There are few surprises among the top iOS apps of all time
Cached copy of an article from App Annie all-time iOS ranking, via Cult of Mac, 2015, served from ramine.net so it stays readable if the original goes offline.
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There are more than 1.6 million iOS apps, but if you had to guess the top downloaded games and apps of all time worldwide, chances are good you would get a near-perfect score just by looking at your iPhone.
Four of the top 10 are apps from to Facebook, while _Candy Crush,_ _Fruit Ninja_ and _Angry Birds_ continue to dominate the games section of the iOS App Store.
App Annie, a mobile app intelligence service that tracks app performance for most of the top 100 app publishers, released a report this morning of the top-performing apps for iPhone and iPad. The report, which uses data from July 2010 to July 2015, comes one week before Apple’s fall reveal of new and updated products.
The App Annie report looked at games and apps and divided them by most downloads and top revenue. In the revenue category, Pandora Radio topped a list that included mostly dating, music and other entertainment platforms.
The Facebook app and Facebook Messenger were the top two most downloaded apps, while Instagram and the WhatsApp Messenger, both owned by Facebook, ranked fourth and sixth.
_Candy Crush Saga_ and _Clash of Clans_ were the only games that earned top-10 rankings in both revenue and downloads. Seven of the 10 games are based on a swipe mechanic, which speaks to the success of Apple’s multi-touch input, the App Annie report states.
One gaming publisher, Supercell, has three of the top spots in revenue with _Clash of Clans,_ _Hay Day_ and _Boom Beach,_ the company’s entire active portfolio. Casino games like _Big Fish Casino_ and _Slotomania_ earned the most revenue in the United States, according to the report.
Here are the rankings by App Annie:
Top apps by all-time worldwide downloads
1. Facebook
2. Facebook Messenger
3. YouTube
4. Instagram
5. Skype
6. WhatsApp Messenger
7. Find My iPhone
8. Google Maps
9. Twitter
10. iTunes U
Top apps by all-time worldwide revenue
1. Pandora Radio
2. Line
3. Zoosk
4. Pages
5. Spotify
6. Badoo
7. Skype
8. MLB.com at Bat
9. Grindr
10. LINE PLAY
Top games by all-time worldwide downloads
1. _Candy Crush Saga_
2. _Fruit Ninja_
3. _Angry Birds_
4. _Subway Surfers_
5. _Despicable Me_
6. _Clash of Clans_
7. _Temple Run_
8. _Angry Birds Rio_
9. _Temple Run 2_
10. _Words With Friends._
Top games by all-time worldwide revenue
1. _Clash of Clans_
2. _Candy Crush Saga_
3. _Puzzle & Dragons_
4. _Games of War – Fire Age_
5. _Monster Strike_
6. _Hay Day_
7. _Boom Beach_
8. _Slotomania_
9. _Big Fish Casino_
10. _The Simpsons: Tapped Out_
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