’re Now Tracking Mac App Store Ranks

Last week when the Mac App Store opened its virtual doors we began importing your Mac Apps data. We’re excited to let you know that as of Sunday evening we’re also tracking your ranks. So now you get the total package. …

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