Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …
Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. — According to a new analysis from market intelligence …
Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January
Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January
After rapidly hitting the top of the App Store in October, OpenAI's video-generation app Sora is now struggling.
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow
Appfigures: Sora 2 had ~6M iOS downloads as of December 2025; the Android version, available since early November 2025, had ~3.1M, as growth begins to slow
The app racked up 1 million downloads in its first five days, despite being iOS-only and requiring an invite.
Appfigures: global consumer mobile app spending on Apple's App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B
The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year …
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: Panels reached 900K downloads and users spent $95K since its 2024 launch
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Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only
Appfigures: Sora saw 56K iOS downloads on its first day, on par with Grok and ahead of Claude and Copilot; ChatGPT and Gemini each had ~80K downloads on day one
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