For anyone who is interested, here is the latest data (csv) from the App Store, as of this morning. Looks like just over 24,000 applications are currently available.
The most popular premium applications (applications that cost more than $9.99)
| IM+ v2.0 | Social Networking | SHAPE Services | $9.99 |
| Things | Productivity | Cultured Code | $9.99 |
| Todo | Productivity | Appigo | $9.99 |
| 100+ Great Books for Ten Bucks! | Book | BeamItDown Software | $9.99 |
| Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook | Travel | Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd | $9.99 |
| Netters Anatomy Flash Cards | Medical | Modality Inc. | $39.99 |
| MLB.com At Bat 2009 | Sports | MLB.com | $9.99 |
| iBird Explorer Plus | Reference | Mitch Waite Group | $19.99 |
| ReaddleDocs | Business | Readdle | $9.99 |
| BeejiveIM - Instant Messaging Anywhere | Social Networking | Beejive Inc. | $9.99 |
The most popular inexpensive applications (applications that cost less than $4.99)
| Flick Fishing | Games | Freeverse Inc. | $0.99 |
| Touch Scan Pro | Entertainment | Gary Fung | $0.99 |
| Diagnosaurus DDx | Medical | Unbound Medicine Inc. | $0.99 |
| Flight Control | Games | Firemint | $0.99 |
| Amazing X-Ray FX | Entertainment | WebArtisan | $0.99 |
| Night Stand | Utilities | SpoonJuice | $1.99 |
| Pocket God | Entertainment | Bolt Creative | $0.99 |
| Medical Calculator | Medical | MarketWall.com | $0.99 |
| ColorSplash | Photography | Hendrik Kueck | $1.99 |
| Ocarina | Music | Smule | $0.99 |
Is there an way to tell roughly how many sales these application have? Is the top premium application sales in the hunderds, thousands, or tens of thousands?
Posted by: Brandon Turner | April 01, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Sadly, there basically is nothing in the data that will reveal this.
iShoot, which was a top app for a while, reportedlly was on track to make $1m plus, which would put its sales in the hundreds of thousands, so that seems like a likely rate for an exceptionally successful iPhone app.
Posted by: Charles Teague | April 02, 2009 at 09:33 AM
What do you mean with "popularity" exactly? Is it the number of downloads of every application? Or is it the number of users that downloaded an application?
Can you explain me how you computed the values under the column named "popularity" in the CSV file you provide?
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Andrea | April 15, 2009 at 05:54 AM